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When she catches the eye of a wealthy businessman, Jordan Hadlock's future is all planned out . . . until a hunky photographer ignites a new passion in her one stormy night.Jordan Hadlock seems to have it all: a great job and Helmut Eckherdt, a rich industrialist intent on marrying her — even though she hasn't said yes. What more could she want? A clap of thunder and a pounding on her door soon give her an answer. Reeves Grant appears...
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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On a deceptively quiet Minneapolis evening, Detective Lucas Davenport is summoned to one of the most heinous homicide scenes he's ever encountered. Two elderly women have been brutally bludgeoned inside their home, with only a few valuable yet common stolen items indicating the killer's sinister motives.
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In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe....
5) Sisters
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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After an accident kills her mother and leaves her blind, artist Annie Adams and her three sisters--Candy, a supermodel, Tammy, a television producer, and Sabrina, a practicing attorney--decide to live together for one year in a New York brownstone, where they learn the importance of family and realize that even though their careers are on the right track, their lives may not be.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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This is Mark Twain's first novel about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. This is a book one never forgets: Tom whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, Tom and Huck's dreadful oath, their...
7) Voyage
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Before kicking off a series of unique concerts, which will utilize avatar technology, ABBA offers up new music. Among the 10 new tracks are the songs Don't Shut Me Down and I Still Have Faith in You.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Contains the full and unabridged text of Jack London's The call of the wild novel, set in the Klondike gold Rush of Alaska and the Yukon Territory, accompanied by an orientation to the story, a glossary of over 150 words, a location appendix, a character appendix, and a brief biography of London himself.
10) The drowning man
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The twelfth title in the series finds the Wind River Reservation without another one of its sacred petroglyphs. The Red Cliff canyon has been home to these sacred petroglyphs, and their accompanying sacred spirits, for a few thousand years. Seven years ago, however, one was pried out of the canyon and stolen. Travis Birdsong sits in prison for killing his partner in the crime. Yet, he has always maintained his innocence in the death and has never
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"I Am Malala. This is my story. Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't go to school. Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by terrorism, Malala was taught to stand up for what she believes. So she fought for her right to be educated. And on October 9, 2012, she nearly lost her life...
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Marvel Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Discover how Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man, Stephen Strange becomes Doctor Strange, and how the new Avengers join the team! This World of Reading Level 1 reader bind up features three stories and comes with an accompanying audio CD featuring word-for-word narration of the text.
13) Holes
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
14) The cay
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1969]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
16) High noon
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Publisher
Putnams
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Savannah's chief hostage negotiator Phoebe MacNamara struggles to deal with the threats of an unknown assailant who is intent on striking fear in her heart, her agoraphobic mother and precocious seven-year-old daughter, and a local businessman who wants to pursue a romantic relationship with her.
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Atlee Pine volume 1
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English
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Atlee Pine is an FBI special agent assigned to the remote wilds of the western United States. Ever since her twin sister was abducted by a notorious serial killer at age five, Atlee has spent her life hunting down those who hurt others. And she's the best at it. She could be one of the Bureau's top criminal profilers, if she didn't prefer catching criminals in the vast wilderness of the West to climbing the career ladder in the D.C. office. Her chosen...
19) Stuart Little
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Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1973,1945
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird that stayed for a few days in his family's garden.
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