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"Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and Amir's wife, Daphne, a sophisticated beauty haunted by grief. As it becomes clear that Daphne is also desperate to return to Syria, Haris's...
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"The memoir of a young man from a long line of enlisted men and women, raised on military bases and shaped from a young age to idolize and glorify war and the people who fight it. After he joins the Marines and serves in Iraq, he must begin to reckon with the troubled and complicated truths of the American war machine"--
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Written in the 16th century by a reform-minded Carmelite monk, Dark Night of the Soul is a treatise focusing on the metaphor of a dark night to represent a lonely phase in one's personal spiritual life. Saint John was a Roman Catholic mystic and a Spanish poet, and this work reflects his mystical stages toward union with God. Written on a scroll smuggled to him by one of his guards, his songs are the ultimate expression of the spiritual seeker's journey...
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Inspector Corravan novels volume 2
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For fans of Hannah Mary McKinnon and Kimberley Belle, this emotionally charged thriller explores long-buried family secrets and the deadly reckoning that often follows their explosive reveal.
For two decades, Lena Blackwell has kept her sons at her side, teaching them everything she knows about running their successful river lodge in Northern Maine. But what she really wants is to keep her boys in the dark about their tragic past.
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For two decades, Lena Blackwell has kept her sons at her side, teaching them everything she knows about running their successful river lodge in Northern Maine. But what she really wants is to keep her boys in the dark about their tragic past.
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5) Dark truths
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"When a headless body is discovered on a popular jogging trail, Detective Inspector Bernard Watts and his team are plunged headlong into a baffling murder investigation. Why would someone stab to death a young woman on her daily run - and take her head? When a close examination of the crime scene results in a shocking discovery linking the present murder to a past crime, criminologist Will Traynor is brought in to assist the police. Aware of Traynor's...
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St. John of the Cross was a Carmelite friar and priest. He is renowned for his cooperation with Saint Teresa of Ávila in the reformation of the Carmelite order, and for his poetry and his studies on the growth of the soul. Dark Night of the Soul is considered one of the greatest religious poems ever written. This masterpiece of Mystic Christianity examines faith and how to keep faith when all seems lost. Think of it as guide to making it through...
9) Wolf trap
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IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Mr. Blood is called to an island to hunt a werewolf, but it soon becomes clear that something else is going on that endangers the Dark Hunter as well as his young helpers, Edgar and Mary.
10) The red thirst
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IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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While Mr. Blood, the Dark Hunter, is outside watching for a vampire, Edgar and Mary are locked in a chapel with the body the vampire is supposedly seeking.
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Targeted by a terrorist cell.Bryn McAllister survives a bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut only to be left to die in a desert cellar. When she's rescued by SEAL Lieutenant Declan McCabe and his team, Bryn must rely on him and his team to get her to safety. But just when she thinks the nightmare is over, she and McCabe are recruited to help track down the terrorist mastermind responsible for the attack.Now they're both fighting for their lives.With...
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"When the decomposed remains of a young woman are discovered just outside Birmingham, criminologist Will Traynor is drawn into a baffling investigation. When the badly decomposed remains of a young woman are discovered in an isolated wooded area just outside Birmingham, the victim is quickly identified as Amy Peters, a Manchester University student who disappeared three years earlier. She is one of five young women who vanished from the streets of...
13) Dark Shores
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Dark shores volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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In a world divided by meddlesome gods and treacherous oceans, only the Maarin possess the knowledge to cross the Endless Seas. But they have one mandate: East must never meet West.
14) Stone cross
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Arliss Cutter novels volume 2
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In a remote Alaskan village, Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter searches for a stone-cold killer amid a hotbed of corruption, lies, and long-buried secrets ... Winter comes early to the rural native community of Stone Cross, Alaska--and so does hunting season. Caribou and moose are a major source of food through the long, dark months ahead. But Arliss Cutter has come here for a very different game. A federal judge is receiving death threats and refuses...
15) Cocoa Beach
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The New York Times bestselling author of A Certain Age transports readers to sunny Florida in this lush and enthralling historical novel—an enchanting blend of love, suspense, betrayal, and redemption set among the rumrunners and scoundrels of Prohibition-era Cocoa Beach. Burdened by a dark family secret, Virginia Fortescue flees her oppressive home in New York City for the battlefields of World War I France. While an ambulance driver for the Red...
16) The stone witch
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IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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When Mr. Blood enters a witch's tomb he triggers a curse which only his young assistants, Edgar and Mary, can break.
17) Cold earth
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"In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and water smash through a house in its path. Everyone thinks the home is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. Perez soon becomes obsessed with tracing her identity and realizes...
18) Dark Currents
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No one ever talks about what happens in Little Compton...
When David left home three years ago, he never looked back. Now, the only connection to his tiny New England hometown is his grandmother Maggie, whose mind is unraveling as she slowly succumbs to dementia. But when her best friend turns up dead and she may be the sole witness to the crime, David has no choice but to return to a place that never accepted his trans-identity and only ever wanted...
19) The marsh demon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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When Mr. Blood and his young assistants, Edgar and Mary, are called to a village that is terrorized once a year by a monster, the children are forced to serve as bait.
20) One dark night
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Mouse and Mole feel afraid one dark night crossing a mush-mucky swamp and a marsh-misty wood.