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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
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Harry Benson, a man who suffers from violent seizures, is implanted with electrodes that are designed to send soothing pulses to the pleasure centers of his brain, but something goes wrong with the operation and Benson sets out to get revenge on the doctors he believes are trying to turn him into a machine.
2) Killjoy
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Buchanan novels (Julie Garwood) volume 3
Thorndike Press large print core
Buchanan / FBI volume 03
Buchanan-Renard volume 03
Thorndike Press large print core
Buchanan / FBI volume 03
Buchanan-Renard volume 03
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English
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FBI profiler Avery Delaney becomes involved in a case that hits close to home when her workaholic aunt accepts the offer from her soon-to-be-ex-husband of a vacation at a posh spa in the Colorado mountains, only to vanish mysteriously before reaching the spa.
4) The codex
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Maxwell Broadbent left behind a videotape after he mysteriously disappeared. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over a half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts before vanishing, along with his entire collection, from his mansion in New Mexico. As a final challenge to his three sons, he has buried himself and his treasure somewhere in the world. If the sons wish to claim their inheritance,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 35
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English
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Contains an overview of the global political and economic change since the turn of the twenty-first century, discussing the rapid developments in technologies that has allowed India and China to become part of a growing supply chain of manufacturing impacting global markets.
7) Promise me
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Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 8
Myron Bolitar novel volume 07
Thorndike Press large print core
Myron Bolitar novel volume 08
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Myron Bolitar novel volume 07
Thorndike Press large print core
Myron Bolitar novel volume 08
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar offers a ride home to a young girl to prevent her from accepting a ride from a drunk driver, but when the girl disappears, he is forced to rescue her to prove his innocence.
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Circle trilogy (Nora Roberts) volume 3
The circle trilogy volume 3
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Circle trilogy) volume no. 3
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The circle trilogy volume 3
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Circle trilogy) volume no. 3
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Her face, so pale when she'd removed her cloak, had bloomed when her hand had taken the sword. Her eyes, so heavy, so somber, had gone as brilliant as the blade. And had simply sliced through him, keen as a sword, when they'd met his... In the kingdom of Geall, the scholarly Moira has taken up the sword of her people. Now, as queen, she must prepare her subjects for the greatest battle they will ever fight--against an enemy more vicious than any they...
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Miami crime scene investigator--and a serial killer dedicated to eliminating evil people--Dexter Morgan confronts his ultimate adversary, a sinister enemy that even terrifies Dexter's inner monster, and must use his sharpest investigative talents to find and destroy his enemy.
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Covert counterterrorism agent Scot Harvath awakens to discover that his world has changed violently -- and forever. A sadistic assassin with a personal vendetta is wreaking havoc of biblical proportions. Unleashing nightmarish horrors on those closest to Harvath, the attacker thrusts everything Harvath holds dear -- including his life -- into absolute peril. Ordered by the president to stay out of the investigation, Harvath is forced to mount his...
11) Spare change
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"Called back from retirement when a serial killer from a long-unsolved case reemerges, detective Phil Randall teams up with daughter and Boston private eye Sunny Randall throughout a series of murder investigations in which the victims resemble Sunny."--from NoveList.
12) Taken by Storm
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Trauma nurse Julia McCarver was in shock when she answered the door and found the past standing there the person of former football quarterback S. T. "Storm" Dalton. Julia had painstakingly put her life together not just once, but three times after she had suffered from his selfishness, and she had no intention of making it a fourth. But S.T. wants two weeks to convince Julia that he's changed.
13) A darker place
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Alexander Kurbsky has gotten fed up with the Putin government, and decides he wants to disappear into the West. He is under no illusions, however, about how the news will be greeted at home. He has seen too many of his countrymen mysteriously die at the hands of the Russian security services, so he makes elaborate plans with Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon, and the rest of the group informally known as the "Prime Minister's private army" for his escape...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 39
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English
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Thomas L. Friedman's no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped an audience of millions to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy-both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future. Friedman proposes that an ambitious...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
850L
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English
Description
Henry Lee, a Chinese-American in Seattle, loses his wife to cancer and recalls his youth, when he and his Japanese-American friend, Keiko, spent time together during WWII--before Keiko and her family were interred at a camp--and deals with generational difficulties between himself and his father and college-age son.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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Five hundred years have passed since Hawk led a tattered band of survivors into a valley protected by a magical barrier. Now the wall has been breached by demons. The last known Knight of the Word, Sider Ament, wields a powerful black staff that he hopes to pass to a new leader. After rescuing talented teen Trackers Panterra Qu and Prue Liss, Sider asks them to warn the Children of Hawk. Unfortunately, their council leaders don't share Sider's certainty...
17) Still missing
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On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a thirty-two-year-old Realtor, had three goals: sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent captive in a remote mountain cabin,...
18) Already home
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After nearly a decade as a sous-chef in a trendy eatery, Jenna is desperate for a change. She's supported her ex-husband's dreams for so long that she can't even remember her own. Until she sees a for-lease sign near her parents' home and envisions her very own cooking store Her crash course in business is aided by a streetwise store manager and Jenna's adoptive mother. But just as she's gaining a foothold in her new life, in walk her birth parents--aging...
19) Covert warriors
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At a Mexican roadblock, a U.S. embassy SUV is stopped at gunpoint, three of its passengers are murdered, and a fourth is kidnapped. Everything points to the drug cartels, especially when the kidnappers say they will return the hostage if a cartel kingpin is released from U.S. federal prison. But when word gets to Castillo and his group of retired spies and special operators, they have their doubts. They believe that it's a diversion-that they murders...
20) Sacred evil
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The details of the crime scene are no coincidence. The battered body of a starlet has been found between two of Manhattan's oldest graveyards; with one look, Detective Jude Crosby recognizes a re-creation of Jack the Ripper's gruesome work. But he also sees something more dangerous--and inexplicable. So Jude calls on Whitney Tremont, a member of the city's preeminent paranormal investigating team, to put the speculation to rest.
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