L. Ron Hubbard
41) Orders is orders
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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780L
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The doomed Chinese city of Shunkien was being systematically destroyed. Japan's war machine was pounding wreckage into ashes-wiping out a city that had thrived since the time of Genghis Khan. One of the few buildings still standing is the American consulate where one hundred and sixteen US refugees are facing almost certain death, either from high explosives, the ravages of starvation or Asiatic cholera. Unbeknownst to the refugees, their fate rests...
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
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890L
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Fortune hunter Billy Newman is not a man of great strength or physical courage. Like a young Johnny Depp, he gets by on his wit, wiles and good looks. And he's had quite a good run-striking gold in the Philippines and buying his very own island in the South Seas. . . .But there's trouble in paradise, and Billy's in the thick of it. The island's crops are failing. The island's people are dying. And the island's owner-Billy-is taking the heat....
43) The crossroads
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
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950L
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Frustrated with a government that pays him to bury surplus produce while city people starve, Eben Smith loads his wagon with fruits and heads for the city with the intention of bartering them. However, his way soon becomes uncertain, and after falling into a nexus in time, Eben is soon bartering much more than produce with cultures in a series of alternate realities, accidentally wreaking havoc in each one.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
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930L
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"Meet Chuck Lambert, who, though not exactly a fool, is guilty of letting his imagination get the best of his wits. That's because our young, naive Lambert wants his own planet. But rather than purchase one legally from the Interior Department of the Outer Galactic Control, he soon succumbs to the flashy advertising of an unsavory galactic swindler named Madman Murphy -- the purported King of Planetary Realtors. What Madman is the king of, is selling...
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It's not easy living in someone else's world. But that's the story of Mike de Wolf's life. . . literally. He awakens to find himself a fictional villain in someone else's book, landing in the West Indies three centuries ago, pursued by pirates and a wild woman on horseback. What's a guy to do? The answer's written in the sky-in this wildly original, wickedly amusing novel.
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The end is near! The Voltarian terrorists have won! Earth is history! But don't believe everything you read. Or hear. Or see. Because the road to victory is paved with bad intentions-and lies, betrayal and deception are all in play. So who are the players in this treacherous game . . . ? Countess Krak: victim of a spectacular kidnapping, she is bound for a distant dungeon where she faces a venomous fate. . . . Royal Officer Jettero Heller: convinced...
48) Mouthpiece
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Imagine that your father is one of New York City's top gangsters, and that you want nothing to do with him or his criminal empire. Now imagine he's been murdered . . . and the only person who gives a damn is you. Meet Mat Lawrence, a stand-up guy-think Gary Cooper-who's got one thing on his mind: revenge. The last place Mat wants to go is back to New York, but that's where the killers are, and he won't stop until they're dead . . . or he is. And there's...
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An obscure original manuscript of Marco Polo's travels . . . A tantalizing clue to the site of Kublai Khan's fabled burial site . . . A chance to unearth the truth behind a long-lost treasure. It's an opportunity that would make Indiana Jones drop everything but his whip and race off to China. But he'd be too late. Lieutenant Jonathan Daly is way ahead of him. Two bullet holes and a bad case of malaria may not be enough to stop Daly, but a crew of...
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He's a handsome American Lieutenant in the French Foreign Legion. She's a beautiful woman who's as fiery as the North African sun . . . and as mysterious as the far side of the moon. And she's all his-bought and paid for in the village square. Put them together-Cary Grant and Hedy Lamarr-and you're sure to get fireworks. The only reason the Lieutenant bought her was to free her from the slave trade. But now that he's got her, he's got trouble. Two...
52) Death quest
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Alien assassin Soltan Gris will stop at nothing to destroy Fleet Officer Jettero Heller and sabotage his mission to save Earth from drowning in its own environmental problems, while, at the same time, he's forced to play husband to two wives and keep up with a teenage nymph. To add to his troubles, Heller has unearthed the long-lost son of Delbert John Rockecenter on a pig farm! A rip-roaring motorboat chase tops off this sixth action-filled installment...
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De lo que estamos hablando, en forma muy rotunda, muy brusca, es esto: la eficiencia de un individuo puede modificarse, y la eficiencia de un individuo puede aumentarse; se puede mejorar o se puede empeorar. — L. Ronald HubbardEs del individuo de lo que depende el éxito de una organización y, de hecho, el de una civilización. Aquellos que logran hacer más cosas con menos esfuerzo están más dispuestos, son más capaces, y de hecho, más eficientes....
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Una familia es simplemente un grupo con el propósito del placer sexual, la crianza de los niños y unas ventajas económicas mutuas entre nosotros. ¿Se dan cuenta?, es un grupo pequeño. Por lo tanto, tenemos este grupo real. La especie no estaría en ningún lado sin la familia. — L. Ronald HubbardEn su investigación para entender al hombre, el señor Hubbard descubrió que sólo hay un denominador común de la existencia: ¡Sobrevive! Sin importar...
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La elección de las acciones y decisiones requiere habilidad y sabiduría, no sólo el interés propio ni el del grupo. El camino a la felicidad, contiene 21 preceptos que
sirven de guía en las elecciones que uno se encuentra en la vida. Este podría ser el primer código moral no religioso basado exclusivamente en el sentido común.
Más Sobre El camino a la felicidad
La alegría y felicidad verdaderas son valiosas.
Si uno no sobrevive, no se...
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Del autor del Best-seller #1 Internacional, Dianética, con más de 22 millones de copias vendidas.
Con el 70 por ciento de nuestro tiempo empleado en el trabajo, las dificultades en el trabajo pueden impactar en cada faceta de nuestras vidas.
Este libro no solo incluye la tecnología para llevar estabilidad al lugar de trabajo, sino los procesos innovadores para devolver el gozo en sí a toda la vida.
Aquí está un libro que hace lo que no esperabas...
57) Devil's manhunt
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In the Arizona territory, every mountain hides a fortune-and every man fends for himself. Tim Beckdolt is as American as the frontier itself, as rangy and self-reliant as a young Jimmy Stewart. But after spending eight treacherous months digging $175,000 in gold out of Desperation Peak-all he has left is desperation. Two sadistic strangers have taken his gold, and now they want to take his life. He's on the run-the target of a Devil's Manhunt. In...
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Mart Kincaid, a tall, ruggedly good-looking young man in the Clint Eastwood mold, may be the fastest gun in the state, but it does him no good-because his gun and his life are not his own. They belong to Gar Malone, the King of Concha Basin, a ruthless rancher driven by his thirst for power, wealth, and conquest.Now Gar has set his sights on the Singing Canyon spread-the richest land in the basin-and he commands Kincaid to run its true owners...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
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910L
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In the classic western movie The Searchers Jeffrey Hunter plays a young man with a mission in his heart and a chip on his shoulder. The character might well have been modeled on eighteen-year-old Lee Thompson, a trail-hand on a mission of his own-to save his dad, Diehard Thompson, the aging sheriff of Wolf River, Montana.Old Diehard's lost control of his town, and it seems every outcast and outlaw west of the Mississippi is on the prowl in Wolf...
60) Gunman's tally
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Some men look to keep the peace. Others look to make trouble. But sometimes even the most law-abiding of men are compelled to cross the line….Easy Bill Gates is just such a man-as quick with a smile and as slow to anger as Gary Cooper in High Noon. He's a model of restraint…until he's forced to strap on a holster and kill the outlaw who murdered his brother. But more than his honor is at stake. A ruthless land baron is out to grab Bill's...