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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
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1000L
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Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. Lassiter, a gunglinging avenger in black, shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
890L
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English
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A time-and-motion expert and his engineer wife use scientific principles to raise their twelve children. No growing pains have ever been more hilarious than those suffered loudly by the riotous Gilbreth clan. First there are a dozen red-haired, freckle-faced kids to contend with. Then there's Dad, a famous efficiency expert who believes a family can be run just like a factory. Finally there's Mother, his partner in everything except discipline. How...
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After the Lincoln County cattle wars, Clay Quantrelle took off his guns "for good". He rode into Taiholt seeking peace and quiet, but the acrid smell of gunsmoke dogged his every step. Clay's old buddy, Apache Pat Tanner, was in a range war up to his ears and it was up to Clay to pull him out. A desperate group of bandit ranchers had formed a pool to drive Tanner off his Big T ranch and there had already been some nasty attacks-now they were sure...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 36
Lexile measure
1010L
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English
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"Boris Pasternak's Widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnosky, the award-winning translators of war and Peace and Anna karenina, and to whom. The New York Review of Books declared. "the English-speaking world is indebted."" "First published in Italy in 1957 amid internatrional controversy---the novel was banned in the Soviet Union Until 1988. and Pasternak declined the...
8) Rat race
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800L
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In this “impossible to stop reading” suspense thriller from a New York Times bestseller, a bomb scare lands a pilot in midst of a horse racing crime(The Telegraph).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Hired to fly four racing buffs to the track, pilot Matt Shore expects it will be the...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Hired to fly four racing buffs to the track, pilot Matt Shore expects it will be the...
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Bernie Rhodenbarr and his dog-grooming partner in crime, Carolyn, are planning the perfect crime. Tonight, they will rob a brownstone while the well-heeled owners are out of town with their vicious watch dog. But when Bernie painstakingly picks the lock, they discover somebody has already emptied the house -- except for a valuable coin almost too hot to handle.
13) Close relations
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It was a situation from which half-hour television comedies are made. MARCIA--in tonight's episode, Marcia Green's warm and winning and wise and wonderful Jewish family reminds her that she is thirty-five, divorced, and childless. That's Marcia on her close relations. True, she's one of the best speechwriters around in the tough world of New York's smoke-filled rooms, but her family wants something else for her. No, not that Irish person she's living...
15) Firestorm
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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As part of the army battling the Jackknife fire in northern California's Lassen Volcanic National Park, Anna, in her capacity as spike camp medic and security officer, tends the injuries and the frayed nerves of the firefighters. When the National Weather Service predicts a cold front followed by snow, promising to all but extinguish the fire, the camp is demobilized, but a last-minute rescue of a firefighter with a broken leg detains Anna and the...
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As Elizabeth MacPherson recovers from the death of her husband in Cherry Hill Psychiatric Hospital, her brother Bill and his law partner, A.P. Hill, become involved in the mystery of their new law office and of the PMS Outlaws. The outlaws are a former rival of Hill's and his female client, who travel the country taking vengeance on unwary male chauvinists.
18) Lace
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The story of four sophisticated women who have given up their romantic dreams for realities of womanhood and of the secret that they shared-that one of them is the mother of the world-famous actress, Lili.
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930L
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Whether it's the sudden snapping of bonds between lovers or shopping on Oxford Street, Maeve Binchy finds the unexpected truth in experiences so real that every woman will recognize them. Filled with her delicious humor and warmth, the twenty-two stories in London Transports will delight and captivate as they take us to a place that is far away—and yet so familiar...Where having an affair with a married man brings one woman to a turning...
20) The outside man
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A Northern lawyer in a Southern town risks his life to bring a killer to justice in this suspenseful legal thriller by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
A Yankee through and through, Adam Shaw never felt at ease among the upper crust of the Deep South. An attorney to some of the most powerful people in Alabama, he is close with only two of them. When Adam’s best friend, Henry Cantwell, disappears after...
A Yankee through and through, Adam Shaw never felt at ease among the upper crust of the Deep South. An attorney to some of the most powerful people in Alabama, he is close with only two of them. When Adam’s best friend, Henry Cantwell, disappears after...
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