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1) Hawaii
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 83
Language
English
Description
This epic novel traces the origins and history of the islands of Hawaii, from their volcanic birth, through the first arrivals of humans from Polynesia, followed by European sailors and missionaries, then Chinese and Japanese laborers, to the modern blending of cultures.
2) The Titans
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Kent family chronicles (John Jakes) volume 5
American Bicentennial volume 05
The Kent chronicles volume 5
American bicentennial volume 5
American Bicentennial volume 05
The Kent chronicles volume 5
American bicentennial volume 5
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English
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The Kent family saga continues through the hell of the Civil War, from New York to Washington, as the heroes of the time touch the Kents and change them forever.
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English
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The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew--and daring to dream of a hopeful future.But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred...
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Brotherhood of war volume 1
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English
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"As the chaos of World War II unfolds, the lives and actions of men from very different worlds will forge the paths of their futures -- and of the war"--Page [4] cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
940L
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English
Description
"The world renowned, American epic Dances With Wolves is the eternal story of one man's search for his place in the world. Set in 1863, the novel follows Lieutenant John Dunbar on a magical and unpredictable journey from the ravages of the Civil War to the far reaches of the imperiled American frontier, a frontier he naively wants to see "before it's gone". His posting to a desolate and deserted outpost is the springboard for contact with the lords...
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English
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An epic, heartrending tale that moves across decades and from early twentieth-century Montana to Europe, Cuba, Africa, and back again, the title novella is the powerful story of three brothers, from the madness of World War I that broke them apart, to the women they love and the ungovernable thirst for freedom that drives them.
9) Chesapeake
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English
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The four-hundred-year saga of America's Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the present. The central scene of Michener's historical novel is that section of Maryland's Eastern shore, hardly more than 10 miles square. To this point come the founders of families that will dominate the story. A panoramic narrative of human and animal life on Maryland's Eastern Shore focuses on a ten-square-mile area at the mouth of the Choptank River and...
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English
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5th January 1800. At the beginning of a new century, Alma Whittaker is born into a perfect Philadelphia winter. Her father, Henry Whittaker, is a bold and charismatic botanical explorer whose vast fortune belies his lowly beginnings as a vagrant in Kew Gardens. Alma's mother, a strict woman from an esteemed Dutch family, is conversant in five living languages (and two dead ones) and her knowledge of botany is equal to any man's. An independent girl...
11) Paris: the novel
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English
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Presents a multigenerational saga detailing the history of Paris, from its founding under the Romans to the hotbed of cultural activity during the 1920s and 1930s. It is an epic portrait of Paris that leaps through centuries as it weaves the tales of families whose fates are forever entwined with the City of Lights. The multigenerational saga takes listeners on a journey through thousands of years of Parisian history, through intimate and vivid tales...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
Language
English
Description
“Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it stands as a testament to Follett’s unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 58
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English
Description
The sequel to The Mammoth Hunters finds Ayla and Jondalar on their long journey returning to Jondalar's family. Returning humankind's earliest days, the fourth novel in the Earth's Children series. Courageous heroine Ayla and companion Jondalar leave the Mammoth Hunters and travel into the dark, spectacular lands of an unmapped world-always driven to reach a place that they can finally call home.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 35
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous...
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Series
Earth's children volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 53
Language
English
Description
The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar's people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes-formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone-are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the...
16) Mexico
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English
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Moving between past and present, ranging from the arid plains of Mexico to the baroque estancias of Spain, Mexico searches the lives of men and nations working out their destinies. Norman Clay, an American journalist, arrives in Mexico to report on the duel between two celebrated matadors, also to learn about his family's past. He digs into the story of his Mexican ancestors and finds the dramatic history of a nation - brilliant and brutal native...
17) Somerset
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Roses volume 01
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English
Description
One hundred fifty years of Roses' Tolivers, Warwicks, and DuMonts! We begin in the antebellum South on Plantation Alley in South Carolina, where Silas Toliver, deprived of his inheritance, joins up with his best friend Jeremy Warwick to plan a wagon train expedition to the 'black waxy' promise of a new territory called Texas. Slavery, westward expansion, abolition, the Civil War, love, marriage, friendship, tragedy and triumph-all the ingredients...
18) Zoo
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Series
Zoo novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans. All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Oz watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear....
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English
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"Kit Noonan's life is stalled: unemployed, twins to support, a mortgage to pay--and a frustrated wife, who is certain that, more than anything else, Kit needs to solve the mystery of his father's identity. He begins with a visit to his former stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman. But it is another person who has kept the secret: Lucinda Burns, wife of a revered senior statesman and mother of Malachy (the journalist who died...
20) The furies
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English
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Newly widowed, Amanda Kent, a brave young woman raised by the Teton Sioux, after witnessing the horrors of war at the Alamo, is indentured to a Mexican officer and longs to return home to Boston and restore her family's legacy.
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