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IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
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While searching the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son, Jim Hawkins, find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune. Hawkins sets sail on board the ship Hispaniola to find the treasure.
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
2) Dragonflight
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IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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On the beautiful planet Pern, colonized for centuries, Land Holders and Craftsmen have traditionally tithed food and supplies to the dragonweyrs to which they are bound. In times past, the mighty telepathic dragons and their riders were the only protection from the dreaded, life-threatening Thread.But it has been over 400 years since the last Threadfall, and some people have come to doubt that the menace will every strike again. But F'lar, rider of...
3) Deadlock
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V.I. Warshawski, a Chicago detective specializing in the field of corporate crime, returns to investigate crime in the Great Lakes shipping industry and the murder of her beloved cousin, Boom-Boom.
V.I. gets tangled in a web of lies, extortion, blackmail, sabotage, and murder as the search for her cousin Boom Boom's killer leads her into the heart of Chicago's powerful shipping industry.
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In 1943 London, Professor Alfred Vicary, a mild-mannered academic turned spycatcher, plays a cat-and-mouse game with beautiful Catherine Blake, an undercover German spy and trained assassin trying to ferret out the secret of the D-Day invasion.
Winston Churchill has carefully chosen a history professor named Alfred Vicary to become an agent for one of Britain's counter-intelligence operations. Vicary is called upon to stop an unknown spy from uncovering...
5) Persuasion
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"Jane Austen's final novel is her most mature and wickedly satirical. It follows the story of Anne Elliott, a teenager engaged to a seemingly ideal man, Frederick Wentworth. But after being persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that he is too poor to be a suitable match, Anne ends their engagement. When they are reacquainted eight years later, their circumstances are transformed: Frederick is returning triumphantly from the Napoleonic War, while Anne's...
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"In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power―a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy―asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policy makers, access to newly declassified documents, and her own reporting...
7) Blood memory
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"Forensics expert "Cat" Ferry is suspended from an FBI task force when she inexplicably stricken with panic attacks and blackouts while investigating a chain of brutal murders. Returning to her Mississippi hometown, Cat finds herself battling with alcohol, plagued by nightmares, and entangled with a married detective. Then, in her childhood bedroom, some spilled chemicals reveal two bloody footprints ... and the trauma of her father's murder years...
8) Shiver
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Detective Reuben "Diego" Montoya must team up with the prime suspect in a murder case to catch a serial killer who is keeping New Orleans in the grip of fear, an investigation that leads them to an abandoned asylum where unspeakable evil awaits them.
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"Homicide Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels is in some serious trouble. Her boyfriend wants to get married. Her partner wants to transfer to another department. Her dead father may not be dead after all. And a brilliant sociopath known as the Chemist is poisoning Chicago's food supply, killing hundreds of people. Jack is put in charge of the case. But how do you catch someone who is always in disguise, who ingeniously spreads toxins in restaurants,...
11) Lawn boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
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Three years ago, Elvis Cole discovered the evidence that allowed an innocent man to escape a murder charge. Now, preparing an evacuation in advance of a wildfire, police find that man dead, an apparent suicide. Found with the corpse are photos of the victim in that murder case, as well as other victims that were murdered later. Did Elvis Cole cost these young women their lives?
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Meeting a dire end after double-crossing her lover, a ruthless crime lord, the cynical, amoral, and manipulative Drea returns to life a changed woman and joins forces with the FBI to become a guardian of the defenseless and the lover of an enigmatic stranger.
14) Four in hand
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Max Rotherbridge couldn't believe it. Along with the dukedom of Twyford, he -- London's most notorious rogue -- had inherited wardship of four devilishly attractive sisters! Including the irresistible Caroline Twinning. The eldest Twinning was everything he had ever wanted in a woman, but even Max couldn't seduce his own ward . . . or could he? After all, he did have a substantial reputation to protect.
15) A good woman
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The Titanic disaster spurs 19-year-old Annabelle Worthington to leave her privileged life for one of service. Fleeing scandal brought on by the end of her marriage, she winds up in France, working in a hospital for those wounded in WWI. She almost succeeds in forgetting her past, until a chance meeting brings it all rushing back.
16) The Hollow
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Sign of seven trilogy volume 2
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For Fox, Caleb, Gage and the other residents of Hawkins Hollow, the number seven portends doom--ever since, as boys, they freed a demon trapped for centuries. Now they face seven days of madness, every seven years. As the dreaded seventh month looms before them, they are plauged by visions of death and destruction.
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Capital crimes series volume 24
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On a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of presidential candidate Robert Colgate's closest friend is kidnapped. The abduction rocks the nation's capital, but no one is prepared for the bombshell about to hit the city, an explosive development that erupts when Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the murder of a Washington, D.C. call girl--and a killer whom no one will see...
18) Odd hours
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Odd's fourth adventure breaks yet more ground, taking this utterly unique hero to undreamed-of new places, where both the perils he will face and the stakes for which he fights will surpass all that has come before.
19) The pagan stone
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Sign of seven trilogy volume 3
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At ten years of age, Gage Turner and his friends unleash an ancient, powerful force when they spill blood over a pagan stone. Years later, Gage returns to his hometown to help his childhood friends halt the death-dealing demonic forces that ravage the town every seven years.
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Authors Robert and Emi Kiyosaki tell the story of their lives together and apart, along with their search for personal and spiritual satisfaction. As brother and sister they have endured a lot and have now combined all of their inspirational stories to help enrich the lives of others.
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