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1) 419
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English
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A startlingly original tale of heartbreak and suspense
A car tumbles down a snowy ravine. Accident or suicide?
On the other side of the world, a young woman walks out of a sandstorm in sub-Saharan Africa. In the labyrinth of the Niger Delta, a young boy learns to survive by navigating through the gas flares and oil spills of a ruined landscape. In the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the internet looking for victims.
...2) Calico Joe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
In this surprising and moving novel, the careers of a golden-boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and the hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it's what happens off the field that makes "Calico Joe" a classic.
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Kate Moore novels volume 1
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English
Description
"An international spy thriller about a former CIA agent who moves with her family to Luxembourg where everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems"--Publisher.
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English
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Ten-year-old Judith McPherson is a believer. Her world is carefully constructed around her faith: nightly scripture reading with her father, weekly gatherings at the Meeting Hall and daily proselytizing to the lost. With no TV and no books "of the world" to entertain her, she passes time by creating The Land of Decoration, a model in miniature of The Promised Land which she has made of collected discarded scraps-divine treasures that she squirrels...
6) The innocent
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Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Will Robie is a freelance hitman who always nails his target. Only now, Robie may have made the first mistake of his career by stepping in to rescue a wayward teenaged girl. The more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the centre of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' disappearance and stretch to unthinkable levels of power. Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life -...
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Series
Battle hymn cycle volume 1
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English
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Presents a reimagining of the pivotal Civil War battle from the perspectives of a Blue Ridge Confederate sergeant, a bitter survivor of the Great Famine in Ireland, and a German political refugee.
10) Come home
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English
Description
Rebalancing her life and career after a painful divorce, pediatrician Jill learns that her ex has died from an alleged overdose that her former stepdaughter believes was actually murder, a situation that forces Jill to choose between her duty to past circumstances and her future happiness.
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English
Description
"A novel set in the Devon countryside in England, in which a man, the son of a dairy farmer, has to cope with the recent death of his brother, a soldier in Iraq; repair his relationship with his wife; and cope with the complicated legacy of his family's past"--Publisher.
13) An American spy
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Series
Milo Weaver trilogy volume 3
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English
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When the CIA's Department of Tourism is dismantled by an elaborate Chinese intelligence scheme that has caused numerous agent deaths, survivor Milo Weaver is placed at risk by his former boss, Alan Drummond, who uses one of Milo's aliases to exact revenge.
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Knopf Canada
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English
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Nattel explores the vivid reality of what used to be called multiple personality disorder. Life is definitely good until the morning Heather Edwards, a pregnant teenaged friend of the family, kills herself. The reverberations of that act, and the ugly secrets that sparked it, prove deeply unsettling to the whole family, and stir up Sharon's own troubling secret: she has DID, or dissociative identity disorder. And the multiples inside the woman the...
17) Agent 6
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Series
Leo Demidov thrillers volume 3
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English
Description
Tom Rob Smith, the bestselling author of "Child 44", returns with a provocative new novel. Leo Demidov's daughter, Elena, is on a "Peace Tour" in New York in 1965 with her sister and her mother. A former secret police agent, Leo is forbidden to travel, and remains home in Moscow. Unknown to her family, Elena has been given a secret mission to convince Jesse Austen, world-renowned singer and American Communist, to come out of retirement to give one...
19) The greatcoat
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English
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One cold winter night, Isabel finds an old RAF greatcoat in the back of a cupboard that she uses to help keep warm. Once wrapped in the coat she is beset by dreams. And not long afterwards, while her husband is out, she is startled to hear a knock at her window, and to meet for the first time the intense gaze of a young Air Force pilot staring at her from outside. His name is Alec, and his powerfully haunting presence both disturbs and excites Isabel....
20) Chasing midnight
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Doc Ford novels volume 19
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English
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Sneaking an underwater look at a notorious Russian black marketeer's fancy yacht, Doc Ford emerges to discover that the marketeer's private island has been taken over by environmental extremists who threaten to kill a hostage every hour until their demands are met.
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