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81) Schindler's list
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 25
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A mature novel that is a fictionalized treatment of the life of the German industrialist who saved the lives of many Jews during World War II. Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's...
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In Jack Higgins's classic international bestseller, an audacious Nazi plan to kidnap Winston Churchill threatens to tip the scales of World War II In November of 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: to abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. The mission, ordered by Hitler himself and planned by Heinrich Himmler, is led by ace agent Kurt Steiner and aided on the ground by IRA...
83) Grenade
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Året er 1945 og verden er i krig. Hideki bor sammen med familien sin på øya Okinawa, utenfor Japan. Når krigen ankommer øya, drar Hideki av sted for å kjempe i den japanske hæren. Han får utdelt en granat og instruksjoner om å ikke komme tilbake før han tatt livet av en amerikansk soldat. Ray, en ung gutt fra den amerikanske marinen, har akkurat ankommet Okinawa. Dette er Rays første kamp, og han vet ikke hva han skal forvente - eller om...
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Underland chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Gregor må igjen redder Underlandet fra en truende katastrofe. I generasjoner har rottene jaget musene vekk fra områdene deres og tvunget dem til en omflakkende tilværelse, men nå er musene forsvunnet helt, og den unge dronning Luxa vil vite hvorfor. Gregor og Boots blir med Luxa på en ekspedisjon for å oppklare saken, men virkeligheten som avsløres er mye verre enn noen kunne forestille seg. Atter en gang må Gregor spille sin rolle i en gammel...
85) Shadow scale
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Seraphina volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
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"Seraphina, half-dragon and half-human, searches for others like her who can make the difference in the war between dragons and humans in the kingdom of Goredd"--
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"Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It's a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those...
89) Behind The Lines
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Corps volume 7
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It's Marine lieutenant Ken McCoy's mission to sneak behind Japanese lines in the Philippines to find the truth about a guerrilla leader.
90) Night of the fox
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Formats
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When an American officer who knows the time and place of the D-Day invasion disappears on German-occupied Jersey, the Allies choose Harry Martineau to direct the rescue mission.
91) The last star
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5th wave volume 3
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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"In the epic conclusion to the 5th Wave series, Cassie, Ben, Ringer, and Evan confront the Others' plans for the fate of the human race and the planet"--
92) Outlander
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Outlander novels volume 1
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Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another ...
In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoonwhen she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenachan "outlander"--In a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord ... 1743.
Hurled...
94) The infinite sea
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5th wave volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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"Cassie Sullivan and her companions lived through the Others' four waves of destruction. Now, with the human race nearly exterminated and the 5th Wave rolling across the landscape, they face a choice: brace for winter and hope for Evan Walker's return, or set out in search of other survivors before the enemy closes in"--
96) Halo: Glasslands
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Halo series. Kilo-Five trilogy volume 1
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Tor
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
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After the defeat of the Covenant and the death of billions of people, Dr. Rachel Halsey, thought to be dead, discovers a technology that can save mankind, as the Kilo-Five hunts for her and the Venezia colony makes plans to attack a weakened Earth.
97) Behemoth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
98) The Caine mutiny
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Upon its original publication in 1951, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was immediately embraced as one of the first serious works of fiction to help readers grapple with the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half-century, Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining story of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater has achieved the status of a modern classic.
99) War and peace
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1200L
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"At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon?s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace, Tolstoy entwines grand themes--conflict...
100) Halo: Silentium
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Halo series. Forerunner saga volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
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"In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood--a horrifying shape-changing parasite--has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect...
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