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After being moved by the letters of two Civil War soldiers--one Union and the other Confederate--Grace, Hannah, and Amelia track down the soldiers' descendants and invite them to a Christmas reunion in Covington, where the letters will serve as holiday gifts.
2) Saint
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Carl Strople was covertly recruited to Black Ops and given the most brutal kind of training any man or woman could endure. Now he belongs to The X Group. But why do they call him "Saint"? An assassin. The most effective killer in the world. And yet . . . Carl Strople struggles to retain fleeting memories that betray an even more ominous reality. He's been told part of the truth--but not all of it.Invasive techniques have stripped him of his identity...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
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Red Stevens has died, and the older members of his family receive their millions with greedy anticipation. But a different fate awaits young Jason, who his great-uncle Stevens believed might be the last vestige of hope in the family.
4) Thr3e
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Young, innocent Kevin is a seminarian with a dark past. "Slater," a mysterious psycho, calls him on his cell phone and threatens bomb-delivered mayhem unless Kevin confesses to a past sin. But what sin?
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When a strange coded message arrives at 221B Baker Street, sent by a member of Professor Moriarty's criminal organization, Sherlock Holmes soon deciphers it and finds a warning: someone is about to be murdered. A visit from a Scotland Yard inspector confirms that one John Douglas has been mysteriously killed in Sussex. Even Sherlock Holmes, well accustomed to the bizarre, finds the elements of this case unusual. John Douglas lived at Birlstone
...9) Wild magic
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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670L
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The mage Numair, the knight Alanna, and Queen Thayet enlist thirteen-year-old Daine's help to battle the dreadful immortal creatures that have recently begun to attack the kingdom of Tortall.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
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English
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As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
11) Fractured
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Gailyn Campano, caught in a violent, abusive marriage, knew what it was like to be a victim. Perhaps that feeling was what caused her to snap when she returned home one day to find an intruder holding her daughter hostage. A ferocious strength emerged within her and the next thing she remembered the man was dead on the floor. Now it is up to Will Trent, an agent from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, to pick up the pieces before they completely...
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Caught between a stifling Amish community and an unnerving outside world, a devout young woman on the run is about to become the newest arrival to West Kootenai, Montana. On the day of her sister's death, Rebecca Troyer took her first step away from the Amish. Rebecca had always strayed a little outside the fold---a job at an Englisch bakery, long weekends with non-Amish friends---but nothing could have prepared her family for what she is about to...
14) On borrowed time
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Proposing to his girlfriend Jen and accompanying her to Kendrick Falls in spite of rumors that no man has ever gone to the falls with Jen and come back the same, Richard suffers a car accident on the journey only to discover that Jen has disappeared.
15) Hunting season
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When Anna answers a call to historic Mt. Locust, once a producing plantation and inn on Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway and now a tourist spot, the last thing she expects to encounter is murder. But the man Anna finds in the stand's old bedroom is no tourist in distress. He's nearly naked, and very dead, his body bearing marks consistent with an S&M ritual gone awry. On a writing table nearby is an open Bible, ominous passages circled in red....
16) The last refuge
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With the help of leaked information from high-level officials inside Iran and dissidents from groups outside the country, a former SEAL and an Israeli commando devise a high risk, high stakes plan that will allow them to find and hijack a devastating device before it is deployed.
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Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government, a situation that is compromised when she falls in love with him.
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While interviewing two Holocaust survivors for a sociology project, cousins Tally and Chase soon realize that the whole family is grappling with hidden secrets, echoes of the past, and the realization that ignoring tragic situations won't make them go away.
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