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The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The Dark Rider: Sightings of a headless horseman doom members of the aristocratic DeQuetteville family as they plan a Civil War battle reenactment. Murder of Innocence: The return of a convicted murderer to Midsomer sparks a series of revenge killings, but the top suspect soon becomes a target. Death and the Divas: Tensions between...
4) The innocent
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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America's best hitman was hired to kill--but when a D.C. government operation goes horribly wrong, he must rescue a teenage runaway and investigate her parents' murders in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to pull the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan,...
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Cryptographer Susan Fletcher finds herself fighting for her country, her life, and the life of the man she loves when she is called in by the National Security Agency to decipher a mysterious code and discovers a plot that has the power to cripple U.S. intelligence.
7) Lost empire
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Sam and Remi Fargo, the husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team, come upon a relic that belongs to a lost Confederate ship while scuba diving in Tanzania, but their discovery conflicts with Mexico's ruling party, the Mexica Tenochca, who wants to find the artifact and prevent a secret from destroying the party.
8) Stay close
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Three people--suburban housewife Megan, who is dissatisfied with her life; her husband, Ray, who once had a promising career as a documentary photographer, but now works as a paparazzo; and Broome, a detective who cannot let go of a cold case involving a missing man--find their pasts coming back to haunt them as they keep secrets from their loved ones.
10) Atlas shrugged
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The story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world--and did. This novel is the setting for the author's philosophy of objectivism.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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"Crichton's ultimate adventure." -- San Francisco Chronicle " Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action ... .A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure." -- USA Today "Riveting ... .Great entertainment ... .The pages and minutes fly by." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer #1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton ("One of the great storytellers of our age" -- Newsday ) takes to the high Caribbean seas for an irresistible...
12) Standoff
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c2000
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Television reporter Tiel McCoy, headed out Interstate 20 on vacation, changes her plans when she hears that the teenage daughter of a Fort Worth multimillionaire has been kidnapped, deciding instead to cover the story that brings her face-to-face with a pair of desperate young lovers.
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(John Ronald Reuel),Lord of the rings volume pt. 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 29
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The first volume of a three-volume epic adventure set in the fantasy world of the Third Age of Middle-earth, a world inhabited by many strange beings.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
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To pull off their latest mission, Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must survive a devastating new weapon unleashed in thirteenth-century China ... a daring rescue in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border ... a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and Myanmar ... for Cabrillo and company, all of these events will come together -- leading to the greatest threat against US security that the country has ever...
15) Six years
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College professor Jake Sanders can't forget the love of his life Natalie who married another man six years earlier. When Natalie's husband dies Jake attends the funeral, but the mourning widow is not Natalie, and everything he thought he knew about himself and his past comes crashing down.
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Paramount Home Entertainment
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c2008
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Indy tries to outrace a brilliant and beautiful agent for the mystical, all-powerful Crystal Skull of Akator. Teaming up with a rebellious young biker and his spirited love Marion, Indy takes you on a breathtaking, action-packed adventure.
17) Lunatics
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c2012
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One of the authors is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of... Okay, we made that line up. What they do form is a writing team of pure comic genius, and they will have you laughing like idiots. One character, Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on...
18) The inner circle
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A young archivist working in the National Archives and his childhood crush accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact--a 200-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington--hidden inside a desk chair. Eager to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, the two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the most well kept secret of the U.S. Presidency.
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