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The story of a genie from his origins in ancient Babylon to his appearance in modern-day New York. He recounts his service to masters who owned the gold-plated bones which call him up, and gives his observations of humanity over the ages. By the author of Memnoch the Devil.
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Outlander novels volume 5
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In 1771, Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveler wife, Claire, become caught between loyalty to the Crown and the changing times, as the American Revolution draws inevitably closer.
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Outlander novels volume 7
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As battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-travelling wife Claire Randall flee from North Carolina to the high seas during the American Revolution, they encounter privateers and ocean battles. Meanwhile in the relative safety of the 20th century Brianna (Claire and Jamie's daughter) and Roger MacKenzie, Brianna's husband, search for clues not only to Claire's fate--but to their own fate in the Highlands.
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Outlander novels volume 8
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"In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it "a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries]." Now the story continues in Written...
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Outlander novels volume 6
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In 1772, the rift between Britain and its American colonies has put a frightening word into the minds of all concerned: revolution. Violence has already reared its ugly head in rural North Carolina, as cabins have been burned to the ground. To preserve the colony for King George III, the governor pleads with Jamie to bring the people together and restore peace. But Jamie has the privilege, although some might call it a burden, of knowing that war...
6) 11/22/63
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
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HL 810L
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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
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2022.
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Death is the doorway to the In Between...where time is non-linear and geography is fluid. Following an armed robbery gone terribly wrong, J awakens in a black void and meets Sarah, a Spiritual Guide tasked with mentoring the transcendence of souls. J can travel anywhere in any time period to get the job done. The journey spans a pyramid builders' village in Giza to the Dakota Plains, from Renaissance Italy to prehistory Mesopotamia, from a Martian...
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[2005]
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On the surface, Muso seems to be just another incarnation of Naraku and he also seems to be impervious to Naraku's will. Who is he and what is his connection to Inu-Yasha and Kikyo? Then, Inu-Yasha and company go looking for a way to make Tetsusaiga more powerful.
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For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ... about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ... and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of...
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Outlander novels volume 1
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The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly, she is a Sassenach -- an "outlander"-- in a Scotland torn by war and raiding Highland clans in the year of our Lord ... 1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into intrigues...
12) Voyager
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Their love affair happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic Battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her ... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams. When she discovers that Jamie...
13) Drums of autumn
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Outlander novels volume 4
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English
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Scottish soldier Jamie Fraser and his wife, Claire Randall, a twentieth century doctor who has traveled two centuries back in time, find themselves in South Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution, where they must fight to save a young girl. Now Claire has gone to find Jamie, the man she loved more than life, and has left half her heart behind with their daughter, Brianna. Claire gave up Jamie to save Brianna, and now Bree has sent her mother...
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Kagome, a young school girl from modern-day Japan, gets pulled into a time portal and transported back to feudal Japan where she discovers that her destiny is linked to that of Inu-Yasha, a doglike half-demon, and together, they search for the Shikon Jewel which can fulfull the dreams of any man or monster.
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Inuyasha volume 27
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[2006]
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English
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Entrenched in the battle of their lives against the undead Band of Seven, Inuyasha and friends get some unlikely allies when his brother Sesshmoaru and Koga get caught up in the skirmish. At the climax of the bloody battle, another of Naraku's malevolent plots is revealed.
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InuYasha volume 11
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[2004]
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Follows the adventures of high school student Kagome and the feral half-demon dog-boy Inu-Yasha as they join forces to reclaim the "Jewel of Four Souls" to prevent evil mortals and demons from using its terrifying powers.
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Inuyasha volume 10
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[2001]
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English
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Meet Sango and Kohaku, a pair of monster hunters whose tremendous boomerang can slice any demon in two. But this brother-and-sister team is split apart when a demon possesses Kohaku. Then the demon manipulates the ninja girl Sango into fighting Inu-Yasha in a no-holds-barred battle.
18) InuYasha: Vol. 6
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InuYasha volume 06
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[2003]
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Kikyo, the killer of Inu-Yasha in the distant past, is distraught from the shock of being resurrected, and she must make a decision--whether to return to death for Kagome's sake or hold onto her second chance at life.
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Inuyasha volume 09
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[2004]
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Kagome, Inu-Yasha, and their companions run afoul of the Peach Man, who gains power from the Shikon Jewel and plans to make them into dinner. Then they find a village of warriors dedicated to fighting the demons created by the Jewel.
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Inuyasha volume 16
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[2006]
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English
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Naraku's weapon against Inu-Yasha is a beautiful wind-witch named Kagura, who not only has incredible powers but also seems to be an extension of the enigmatic Naraku himself. Soon, Kanna and Inu-Yasha's brother Sessho-Maru join the fray, with shocking consequences. Annotation. Naraku's weapon against Inu-Yasha is a beautiful wind-witch named Kagura, who not only has incredible powers but also seems to be an extension of the enigmatic Naraku himself....
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