Scott Brick
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Foundation series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
860L
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English
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It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory,...
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Israeli delegates to a planned U.N. conference that promises to finally bring peace to the Middle East, are forced instead to fight for their lives when the plane in which they are traveling is forced to crash land at an ancient desert site where they are confronted by crack Palestinian commandos.
403) American outrage
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A top TV journalist, Jake Carlson is used to dragging himself through dirt to get to the truth. When his adopted son, Sam, asks Jake to use his muckraking talents to find Sam's birht mother, Jake is stunned by the ugly secrets he unearths: an international crime syndicate, an illegal adoption ring,and corrupt politician, the patriarch of an old New York financial dynasty. At first galvanized by a career-making scoop,Jake-and his son-are soon targeted...
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A Gospel "for the bedraggled, beat-up, and burnt-out," the marginalized folks to whom Jesus ministered: the children, the ill, the tax collectors, the women. In other words, the ragamuffins. Points out that behind our facades of order and self-assurance are inadequacies that can find healing only in Jesus. While the powerful and religious elite challenged him, Jesus embraced and healed and fed the needs of the ragamuffins. Jesus delivered love, healing,...
405) The Charm school
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A young American tourist stumbles onto a giant Soviet secret--a school for KGB agents that uses MIA/POWs from Vietnam as instructors. The American embassy becomes involved when, in a panic, the tourist calls them and then disappears.
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"Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that processed food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? Motivated by these questions, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss began searching for answers, to find the true peril in our food. In Hooked, Moss explores the science of addiction and uncovers what the scientific...
407) The navigator
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Kurt Austin, along with other members of the National Underwater and Maritime Agency's Special Assignments Team, becomes involved in the quest to retrieve an ancient Phoenician statue, known as the Navigator, stolen from a Baghdad museum, which is believed to be connected to the lost Ark of the Covenant, Thomas Jefferson, and a top-secret scientific project.
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Jack Ryan, Jr volume 7
Jack Ryan universe volume 23
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 10
Jack Ryan Jr volume 7
Jack Ryan universe volume 23
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 10
Jack Ryan Jr volume 7
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In the latest electrifying adventure in Tom Clancy's #1New York Timesbestselling series, Jack Ryan, Jr., learns that sometimes the deadliest secret may be standing right next to you. Former U.S. Senator Weston Rhodes is a defense contractor with an urgent problem. His company needs someone to look over the books of Dalfan Technologies, a Singapore company--quickly. He turns to his old friend Gerry Hendley for help. Hendley Associates is one of the...
409) Intruder in the dust
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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At once an engrossing murder mystery and an unflinching portrait of racial injustice in the Reconstruction South, Intruder in the Dust stands out as a true classic of Southern literature. A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 37
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It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Following the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. Synchronized Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated one by one, and at long last, after years of victory, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight.Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a...
411) The gods themselves
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790L
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In the year 2100, mankind on Earth, settlers in a lunar colony, and aliens from the para-universe (a strange universe parallel in time to our own) face a race against time as they try to prevent the total destruction of the Earth by the invention of an Inter-Universe Electron Pump.
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"Eight deliciously talented mystery authors have lent their skills of crafting murder and suspense to this collection of gripping short stories. Each of these eight provocative tales is designed to entertain and mystify--and maybe even chill you to your core. Get lost in the wild imaginations of such New York Times bestselling writers as Andrew Child, Heather Graham, Reed Farrel Coleman, and John Gilstrap, plus authors Rick Bleiweiss, Jennifer Dornbush,...
413) Word of honor
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Sixteen years after the Vietnam war corporate executive Ben Tyson thought he had put the horror of the war behind him, allegations of a civilian massacre by soldiers under his command brings him to trial.
414) The illearth war
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After scant days in his "real" world, Thomas Covenant finds himself again summoned to a strange world of magic and Earthpower. There, forty bitter years have passed, while Lord Foul, immortal enemy of the Land, moves to fulfill his prophecy of doom--his countless minions are already on the march, cutting a devastating swath of destruction across the Land. The Council of Lords find their spells useless, however, now that Foul the Despiser holds the...
415) The little sister
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In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister, a movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of siblings with a shared secret lure private eye Philip Marlowe into the less than glamorous and more than a little dangerous world of Hollywood fame. Chandler's first foray into the industry that dominates the company town that is Los Angeles.
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In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil American aviator vanishes on an attempted transcontinental flight. And in the present day, a fishing trawler -- along with its mysterious cargo -- sinks off the coast of Scotland. How are these three mysterious events connected? And, more importantly, what do they mean for Kurt Austin and his NUMA team? As they search for answers, the NUMA squad join the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard. By the time Derek turned nineteen, he had become an elected politician with his own daily radio show - already regarded as the "the leading...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
920L
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English
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As Allanon turned to walk away, there was a sudden, terrifying explosion. A whirling mass of red fire engulfed the Druid, and he disappeared. Dazed and half blinded by the explosion, Brin Ohmsford struggled to her knees and shielded her eyes as she stared to where red fire burned all about Allanon, wrapping him in crimson coils and flaring out wickedly. Within the fire, the Druid was hunched down against the shimmering black rock of the valley floor,...
419) The hunted
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2009.
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"It's 1991, the Soviet Union hs just collapsed, and a new democratic government is beginning to emerge. Alex Konevitch, who was thrown out of Moscow University in 1987 for indulging his entrepreneurial spirit, is now worth $300 million and is a major financial supporter of the new government. In a country where greed and corruption run rampant, he is on track to become both Russia's wealthiest man and biggest target. Then, one by one, the top executives...
420) The crime writer
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Drew Danner, a crime novelist with a house off L.A.'s storied Mulholland Drive, awakens in a hospital bed with a scar on his head and no memory of being found convulsing over his ex- fiance's body the previous night. He was discovered holding a knife, her blood beneath his nails. He himself doesn't know whether he's guilty or innocent. To reconstruct the story, the writer must now become the protagonist, searching the corridors of his life and the...