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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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This is the concluding volume of the saga of Barnabus Sackett, patriarch of that family. He returns to England, where he learns of an order for his arrest. The gold coins he found in Sackett's land are thought to be the royal treasure King John lost in the Wash during the time of the Crusades. After encountering some old friends and enemies from the previous book, he returns to America with Abigail, his new bride. He establishes a community between...
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2021.
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English
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"As troops pull out of Afghanistan at the end of America's longest war, The Long War uncovers the failures at the start that set the scene for this prolonged conflict. Three American presidents tried to defeat the Taliban - sending 150,000 international troops at the peak and spending a trillion dollars. But early policy mistakes that allowed Osama bin Laden to escape made the task far harder. Deceived by easy victories, they backed ruthless corrupt...
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Clifton Chronicles volume 3
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English
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This sequel to The Sins of the Father opens with the resolution of the trial and the triumphant marriage of Harry Clifton and Emma Barrington. Harry, now a bestselling novelist, Emma, their son Sebastian, and orphaned Jessica make a new life for themselves, but all is not happy. Emma's brother, Giles, is engaged to a woman more interested in Barrington's fortune and title than in marriage. And Sebastian finds a hard time resisting the temptations...
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Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: should they board a container ship bound for America, or Great Britain? Alexander leaves that choice to the toss of a coin. In a...
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Century trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
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English
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Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 13
Isaac Bell novels volume 13
An Isaac Bell Adventure volume 13
An Isaac Bell Adventure volume Book 13
Isaac Bell novels volume 13
An Isaac Bell Adventure volume 13
An Isaac Bell Adventure volume Book 13
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English
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"Detective Isaac Bell battles foreign spies, German U-boats, and an old nemesis to capture a secret technology that could alter the outcome of World War I in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler. As New England swelters in the summer of 1914, Detective Isaac Bell is asked to investigate a cache of missing rifles--only to discover something much more sinister. Whoever broke into this Winchester Factory...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Young Cedric is quite happy living with his widowed mother in New York and visiting with his best friend. The Cedric learns that he is Lord Fauntleroy and will one day become an Earl. But in order to claim his title, he will have to leave behind everything he knows to live with his hard-hearted grandfather in England. Can Cedric win over his grandfather? And is he the real Lord Fauntleroy?
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"The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking." "Professor James Murray, an astonishingly...
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Tantor
Pub. Date
p2008
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English
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In The King and the Cowboy, renowned historian David Fromkin reveals how two unlikely world leaders-Edward the Seventh of England and Theodore Roosevelt-recast themselves as respected political players and established a friendship that would shape the course of the twentieth century in ways never anticipated.In 1901, these two colorful public figures inherited the leadership of the English-speaking countries. Following the death of his mother, Queen...
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Century trilogy volume 2
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English
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In Book Two of the 'Century Trilogy,' Follett continues the story of the five families who would witness and impact many of the great events of the 20th Century. He takes readers into World War II, going inside Nazi Germany, above Pearl Harbor, to the halls of power in London and Washington, D.C., and to the dawn of the atomic age. Century Trilogy series
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"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht-the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
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Shipwrecked on the coast of North Carolina, his companions killed, Tatton Chantry is alone--and ready for action. In the Old World he fought wars, skirmishes, duels. Now, in the wilderness of America, this swashbuckling hero takes up against pirates, Spanish fortune seekers, savage Indians. Aided by a beautiful Peruvian woman, he braves the fierce challenges of the New World--always, like a true Chantry, with his expert hand on the hilt of his faithful...
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[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"To say Virginia "Dindy" Hall was ambitious would be an understatement. She was that girl at your high school who makes everyone else look like a slacker, no matter how hard they're working. But how many of them can say they've been on Nazi Germany's Most Wanted list? At a time when most women were expected to becomes wives and mothers, Virginia craved adventure. And with the world gearing up for a second World War, this fearless woman knew that she...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In December of 1938, almost by accident, German chemist Otto Hahn experimented with uranium and found that its atoms split when put next to radioactive material. When word got out, physicists and chemists across the United States, Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union raced to find a way to make a bomb by splitting the atom.
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September 1940, as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Since losing her parents as a child, Susan Shepherd has raised homing pigeons with her grandfather, Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan, but none more so than Duchess, with whom she shares a special bond. When a young pilot named Ollie Evans travels to Britain to join the Royal Air Force, his quest brings him to the National Pigeon Service, where Susan...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"Hank Morgan, cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, wakes to find himself in the England of King Arthur. The tough minded Yankee, an embodiment of scientific enlightenment, faces a world whose idyllic surface only masks the dark forces of fear, injustice, and ignorance. This is the springboard which launches one of literature's most extraordinary excursions into fantasy. With the agility of Mark Twain's unique virtuosity,...
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Rokesby series volume 2
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English
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There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings. In this second of a new prequel series, following Because of Miss Bridgerton, we go back to where it all began. . . from New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn.
While you were sleeping...
With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead,...