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22) August acrobat
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Series
Calendar mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy try to help out the Flying Fortunatos, an acrobatic troupe with a very shabby traveling circus, by identifying the marvelous, hooded trapeze artist they spied rehearsing.
23) August Macke
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August Macke (1887-1914) was a master of German Expressionism, a movement which sprang up in the early 1900s with the intent to forego physical reality in search of its emotional counterpart, with a particular emphasis on expressing dark moods of tragedy and angst. Macke was a master of color and form, producing eye-catching canvases that evoke a strong sympathetic reaction in the viewer. He was equally at home portraying the sun drenched streets...
24) August Sunsets
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Unanswered questions. A sailing adventure gone wrong. The Sheridan sisters face the end of the season that changed their lives forever.Lola Sheridan is the youngest Sheridan sister: a whip-smart journalist with a flair for the dramatic. As her older sisters settle into new lives on the Vineyard, Lola demands more out of the summer season with a fantastical sailing expedition up from the Florida Keys to Martha's Vineyard. The sailor who takes her?...
25) AUGUST
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August is an average twelve-year-old. He likes dogs and fishing and doesn't mind early-morning chores on his family's Michigan dairy farm. But following his parents' messy divorce, his mother decides that she and August need to start over in a new town. There, he tries to be an average teen--playing football and doing homework--but when his role in a shocking act of violence throws him off course once more, he flees to a ranch in rural Montana, where...
26) Auguste Rodin
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During the early 1900s, the great German poet lived and worked in Paris with Auguste Rodin. In a work as revealing of its author as it is of his famous subject, Rainer Maria Rilke examines Rodin's life and work, and explains the often elusive connection between the creative forces that drive timeless literature and great art. Rilke served for several years as Rodin's secretary - living in the sculptor's workshops, watching the shaping of his creations,...
27) August moon
Author
Series
Murder by month mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
28) August Macke
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Français
Description
Auguste Macke (1887-1914) est un maître de l'expressionnisme allemand, un mouvement qui s'est développé au début des années 1900. Les expressionnistes voulaient utiliser l'art pour dépeindre les émotions davantage que les choses matérielles et la réalité, en insistant particulièrement sur les idées noires, la tragédie et l'« Angst », l'angoisse. Macke maîtrisait les formes et les couleurs, produisant des toiles captivantes qui provoquent...
29) An August Bride
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A year's worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.As far as Kelsey Wilcox is concerned, her last cowboy was the last cowboy. Kelsey Wilcox has had enough of cowboys. After the last one broke her heart, Kelsey traded in her boots for flip-flops, and the open range for a bistro on the beach. Her life on Corpus Christi's gorgeous beach might be a little lonely, but at least it's heartbreak-free. At least...
30) August Love
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A spicy forbidden romance, featuring a struggling, yet determined, heroine who lost her fiancé and his millionaire best friend who presents her with a life-changing offer. Losing her fiancé, Duncan, a year ago changed August. Not only is her dream of becoming a romance author fading fast, she's exhausted from trying to keep the home that she and Duncan shared. She never writes anymore and hates her waitressing job, but she can't afford to lose...
31) August Nacht
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The year 1791. A famous Venetian doctor, illegitimate son of the German opera singer Dorothea Nacht and the Spanish aristocrat Duke de Valsombra, after the death of his ailing mother, goes to distant Cantabria to personally convey the sad news to his father, and to claim his birth-rights. He comes to the masquerade ball, given by the prince on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. In the garden, he meets by chance his brother César, the Marquis...
32) August Blues
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As a daughter of a bestselling novelist, Annie Shaw is determined to establish herself as a romance author apart from her father's name. When a career-threatening review sends her on vacation at Deerbourne Inn, she wonders if she should quit writing. Book critic Zane Barrett hates all things romance-especially novels. Every August, he travels to Willow Springs, Vermont, to cope with a loss he's never relinquished. When the two meet in the idyllic...
33) August Dust
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What does a mother's love cost? The dust bit at Juniper's eyes, sucking the moisture right out. Figured that the biggest auction of summer would happen on the hottest, driest day of August. If her son Aster weren't so fascinated by the offered junk, she'd be cool in the shadow of the Johnson's barn. Well away from Aster's best friend Rory's mother. Sourest woman the world ever did see, and the person Juniper hated the most, right after Aster's no-good...
34) August Wolf
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A young man desperate for work and independence finds himself employed in a rural nursing home.When young Jason gets too close to a resident (a self-proclaimed KGB spy who is under the watchful eye of an agent known only as Chandler) he finds his only way out is in.Based on a true story.
35) August Nights
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Kane Sah lives his life in a straight line. Years ago, personal tragedy dropped a little girl into his world. She needed him above everything else, crushing his military career. In the aftermath, he fell back on years of dance training and opened a ballroom studio. Between his business and little, Kelsey there's no room in his days for a detour. Until one night a pair of brown eyes makes him look left...
Willa is everyone's favorite bartender at...
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He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. Yet, despite Augustus's accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he...
37) Augustus
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WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
By the Author of Stoner
In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher’s...
By the Author of Stoner
In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher’s...
38) August Is Hope
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A new Bible verse and devotional about hope through God's love for each day of the month!Start your day off right each morning by studying God's word. Grab your Bible and this new devotional, get cozy, and take a few quiet moments with the Lord to get your day off on the right foot. Or end your day snuggled in bed while you let God speak to your heart. Each day of the month begins with a Bible verse on the topic of hope, followed by a personal story...
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The great retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in August 1914 is one of the most famous in military history, and it is justly celebrated. But not all the British soldiers who were forced back by the German offensive performed well. Two colonels, Elkington and Mainwaring, tried to surrender rather than fight on, and were disgraced. This is their story. In this compelling account John Hutton shows, in graphic detail, the full confusion...
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August My training? Professional. My job? Hitman for a government organization. And my next assignment? Infiltrate Marchand's crew. Vague information, but a solid job. Why do I care? Because this family "business" of crooks I'm investigating includes a Bajan little sister... And she's the definition of sex on legs. She's trouble, and I don't know if I can stay away.