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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place, a pigeon! This is an unflinching and hilarious look at a child's potential for mischief. In a plain palette, with childishly elemental line drawings, the author has captured the essence of unreasonableness in the very young.
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-152
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A New York City cab driver drives a beautiful woman across the country to Los Angeles, where the biggest decision of her life awaits.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Featuring a previously published author introduction, a personal foreword by his son, and a new introduction by his grandson, a definitive edition of the lauded World War I classic collects all thirty-nine of the author's alternate endings to offer new insights into his creative process. When a wounded American volunteer ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I falls in love with an English nurse they try to find some sanctuary in a world...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
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English
Description
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager--obsessed with music, food, and girls--but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier--a move...
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 19
Inspector Ian Rutledge novels volume 19
Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery volume 19
Inspector Ian Rutledge novels volume 19
Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery volume 19
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English
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"On the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme, a group of English officers having a last drink before returning to the Front make a promise to each other: if they survive the battle ahead--and make it through the war--they will meet in Paris a year after the fighting ends. They will celebrate their good fortune by racing motorcars they beg, borrow, or own from Paris to Nice. In November 1919, the officers all meet as planned, and though their motorcars...
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A New Jersey bounty hunter with attitude, bail-bonds apprehension agent Stephanie Plum pursues a former vice cop, now on the run, with whom she shares a sordid history and a powerful chemistry.
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Trials of Apollo volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"In his penultimate adventure, a devastated but determined Apollo travels to Camp Jupiter, where he must learn what it is to be a hero, or die trying"--
8) Trespasser
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Mike Bowditch novels volume 2
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English
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In Paul Doiron's riveting follow-up to his Edgar Award–nominated novel, The Poacher's Son, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch's quest to find a missing woman leads him through a forest of lies in search of a killer who may have gotten away with murder once before. While on patrol one foggy March evening, Bowditch receives a call for help. A woman has reportedly struck a deer on a lonely coast road. When the game warden arrives on the scene, he finds...
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My Life Is Murder volume 5
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English
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A PR assistant's death by a drunk driver seems like a closed case, but a mysterious message prompts Alexa to investigate the woman's glamourous boss for answers.
10) American gods
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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Since it was first published, American Gods became an instant classic. Now discover the mystery and majesty of American Gods in this beautiful reissue of the Author's Preferred Text edition. Featuring a new preface by Neil Gaiman in honor of the novel's 20th anniversary, this commemorative volume is a true celebration of a modern masterpiece.
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...11) The blood road
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Logan McRae mysteries volume 11
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English
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"Logan McRae's personal history is hardly squeaky clean, but now that he works for Professional Standards he's policing his fellow officers. When Detective Inspector Bell turns up dead in the driver's seat of a crashed car it's a shock to everyone. Because Bell died two years ago, they buried him. Or they thought they did. As an investigation is launched into Bell's stabbing, Logan digs into his past. Where has he been all this time? Why did he disappear?...
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English
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"High-Value Writing: Real Strategies for Real-World Writing" helps readers manage the writing challenges they face at work and elsewhere in life. Many of us haven't talked about writing since school—but workplace writing has different requirements. How can we best write for work and elsewhere, to engage and inform our reader? HVW helps readers analyze their readers and their writing goals to make the best choices regarding words, order of information,...
14) Wanted
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Tfutza Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A chain of bizarre occurrences unfolds, one after the other: Someone attempts a terrorist attack at the British Museum, but he's the only one injured. An interrogation reveals that the explosion is a cover-up for a daring burglary and that one of the most valuable pieces of artwork at the museum, Dure's Rhinoceros, has been stolen. A further investigation, however, shows that the burglary has no connection to the act of terror and other strange things...
16) The last duel
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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King Charles VI declares that knight Jean de Carrouges must settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.
17) Ella enchanted
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Ella lives in a fanciful and magical world where all children are given a "gift" from their fairy Godmother at birth. Ella's gift - and curse - was that of obedience. As a result, Ella cannot refuse any command, and as a result she is often taken advantage of. In a bid to regain control of her life, Ella goes on a quest to free herself from this mysterious "gift". Ella must outwit a kingdom filled with ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, talking books...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the sleepy town of Brokenwood, New Zealand, the affable residents may seem harmless, but killers, blackmailers, and thieves lurk in every picturesque corner. To quell the community's alarming murder rate, Detective Mike Shepherd uses an unconventional style that contrasts with the methodical approach of his partner, Detective Kristin Sims, and the eager assistance of DC Sam Breen." --