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Spenser novels volume 38
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Called upon by The Hammond Museum, Spenser accepts his latest case - to provide protection during a ransom exchange - money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen. Spenser enters into a daring game of cat-and mouse with the thieves. But this is a game he might not come out of alive. Completed the year before he passed away, "Painted Ladies" is Spenser and Robert...
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Publisher
Walker
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the Amber Room, once housed in a palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia, and the many theories of its disappearance at the end of World War II, and recounts the authors' search and conclusion.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A beautiful and evocative look at identity and creativity, The Gallery of Unfinished Girls is a stunning debut in magical realism. Perfect for fans of The Walls Around Us and Bone Gap. Mercedes Moreno is an artist. At least, she thinks she could be, even though she hasn't been able to paint anything worthwhile in the past year. Her lack of inspiration might be because her abuela is in a coma. Or the fact that Mercedes is in love with her best friend,...
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Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols.
“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times
“A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.”...
“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times
“A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure.”...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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The Guy decides to have a house party while his parents are out of town. The Girl is adjusting to life in a new country. The Artist has discovered that forgery is a lucrative business. And his Ex, mother of his baby, is just trying to make ends meet. As Guy, a feckless high-school senior, plans the party of the year, Rafi worries about her mother, who is still grieving over the drowning death of Rafi's little brother back in Bolivia and haunted by...
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Series
Charlotte Holmes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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In the second brilliant, action-packed book in the Charlotte Holmes series, Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are in a chase across Europe to untangle a web of shocking truths about the Holmes and Moriarty families.
Jamie and Charlotte are looking for a winter break reprieve in Sussex after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But nothing about their time off is proving simple, including Holmes and Watson's growing feelings for each other....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The city is cracking down on graffiti and guerilla art. Between that and cutbacks to the local art gallery it seems like nothing is safe. But Oswald, masquerading as a graffiti artist known as The Wiz, is fighting back-by painting elaborate murals in public places and planting art in the galleries, and then by taking on the mayor himself. As the fight escalates and the stakes become higher, Oswald gets in deeper than he meant to and needs to rely...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Myra Whitlock has a gift. One many would kill for.
She's an artist whose portraits alter people's real-life bodies, a talent she must hide from those who would kidnap, blackmail, and worse in order to control it. But since, her magic only works when she understands the cause of the condition she wants to change, she cannot save her own sister from the undiagnosed illness that's slowly killing her. When Myra's offered a small fortune-more than enough...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"An evocative story of the thrills of first love and the anguish of first loss. This will break you and heal you." -Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin'
Not to be missed by fans of Nina LaCour and Becky Albertalli, this powerful novel-from the acclaimed author of Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit-paints a poignant portrait of love in the past, grief in the now, and the healing power of art.
Before: Jess has always...
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Publisher
Christian Large Print
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.
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