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Serge Storms novels volume 1
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English
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A crime comedy on a dentist who mutilates his hands to collect $5 million in insurance. Dr. George Veale is forced into the scam by a woman who videotaped a sex session and is blackmailing him. But after Veale collects he turns the tables.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
850L
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English
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As his rock band tours Italy, eighteen-year-old Perry says a reluctant "bonjour" to Gobi, his former exchange student/Lithuanian assassin, who enlists his help on a justice-dispensing rampage all over Europe.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 68
Lexile measure
1040L
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English
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At The Center of Martin Chuzzlewit -- the novel Angus Wilson called "one of the most sheerly exciting of all Dickens stories"--Is Martin himself, very old, very rich, very much on his guard. What he suspects (with good reason) is that every one of Iris close and distant relations. now converging in droves on the country inn where they believe he is dying, will stop at nothing to become the inheritor of Iris great fortune. Having unjustly disinherited...
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Serge Storms novels volume 11
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English
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Serge A. Storms, Florida's resident madman and serial killer, continues to dispense his own variety of justice against society's evildoers - this time he and his pal Coleman are out to get an assortment of skinheads and shysters as well as a particularly nasty thug called Jellyfish.
5) Gone South
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In a moment of blind fear and fury, Dan Lambert kills a man. He is on the run, heading south toward the Louisiana bayous, where he meets a young woman on a similar journey in search of her own salvation.
6) Pronto
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Raylan Givens thrillers volume 1
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English
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"The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from 'Jimmy Cap' Capotorto--which he is, but everybody does it. Harry was planning to retire to Italy someday anyway, so he figures now's a good time to get lost. U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens knows Harry's tricky--the bookie ditched him once in an airport while in the marshal's custody--but not careful. So Raylan's...
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Serge Storms novels volume 16
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English
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While treating themselves to a modest vacation in sunny Florida, newly unemployed Wisconsinites Patrick and Barbara McDougall get the ride of a lifetime when they, after being robbed of everything, are rescued by bighearted psychopath and happy tour guide Serge Storms.
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Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise-a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary Jean Cosmetics Corporation. But when he demolishes his boss's pink plane during a drunken airborne liaison, Tuck must run for his life from Mary Jean's goons. Now...
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Baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec vow to discover the truth behind the untimely death of their friend Vincent van Gogh, which leads them on a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of late-nineteenth-century Paris.
10) Jimmy the kid
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Dortmunder novels volume 3
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English
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A kidnapping plan cribbed from a crime novel goes hilariously wrong for gang boss John Dortmunder—from the Edgar Award–winning author of Bank Shot.
When his “friend” Andy Kelp has a plan, career criminal John Dortmunder knows that means trouble. Kelp’s schemes, no matter how well intentioned, tend to spiral quickly out of control. But this one, Kelp swears, is airtight. He read it in a...
When his “friend” Andy Kelp has a plan, career criminal John Dortmunder knows that means trouble. Kelp’s schemes, no matter how well intentioned, tend to spiral quickly out of control. But this one, Kelp swears, is airtight. He read it in a...
11) Moll Flanders
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.1 - AR Pts: 31
Lexile measure
1390L
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English
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Follows the heroine's adventures from seventeenth-century England to the American colonies.
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Stick Dog volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
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English
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"Stick Dog and the gang are on their usual hunt for food, but there is something unusual going on. Little humans are dressed up as creepy witches and spooky ghosts, all carrying big orange buckets!"--
13) Dodger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1210L
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English
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In an alternative London ruled by a young Queen Victoria, Dodger, a resourceful, homeless boy, unwittingly prevents Sweeney Todd from committing murder.
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"One moment Alice is wondering what life is like ont he other side on the mirror, the next she finds herself through the looking-glass and in a topsy-turvey land where everything is 'contrariwise'. Alice meets a host of bizarre characters: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the dotty White Knight and the bad-tempered RedQueen - none of whom are quite qhat they seem. But is Alice's adventure real, or is it all just a dream?" (publisher).
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Step back in time to Portland, Maine, in 1896. When the young, beautiful, redheaded Cordelia Underwood inherits a parcel of land from her seafaring uncle, it sets in motion a chain of events that leads to the unearthing of a family secret two centuries old. Cordelia soon crosses paths with Mister Tobias Walton and finds herself aided in her quest by the warmhearted gentleman, who has never heard of an adventure he isn't eager to join. Together with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Tom, always looking for trouble, finds it when he sets out to become Hannibal's First Traveler. Tom, Huck, and Jim find themselves kidnapped by a mad inventor, sailing cross the Atlantic and into Arabian adventure on a hot-air balloon.
17) Questland
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"It's said that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and an eccentric billionaire has set out to prove it by building an island retreat that brings the fantastic to life. In an action-packed novel for fans of Ready Player One, Carrie Vaughn asks what happens when a bunch of tech geeks and fantasy nerds don't realize the game they are now playing is for real?" --
18) New dominion
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"Underworld double agent Gabe Gantry can't stop screwing up. And why can't he have a cool Topside superpower like his partner Alex? Trying to commit covert good deeds from inside Hell is a devilishly tricky balancing act and the scales have just tipped. Being a secret agent in the Underworld is never simple, but a gig that doesn't involve preventing the next apocalypse is suspiciously non-Satanic. But Gabe knows better. There has to be a catch. All...
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Dog Man volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 260L
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English
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The heroic hound is send to jail in the sixth Dog Man book from worldwide bestselling author and artist Dav Pilkey.
Is Dog Man bad to the bone? The canine cop is sent to the pound for a crime he didn't commit! While his pals work to prove his innocence, Dog Man struggles to find his place among dogs and people. Being a part of both worlds, will he ever fully fit in with one?
Dav Pilkey's wildly popular Dog Man series appeals to readers of all...
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