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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
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Feverishly paging through a disturbing anonymous manuscript that she believes has world-changing potential, New York literary agent Isabel Reed catches the attentions of Copenhagen veteran station chief Hayden Gray, who resolves to keep the book's secrets from being exposed.
3) Four friends
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When BJ, a newcomer to Mill Valley, enters their close-knit circle and opens up about her dark past, Gerri, Andy, and Sonja come together to help her get back on track and, in the process, make strides in their own lives, becoming stronger as individualsand unfaltering as friends.
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Rediscover romance on the ranch, in this classic story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
Kate Logan is devastated when her former fiancé, the man she's always loved, marries someone else instead. After one glass of champagne, she spontaneously-foolishly-proposes to her longtime friend Luke Rivers.
Luke is a man of his word, and he will not renege on his promise. Not only does he refuse to break the engagement, he insists...
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Gorgeous twins Noushcka and Nicolas Tremblay live with their grandfather Loulou in a tiny, sordid apartment on St. Laurent Boulevard. They are hopelessly promiscuous, wildly funny, and infectiously charming. On the eve of their twentieth birthday, the twins' self-destructive shenanigans catch up with them when Noushcka agrees to be beauty queen in the local St. Jean Baptiste Day parade. The media spotlight returns, and the attention of a relentless...
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Lone star brides volume 1
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English
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"In the first of the LONE STAR BRIDES series, featuring 1890s Denver, Colorado, and Texas, Marty and Jake agreed to a marriage of convenience only. But when love starts to soften their hearts, will they come to a different arrangement?"-- Publisher.
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Dani Keller wakes up on her Seattle houseboat, a headache building behind her eyes from the wine she drank at a party the night before. But on this particular Sunday morning, she's surprised to see that her husband, Ian, is not home. As the hours pass, Ian does not return. Irritation shifts to worry, worry slides almost imperceptibly into panic. And then, like a relentless blackness, the terrible realization hits Dani: He's gone. As the police work...
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Following tragic events from which Juliee O'Dale believes she will never recover, she buys into her husband Ian's dream to give up their comfortable city lives and retreat to the isolated Chilcotin area of British Columbia. Only after purchasing the remote six hundred acre cattle ranch do they realize that they have also inherited the reclusive tenant who occupies an old trapper's cabin on the property. As both Juliee and Ian wrestle with their individual...
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For almost four decades Bartholomew Neil has done nothing but live with his mom. When she begins calling him Richard - for reasons unknown - and then dies, Bartholomew is woefully unprepared. A clue comes in the form of a Free Tibet letter he finds in his mother's underwear drawer, so Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of highly intimate fan letters. A struggling priest, a girlbrarian, her foul-mouthed brother,...
11) Blood pact
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Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 17
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates book
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English
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"A large portion of the fabulous treasure originally stolen by conquistadors of the eighteenth century was buried in the desert of southern New Mexico by Spanish monks. Jacob Ambli, a Catholic priest, was sent as a spy on a Spanish military mission to find seven caches left for the Church. He kept a diary showing the locations, but was murdered trying to get back to Rome, and the journal was lost. Now, a century and a half later, the diary has come...
12) A promise kept
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Living in a cabin she inherited from her single, self-reliant Great Aunt Emma after her husband leaves her, Allison comes to terms with her grief, but when she finds a wedding dress and journals in Emma's attic, Allison discovers Emma was surprisingly like herself.
13) Desperate
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Gage Dekker and Anna Miller think their prayers for a child have been answered when they find a woman looking for adoptive parents, but soon things turn for the worse when the woman begins to wage psychological warfare on them.
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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Winner of the 2011 Canada Reads, author Terry Fallis' sharp, funny wit takes readers into the world of identity, inheritance, and belonging - begging the question: what's in a name? One morning a young copywriter finds himself unceremoniously fired from his job, and then catches his live-in girlfriend moving out of their apartment a couple of hours later. Believe it or not, these aren't the biggest problems in this copywriter's life. There's something...
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From internationally acclaimed non-fiction author Padma Viswanathan, a stunning new work that explores the ways in which great tragedy continues to ripple out into the lives of its survivors, set among the families of those who lost loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing. In 2004, almost twenty-years after the fatal bombing of an Air India flight from Vancouver, Ashwin Rao, an Indian psychologist trained in Canada, comes back to do what he calls...
16) Pastoral
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Quincunx cycle (Andre Alexis) volume 1
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English
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For his very first parish, Father Christopher Pennant is sent to the sleepy town of Barrow. But things aren't so idyllic for Liz Denny, whose fianc ̌doesn't want to choose between Liz and his more worldly lover Jane, or for Father Pennant himself, whose faith is profoundly shaken by the miracles he witnesses: a mayor walking on water, intelligent gypsy moths, and a talking sheep. Andr ̌Alexis' debut novel "Childhood" won the Books in Canada First...
17) The king
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Black Dagger Brotherhood. Main series volume 12
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New American Library
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English
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"After turning his back on the throne for centuries, Wrath, son of Wrath, finally assumed his father's mantle--with the help of his beloved mate. But the crown sits heavily on his head. As the war with the Lessening Society rages on, and the threat from the Band of Bastards truly hits home, he is forced to make choices that put everything--and everyone--at risk. Beth Randall thought she knew what she was getting into when she mated with the last pure-blooded...
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Paul Janson novels volume 3
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Grand Central Publishing
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English
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Ex-covert-ops soldier Paul Janson and his sharpshooting partner, Jessica Kincaid, set out to rescue the wife of an oil executive who has been kidnapped by Somali pirates.
20) Ghost ship
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NUMA files volume 12
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English
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When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicting memories. Determined to know the truth, he begins to search for answers and soon finds himself descending into a shadowy world of state-sponsored cybercrime and uncovers a pattern of vanishing scientists, suspicious accidents, and a web of human trafficking. But where he will ultimately end up - even he could not...
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