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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Readers seeking exotic locales and nonstop pulse-pounding thrills will love this collection of six classic adventure stories, beginning with The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, one of the best-known short stories, about a hunt designed for very specific prey. Other timeless tales include To Build a Fire by Jack London, The Caballero's Way by O. Henry, The Seed from the Sepulchre by Clark Ashton Smith, Alone in Shark Waters by John Kruse,...
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Series
Wings of Fire volume 10
Language
English
Description
Qibli knows Darkstalker must be stopped. And he knows he could stop him -- if he had magic. With even a sliver of the ancient dragon's all-powerful scroll, Qibli could rewrite history the right way: end war forever; make every dragon happy; perhaps even cast a very small spell so that everyone would like him ... Instead, as Darkstalkers dangerous influence spreads across Pyrrhia, entrancing or killing every dragon in the seven tribes, Qibli can only...
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Series
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English
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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....
4) Found money
Author
Language
English
Description
Single mother Amy Parkens teams up with small-town physician Ryan Duffy in an attempt to discover the source of their unexpected financial windfalls.
Author
Publisher
eLectio Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The deserts of Egypt conceal the greatest treasure since the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...and the twisted hate of a master terrorist!
Father Duncan MacDonald, Vatican archeologist, has been doing routine parish work in the States near the home of his friends Joshua and Isabella Parker, who are investigating a mysterious Spanish mission in north Texas. Suddenly Duncan is called away to help excavate an ancient library full of writings by the early Christian...
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Series
Border trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The story of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, who, along with two companions, sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
10) Moby Dick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
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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Language
English
Description
Jazzman Lonnie Blake, still mourning the murder of his wife, offers refuge to Carol Dodson, a prostitute who begs him for help in evading a dangerous stalker, not realizing he has placed himself in the middle of an international effort by a drug firm to find and capture Carol's daughter, a child with amazing healing abilities.
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Language
English
Description
Beano X. Bates, a con man known as "King Con," is nearly beaten to death by a New Jersey crime boss and considers leaving his life as a grifter for good. But before he quits, he makes plans to perform one final scam that will ruin the boss and his Mob family forever.
14) Rebel
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Having broken free of HARC, seventeen-year-old Wren and Callum escaped north but the Reboot Reservation is preparing to wage all-out war on the humans and the two are torn about their loyalties until Micah commits the ultimate betrayal and their choice is made.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's almost Poppa's birthday and young Theo wants to give her beloved grandfather the perfect gift. Poppa has traveled the world and keeps a trunk full of mementos collected on his adventures. That gives Theo an idea for a very special gift: a new adventure! They'll take the streetcar to the local beach, sink their toes in the sand, skip stones and stop for lunch at the beachside café. Together, Poppa and Theo plan their trip and sketch a map of...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
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An epic stand-alone adventure in Erin Hunter's #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series!
Set just before the events of the books in A Vision of Shadows, this Super Edition follows Hawkwing, deputy of SkyClan, on a journey that will change the fate of all five warrior Clans.
The cats of SkyClan are facing a darkness unlike any they have seen before. Their only hope is to seek out the kin of Firestar, the cat who once brought their Clan back...
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Series
Treasure hunters volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd and their two older siblings travel to Africa to track down priceless artifacts that will keep the family's treasure hunting business afloat long enough to rescue their kidnapped mother--and possibly find their missing father"--
Author
Publisher
Babelcube Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Amira finds herself forced to go on a dangerous journey across three allied kingdoms to save her father and her fiancé, Ansol, as they battle in the Western Kingdom. The girl will try to unmask Magnus, the tyrannical ruler of the Northern Kingdom, whose plans go further than anyone could have guessed. On the way she meets Erac, a mysterious young man who offers to accompany her on her journey. As Amira undertakes a long and dangerous journey through...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Young dairymaid Begonia has lost her cow, Alfalfa. So she has set off on a search across the countryside even though she has nothing but a magical map to guide her. Meanwhile, the Emperor has gone missing from the royal palace in a most mysterious manner. Was it murder? Was it magic? It will take all of Begonia's wits to save the empire and get Alfalfa home safely"--
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