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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
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English
Description
Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He's all Marine, fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife, beautiful, Southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete whose best never satisfies the big man. Ben's got to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesn't give in, not to his men, not to his wife,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage...not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it woud cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A serial killer is kidnapping young girls, breaking their bones, and leaving them to die. Ryan Evans is an intelligence officer who is alienated from his own family. When the BoneMan kidnaps Ryan's daughter, Ryan must take on this deranged killer himself to save her.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Rye Tyler was 12 when he saw his father cut down in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for Shakespeare and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the lessons of a hard country.
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Jack Ryan, Jr volume 1
Jack Ryan Jr volume 1
Jack Ryan Jr volume 01
Jack Ryan universe volume 12
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Jack Ryan Jr volume 1
Jack Ryan Jr volume 01
Jack Ryan universe volume 12
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
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English
Description
In a nondescript office building in suburban Maryland, the firm Hendley Associates does a profitable business in stocks, bonds, and international currencies, but its true mission is quite different: to identify and locate terrorist threats, and then deal with them, in whatever manner necessary. Established with the knowledge of President John Patrick Ryan, "the Campus" is always on the lookout for promising new talent, its recruiters scattered throughout...
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Jason Bourne series volume 4
Jason Bourne novels volume 04
New Jason Bourne novel volume 04
Thorndike Press large print core
Jason Bourne novels volume 04
New Jason Bourne novel volume 04
Thorndike Press large print core
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 29
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English
Formats
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Former CIA agent David Webb leads a quiet life as a university professor until he becomes a target of an assassin and is framed for the murders of two close friends, and as he fights for his life, he finds himself under the control of his alternate personality--Jason Bourne.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who is particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor, to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he is right. Can someone who has committed a truly heinous act...
9) Steve Jobs
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Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 40
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
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Description
This is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - the author has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal...
11) Whiteout
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
A missing canister of deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems. And as a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, the research company's director, has everything riding on the drug he is developing to fight the virus--but he isn't the only one. His grown children...
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Temeraire volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire and Captain Will Laurence have been transported to a prison colony in distant Australia-and into a hornet's nest of fresh complications. The colony is in turmoil after the overthrow of military governor William Bligh-aka Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty. And when Bligh tries to enlist them in his bid to regain office, the dragon and his captain are...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive. This is the story of the author, the fire team leader, and sole survivor of Operation...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The vision has haunted him for four years--a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both files were never closed. Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch is determined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear...
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J. P. Beaumont mysteries volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"The Starfire Breeze steams its way north toward the Gulf of Alaska, buffeted by crisp sea winds blowing down from the Arctic. Those on board are seeking peace, relaxation, adventure, escape. But there is no escape in this place of unspoiled natural majesty. Because terror strolls the decks even in the brilliant light of day . . . and death is a conspicuous, unwelcome passenger. Former Seattle policeman J.P. Beaumont--a damaged homicide detective...
16) Tree of smoke
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
CIA officer William "Skip" Sands travels to Vietnam in 1967 as part of a team running deceptive operations against North Vietnam, but his involvement in their latest assignment is complicated by a Canadian nurse and two brothers whose misguided beliefs threaten the entire operation.
17) Black house
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 41
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English
Description
Jack Sawyer, a retired homicide detective living in rural Wisconsin, doesn't remember his boyhood journey into the parallel universe called the Territories. When he's recruited to find a brutal serial killer stalking the region, Jack soon discovers the methods resemble those of Albert Fish--who committed murders thirty years earlier. But is there an even more malignant force at work?
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
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"He has lost his memory, his identity, and his past. Now Jason Bourne loses his only friend in the world when a CIA deputy director is kidnapped. Vowing to rescue his last tie to humanity, Bourne heads to Africa - and discovers a global network of Islamic supremacists determined to acquire nuclear weapons. But there's more: These madmen have anticipated Jason Bourne's every move - and plan to use him to destroy America."--Back cover.
20) Skinny dip
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Doctoring water samples to help his corrupt agribusiness employer to continue illegal dumping in the Everglades, biologist Chaz Perrone attempts to murder his wife, who has figured out his scam and who survives to plot her husband's downfall.
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