Jennifer Ikeda
3) Endsinger
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Series
Lotus War trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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"As civil war sweeps across the Shima Imperium, the Lotus Guild unleashes their deadliest creation--a mechanical goliath, intended to unite the shattered Empire under a yoke of fear. Yukiko and Buruu are forced to take leadership of the rebellion, gathering new allies and old friends. But the ghosts of Buruu's past stand between them and the army they need, and Kin's betrayal has destroyed all trust among their allies. When a new foe joins the war,...
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English
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In 1948, a nineteen-year-old pearl diver's dreams of spending her life combing the waters of Japan's Inland Sea are shattered when she discovers she has leprosy. By law, she is exiled to an island leprosarium, where she is stripped of her dignity and instructed to forget her past. Her name is erased from her family records, and she is forced to select a new one. To the two thousand patients on the island of Nagashima, she becomes Miss Fuji. Although...
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Series
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English
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Danica Greene is happy on the ground in Blackhawk, Iowa. And the wide prairie sky seems enough for her pilot husband---until he's asked to spend three weeks flying in Alaska. When Ell's plane mysteriously vanishes, Danica travels north to find answers---and learns that he wasn't in the air alone. Is she a widow? Or an abandoned wife?
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English
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New York Times best-selling author Amanda Ashley gets hearts racing with her alluring paranormal romances. In Everlasting Desire, Master of the West Coast vampires Rhys Costain has given up on human attachment-until he meets Megan DeLacey, a ravishing beauty equally captivated by Rhys' brooding looks. But a dark force is threatening the West Coast vampires-one that could tear the lovers apart forever.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.
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Series
Ava Lee novels volume 3
Language
English
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Wong Changxing, a rich Chinese powerbroker, has just been bilked out of $$100 million in an elaborate art forgery con. His one hope of recovering the money, and of saving face, is Ava Lee--a forensic accountant with a talent for tracking down untraceable funds. With the help of her mentor, the Triad-connected Uncle, Ava traces the provenance of the meticulously forged paintings to Denmark, the Faroe Islands, New York, and London. As she infiltrates...
9) Three
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Series
Article 5 trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
When Ember and Chase finally arrive at the safe house and find it in ruins, they follow tracks leading away until they find a group of refugees and join forces with them to seek the rumored settlement known as Three.
10) Undercover
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Description
High school sophomore Elisa is used to observing while going unnoticed except when classmates ask her to write love notes for them, but a teacher's recognition of her talent, a "client's" desire for her friendship, a love of ice skating, and her parent's marital problems draw her out of herself.
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Series
Ava Lee novels volume 2
Language
English
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Fifty million dollars has disappeared into thin air from the accounts of one of the richest men in the Philippines, Tommy Ordonez. His one hope is forensic accountant and sleuth, Ava Lee. With the help of her Triad-connected partner, Uncle, Ava follows the money trail from San Francisco to Costa Rica to the casinos and illegal gambling dens of Las Vegas. Will Ava recover the stolen cash without stepping into the crosshairs of a growing list of enemies?...
12) Emily Ever After
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Emily Hinton moves from her small hometown in California to Manhattan where she lands a job at a world-famous publishing house and attracts the attention of handsome Bennett, but she soon finds herself struggling to balance her desire for a big, exciting life, and her need to uphold her moral standards.
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English
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Searching for answers about her dissident father's disappearance, a Vietnamese-American art curator returns to her ancestral country, where she meets a venerable pho stall soup maker and a dynamic young tour guide whose historical and cultural insights irrevocably shape her life.
14) Defining Dulcie
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Dulcie's father dies, her mother makes a decision to move them to California, where Dulcie makes an equally radical decision to steal her dad's old truck and head back home.
15) Wabi Sabi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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Two teenaged sisters, separated by death but still connected, work through their feelings of loss over the closeness they shared as children that was later destroyed by one's mental illness, and finally make peace with each other.
17) Firebug
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English
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When Haley shows up at her uncle's Sedona, Arizona, bed and breakfast ranch to help for a couple weeks, she is met with panic: a guest cabin is on fire! Everyone is ok, so good-natured Uncle Jake writes it off as just another stroke of bad luck-but Haley isn't so sure. Soon, Haley is certain something is up. It looks like the fire may have been intentional, because more weird things are going on at the ranch. The horses are spooked, Uncle Jake is...
18) Oxygen
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English
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Carol Cassella, a freelance medical writer and a practicing anesthesiologist, grounds her haunting debut novel Oxygen in the life-or-death scenarios of the modern medical field. Marie Heaton's successful anesthesiology practice is derailed when a child dies under the mask. Faced with a major lawsuit, she must turn to a former lover for moral support.
19) Dragon House
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English
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Critically acclaimed novelist John Shors' travels in Asia add texture to this affecting tale of two Americans in Vietnam. A tale of sacrifice, rebirth, and above all inspiration, Dragon House connects with readers on the most human of all levels. When Iris' father, a Vietnam vet, makes a dying wish that she take over the operation of a shelter for street children in Ho Chi Minh City, she agrees-and takes with her long-time friend Noah, an Iraq War...