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(0)Richard Ferrone
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Atretes, a revered gladiator, has won his freedom and vows to find the son he believed had died, but retrieving the baby from Rizpah, the young widow who has raised the child from birth, proves more difficult than he thought it would be, and Atretes is moved to take Rizpah into his household and into his heart.
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Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Presents a retelling of the Snow White fairy tale, set in early sixteenth-century Italy, in which the life of innocent, young Bianca de Nevada is disrupted when her beloved father is sent on an errand by Cesare Borgia, leaving her in the care of Borgia's sister Lucrezia, a decadent woman who orders the child killed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Description
Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into the country under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of a Texas oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth through the lens of his camera. Photography--and fate--introduce...
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Language
English
Description
Handsome and rugged Army Captain Ring Montgomery is a talented rider in the saddle. When he is given the unusual charge of escorting opera singer Maddie Worth on a dangerous journey into the gold fields of Colorado, his suspicion is aroused. Soon Ring discovers Maddie has secrets that she will do anything to keep safe. Out on the lonely trail, she begins to wonder if she can trust Ring to be a gentleman.
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Series
Conqueror volume 5
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the rise of Kublai Khan to take over his grandfather Genghis Khan's empire, as well as China, in a novel that focuses on the brutal competition between Kublai and his three brothers.
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Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Meagan McKinney brings Victorian-era New York alive in this sensuous tale of secret identities. Rafe Belloch, a powerful railroad baron, is accustomed to being in control. When a masked young woman steals his valuables and leaves him naked in the street, he vows to find her and get even. Two years later he meets demure debutante Mystere Rillieux, a woman unlike any he has ever met. But something about her is hauntingly familiar....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Continues the story of Genghis Khan as he embarks on a quest to conquer the mighty Chin empire, leaving a trail of devastation behind as he makes his way to Yenking, capital of the empire, and prepares to lay siege to the city and starve it into submission.
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Series
Heirs of Alexandria volume 4
Language
English
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A diplomatic mission leads to Prince Manfred, his bodyguard Erik, and his knights of the Holy Trinity being caught in an inter-clan civil war, rescuing a fugitive woman and her injured brother, and becoming involved in the problems of Prince Vlad, Duke of Valahia--and the ancient magical forces surrounding him.
Author
Series
Conqueror volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise to power of Genghis Khan, one of the world's most powerful and fearsome rulers, from his tragic beginnings, to the murder of his father, to his legendary exploits as a feared warrior who conquered much of the known world.
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Language
English
Description
The son of a prosperous Arizona rancher, Boone Scott is content to raise cattle for the rest of his days. Not his brother, Eppley. Dangerously dissatisfied, he plots to take over the family ranch. When Epp pays an assassin to kill him, Boone's lightning-quick hands leave a fistful of dead men behind. Unaware of his brother's treachery, Boone flees and faces danger from hired gunmen, rustlers, and wild Apaches. If he can survive, he just might come...
Author
Series
Heirs of Alexandria volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
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Description
"Three writers (the others are Eric Flint and Dave Freer) collaborate on this massive concoction of alternate history, high fantasy, and historical romance set in the sixteenth-century Venice of an alternate world in which Catholicism is factionalized, the Hohenstauffens instead of the Habsburgs rule the Holy Roman Empire, magic works, and the grand duke of Lithuania is trying to use that magic against his enemy, the emperor."--Booklist.
