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Babylon rising volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The Edge of Darkness, LaHaye reveals the meaning behind some of the most carefully guarded Biblical prophecies to expose a conspiracy with terrifying consequences for our modern world. This time Michael Murphy sets off in search of the Lost Temple of Dagon and the dark secrets of the strange god once worshipped by the ancient Philistines. His quest will lead to a final confrontation with an old enemy and uncover one of the Bible's most feared warnings-a...
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Babylon rising volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Biblical scholar, archaeologist, and professor Michael Murphy sets out to find Noah's Ark, risking his life to ascend Mount Ararat and discovering dramatic revelations of Biblical prophecies.
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Atlas volume 2
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English
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"The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to Olivie Blake's New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas Six--guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos. Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Society. Two paths lay before them. All must pick a side. Alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and The Society of Alexandrians will be revealed...
4) Desert heat
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For Ph.D. candidate Patience Sinclair, leaving the ivy-covered campus of Boston University for the wide, open spaces of Texas means a chance to stop looking over her shoulder at every turn. Traveling incognito with the Triple C Rodeo will help her finish her dissertation on the American West while hiding in plain sight. But she can’t hide from Dallas Kingman. The champion rider makes it clear that he’s watching her … and he likes what he sees....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When an aging biblical scholar is fatally shot after revealing his possession of a unique parchment believed to have been written by Jesus, Father Aiden O'Brien investigates the victim's suspicions that a close friend was responsible--a case that grows complicated by circumstances implicating the man's Alzheimer's victim wife.
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"The Lost Sisterhood takes on historical myth--the warrior women called the Amazons--and shows us they were not mythical, but a real band of beleaguered but brave priestesses-in-training who banded together to rescue their kidnapped companions. While their desperate trek unfolds in the past, we follow Diana, a modern-day scholar who has always been fascinated by the Amazons, as she embarks on a trek of her own. Led by enigmatic Middle Easterner Nick...
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In 1947, an American anthropologist named Martin Mitchell wins a Fulbright Fellowship to study in India. He travels there with his wife, Evie, and his son, determined to start a new chapter in their lives. Upon the family's arrival, though, they are forced to stay in a small village due to violence surrounding Britain's imminent departure from India. It is there, hidden behind a brick wall in their colonial bungalow, that Evie discovers a packet of...
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"George Eliot's beloved masterpiece in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with a foreword by Rebecca Mead, author of the bestselling memoir My Life in Middlemarch A triumph of realist fiction, George Eliot's Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of sweeping change. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advances are threatening upheaval on every front. Against...
9) The façade
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Haunted by his parents' death and his career failures, Dr. Brian Scott has begun to settle for the life he's been given. Until he's kidnapped by military insiders known as The Group. Brian and a team of world-class scholars are given a confidential mission: To prepare humanity for a new reality. They are here. But as the government's involvement with extraterrestrials is revealed, strange things begin to happen.Something isn't right. Unpeeling layer...
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Babylon rising volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Tim LaHaye, creator of the Left Behind® series, blends suspense and Biblical prophecy in a new series of thrillers with a chilling relevance to the events of our time. Here are ancient secrets never before revealed, dire warnings, and a man who must rise to face the greatest evil of all.…
Michael Murphy is a hero for our troubled times. He’s an archaeologist and a scholar of Biblical prophecy. He’s also a man of action hunting...
Michael Murphy is a hero for our troubled times. He’s an archaeologist and a scholar of Biblical prophecy. He’s also a man of action hunting...
11) The Atlas six
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"The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and...
12) Rebel
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The brides of Alba volume 3
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2012.
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English
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Defying the queen's orders, Kella O'Toole sets off for Pictish territory with her foster brother Alyn, a disillusioned priest who questions his calling, on a perilous adventure that threatens their lives and the future of Albion.
13) Middlemarch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 64
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English
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"George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career;...
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Dann is grown up now, hunting for knowledge and despondent over the inadequacies of his civilization. With his trusted companions-Mara's daughter, his hope for the future; the abandoned child-soldier Griot, who discovers the meaning of love and the ability to sing stories; and the snow dog, a faithful friend who brings him back from the depths of despair-Dann embarks on a strange and captivating adventure in a suddenly colder, more watery climate...
16) Babylon Rising
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"He is a much-needed hero for our times. A man of surprising courage, Michael Murphy is an expert on Biblical prophecy and an archaeologist who fearlessly hunts down ancient artifacts in the face of the greatest danger. Now Murphy has unlocked secrets from the distant past that hurtle him into a confrontation with the forces of the greatest evil. Murphy cannot fail--for the countdown has begun to the time of the end for all mankind." --Provided by...
17) Storm of shadows
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Chosen ones volume 2
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"When the world was young, twins were born. One brought light to a dark world; the other, darkness and danger. They gathered others around them, men and women destined to use their powerful gifts for good or evil. Today, their descendants walk the earth as the Chosen, and the ultimate battle has begun... Brilliant but proper and predictable, Rosamund Hill has lived her life buried in universities and libraries, discounting the legend of the Chosen...
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Atlas volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment, six Alexandrians grapple with the ethics of their astronomical abilities while the outside world mobilizes to destroy them, forcing them to decide what they're willing to betray for limitless power and who will be destroyed along the way.
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Babylon rising volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When Michael Murphy heads to the ancient city of Babylon in search of one of the most famous and mystifying Biblical prophecies, he realizes his quest may unleash forces of darkness that can destroy the earth.
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Dante expert David Franco tracks down the whereabouts of a mirror bearing an image of the legendary Medusa which was possibly crafted by Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini. But David will need help if he is to find the clues scattered through art and history to the mirror's current location. And there are others who have heard of the mirror's powers, and they will stop at nothing to find it.
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