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Innkeeper chronicles volume 2
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English
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Dina DeMille isn't your typical Bed and Breakfast owner. Her inn defies laws of physics, her dog is secretly a monster, and the only permanent guest of the inn is a former Galactic tyrant with a price on her head. The inn needs guests to thrive and guests have been scarce, so when an Arbitrator shows up at Dina's door and asks her to host a peace summit between three warring species, she jumps on the chance. Unfortunately, for Dina, bridging the gap...
2) Amelia
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"Amelia Howard cherishes her desert country. The dazzling colors, white heat, and rough sensuality of west Texas stir her very soul. But there's a serpent in her paradise: King Culhane. A towering sunburned cowboy with silver eyes that miss nothing, he's a man she's come to despise--no matter how much she had worshipped him when she was fourteen. As her father pushes her to secure a marriage proposal from King's mild-mannered brother in order to marry...
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The New York Times bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels reimagines the end of World War 2 in this gripping standalone spy thriller.
Autumn 1943. Since Stalingrad, Hitler has known that Germany cannot win the war. The upcoming Allied conference in Teheran will set the ground rules for their second front-and for the peace to come. Realizing that the unconditional surrender FDR has demanded will leave Germany in...
Autumn 1943. Since Stalingrad, Hitler has known that Germany cannot win the war. The upcoming Allied conference in Teheran will set the ground rules for their second front-and for the peace to come. Realizing that the unconditional surrender FDR has demanded will leave Germany in...
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Queen's thief volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
940L
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English
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Sophos, the unwilling prince of Sounis, has disappeared without a trace. Eugenides, the new and unlikely king of Attolia, has never stopped wondering what happened to his friend. Nor has the queen of Eddis, who once offered Sophos her hand. As time goes by it becomes less and less certain that the queen of Eddis and her thief will ever see Sophos again.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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"A strange creature stalks the land, eating barbed wire and devouring tractors and plows. The farmers are mystified--and afraid. And then they glimpse him in the night: the Iron Giant, taller than a house, with glowing headlight eyes and an insatiable taste for metal. The hungry giant must be stopped at any cost. Only a young boy named Hogarth is brave enough to befriend the Iron Giant and lead him to a safe home. And only Hogarth knows where to...
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Star Trek: Original Series. Main series volume 81
Star Trek Original Series. Main volume 81
Star trek the original volume 81
Star Trek Original Series. Main volume 81
Star trek the original volume 81
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Captain Kirk is assigned to investigate when peace breaks out between two planets that have been at war for over 12,000 years, and he is very suspicious when he learns that the architect of the peace treaty is a notorious con artist.
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For eight days, beginning on Saturday, February 3, 1945, the most powerful men in the world, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, met at the Black Sea Resort of Yalta, where in the most momentous conference of the century, they preceded to divide up Europe. This novel, told from Churchill's point of view, takes you behind the scenes and brings you into the minds and hearts of the big three leaders: the dominating and seemingly all-powerful Joseph Stalin,...
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In the aftermath of World War III, the nations have agreed to outlaw religion in the hopes of promoting world peace, and Paul Stepola, an agent for the National Peace Organization, is determined to expose religious zealots; but when supernatural events being to occur, Paul begins to realize he can no longer deny the truth that a higher being does exist.
14) War is over
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[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"It's 1918, and war is everywhere. John's father is fighting in the trenches far away in France, while his mother works in a menacing munitions factory just along the road. His teacher says that John is fighting, too, that he is at war with enemy children in Germany. One day, in the wild woods outside town, John has an impossible moment: a dreamlike meeting with a German boy named Jan. John catches a glimpse of a better world, in which children like...
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AD 630L
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An old owl tells the Christmas story to the community of birds as he has done so many times before, but when he tells of the special message from the Baby Jesus, a little bird questions why they no longer sing the message. "People no longer listen," is the sad realization. The birds decide to share the message once more, but this time to the children of the world. And what unfolds is surely a Christmas wonder.
16) The peace book
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AD 280L
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Describes peace in a variety of ways, including making new friends, sharing a meal, having enough for everyone, and being true to yourself
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"From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a literary noir about two female war correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe. Paris, 1938. Two women Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite cohort of foreign correspondents stationed around the city; the other, Jane, a brash, legendary American journalist, who is soon to become a fascist propagandist. When World War II makes...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
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English
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Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
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