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Outlander novels volume 5
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English
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In 1771, Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveler wife, Claire, become caught between loyalty to the Crown and the changing times, as the American Revolution draws inevitably closer.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Maile falls in love with Englishman John Harbottle, the navigator for Captain James Cook when they arrive in the Sandwich Islands. The two cultures clash after the death of Captain Cook in 1779, and Maile is forced to make an impossible decision: save John or save her people.
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"Returning to his family farm in 1796 and considering a relationship with his housekeeper, widower Will Rees is shattered by the news of an old friend's murder and is unable to refuse a request to investigate, a situation that reveals that nearly everyone in the victim's inner circle is hiding dark secrets.
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"1792, France. Rumors of revolution in Paris swirl in Marseille, a bustling port city in southern France. Gilles Étienne, a clerk at the local soap factory, thrives on the news. Committed to the cause of equality, liberty, and brotherhood, he and his friends plan to march to Paris to dethrone the monarchy. His plans are halted when he meets Marie-Caroline Daubin, the beautiful daughter of the owner of the factory. A bourgeoise and royalist, Marie-Caroline...
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Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 1
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English
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Twenty-nine-year-old spinster Elizabeth Middleton moves to the New York wilderness on the basis of a promise from her father that she will be allowed to open a school, but she soon discovers her father has other plans in mind for her and she must find the courage to follow her heart.
6) Quicksilver
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Baroque cycle (Neal Stephenson) volume 1
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English
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Daniel Waterhouse is summoned to Europe in 1713 in hopes he can calm the dispute between Isaac Newton and scientist/philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who have independently invented calculus, while adventurer Jack Shaftoe becomes involved with Eliza, an escapee from a Turkish harem on a mission of revenge.
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900L
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English
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It begins in the Scottish Highlands, in the infernal coal mines of the Jamisson family, where twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh spends most of his waking hours. Bound to his employer for life and threatened always by firedamp, the explosive gas that may ignite at any moment and bury him, Mack burns with the desire to escape. He finds an unlikely ally in Lizzie Hallim, the beautiful, willful, young aristocratic woman who yearns to get away from her own...
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" ... the drakon [are] shape-shifters who possess the ability to Turn - changing from human to smoke to dragon." Lady Amalia Langford, daughter of the drakon clan's Alpha, and Zane, the human who rules London's underworld, journey to Hungary on a quest for "the legendary dreaming diamond known as Draumr, the only gem with the power to enslave the drakon."--Publisher description
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1150L
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English
Description
""The Rights of Man." What does that mean? In 1789 that question rippled all around the world. Do all men have rights--not just nobles and kings? What then of enslaved people, women, the original inhabitants of the Americas? In the new United States a bill of rights was passed, while in France the nation tumbled toward revolution. In the Caribbean preachers brought word of equality, while in the South Pacific sailors mutinied. New knowledge was exploding,...
10) Steel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
800L
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English
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When Jill, a competitive high school fencer, goes with her family on vacation to the Bahamas, she's magically transported to an early-eighteenth-century pirate ship in the middle of the ocean.
11) Drums of autumn
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Outlander novels volume 4
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English
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Scottish soldier Jamie Fraser and his wife, Claire Randall, a twentieth century doctor who has traveled two centuries back in time, find themselves in South Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution, where they must fight to save a young girl. Now Claire has gone to find Jamie, the man she loved more than life, and has left half her heart behind with their daughter, Brianna. Claire gave up Jamie to save Brianna, and now Bree has sent her mother...
13) The free rangers
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(Joseph Alexander),Young trailers volume 05
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English
Description
An awe-inspiring tale of gallantry and adventure set in the backdrop of North America. It is a narration that takes into account different nationalities but emphasizes the individual aspirations and characters as well. Altsheler has shown how the Revolutionary war the affected people.
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Pub. Date
2006.
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English
Description
In response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom--escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American...
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