Nicola Barber
1) The finisher
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Series
Vega Jane volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Why would Quentin Herms flee into the Quag? There was nothing in the Quag except certain death. Vega Jane has never left the village of Wormwood. But his isn't unusual--nobody has ever left the village of Wormwood. At least not until Quentin Herms vanishes into the unknown. Vega knows Quentin didn't just leave--he was chased. And he's left behind a very dangerous trail of clues that only she can decode. The Quag is a dark forest filled with terrifying...
2) Fire and ice
Author
Series
Spirit animals. Main series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan, supported by their spirit animals, follow a lead in the cold North only to arrive in a deceptively beautiful village where everything is not as it seems.
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English
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"An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Groomed to be the perfect highborn Victorian young lady, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has a different plan in mind. After the devastating loss of her mother, she is determined to understand the nature of death itself. She begins secretly apprenticing in forensics and soon gets drawn into the disturbing investigation of serial killer Jack the Ripper. But to her horror, the search for clues brings her far closer to her sheltered world than she ever thought...
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English
Description
"By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come....
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Series
Spirit animals. Main series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"Deep in the desert there sits a beautiful oasis, ruled by a monarch unlike any other in Erdas. His name is Cabaro, the Great Lion, and he reigns over a kingdom of animals, jealously guarding his golden talisman. No human has ever set foot on the Great Beast's territory. The journey to his oasis is impossible. As a team, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have achieved the impossible before. But now that team is broken--the friends scattered by a devastating...
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Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"Bizarre murders are discovered in the castle of Prince Vlad the Impaler, otherwise known as Dracula. Could it be a copycat killer...or has the depraved prince been brought back to life?"--
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English
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The heiress . . . The Resistance fighter . . . The widow . . . Three women whose fates are joined by one splendid hotel France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major’s aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the...
Author
Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English, to the prostitutes and dockers of the city's seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history.
10) Against the tide
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Series
Spirit animals. Main series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"The sun is shining in the Hundred Isles, and yet the path forward seems crowded with shadows. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have traveled across the world, seeking a set of powerful talismans in order to keep them from enemy hands. Throughout their journey the young heroes have been hounded by pursuers, who always seem to know just where to find them. Now they know why. One of them is a traitor"--Page 4 of cover.
11) The burning tide
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Working in separate worlds to stop the awakening Wyrm, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan find support in a strange group of allies but will have to work quickly to locate an ancient trap that could bring about the end of the war.
12) Fools' gold
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Series
Order of darkness volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Tasked to expose a coin counterfeiting scheme, Luca and Isolde, whose romantic attraction continues to grow, travel to Venice in 1454, where they meet an alchemist who plans to create the Philosopher's Stone, a mystical substance said to be capable of turning base metals into gold and producing the elixir of life.
13) Blood ties
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Series
Spirit animals. Main series volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Erdas is a land of balance. The spirit animal bond bridges the human and animal worlds. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan each have this gift, and the responsibility that comes with it. But the Conquerors are trying to destroy this balance, swallowing whole cities in their rush for power, including Meilin's home. Ready to fight, Meilin has set off into enemy territory with her spirit animal, a panda name Jhi. Her friends aren't far behind, but they're...
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Series
Spirit animals. Fall of the beasts volume 5
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The four heroes of Erdas are fugitives on the run in this new chapter of the New York Times bestselling series!
15) Jackaby
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 1
Language
English
Description
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
Author
Series
Order of darkness volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Italy, 1453. Luca and Isolde grow more and more attracted to each other as they continue their journey to unravel the mysteries throughout Christendom. But their travels are delayed by the uprising of an intense religious crusade that threatens the balance of the civilized world. Death lingers in the air as war ravages on, but this religious conflict is nothing compared to the arrival of an intense and deadly storm.
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the world of Erdas, there were four noble animals who sacrificed everything to protect their homes from the ambitions of a mad king. Briggan the Wolf, Uraza the Leopard, Jhi the Panda, and Essix the Falcon. Aided by a brave resistance of humans and animals, they gave their lives to protect the world from a threat more dangerous than any it had seen before: their own kind. These are tales of the true heroes and villains in the war that started it...
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Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Two thieves pretend to be newlyweds as they plot to steal from the rich passengers of the Titanic, but when the woman's dark past catches up to her, she questions who she can trust, as the ship sails ever nearer to its doom.