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IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
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Wuthering Heights tells the story of a romance between two youngsters: Catherine Earnshaw and an orphan boy, Heathcliff. This tale of hauntings, passion and greed remains unsurpassed in its depiction of the dark side of love.With an Afterword by David PinchingDesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality...
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Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and our narrator, Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. "I spent the first eighteen years of my life defined by this one fact: that I was raised with a chimpanzee," she tells us. "Its never going to be the first thing I share with someone. I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you arent thinking of her as my sister. But until Ferns expulsion, Id scarcely...
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We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval...
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2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
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"An instant hit in the UK, this is the true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War II, joined in flight missions, and survived everything from crash-landings to parachute bailouts--ultimately saving the life of his owner and dearest friend. In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man's-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey that would turn them into lifelong friends. One was an orphaned...
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Ryder is the hardest Montgomery brother to figure out. He's surly and unsociable, but when he straps on a tool belt, no woman can resist his sexy swagger. Except, apparently, Hope Beaumont, the innkeeper of his own Inn BoonBoro and the former manager of a D.C. hotel. She's where she wants to be except for in her love life. Her only interaction with the opposite sex has been sparring with Ryder. Still, no one can deny the electricity between them....
10) Lions & liars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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Fifth-grader Frederick is sent to a disciplinary camp where he and his terrifying troop mates have just started forging a friendship when they learn a Category 5 hurricane is headed their way.
11) Payback
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Masterminds trilogy volume 3
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[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Fighting for survival after being separated into pairs in the aftermath of a betrayal, the Project Osiris clones search for notorious mob boss Gus Alabaster while tracking down Eli's elusive DNA donor alongside a surprising new ally.
12) Stone soup
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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When three hungry soliders come to town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.
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2024
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-- New York Times MJ Rodriguez has spent her life hiding in the human world, keeping a heavy secret: She’s half-encanto. As the only child of King Vivencio of the Sirena Court, she’s also next in line for the throne. And now, upon her estranged father’s sudden death, MJ must claim her place as rightful heir. In wondrous Biringan, the road to the throne is paved with thorns. Without a reigning monarch, the realm has spiraled into disarray. MJ...
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2023
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DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL BOOK.In 'Things We Never Got Over' by Lucy Score, Knox, a solitary barber who prefers a drama-free life, has his world disrupted when a runaway bride named Naomi shows up in his rough-around-the-edges town of Knockemout, Virginia. Naomi's mission is to rescue her estranged twin sister, Tina, who's as troublesome as ever. After Tina leaves her with an unexpected niece to care for, Naomi is stuck in town with no...
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2022
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Welcome to Normal where nothing is normal! Join Mae West and the Laundry Club Ladies as they cha cha and twirl their way around Happy Trails Campground as they put on some sleuthing dance shoes to bring closure to this southern and fun cozy Valentine's mystery. When I begged Hank Sharp to take dance lessons to celebrate Valentine's Day, I knew I was getting more than I had bargained for. But when a dancer's dead body shows up at the height of...
17) Fate breaker
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Realm breaker volume 3
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"Armed with Taristan's sword, the only Spindleblade left in existence, Corayne must stop him and Queen Erida from bringing forth their demon god to destroy the world"--
“A true fantasy masterpiece." —Sabaa Tahir, #1 New York Times bestselling author Since Victoria Aveyard launched the instant #1 New York Times bestselling Realm Breaker, the series has taken readers by storm. Now the finale is here to continue this epic fantasy series. Change...
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2024.
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Cursed with the power of Death, Ruying, when her Gift is discovered by an enemy prince, is offered an impossible deal: be his private assassin and her family will never suffer harm again, forcing her to decide if saving her family is worth betraying her country.
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2024
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I was the most powerful healer in my world—the best, having devoted my entire life to mastering the art of healing. And yet, for whatever reason, my brother feared that I sought to claim his throne, and he marshaled his forces against me. Anyway, it doesn't matter, all the same I'd been planning on trying out a certain ritual and now . . . I'm in another world altogether!? And this body I'm inhabiting, well, it's not mine, but some young guy's!...
20) Martyr!
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"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work...
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