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2) Moby Dick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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...
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A famed elephant hunter embarks on a perilous African treasure hunt in this classic tale that launched the long-running Allan Quatermain series. Sir Henry Curtis's brother has disappeared into the uncharted African interior. Last seen by explorer and hunter Allan Quatermain, he was traveling toward the fabled King Solomon's diamond mines in search of his fortune. Now, Curtis and his friend, Capt. John Good, persuade Quatermain and a mysterious native...
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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....
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While they are discussing the possible illnesses they may have, Jerome, Harris, and George all realize they suffer from the same thing-working too much. Upon the realization, the three best friends decide that they must go on a vacation. After rejecting the ideas of a sea trip or country stay, because Jerome doesn't like the sea, and Harris finds the country to be dull, the men decide on a boat trip. With their bags packed and with the company of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
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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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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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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[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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Warriors omen of the stars volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Dovewing face their destinies and an outsider in the ThunderClan turns Clanmates against one another, leading the warrior cats to question who they can trust.
13) Sign of the moon
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Warriors omen of the stars volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Dovepaw continue to try to understand the mysterious prophecy that binds them, when Jayfeather receives a desperate plea for help from the Tribe of the Rushing Water.
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Red Thunder, Red Lightning, and Rolling Thunder -- "action-packed, science-packed homages to Heinlein's best work" -- now in one volume (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing ). Enjoy all three novels in Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author John Varley's Mars saga! Red Thunder As Chinese and US spacecraft compete to be the first to land on Mars, a former astronaut, his cousin, and four teens from Florida have a chance to beat them both -- thanks to an inventive...
15) H.M.S. Unseen
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HarperCollins
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English
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National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan is very concerned when the H.M.S. Unseen, one of four diesel-electric submarines owned by the Royal Navy, vanishes, and a year later his fears are realized when the sub, modified into a dangerous anti-aircraft weapon, makes a reappearance in the control of a terrorist spy.
17) Red lightning
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Ray Garcia-Strickland, whose father was the first man to fly to Mars, fears the worst when Earth is struck by an unknown object, causing Earthies to flock to Mars, where the sudden influx of travelers threatens the planet's delicate balance.
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The blistering second novel in the Ottoman Cycle by bestseller S.J.A. Turney sees blood and adventure on the Mediterranean battlefield… Crete, 1492: After a sojourn on a Venetian-controlled island, Skiouros has learned everything he needs to know for his true quest: destroying the person responsible for his brother's death. Meanwhile, across the Mediterranean, a small fleet of Turkish galleys is engaged in a desperate last attempt to save Islamic...
20) Sink Or Capture
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Our rebel captain must save his daughter in this epic Second World War naval thriller It is 1940 and the world is at war. For Commander David Cochrane Smith the nightmare becomes personal as he believes his daughter Sarah to be imprisoned in the hold of Altmark. Although he is among the Cossacks who board the prison-ship in Jössingfjord, his search for Sarah is not over. And as Captain of the ageing cruiser Cassandra, after twenty years 'on the beach'...
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