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1) Pearl Cove
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Donovan Family volume 3
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English
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Young widow Hannah McGarry calls upon Archer Donovan for help when her husband, with whom Donovan was once a partner in a pearl farm business, dies leaving her to face the prospect of bankruptcy and the mystery of a missing three-million dollar fortune in black pearls.
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A Sister's work is never done--not when there are wrongs to right and underdogs to defend. Just returned to their mountaintop hideaway in the wake of their latest successful mission, the seven fearless friends have barely had time to enjoy a celebratory dinner with their mentor, Charles Martin, when they're embroiled in a new adventure.
3) Amber Beach
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Donovan Family volume 1
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English
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Honor Donovan, shut out of the family business by her father and four brothers, hires Jake Mallory to help her investigate when her favorite brother Kyle disappears with a fortune in stolen amber, and finds herself drawn into a high-stakes game of politics, greed, and love.
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"Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda is a swashbuckling adventure set in Ruritania, a mythical pocket kingdom. Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll closely resembles the King of Ruritania, and to foil a coup by his rival to the throne, he is persuaded to impersonate him for a day. However, Rassendyll's role becomes more complicated when the real king is kidnapped, and he falls for the lovely Princess Flavia. Although the story is set in the near past, Ruritania...
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For veterinarian Lily Munroe, running in the grueling 10-day, 1,110-mile Iditarod was challenging enough without having to compete against tall, dark, and annoying playboy-rancher Derek Wright. But flirtatious Derek is determined to prove that he is the only man for Lily. Of course, once Derek wins Lily over, he has to tell her about his other career as a secret agent for T-FLAC, a privately funded black ops antiterrorist group. When Lily becomes...
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Introduces the exciting world of microadventures -- adventures that are close to home, cheap, simple, short, and yet very effective. This practical guide is filled with great activities and days out, and over 150 stunning photographs, plus tips and advice on safety and kit.
9) Deadly deals
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Rachel Dawson and her husband, Thomas, felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. Though the lawyer, Baron Bell, who arranged for the surrogate mother, charged a hefty fee, it was all worth it to them. Until the birth mother reappeared, first demanding more money, then the twins themselves. Suddenly Bell was nowhere to be found. When the case finds its way to the offices of high-profile attorney...
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The People of the Mist, an intoxicating mix of adventure, fantasy, and romance, is an underappreciated classic of English literature. Lesser-known among Rider's works, this novel is perhaps more famous for being the origin of the phrase "Per Ardua ad Astra"-through hardship to the stars-than it is as a story that endures over a century after its publication.
Shaken by the loss of his fortune, abandoned by the woman he was to marry, Leonard Outram...
12) Home free
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"United by a desire to overcome their personal misfortunes, seven very different women formed an indelible bond and vowed to right wrongs wherever they found them. They've succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. After years known as the Vigilantes, Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle are enjoying their hard-won freedom and the chance at a normal life.As it turns out, once you're a part of the Sisterhood, normal is a relative term....
13) King Con
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When confidence man Beano is caught cheating at cards, Mafia boss Joe beats him so badly that he nearly dies. In revenge Beano teams up with a woman prosecutor--she is out to get Joe--and together they play a con game that will set other gangsters against Joe and put him away. By the author of Final Victim.
14) Nathan's run
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A 12-year-old boy goes on the run after being falsely accused of murder. Pursued by police and a hired killer, he breaks into homes, steals cars, a gun--politely leaving notes of apology--and regularly calls a radio show to defend himself. A first novel.
15) Heartbreaker
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An accident separates Lynn Nelson and her nineteen-year-old daughter Rory from the rest of the group while on a wilderness adventure, and they have only the handsome but macho outfitter Jess Feldman to protect them from an unknown evil.
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"Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a world of darkness, technology, and nightmares. When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, can they put aside their differences and work together to uncover the mysteries of their situation and save each other's communities from certain disaster?"--
17) Storm siren
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Storm siren trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 810L
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English
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"My hair slips down my back and shoulders and around my face like fresh snow falling on the forest floor. Pure white. I raise my chin as the buyers stare. Yes. Look. You don't want me. Because, eventually, accidentally, I will destroy you. It's what I do; Seventeen-year-old slave girl, Nym, should not exist. In a world where Elementals are only born male, and always killed at birth, she is an anomaly at best. At worst, people around her die.When a...
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Traitor's game volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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HL 780L
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The battle for control of Antora continues, and Simon and Kestra have been forced apart; Kestra is a prisoner in the cursed All Spirits Forest where Loelle wants her to use her growing power to heal the land and bring it back to life, while Simon has beenmade king of the Halderians, but is surrounded by men whose loyalty is uncertain and who fear his connection to Kestra of the hated Dallisor family, and the evil Lord Endrick.
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Queen's thief volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
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Neither accepted nor beloved, Eugenides is the uneasy linchpin of a truce on the Lesser Peninsula, where he has risen to be high king of Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis. As the treacherous Baron Erondites schemes anew and a prophecy appears to foretell the death of the king, the ruthless Mede empire prepares to strike. The novels in this series are rich with political machinations, divine intervention, dangerous journeys, battles lost and won, power, passion,...
20) Captain Blood
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Dr. Peter Blood is arrested and sentenced to hang for treating a wounded rebel. Instead of death, he is sent to Barbados as a slave. When the Spanish attack the port city of Bridgetown, he and his fellow slaves capture the Spanish ship and set out to sea, where he becomes the notorious pirate, Captain Blood.
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