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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1080L
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English
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A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
2) Dark magic
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"Young Savannah Dubrinsky was a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmerizing millions. But there was one-Gregori, the Dark One-who held her in terrifying thrall. Whose cold silver eyes and heated sensuality sent shivers of danger, of desire, down her slender spine. With a dark magic all his own, Gregori-the implacable hunter, the legendary healer, the most powerful of Carpathian males-whispered in Savannah's mind that he was...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
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Life with no end? Space with no bounds? And what about Armageddon, The Lake of Fire, The Mark of the Beast?
Are we supposed to feel good about all this?
When we wonder about these things, we aren't alone. There is much about the end of history we don't understand. But while thoughts on the final day will stir our questions, they needn't stir our fears. Regarding that day, Jesus urged, "Don't let your hearts be troubled.
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Dominick Dunne's mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed.
For more than two decades, Vanity Fair published Dominick Dunne’s brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. Whether writing of Claus von Bülow’s romp through two trials; the Los Angeles media frenzy surrounding O.J. Simpson; the death by fire of multibillionaire banker Edmond Safra; or...
For more than two decades, Vanity Fair published Dominick Dunne’s brilliant, revelatory chronicles of the most famous crimes, trials, and punishments of our time. Whether writing of Claus von Bülow’s romp through two trials; the Los Angeles media frenzy surrounding O.J. Simpson; the death by fire of multibillionaire banker Edmond Safra; or...
6) Bob
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
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"A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder. Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn’t understand. She suspected it was because she didn’t feel things the way other kids did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and...
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Me Talk Pretty One Day contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays - it quite well registers as a manifesto about language itself. Wherever there's a straight line, you can be sure that Sedaris lurks beneath the text, making it jagged with laughter; and just where the fault lines fall, he sits mischievously perched at the epicenter of it all.
12) The cottage
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When Coop, an aging, broke actor rents out his beloved home, known as The Cottage, something unexpected happens. Three men who would never have met become friends...and each man finds himself changing in surprising ways, Coop most of all. Amidst chaos and near tragedy, The Cottage welcomes a new houseguest--with a secret of her own.
13) September
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More than a dozen guests are invited to a September twenty-first birthday party in Scotland where they will meet their inevitable and surprising destinies.
14) Dark gold
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"They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light...Alexandria Houton will sacrifice anything?even her life?to protect her orphaned little brother. But when both encounter an unspeakable evil in the swirling San Francisco mists, Alex can only cry to heaven for their deliverance...And out of the darkness swoops Aidan Savage, a golden being more powerful, more mysterious, than any other creature of the night."...
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Soon after the mysterious death of her husband, Mary Roffe is appointed as ambassador to Romania by the president of United States. Up against Mary and the new president are a secret alliance of political extremists and a ruthless international assassin known as Angel.
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"Rachel Blum and Andy Landis are just eight years old when they meet late one night in an ER waiting room. Born with a congenital heart defect, Rachel is a veteran of hospitals, and she's intrigued by the boy who shows up all alone with a broken arm. He tells her his name. She tells him a story. After Andy's taken back to a doctor and Rachel's sent back to her bed, they think they'll never see each other again. Rachel grows up wanting for nothing...
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Simon Waterhouse and Charlie Zailer novels volume 9
Zailer and Waterhouse mystery volume 09
Spilling CID
Culver Valley Crime volume 09
Zailer and Waterhouse mystery volume 09
Spilling CID
Culver Valley Crime volume 09
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English
Description
A woman desperate to hide a devastating secret in her past is drawn into a murder investigation.
20) The hot zone
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Dark biology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race....
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