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Blood of kings volume 2
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English
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Chased by an evil prince, Achan, Vrell, and the Kingsguard knights flee into Darkness, where they must free an army that can help them fight for Er'Rets.
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Series
Chicago Stars volume 3
Language
English
Description
The Plan Genius physics professor Dr, Jane Darlington desperately wants a baby. But finding a father won't be easy. Jane's super-intelligence made her feel like a freak when she was growing up, and she's determined to spare her own child that suffering. Which means she must find someone very special to father her child. Someone ... well . . stupid. The Target Cal Bonner, the Chicago Stars' legendary quarterback, seems like the perfect choice. But...
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Blood of kings volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Achan, born a slave and gifted with "bloodvoicing," wishes to escape his life of servitude where he is forced to consume a foul potion daily, and accepts an offer to be trained for the Kingsguard, but as the voices in his head grow, Vrell Sparrow, who hides by dressing like a boy, helps him learn to control his newfound ability.
5) The calling
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English
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The first in a new series featuring DCI John Luther takes us into his past and his mind. It is the story of the serial killer case that tore his personal and professional relationships apart and propelled him over the precipice beyond fury, beyond vengeance, all the way to the other side of the law.
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English
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When young frontiersman Peter Force came to New York City in 1901 and took a job digging one of the first subway tunnels beneath the city, little did he know that he would meet a woman who claimed to be a descendant of the unknown King of Ohio, from a land that no longer existed. Nor did he know that he would be drawn into intrigues involving Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and J.P. Morgan, and the possibility of traveling through time.
Author
Series
Impossible times volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he's dying. And it isn't even the strangest thing to happen to him that week. Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange--yet curiously familiar--man is following...
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The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain in adulthood what seems so special in adolescence. Their friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Bestseller ' Named A Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Book World, Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Rocky Mountain News Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of...
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English
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"The first novel in the new Amish Journeys series by bestselling author Beth Wiseman. Mary Hershberger lives a happy life in an Amish community in Indiana with her parents and sister. Levi Shetler lives forty miles away in a crowded and unorganized home that is part of a much stricter community. When the two met as children, Mary learned a secret about Levi: he is a musical prodigy, but his talent must remain unused and unheard in his community. Eight...
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Series
Legion novels (Brandon Sanderson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad . . . A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of this, his mind creates hallucinatory people--Stephen calls them aspects--to hold and manifest the information. Wherever he goes, he is joined by a team of imaginary experts to give advice, interpretation, and explanation. He uses them to solve problems...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ah Boon is born into a fishing village amid the heat and beauty of twentieth-century coastal Singapore in the waning years of British rule. He is a gentle boy who is not much interested in fishing, preferring to spend his days playing with the neighbor girl, Siok Mei. But when he discovers he has the unique ability to locate bountiful, movable islands that no one else can find, he feels a new sense of obligation and possibility--something to offer...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
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English
Description
Elsa's world was written into creation; her mother, a noted scriptologist, constantly alters and expands their reality. When her mother kidnapped, Elsa is forced to cross into the real world and use her own scriptology gifts to find her. In an alternative Victorian Italy, Elsa finds a secret society of young scientists with a gift for mechanics, alchemy, or scriptology-- and meets Leo, a mechanist with a smart mouth and tragic past. When an assassin...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Charlie embarks on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. Oscar-winning film Charly starring Cliff Robertson and Claire Bloom-a mentally challenged man receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache. When we first meet Charlie he is about to embark on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. He has only a vague understanding of what will happen, but he is aware that...
16) Rebel
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Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 4
Legend novel volume 04
Thorndike large print young adult
Legend novel volume 4
Legend novel volume 04
Thorndike large print young adult
Legend novel volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
As Day and Eden struggle with who they've become since their time in the Republic, a new danger creeps into the distance between them, and Eden finds himself drawn into Ross City's dark side, where his legendary brother may not be able to save him.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Follows Winston Crwth--a boarding-school kid, loner, and Scrabble prodigy--who becomes an unlikely hero in the fight to stop fracking in Pennsylvania. Truth is a rare commodity in politics, and the idea of "winning" a debate as cleanly and simply as you'd win a Scrabble game can seem impossible. But with the truth on his side, a jar of toxic "frackwater," and the belief that he can win a Scrabble tournament whose first prize is a meeting with the...
20) Dispel illusion
Author
Series
Impossible times volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes being wrong is the right answer. Nick Hayes's genius is in wringing out the universe's secrets. It's a talent that's allowed him to carve paths through time. But the worst part is that he knows how his story will end. He's seen it with his own eyes. And every year that passes, every breakthrough he makes, brings him a step closer. Mia's accident is waiting for them both in 2011. If it happens then he's out of choices. Then a chance 1992...
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