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42041) Girls on the Line
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Luli has just aged out of the orphanage where she grew up, and her childhood friend Yun helps her get a job at the factory where Yun works. Both girls enjoy the freedom of making their own decisions and earning their own money-until Yun gets pregnant by her boyfriend, who's rumored to be a human trafficker. China's restrictive family planning laws put Yun in a difficult position: she'll either have to have an expensive abortion or...
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Français
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Quand une mère accepte de se confier, de raconter sa vie à sa fille, alors se lève ce voile qui recouvre souvent, pour leurs enfants, l'histoire de leurs parents.
L'Album de l'Exil c'est la mémoire de Maria couchée sur le papier par sa fille Thérèse Cau.
Précieux témoin de son temps, Maria connaît le privilège, entre 1934 et 1941, de partager la vie de la famille de Josep et Marcià Tarradellas. Une histoire extraordinaire o Maria vit...
42043) The Phoenix
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English
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The year is 1938 and the world is ready for war. Nations are aligning with the allies or the axis. Although they are outnumbered ten thousand to one and must stay hidden, the magical communities on both sides are determined to do their bit. Drawn into this conflict by a series of unfortunate events a normal human must learn how to live with magic and fight the good fight to prevent the forces of the axis gaining a magical advantage over the allies....
42044) Submerged
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English
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Cruising from the sub pens of Trondheim under the cover of darkness-undetected by the sonar scans of Allied enemies-Kapitaenleutnant Erich Heinz Bruckner leads the experimental submarine U-5001 in a last-ditch effort for Nazi victory. But their sinister 1945 voyage ends mysteriously: Bruckner and his crew vanish, along with their classified weapon of mass destruction.
Seventy years later, ex-Navy diver Dexter Bucklin stumbles upon an unknown vessel...
42045) Whiskey Kills
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Series
Killstraight stories volume 3
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English
Description
His Arrows Fly Straight into the Hearts of His Enemies was the Comanche name given him by his father. But the Pale Eyes gave him a new name, Daniel Killstraight, and that was the name by which he was known after his return to the reservation of the Kowas, Comanches, and Apaches. He became a native police officer, called a Metal Shirt by the Indians. When Toyarocho, drunk on contraband whiskey, rolls over onto the body of his four-year-old daughter,...
42046) Rear Gunner
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English
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The life and death of a 19-year-old Lancaster tail gunner in 1944-5 drawn from his log book and personal family history.
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English
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Central Oregon-the last frontier. Transportation is still by stagecoach and freight wagon. There is a movement afoot for a people's railroad, paid for by the state, to bring the benefits of rails to the area, to make it easier to ship livestock and produce, and to encourage settlement. For years, the competing railroad barons, James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman, have done nothing toward building a line in central Oregon, but now, under the impetus...
42048) Un joueur
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Français
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À Roulettenbourg, ville d'eau imaginaire d'Allemagne au casino réputé, le jeune Alexeï est dévoré par son amour pour Pauline, la belle-fille d'un général dont il est l'employé. Ce livre, écrit et dicté par Dostoïevski en moins d'un mois pendant la rédaction de Crime et châtiment, décrit les tourments d'un homme plongé dans la passion insurmontable d'une femme et du jeu, qu'il a lui-même vécus.
Traduction intégrale d'Henri Mongault,...
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All three books in the Meetings and Misunderstandings Series ~ a variation on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice To Meet Mr DarcyForced to miss the Meryton Assembly due to illness, Elizabeth Bennet's first meeting with Mr Darcy is more successful than it might have been, although she is cautious to guard her heart against too much feeling for a man she scarcely knows, and who nurses secrets of his own. Fitzwilliam Darcy befriends Elizabeth Bennet out...
42050) The Minstrel Boy
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English
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David Baird, a talented young rock musician, accompanies his estranged father to Wales. Fleeing after a quarrel, David has a bizarre motorcycle accident which hurls him back in time to medieval Prydein. A variation on the Arthurian legend, The Minstrel Boy introduces us to Merlin as a stern music teacher who takes David under his wing and a young King Arthur who becomes his friend. David eventually wins the respect of the town with his strange but...
