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Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The winds of change are blowing through Paris in the winter of 1789, both for France and for our hero, a striking and mysterious Gypsy boy named Yann Margoza. He was born with a gift for knowing what people are thinking and an uncanny ability to throw his voice, and he has been using those skills while working for a rather foolish magician. That work will soon end, however, and on the night of the magician’s final performance, Yann’s life...
Author
Series
Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, Maisie Hitchins, a young detective who lives in her grandmother's boarding house, finds herself immersed in the excitement and glamour of the theater when she investigates the theft of a valuable necklace belonging to an actress friend of a longtime boarder.
Author
Series
Kit Feeny volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kit Feeny, a young bear, enters into a competition with his sisters to see who can give their mother the best birthday present.
24) When I Say Yes
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Series
Language
English
Description
I believe that there is one person in this world that can both break us and make us whole. One person who can love us more than life can hurt us. With this comes deep, intense passion, and a burning connection. But in turn, that person can destroy us, cut us, make us bleed in ways no other ever could. They have power over us. For me, that one person is Dash Black. He walked into my life in a rush of sunshine, in the darkness of heartache and uncertainty....
25) What if I Never?
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Series
Language
English
Description
A necklace delivered to the wrong Allison: me. I'm the wrong Allison.
That misplaced gift places a man in my path. A man who instantly consumes me and leads me down a path of dark secrets and intense passion.
Dash Black is a famous, bestselling author, but also a man born into wealth and power. He owns everything around him, every room he enters. He owns me the moment I meet him. He seduces me oh so easily and reveals another side of myself I dared...
26) Because I Can
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Series
Language
English
Description
To the world, Dash Black is famous, wealthy, wildly good-looking, and intriguing. To say that he came into my life and shook my world is an understatement. He looked into my eyes and I swear our souls connected, but then, I saw what no one else was ever allowed to see. I saw a complicated man with secrets, a man who hides behind a persona that tells only part of his story. And ultimately, I felt his pain and he felt mine. He told me I belonged with...
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Language
English
Description
"Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert, hopes to escape from public attention by lecturing on a brand-new cruise ship the Queen Charlotte. On board she meets eighty-six-year-old Lady Emily Haywood, Lady Em, as she is known throughout the world. Immensely wealthy, Lady Em is the owner of a priceless emerald necklace that she intends to leave to the Smithsonian...
29) My "n" sound box
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Little n has an adventure with items beginning with her letter's sound, such as nickels, a necklace, and nine nesting nightingales eating nuts."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Eustace Diamonds is the story of beautiful Lizzie Greystock. She is a beautiful but greedy and an unscrupulous woman who marries wealthy Sir Florian Eustace. He soon leaves her a widow in possession of a rare, expensive diamond necklace. The family lawyer wants the necklace returned, but Lizzie is determined to retain it at all costs.
33) Twenties girl
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Language
English
Description
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sophie Kinsella's Wedding Night.
Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don’t get visited by ghosts. Or do they?
When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie—a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance—mysteriously...
Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professional twenty-something young women don’t get visited by ghosts. Or do they?
When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie—a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance—mysteriously...
34) Triple jeopardy
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Young lawyer Daniel Pitt must defend a British diplomat accused of a theft that may cover up a deadly crime in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Twenty-one Days. Daniel Pitt, along with his parents, Charlotte and Thomas,is delighted that his sister, Jemima, and her family have returned to London from the States for a visit. But the Pitts soon learn of a harrowing incident: In Washington, D.C.,one of Jemima's good...
Author
Series
Cam Jansen mysteries. Main series volume 32
Cam Jansen adventure volume case 32
Cam Jansen adventure volume 32
Cam Jansen adventure volume case 32
Cam Jansen adventure volume 32
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Using her excellent memory, Cam Jansen, aided by her friend Eric, investigates the disappearance of Mrs. Scott's valuable pearl necklace during a charity brunch.
Aided by her friend Eric and using her excellent memory, Cam Jansen investigates the disappearance of Mrs. Scott's valuable pearl necklace during a charity brunch. Book #32.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Alden children hunt for their late grandmother's necklace that has been missing for years.
Author
Language
English
Description
A man awakens to find himself transformed into a giant vermin; a performer starves himself to death as a circus attraction; a fiendish engine of capital punishment engraves the letter of the law into the body of the condemned. Such are the nightmare scenarios that emerge in the short stories of Franz Kafka, one of the twentieth century's most formative, mystifying literary figures. Though immediate in their impact, Kafka's stories invite endless angles...
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Language
English
Description
"In 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit of a vengeful witch killed centuries before. Heather knew the stories were just that, until her best friend Becca began insisting the Red Lady was real--and she could prove it. That belief got Becca killed. It's been nearly thirty years, but Heather...