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(0)John Bedford Lloyd
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks's new novel believes he's found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he's never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Nick Drake heads an environmental group and becomes irate when he loses key funding. He sets out after his enemies and detractors, working to instill a public state of fear about global warming. Takes readers around the world to Iceland, Antarctica, Arizona, the Solomon Islands, Paris, and Los Angeles.
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Series
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English
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At 85 years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will provide the defining coda to both men's accomplished lives,...
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Series
Mike Bowditch mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
Desperate and alone, game warden Mike Bowditch strikes up an uneasy alliance with a retired warden pilot, and together the two men journey deep into the Maine wilderness in search of a runaway fugitive--Mike's father. But the only way for Mike to save his father is to find the real killer--which could mean putting everyone he loves in the line of fire.
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English
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Capt. Paul Terry, one of the army's most accomplished young lawyers, must defend Brian McCarran, a general's son who recently returned from a harrowing tour in Iraq. In the high-profile court-martial, Terry is joined by Brian's sister, Meg McCarran, who leaves her practice in San Francisco to help save her brother. Before the case is over, Terry will become deeply entwined with Meg and the McCarrans--and learn that families, like war, can break the...
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English
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Far upstate, in New York's ancient forests, a drowned village lays beneath the dark, still waters of the Chilewaukee reservoir. Early in the 20th century, the town was destroyed for the greater good: bringing water to the millions living downstate. Or at least that's what the politicians from Manhattan insisted at the time. The local families, settled there since America's founding, were forced from their land, but they didn't move far, and some didn't...
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Language
English
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"Based on years of original research and new reporting, two acclaimed authors deliver the riveting and emotionally wrenching full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II--and the fifty-year fight to exonerate the captain after a wrongful court martial."--Provided by publisher.
11) The last surgeon
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Language
English
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Working in a mobile clinic while struggling with the challenges of PTSD, veteran doctor Nick Garrity searches for a missing war buddy and finds himself pitted against a terrifying psychopath who is disguising some of his kills as suicides.
12) The demonologist
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Language
English
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Description
During a visit to Venice, Professor David Ullman--one of the world's leading authorities on demonic literature--witnesses a terror in a tiny attic room. Then his 12-year-old daughter Tess disappears before his eyes, and he must find her while confronting an unspeakable darkness along the way.
13) Dead and alive
Author
Series
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frankenstein's creation, now calling itself Deucalion, faces the final confrontation with its creator, but first they must face an indestructible nightmare entity, as all of the mad scientist's creations return to destroy him.
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Series
Kindle County volume 2
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
While struggling to cope with the suicide of his beloved wife, Clara, attorney Alejandro "Sandy" Stern defends his brother-in-law, Dixon Hartnack, a wily financial wizard under investigation by a federal grand jury.
15) Easy Company soldier: the legendary battles of a sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
A "Band of Brothers" soldier and elite paratrooper describes his role in providing defense during 1943's Operation Overlord, his receipt of a Bronze Star and numerous other honors, and the loss of his best friend during the engagement at Bastogne.
16) A moveable feast
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A restored edition of the posthumously published work eliminates changes that were made to the manuscript before its original 1964 release and features sketches of his experiences in Paris with his son and first wife.
Author
Language
English
Description
Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who's traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O'Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Life just gets better and better for health guru and American sweetheart Suzanne Somers as the years pass, and so do her books! At 72, the number one New York Times best selling author of Knockout and Ageless is back with revolutionary insights and advice from the best and brightest minds in the field of anti-aging.
19) Radium girls
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, it follows teen sisters, Bessie and Jo Cavallo, who dream of Hollywood and Egyptian pyramids as they paint luminous watch dials at the American Radium factory in New Jersey. When Jo loses a tooth, Bessie's world is turned upside down as a mystery slowly unravels. She discovers a corporate cover-up and, in a radical coming of age story, Bessie and the Radium Girls decide to take on American Radium. Based on historical events,...
20) The front runner
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
This is the true story of Gary Hart, the former Colorado senator who quickly rose to the top of the pack as the number one contender for the 1987 Democratic presidential primary. Due to his charisma and drive, Hart connects well with the younger constituents, and both himself and his aides see this a clear and present path to victory. But allegations soon emerge of an extramarital affair, and Hart is forced to deal with the impact that these new allegations...
