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IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
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In this book, the author, deadliest sniper in U.S. history tracks down and shoots the ten most important American firearms, from a flintlock rifle to a Colt revolver to the latest high-tech weapon he used as a Navy SEAL. He uses these guns as a window on United States history, making the sweeping argument that the American story has been tied to and shaped by the gun. He revisits turning points in American history, including the single sniper shot...
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The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him. A female investigator searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, and reveals shocking...
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More than four years have passed since Vianne Rocher pitted her enchanted chocolate confections against the local clergy's interpretation of Lent in smalltown France; since then, Vianne has renounced magic, changed her name to Yanne Charbonneau and moved with her two daughters to Paris's Montmartre district. There, Yanne embraces conformity and safety, much to the dismay of her increasingly troubled older daughter, Anouk. When Anouk becomes entranced...
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"Combining the soul-baring insight of Wild, the profound wisdom of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the adventurous spirit of Eat, Pray, Love, Lynn Darling's powerful, lyrical memoir of self-discovery, full of warmth and wry humor, Out of the Woods. When her college-bound daughter leaves home, Lynn Darling, widowed over a decade earlier, finds herself alone--and utterly lost, with no idea of what she wants or even who she is. Searching for answers, she...
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Mary Karr's bestselling, unforgettable sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars' Club and Cherry-and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year-Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live.
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From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier.
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the...
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The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and the mind.
In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling...
10) P.S. I like you
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Every day in chemistry class, high school student and aspiring songwriter Lily Abbott is finding notes left to her by a mystery boy, love letters really, and she hopes they are from Lucas, a boy she is attracted to--so when she finds out they are really from, she is shocked and unsure about how to respond.
11) Restoration
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Emotional, inspiring, a constant page turner of a story. An easy and enjoyable read that is prefect for today's fast paced and hectic world. If you have ever felt like your past circumstances have determined your future - then this story will show you that there is hope. Come indulge in the journey - Linda Andrews is trying to raise her 10 year old gifted musician son on a waitress salary in the seaside resort town of Havocy Bay. This may not seem...
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Women around the world sighed when Sheikh Razi al Maktabi declared his playboy days were over and duty would be his new mistress.
But he found time for one final fling before he took his desert throne, and curvy chef Lucy Tennant certainly whetted His Majesty's appetite. A wiz in the kitchen, Lucy was a beginner in the bedroom, and Razi couldn't resist one last challenge.
But one night has led to the scandal of the century! Lucy has unexpectedly...
13) PS, I love you
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PS I love you volume 1
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Holly couldn't live without her husband Gerry, until the day she had to. They were the kind of young couple who could finish each other's sentences. When Gerry succumbs to a terminal illness and dies, 30-year-old Holly is set adrift, unable to pick up the pieces. But with the help of a series of letters her husband left her before he died and a little nudging from an eccentric assortment of family and friends, she learns to laugh, overcome her fears,...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
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A novel of a proud stranger in his native land. He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The other was the world of the twentieth century, goading him into a compulsive cycle of sexual exploits, dissipation, and disgust. Home from a foreign war, he was a man being torn apart, a man...
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Aloha Armstrong returns in a brand new time travel adventure.
She travels to the age of pirates age to stop an enemy agent before he explodes a bomb which will not only destroy the past but the future. She soon discovers the enemy agent may not be what he appears to be, but that the threat is something else. They soon are forced to join forces to save both their futures. Will Aloha save the world once again?
Avast, matey's, there be danger,...
16) Hook Island
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A ghostly encounter scares up a romance. Amanda Dark, paranormal investigator, travels to Hook Island to investigate a family mystery for Phillip Swann descendant of notorious pirate, Captain Henry "Blackblood" Swann.
Phillip asks Amanda to help him clear the family name. She soon discovers she and Phillip share an unexpected connection, and that ghosts are real, but someone plans to stop them.
This title includes a bonus story: Grind Manor
17) Out in the Cold
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What happens when the world's deadliest operative is activated with no target to take out?
Tina Hutchinson was a member of the black ops team known as C.O.R.P.S.E., until she was killed.
But her death triggered a secret program, activating an android that was trained to kill, yet is now confused about its mission.
To survive, the android must learn how to blend in with society, acquire resources, and avoid detection, all while trying to uncover...
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Cristy Kessler should be dead. The fact that she's not is because she took charge of her own medical care. When she took it upon herself to find out why she had spent her lifetime battling pain and illness, Kessler embarked upon a journey of discovery in which she endured multiple treatments and procedures that resolved some, but not all, of her issues. Finally, armed with a diagnosis of multiple autoimmune diseases, she took charge and, with the...
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Cristy Kessler should be dead. The fact that she's not is because she took charge of her own medical care. When she took it upon herself to find out why she had spent her lifetime battling pain and illness, Kessler embarked upon a journey of discovery in which she endured multiple treatments and procedures that resolved some, but not all, of her issues. Finally, armed with a diagnosis of multiple autoimmune diseases, she took charge and, with the...
20) Ifrit
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For most people, such events are explained away and never thought of again, but for some, further investigation is required. The Society for Paranormal Observation and Organization of Kindred Spirits, (S.P.O.O.K.S), was formed by a group of like-minded hunters from every corner of the world. These individuals share a bond, a bond with the world of the unseen and the unknown.
IFRIT is one of their stories.
A seal is broken at the Great Pyramid...
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