Random House (Firm)
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English
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Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. The old stone building is the closest thing to a home he ever had. Reacher is there to meet, in person, the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, so far just a warm, intriguing voice on the phone. But it isn't Turner behind the CO's desk. And Reacher...
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English
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"A heartwarming Christmas novel of romance, hope, and the comforts of home. Harry Mills is a guardian angel on a mission: help twenty-four-year-old Addie Folsom get her life back on track--and, if the right moment strikes, help her find love. Posing as a teacher at a local college in Tacoma, Washington, Harry is up to the task, but not even he can predict the surprises that lay in store. After trying to make it on her own, Addie has returned home...
7) Brisingr
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 45
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English
Description
Eragon tries to uphold the oath he made to save Katrina from King Galbatorix, while being pulled in different directions by the needs of the Varden, elves, and dwarves--all of whom need his help and strength to overcome the tyranny of the king.
9) Sycamore row
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Series
Jake Brigance novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
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English
Description
Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake Brigance into a conflict that raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it...
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English
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After disgracing themselves at a high society New Year's Eve party in Philadelphia in 1944, Madeline Hyde and her husband, Ellis, are cut off financially by his father, a former army colonel who is already ashamed of his son's inability to serve in the war. With his best friend, Hank, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favor is to succeed where the colonel once very publicly failed-by hunting down the famous Loch Ness monster....
11) Inferno: a novel
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Robert Langdon novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 26
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English
Description
"In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces: Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science" -- vendor summary.
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"Carrie Slayton is a successful gossip columnist, but her dream is to become a serious journalist. Finnegan Dalton is a notorious recluse whose book about living in the Alaskan wilds skyrocketed to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Recognizing a golden opportunity, Carrie uses a little guile in tracking down Finn's whereabouts in the snowy Alaskan wilderness outside of Fairbanks, only to discover that he truly is as mysterious and withdrawn...
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Song of ice and fire volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 63
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English
Description
New threats emerge to endanger the future of the Seven Kingdoms, as Daenerys Targaryen, ruling in the East, fights off a multitude of enemies, while Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, faces his foes both in the Watch and beyond the great Wall of ice and stone.
15) The sleepwalker
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children fear the worst. Annalee is a sleepwalker whose affliction manifests itself in ways both devastating and bizarre. Once she merely destroyed the hydrangea in from of her Vermont home. More terrifying was the night her older daughter, Lianna, pulled her back from the precipice of the Gale River bridge. The morning of Annalee's disappearance, a search party combs the nearby woods. Annalee's husband, Warren,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenes
ONE OF TIME'S 100...
ONE OF TIME'S 100...
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Cotton Malone novels volume 9
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English
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September 1861: All is not as it seems. With these cryptic words, a shocking secret passed down from president to president comes to rest in the hands of Abraham Lincoln. And as the first bloody clashes of the Civil War unfold, Lincoln alone must decide how best to use this volatile knowledge: save thousands of American lives, or keep the young nation from being torn apart forever? The present: In Utah, the fabled remains of Mormon pioneers whose...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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Hacker Lisbeth Salander assists Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist, with the investigation of Harriet Vanger's disappearance decades earlier, and the two uncover a dark world of secrets about a wealthy Swedish family as well as a surprising connection between themselves.
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Publisher
Findaway World
Pub. Date
p2014
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English
Description
Deep down: Jack Reacher must track down a spy in soldier's clothing, by matching wits with four formidable females. Three are clean, but the fourth may prove fatal.
Second son: A young Jack Reacher knows knows how to finish a fight so it stays finished. He knows how to get the job done so it stays done. And, in one of his earliest challenges, he knows that his analytical brain is just as important as his impressive brawn.
High heat: In the midst...
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 45
Language
English
Formats
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Survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters begin to gather their forces to grab their share of what is left of the Seven Kingdoms in the aftermath of the war of the Five Kings.