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1) Texas fury
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Texas series volume 3
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From the exotic traditions of the Far East to the troubled oil fields of Texas, from the paradise landscapes of Hawaii to the snow-covered mountains of Switzerland, the lives, loves, and fates of the Colemans all come together in the name of family and in the name of their unforgettable Texas dynasty.
2) Duma Key
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 31
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Six months after a plane crushes his pickup truck and his body, self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle launches a new life. His wife asked for a divorce after he stabbed her with a plastic knife, and he divides his wealth equally among himself, his wife and two children, and leaves Minnesota for Duma Key. There on a stunningly beautiful, eerily remote stretch of the Florida coast, Edgar begins to paint with a talent that seems to come from someplace...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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"Silly old bear,""the best bear in the world," -- here comes Pooh walking through the forest, humming proudly to himself. This time he and his friends, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Owl, Piglet, and Kanga and Little Roo, are joined by the hilarious Tigger. Their escapades are the funniest reading anywhere.
5) Lost City
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NUMA files volume 5
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The NUMA crew, under Kurt Austin’s direction, take on a blood-thirsty family with a fortune built on crime, in what may be race to discover the very secret of ever-lasting life in this heart-bounding installment in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
Kurt Austin is mid-mission when his new colleague, the stunning archeologist Skye Labelle, is called away to examine a mysterious 16th-century military helmet discovered...
Kurt Austin is mid-mission when his new colleague, the stunning archeologist Skye Labelle, is called away to examine a mysterious 16th-century military helmet discovered...
6) Bad blood
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One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator- and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he's sure he's dead, and then calls the sheriff to report the "accident." Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down...and the next day the boy's found hanging in his cell. Remorse? Virgil isn't so sure, and as...
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"Maggie is fine. She's doing really good, actually. Sure, she's broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorcée. Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at four a.m., and 'get back out there' sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris;...
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Bloody Jack adventures volume 3
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Listen And Live Audio
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Jacky leaves the Boston school for young girls, and boards a ship to London in search of her cherished Jaimy. Unfortunately though, her journey is far from smooth.
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West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister, Fawn. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that...
11) Skybreaker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
12) Nation
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
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In this spectacular saga as radiant, thrilling, and beguiling as Hollywood itself, Adriana Trigiani takes us back to Tinsel Town's golden age--an era as brutal as it was resplendent--and into the complex and glamorous world of a young actress hungry for fame and success. With meticulous, beautiful detail, Trigiani paints a rich, historical landscape of 1930s Los Angeles, where European and American artisans flocked to pursue the ultimate dream: to...
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Bloody Jack adventures volume 4
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Listen And Live Audio
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In polite company at the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls, Jacky tries her very best to raise her pinky while drinking tea and curtsy in appropriate company. Her daring past comes to light, however, when her and her classmates are kidnapped during a field trip and placed in the hold of a slave-trading ship. Jacky swiftly organizes an escape plan, and crosses her fingers in hopes that it will work.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 21
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Retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend.
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Bloody Jack adventures volume 5
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Listen & Live Audio
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The intrepid Jacky Faber, having once again eluded British authorities, heads west, in hopes that no one will recognize her in the wilds of America. There she tricks the tall-tale hero Mike Fink out of his flatboat, equips it as a floating casino-showboat, and heads south to New Orleans, battling murderous bandits, British soldiers, and other scoundrels along the way.
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Bloody Jack adventures volume 7
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On the very day that Jacky Faber is to wed her true love, she is kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission—this time to search for sunken Spanish gold. But when Jacky is involved, things don't always go as planned. Jacky has survived battles on the high seas, the stifling propriety of a Boston finishing school, and even confinement in a dank French prison. But no adventure has quite matched her...
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A novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life that matter most. It's an otherwise ordinary Monday when Meghan Fitzmaurice's perfect life hits a wall. A household name as the host of the country's highest-rated morning talk show, Meghan cuts to a commercial break--but not before she mutters two forbidden words into her open mike. In an instant, it's the end of an era, not only for Meghan, who is unaccustomed to dealing...
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Highbridge Company
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According to NPR, a Driveway Moment is when a listener is so riveted by a radio piece that he or she will stay in their idling car to hear the show all the way through. Presented here, drawn from award-winning NPR programs such as All Things Considered and Morning Edition, are twenty-one tales of fatherhood.
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