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Briony is free from the walls of Asperfell. But not from its strange and savage world. Lost in the frozen wilderness, Briony leads her friends ever northward, in search of a rumored cave wherein lies their only hope of returning home to the kingdom of Tiralaen with Prince Elyan, the rightful heir to the throne, to save her people from civil war. What she discovers instead is an impossible kingdom of opulence and decadence beyond her wildest imagining....
2) Moby Dick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
3) Crackdown
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HarperCollins
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Paradise is the perfect escape for ex-Marine Nick Breakspear, captain of a charter yacht operation in the Bahamas, until he agrees to pilot a "detox cruise" for the drug-addled grown son and daughter of a powerful U.S. senator. Ambushed far from port, he is helpless to prevent the murder of a crew member by modern-day pirates who sink Nick's yacht before vanishing with the senator's kids. Having barely eluded death, Nick must immediately set sail...
4) The iron way
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A gripping historical adventure set in the second century AD and based on legends of King Arthur, The Iron Way is the second in Tim Leach's breathtaking Sarmatian Trilogy. AD 175, Vindolanda, Britannia. After their cavalry was broken by the legions on the frozen waters of the Danube, Sarmatian warrior Kai bought his peoples' lives with a pledge to serve Rome. Bound to the will of the Emperor, the Sarmatians are ready to fight and eager to die –...
5) Stormchild
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A grieving father becomes obsessed with salvaging what is left of his family by finding his missing daughter.
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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2022.
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English
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Biggles turns spy in his most dangerous adventure yet! Professor Max Beklinder, a British explosives expert, has reportedly been killed in a car crash in his native Lucrania, now under the control of an increasingly bellicose Germany. But when a British agent reports Beklinder has since been seen alive with the Chief of the Secret Police, the authorities need to confirm for certain whether he is alive or dead. He had been working on a powerful new...
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Murphy shepherd novel volume 3
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Murphy Shepherd finds the lost, ensuring they never become the forgotten. But when the identity of the shadow from whom Murphy has rescued more innocents than anyone else becomes clear, it couldn't be more of a shock. It is none other than the brother of Murph's mentor, Bones: two boys with the same childhood, yet defined by completely opposite choices.
Murph is determined to put a stop to the terror and heartbreak this man perpetuates once and for...
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 3
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HarperCollins
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Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full color ebook device, and in rich black and white on all other devices.
Narnia . . . where horses talk . . . where treachery is brewing . . . where destiny awaits.
On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though they are only looking to escape their harsh and narrow lives, they soon find themselves at the center of a terrible battle. It is a battle that
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The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller. From its opening pages-when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head-novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping,...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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2022.
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English
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A ghost ship full of long-lost gold beckons, and Biggles gets an icy reception... Biggles, Algie, Bertie and Ginger are visited by Grimes, an old pal from the war, whose father, a Merchant Navy captain known as Jumbo, is in a spot of bother. He was recently tricked into skippering a crew of seal poachers to an islet off Antarctica. While there, they spotted an old ship – still rigged for sail – trapped in the pack ice. After an investigation of...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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2022.
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'A great story ... Doherty’s writing is evocative, providing richly detailed scenes of life in medieval Byzantium' World History Encyclopedia Tragedy broke him. Revenge will remake him. AD 1046. The Byzantine Empire teeters on the brink of full-blown war with the mighty Seljuk Sultanate. The two great powers vie to control Anatolia – a land of strife, riven with bloodshed and doubt. Young Apion’s life is shattered one night when his family is...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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2022.
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Even in the darkness of war, there is always a flicker of hope. AD 1068. The Seljuk Sultanate tears at Byzantium’s borders. Alp Arslan’s armies grow stronger with every victory, while the Byzantines forces dwindle, the hope in their hearts guttering its last. All cry out for a new warrior emperor to lead them to salvation. This war has been Apion’s mistress for many years now. As Strategos – high general – of the Chaldian border army, he...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Will Britain take him in... or mark him as its enemy? 'A brilliantly realised world of Imperial ambition and native resistance' Simon Scarrow 'Wonderful, distinct characters ... this is a terrific read' Conn Iggulden Faustus Valerianus is the son of a Roman father and a British mother, a captive sold among the spoils after Claudius's invasion. Now both parents have died within a month of each other, and so he sells the family farm and enlists, joining...
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Bloodhound Books
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2022.
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English
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"OMG . . . talk about keeping me on the edge of my seat! . . . This is one hell of an action-packed ride!' --Baker's Not So Secret Blog, five stars The action-packed first novel in the highly acclaimed and bestselling series of espionage thrillers featuring Carl Logan. Carl Logan was the perfect agent. A loner. No real friends or family. Trained to deal with any situation with cold efficiency, devoid of emotion. But Logan isn't the man he used to...
15) The glass castle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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You'll love joining in the adventures of The Glass Castle, brand-new from Trisha White Priebe and Jerry Jenkins, where the setting from The Chronicles of Narnia Meets the action from Alice in Wonderland. The king is growing old and is concerned about who will replace him. His new wife wants to produce an heir to the throne. The only problem? Thirteen years ago, the king's first wife gave birth to a son, and no one knows for sure what happened to him....
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Open Road Media
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[2020]
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English
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These four timeless classics of American fiction explore the trials of growing up and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century American life. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : Escaping society, Huckleberry Finn and a runaway slave named Jim take a log raft down the Mississippi River. Their adventures draw them closer together until Huck must make a fateful choice between Jim's freedom and his own salvation. One of the first major novels written in...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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These three novels by the great American satirist transport readers across the ocean to Europe and back in time to Camelot and the Hundred Years' War. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court : A supervisor at a firearms factory in Hartford, Connecticut, Hank Morgan inexplicably finds himself transported back in time to Camelot. Worse still, he is brought before the Round Table and sentenced to burn at the stake. Will Hank die at the hands of King...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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The international bestseller continuing the magnificent tale of the epic struggle between the New World and the Old. In 1532, a group of Spaniards led by Captain Don Francisco Pizarro reached Peru after a gruelling ten-year journey, hungry for gold and conquests. Facing them were a people hardened by daily sacrifice, whose power came from the gods: the Incas. Into this conflict are drawn Gabriel Montelucar y Flores , a young Spanish nobleman, and...
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HarperCollins
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[2016]
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English
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Former operative Major Hector Cross must face off against a pair of lethal enemies and prevent an international catastrophe in this gripping contemporary adventure-thriller perfect for fans of Clive Cussler, Ted Bell, and Vince Flynn from the legendary worldwide bestselling author of Desert God and Golden Lion. One of the most formidable fighters in the world, ex-SAS warrior and former private security consultant Major Hector Cross has survived explosive...
20) The Ambassador
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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2022.
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A global conspiracy. A man on the run. What happens when diplomacy fails?
In the aftermath of a global pandemic, a beautiful and charismatic human rights activist is murdered, live on the internet, at the British Embassy in Paris. It is a mystery that no one wants solved.
But, when governments refuse to investigate, Ambassador Ed Barnes is determined to find out the truth himself.
The quest for answers plunges Barnes into a world of cyber terrorists...
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