Michael Kramer
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Wheel of time volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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For three days battle has raged in the snow around the great city of Tar Valon. In the city, a Foretelling of the future is uttered. On the slopes of Dragonmount, the immense mountain that looms over the city, is born an infant prophesied to change the world. That child must be found before the forces of the Shadow have an opportunity to kill him. Moiraine Damodred, a young Accepted soon to be raised to Aes Sedai, and Lan Mandragoran, a soldier fighting...
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Wheel of time volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 37
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English
Description
"After Nynaeve and his friends conquer the Seanchan forces they travel to Caemyln to reclaim the throne, but on their way they encounter enemies more powerful than they imagined, and they may have to sacrifice their lives to save the world." --
43) Dawnshard
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When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands.
44) The Rithmatist
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Rithmatist volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
A killer is on the loose. Joel is fascinated by the art of rithmatics, with its lines of power and ability to bring chalk drawings to life, but only a few have the gift and he is not one of them. When rithmatic students from Joel's school start disappearing, he is keen to investigate. Since he's not a rithmatist, Joel seems to be safe -- but others are dying. Can he find the killer before the killer realizes just what a threat Joel really is?
45) The way of kings
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 58
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English
Description
Kaladin, having traded his medical apprenticeship for a sword to protect his brother, finds himself in military servitude in the wars that plague the world of Roshar, but he struggles on as commander Brightlord Dalinar Kholin tries to decipher an ancient text called "The Way of Kings," and Shallan, a young woman, trains to pull off a daring theft.
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The waterholes of the Plain are drying up, and Wulfgar, leader of the Altaii people, faces many other challenges. This is Robert Jordan's never-before-published first novel, which he wrote before his well-known Wheel of Time series.
"Draw near and listen, or else time is at an end. The watering holes of the Plain are drying up, the fearsome fanghorn grow more numerous, and bad omens abound. Wulfgar, a leader of the Altaii people, must contend with...
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Iron elves volume 1
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English
Description
Konowa Swift Dragon, former commander of the Empire's elite Iron Elves, is looked upon as anything but ordinary. He's murdered a Viceroy, been court-martialed, seen his beloved regiment disbanded, and finally been banished in disgrace to the one place he despises the most -- the forest. Now, all he wants is to be left alone with his misery...but for Konowa, nothing is ever that simple. The mysterious and alluring Visyna Tekoy, the highborn daughter...
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"A family is wiped out after a burglary gone wrong. An executive accused of embezzling kills himself and his loved ones. A house fire claims the lives of all its inhabitants. Separate incidents with two common threads-a first wife who took her own life, and a secret the victims took to their graves. Stephanie Coburn has barely recovered from her sister's mysterious suicide before her brother-in-law and his new wife are murdered, her face disfigured...
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Thomas Bolden grew up on the streets, his childhood a blur of fragmented memories. But now he’s managed to put his past behind him, find the woman he wants to share his life with, and carve out a successful career on Wall Street. Until, in the blink of an eye, his world is turned upside down. A bizarre kidnapping sends him fleeing for his life, his face everywhere on the TV news, and a violent, shadowy organization is framing him for crimes...
50) Savages
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Ben, Chon, and O are twentysomething best friends living the dream in Southern California. Together they have made a small fortune producing premium-grade marijuana, a product so potent that the Mexican baja Cartel demands a cut. When Ben and Chon refuse to back down, the cartel kidnaps O, igniting a dizzying array of high-octaane negotiations and stunning plot twists as they risk everything to free her. The result is a provocative, sexy, and darkly...
51) Watch them die
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Different Victims.
The blonde film student. The brunette paralegal. The redheaded artist.
Different Methods.
The first victim is strangled. The second is stabbed repeatedly. And the third is pushed out of an open window.
Same Madman.
In the city of Seattle, no single woman is safe. From afar he watches the ones he so desperately wants. Willing to do whatever it takes to prove his love. But should his latest obsession betray him, he will have...
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Trident deception volume 3
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English
Description
"Russia's new ballistic missile submarine, Yuriy Dolgorukiy, is being deployed on its first patrol while America's newest fast attack submarine, North Dakota, is assigned to trail it and collect intel. As the Russian submarine heads under the polar ice cap, its sonar readings reveal the trailing American sub and cause the Russians to begin a radical, evasive maneuver. This, however, fails and the submarines collide, resulting in damage that sends...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 49
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English
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The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Moiraine Damodred arrives in Emond's Field on a quest to find the one prophesized to stand against The Dark One, a malicious entity sowing the seeds of chaos and destruction. When a vicious band of...
55) Bad news
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Dortmunder novels volume 10
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English
Description
John Dortmunder finds himself involved with a sinister group of men who are plotting to take over an upscale New York casino.
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Threads of power volume 1
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English
Description
"It's been seven years since Kell, Lila, and Holland defeated the evil force known as Osaron. Lila has spent those seven years as captain of a ship, exploring her new magical world and occasionally spying for the Crown. Kell has spent them learning to fight with ordinary weapons now that wielding his magic causes him intense pain. Holland, of course, gave his life to defeat Osaron. But now a shadowy organization called the Hand is plotting against...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
600L
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English
Description
"The double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the Secretary of the Treasury is only the beginning! Gary Soneji is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read"--Publisher....
58) Dead Men's Boots
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Felix Castor series volume 3
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English
Description
Author of The Girl With All the Gifts Mike Carey presents the third book in his hip supernatural thriller series featuring freelance exorcist Felix Castor.
You might think that helping a friend's widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband's corpse would be the strangest thing on your To Do list. But life is rarely that simple for Felix Castor.
A brutal murder in the heart of London bears all the hallmarks of a long-dead American...
You might think that helping a friend's widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband's corpse would be the strangest thing on your To Do list. But life is rarely that simple for Felix Castor.
A brutal murder in the heart of London bears all the hallmarks of a long-dead American...
59) A world lost
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Set against the turmoil of the World War II, A World Lost is just one of the classic chapters in Berry's Port William series. The summer of 1944 finds nine-year-old Andy Catlett in that very town in Kentucky, occupied more with watching meadowlarks and dipping into the nearby spring than with the weary news of the day. But when his Uncle Andrew is murdered, Andy confronts his own sense of culpability for the brawl that took his uncle's life. Told...
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"When elderly multimillionaire art dealer, Andrew Jakes, is found brutally murdered in his ransacked Hollywood home, his young wife raped and beaten, and his art and jewels stolen, the motive seems pretty clear. But when the investigation doesn't turn up a single, solid lead, the case is closed and his stunning young widow vanishes. A decade passes before Andrew Jakes' estranged son, Matt Daley, does a little digging of his own, only to find that...