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Shopaholic series volume 4
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English
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Returning to London after her ten-month honeymoon, Becky Bloomwood Brandon finds herself depressed by a lack of money, a search for a job, and her best friend Suze's new best friend, until she discovers that she has a long lost sister.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1020L
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English
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September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau, failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged by a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over 6,000 people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in...
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Left Behind series. Main series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
890L
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English
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The relentless onslaught of Global Community Peacekeeping and the Morale Monitor forces has left the earth a wasted shell, and only a miraculous intervention by heavenly forces can save what few survivors are left.
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In Lee Child's astonishing new thriller, ex-military cop Reacher sees more than most people would, and because of that, he's thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth, and save two innocent lives, is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way. Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to...
5) Bittersweet
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Fourteen years ago, photojournalist India Taylor gave up her career to raise her four children and be a perfect wife, and now that her children are older, she feels it would be fun to take on some easy assignments, but when her husband demands that she stay at home and care for his family, India must decide between her marriage and her happiness.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet--a hardworking father, a loving mother, three fine sons, and a bright, pretty daughter. They are confident in their love for each other and their position in the rural community of Mt. Ephraimm, New York. But something happens on Valentine's Day, 1976--an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home--that rends the fabric of their family life...with tragic...
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Daniel Ellsberg began his career as a U.S. Marine company commander, a Pentagon official, and a staunch supporter of America's battle against Communist expansion. But in October 1969, Ellsberg--fully expecting to spend the rest of his life in prison--set out to turn around American foreign policy by smuggling out of his office the seven-thousand-page top-secret study, known as the Pentagon Papers, of U.S. decision making in Vietnam. Ellsberg tells...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
540L
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English
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"For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has anxiously kept Emily away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery -- about her own identity, the mysterious father she's never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering deep below the water's surface. In a lovely twentieth-anniversary...
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Britt Montero novels volume 3
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English
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A Miami crime reporter contends with a brutal murder—and a backstabbing colleague—in this “entertaining” mystery from the Edgar Award–nominated author (Booklist).
A mother and child are the recent victims of a carjacking followed by a fatal hit-and-run. Miami crime reporter Britt Montero witnesses the tragedy—and relentlessly pursues the story. But at the same time, trouble lurks...
A mother and child are the recent victims of a carjacking followed by a fatal hit-and-run. Miami crime reporter Britt Montero witnesses the tragedy—and relentlessly pursues the story. But at the same time, trouble lurks...
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The Maxwells and the Popes, best friends for years, face a multidimensional crisis when thirteen-year-old Michael Maxwell surprises his mother, Teke, in bed with Sam Pope, and runs into the street where he is struck by a truck driven by Teke's childhood boyfriend, Grady.
11) Balance of power
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Kerry Kilcannon trilogy volume 3
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English
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The marriage of the president and a TV journalist is marred by a massacre of innocent civilians by gunfire, setting in motion events that reveal the hidden connections among guns, money, and power in Washington.
12) Tar baby
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A beautiful African-American woman of privilege finds herself attracted to the kind of man she has dreaded since childhood: uneducated, violent, and contemptuous of her.
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Babylon rising volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When Michael Murphy heads to the ancient city of Babylon in search of one of the most famous and mystifying Biblical prophecies, he realizes his quest may unleash forces of darkness that can destroy the earth.
14) Hornet flight
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English
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Danish teenager Harald Olufsen, having stumbled upon the secret that is responsible for Germany's success in beating back the attacks of England's Royal Air Force in 1941, undertakes a dangerous, six-hundred-mile journey in a derelict airplane with his friend Karen, in an effort to get word to England and turn the course of the war.
15) Bitterroot
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Billy Bob Holland novels volume 3
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English
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"Set in the rugged Bitterroot valley of Montana -- home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life and xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia -- Bitterroot features Blly Bob Holland, former Texas Ranger and now a Texas-based lawyer, who has come to Big Sky country at the request of an old friend in trouble."--from NoveList.
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Lawyer Judy Carrier takes the case of an elderly pigeon racer, Tony Lucia, who has been arrested for the murder of his lifelong enemy Angelo Coluzzi. "Pigeon Tony," as he's known, confesses to Judy that he killed Coluzzi because of a vendetta begun more than fifty years ago. Her client's guilt, however, is only the beginning of Judy's problems. The Coluzzi family wants revenge, and they are determined to finish off Pigeon Tony and Judy before the...
17) Feathers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
710L
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English
Description
Frannie doesn't know what to make of the poem she's reading in school. She hasn't thought much about hope. There are so many other things to think about. Each day, her friend Samantha seems a bit more "holy." There is a new boy in class everyone is calling the Jesus Boy. And although the new boy looks like a white kid, he says he's not white. Who is he? During a winter full of surprises, good and bad, Frannie starts seeing a lot of things in a new...
19) Below zero
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Tell Sherry April called." That simple phone message shakes Joe Pickett's oldest daughter, Sheridan, and the rest of the family to the core. To Joe, it doesn't seem even remotely possible that April could have survived the massacre, described in Winterkill, six years before. He was there, and he was unable to save her. But Sheridan starts to believe there's a chance that April is still alive, and her suspicions are confirmed when the person sending...
20) The Bleachers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
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English
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The Messina Spartans football team has come home to bury their old coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty. As they wait for the dimming field lights to signal his passing, they must decide once and for all whether they love Eddie Rake - or hate him.
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