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1) On the beach
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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The last generation, innocent victims of an accidental nuclear war, live out their last days, make plans that will never be carried out, and hope for a miracle that will not come. As the deadly rain moves closer, the world as we know it moves toward the end.
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English
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The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is based on a prediction of nuclear weapons of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort than the world has yet seen. It had appeared first in serialised form with a different ending as A Prophetic Trilogy, consisting of three books: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The World Set Free. A frequent theme of Wells's work, as in his 1901...
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Wings of glory volume 1
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English
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"Never pretty enough to please her gorgeous mother, Allie will do anything to gain her approval, even marry a man she doesn't love. Lt. Walter Novak - fearless in the cockpit but hopeless with women - takes his last furlough home in California before going overseas. Walt and Allie meet and begin a correspondence that will change their lives. The letters that fly between Walt's muddy bomber base and Allie's mansion bind them together in friendship....
6) One of ours
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully written Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his parents, all but rejected by his wife, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It's only when America enters the First World War that Claude finds...
7) Enemy women
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Follows Adair, the daughter of modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks, who is wrongly accused of enemy collaboration by the Union militia, as she falls in love with her interrogator and embarks on a perilous journey to find her family." (Baker & Taylor)
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English
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Thirty years in the making, Marlantes's epic debut is a dense, vivid narrative spanning many months in the lives of American troops in Vietnam as they trudge across enemy lines, encountering danger from opposing forces as well as on their home turf. Marine lieutenant and platoon commander Waino Mellas is braving a 13-month tour in Quang-Tri province, where he is assigned to a fire-support base and befriends Hawke, older at 22; both learn about life,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young German soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time. When twenty-year-old Paul Baumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiam. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Achilles, 'the best of all the Greeks,' son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful--irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath. They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word...
12) The infinite sea
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
640L
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English
Description
"Cassie Sullivan and her companions lived through the Others' four waves of destruction. Now, with the human race nearly exterminated and the 5th Wave rolling across the landscape, they face a choice: brace for winter and hope for Evan Walker's return, or set out in search of other survivors before the enemy closes in"--
13) Parade's end
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English
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"First published as four separate novels, Parade's End explores the world of the English ruling class as it descends into the chaos of war. Christopher Tietjens is an officer from a wealthy family who finds himself torn between his unfaithful socialite wife, Sylvia, and his suffragette mistress, Valentine."--P. [4] of cover.
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Electra McDonnell novels volume 1
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English
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Electra McDonnell has always known that the way she and her family earn their living is slightly outside of the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but World War II is in full swing, and Uncle Mick's more honorable business as a locksmith can't pay the bills any more. So when he receives a tip about a safe full of jewels in the empty house of a wealthy family,...
16) Bloodmage
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Series
Age of darkness volume 2
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English
Description
"The people of Perizzi have survived the Battlemage war, but their future is looking darker than ever. Byrne is a Guardian of the Peace, investigating a series of murders in which the corpses were drained entirely of blood. Fray's expertise with magic is needed to catch the killer, but working with the Guardians destroyed his father years before. Choss, renowned as a fighter, must work for peace and defuse a war in the underworld that will make the...
17) A bell for Adano
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
An Italian-American major, part of American occupation forces in Sicily during World War II, tries to reform the town in his charge by being decent to people. His efforts are epitomized by his efforts to replace the 700-year-old bell melted down for bullets by the fascists.
18) Battlemage
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Age of Darkness volume 1
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English
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"Balfruss is a battlemage, sworn to fight and die for a country that fears and despises his kind. Vargus is a common soldier -- while mages shoot lightning from the walls of the city, he's down in the front lines getting blood on his blade. Talandra is a princess and spymaster, but the war may force her to risk everything and make the greatest sacrifice of all"--
19) For such a time
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English
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In 1944, blonde and blue-eyed Jewess Hadassah Benjamin is saved from a firing squad only to be pressed into service by SS-Kommandant Colonel Aric von Schmidt at the transit camp of Theresienstadt. In order to survive as Aric's secretary, "Stella" must stand by as her people are sent to Auschwitz. When she cautiously appeals to him on their behalf, Aric's compassion gives her hope. Perhaps God has placed her there for such a time as this ...
20) Night of the fox
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On a secret sea maneuver just before D-Day, American Colonel Hugh Kelso goes down in the English Channel. Wounded and adrift for days, he washes ashore on the German-occupied island of Jersey. The news spreads panic through the Allied high command: Kelso knows the time and place of the invasion. He must be rescued -- or silenced. A British professor turned Nazi impersonator and a young Jersey girl posing as his mistress set off to find Kelso in the...
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