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"Reade fills in the spaces Shakespeare left blank in the History Plays." – Hamish McCready, Dramatist"Duke Pierce Reade has a fresh, international style of writing." – Olivia Lyons, Style Influencer"I like the writing style. It encourages you to dig deeper, find the meaning with a simple search." – Vinny B, Gaming Storyliner During the earliest years of Christianity in Britain, when Rome retreated and left a void for pagans, priests and petty...
42052) A Sister's Promise
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Series
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English
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A heartrending saga of a sister separated from her baby brother by tragedy and prejudice, who will brave the Blitz to bring him to safety Molly's life changes forever when her mother is killed in a horrific accident. Although her beloved grandfather wants to keep her and little brother Kevin with him in Birmingham, the authorities decide it's best for the girl to live with her maternal grandmother, on a farm in Donegal. So Molly is packed off to Biddy...
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Beauty is terrifyingly dangerous.After visiting the hermit of Sherwood, Friar Tuck seeks the coolness of a forest pool. There he encounters a Faerie.She is wondrous and strange and deadly. How can he convince her that he is a man of peace, unlike the guards and rangers who hunt in the forest? ~ ~ ~ Both Edie Roones and M.A. Lee love to mix fantasy with history. Their newest endeavor combines the legends of Robin Hood with Faeries of British myth.If...
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In "When Iron Turns to Gold," the sequel to Brand's novel Iron Dust, a pardon exonerates Andrew Lanning of any crime he may have committed during his time as an outlaw. Marshal Hal Dozier, instrumental in obtaining that pardon, has urged Andy to return to Martindale and his former life there as a blacksmith. However, the residents of Martindale will not accept Andy back, fearing that he'll break the law again. To make things worse, Larry la Roche...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Jackie Mitchell has always wanted to be a great pitcher, and she finally has the chance to become one! In her first minor league game, she is up against two of the greatest home-run hitters of all time--Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Does she stand a chance?
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English
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In 2022, Andrew Foster is a long-tenured News Director for a local television station. After an exhaustive search, Andrew purchased his lifelong dream car. The car is a 1963 Corvette C2 Coupe with a highly desired split-back rear window. Unknown to Andrew and the rest of the world, this car had future technology installed on it from the 23rd century. The device that was placed on the car in late 1963 was rendered inoperable by its makers and, over...
42057) Murder at the Mill
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English
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When Emma visits friends on the Darling River, she isn't expecting to find herself defending one of them from an accusation of murder. But now two men are dead and not everyone believes it was an accident.There are twists in the story and being manipulated by the family doesn't sit well with Emma. She must reveal the culprit before she returns home, or leave the Lockwoods with a murderer in their midst, and her friends with an uncertain future.But...
42058) The Blue-Eyed Aborigine
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It is 1629, and there is mutiny in the air aboard the Dutch ship Batavia as she plies her way towards Java with her precious cargo. Jan, a cabin boy, and Wouter, a young soldier, find themselves caught up in the tragic wrecking and bloody revolt that follow. But worse is to come...
Based on the diaries of the ship's Commander, Rosemary Hayes recaptures some of sea history's most dramatic moments, linking the fates of of Jan and Wouter with discoveries...
42059) The Center of the Maze
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Bethea and her cousins are delighted to find that the Scottish castle they're visiting has a hedge maze! They head in, split up, and everything seems fine until Bethea realizes she's walked much, much further than the length of the maze...and no matter which branch she takes, she can't get out. She continues on to the center of the maze, and discovers she's no longer in Scotland-or even in her own world at all.
42060) Petite Idole
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Français
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Extrait : "Dans la petite salle à manger d'une élégante maison du boulevard Raspail, toute la famille Darbois était réunie autour de la table ronde, table familiale sur laquelle une toile cirée, blanche cerclée par toute la lignée des rois de France dans des médaillons d'or, servait de nappe pour les déjeuners."
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