Dick Hill
1) Dragonsdawn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
960L
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English
Description
In the beginning, before Thread, before the Dragons, before the Holds and the Weyrs and the elite Dragonriders of Pern, was just the great ships gliding through space with nearly six thousand colonists prepared to tackle the mighty task of beginning a new world on a strange planet.
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Jerry Mitchell novels volume 4
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English
Description
"While trailing a Chinese nuclear attack sub, Jerry Mitchell, the captain of USS North Dakota, is shocked to see the Chinese boat torpedo a Vietnamese merchant ship. This blatant act of aggression is the opening gambit in a war that has blindsided the U.S. and quickly embroiled all nations in the western Pacific. These nations, bound together in the newly formed Littoral Alliance, have begun a covert submarine campaign aimed at crippling China's economy...
3) Exit plan
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Series
Jerry Mitchell novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Jerry Mitchell is on exercises off the coast of Pakistan when his submarine, the USS Michigan, is ordered to a rendezvous off the Iranian coast. Once there, disembarked SEALs---experts in seaborne commando operations---are to extract two Iranian nationals who have sensitive information on Iranâs nuclear weapons program. While en route to shore, Michiganâs mini-sub suffers a battery fire, killing one crew member and forcing the survivors---four SEALs...
4) The sea wolf
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
An epic of action-filled excitement. Rescued from drowning, a pampered gentlleman awakes in a special kind of hell. He's aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner outbound for months of hunting. Wolf Larson, the devilish captain, a feindish crew, the cruel sea, and unlikely love make this tale immortal.
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English
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"America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse in the near future. The stock market plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point. Practically overnight, the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure fall, and wholesale rioting and looting grip every major city. As hordes of refugees and looters pour out of the cities, a small group of friends living in the Midwest desperately tries...
6) Nightwalkers
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English
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Cam Richter steps back from his too-eventful detective service and seeks more peaceful pastures in the North Carolina countryside. He buys a seven hundred acre ante-bellum plantation, and immediately finds himself the target of a killer who holds him responsible for something Cam is pretty sure he never did. As he tries to find out why someone wants him dead, he discovers that the history of the plantation has come back to visit. Cam will need all...
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Russian trilogy (Noel Nynd) volume 1
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English
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While working with the Secret Service, a woman is asked to accompany the President on his trip to Ukraine and although her job will be to keep an eye on the most notorious gangster in the region, this mission will cause her to make choices about her life, work, faith, and future.
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Russian trilogy (Noel Nynd) volume 3
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English
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When a woman who is smart, tough, and cool under fire travels to Cairo to investigate a former mentor who was believed to be dead, she is caught in a bizarre game of double cross, and her life is more perilously on the line than ever.
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Cuban trilogy volume 1
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English
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U.S. Treasury agent Alexandra LaDuca is on an illegal mission to Cuba that could cost her everything. At stake is the recovery of a large amount of cash, the return of an expatriate American fugitive... and her life. She will have to re-examine her faith... and her new love... while bullets fly.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 980L
Language
English
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A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the only version of Mark Twain's masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the...
11) Murder in Miami
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Cuban trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Alex LaDuca travels to Miami to continue her investigations into the murder-and-money laundering activities of the Dosi cartel, an intrigue set in motion in Hostage in Havana. Sent there by the U.S. Treasury Department to speak with a recent Cuban defector, she soon realizes this key player may be no help at all. A vast global money laundering scheme fueled by cocaine profits. A man who promises to put Alex "in touch with the deceased." A lethal trap...
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English
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Michael Palmer has grown accustomed to the comforts of prosperity and a happy home. Yet, believing he has been created for some nobler calling, he enlists in the Union Army. He leaves all to take up a life of toil, hardship, and danger in the battlefields of America's Civil War, changing him forever.