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1) Beneath
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Roland Smith, the master of middle-grade adventure, returns with a new novel full of high-speed chases, secret identities, and a dangerous underground world.
What waits Beneath?Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop. He's even helped Coop with some of his crazier plans -- such as risking his life to help his big brother dig a tunnel underneath their neighborhood in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Coop is . . . different. He doesn't...
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He loves me, and he doesn't even know my real name. The limelight that follows him could expose everything I'm hiding. But even knowing the risks, I can't force myself to stay away. I'm going to break his heart, but mine will shatter right along with it. Will we lose it all when I reveal what's beneath this mask?
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A floating hostel in the sky finds itself in the middle of a battle between hoomans and magic as a little creature prepares himself for an adventure of his very own.
Butler watched nervously as the room obediently began to fill with a pleasant darkness of magic, dancing within the lights, echoed by the soft whispers of children. The whispers grew to a beating of chants that hung heavily, pouring out from the embers. The Children of Light always...
4) The Innocent
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In the year 1907, all of Brampton is present at the sod-turning ceremony for the Carnegie Library. At the end of the event, the crowd rises as one to walk to the Presbyterian Church for a consecration service... Everyone except Jessie Stephens and her family. Her father will not allow them to enter the Presbyterian Church.
No one will tell young Jessie the reason, but she learns that it has something to do with her grandfather Jesse Brady, who built...
5) The Mending
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As the world settled the treaty to the recently concluded war-to-end-all-wars, and as the Canadian government repatriated the brave members of her expeditionary force, Canadians sought two things above all else: an end to the beleaguered state suffered during the war, and a return to the innocence that preceded it.
In the final book of the Beneath the Alders trilogy, Jessie Stephens discovers that neither is entirely possible. Set between 1918 and...
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Two families at war and Alice finds herself caught in the middle. Can she re-write a story as old as time?
When cutbacks force Alice out of her assistant manager role at a Devonshire stately home, she turns her sights elsewhere: the picturesque hills above the historic city of Parma. An aristocratic Italian family are looking to open their medieval castle to the public, and Alice is just the woman for the job.
Four years ago, a life-changing accident...
7) Justice
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Ambitious young lawyer Brent Burns must defend a man wrongly accused of sexual misconduct-without letting his heart interfere
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Sixteen-year-old Jamie McGuiness's sister is dead.Sinking into a deep depression, he frequents the lighthouse where her body was discovered, unaware of the sinister forces surrounding him.When an angry spirit latches onto Jamie, he's led down a dark and twisted path, one that uncovers old family secrets, destroying everything Jamie ever believed in.Caught between the world of the living and the vengeful dead, Jamie fights the pull of the other side....
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Redo Stuart and Beatrice Napal are back in the sequel to Beneath the Sun. After returning home from Morocco, Redo realizes he has left something behind he treasured. His feelings for Beatrice are stronger and bothersome as he determines how to reconcile the difference between them. Can he trust what he feels? Will a Paris adventure be perilous or paradise?
10) The Beleaguered
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On an August afternoon in 1914, the Stephens family acknowledged what most Canadians knew: Canada was at war. They acknowledged it without knowing the innocence they would lose; the beleaguered state they would assume.
Welcome to the world of Jessie Stephens, an inquisitive girl about to become a modern woman; her brother who vied for the Mann Cup in Vancouver and military victory in Greece; her sister whose chance for love was put asunder by bigotry.
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The secrets of the past will unlock her future…
Working in the fast-paced foreign exchange market in Canary Wharf, Amy never expected her job to drive her to collapse. With her doctor advising she take a month off work, when Amy receives a solicitor's letter informing her of a surprise inheritance in Italy, the timing couldn't be more perfect.
But who on earth has left her a house in the sleepy Tuscan hills?
As she gets to know the town and...
12) Courage
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Theodore Engdahl's sexual identity crisis clashes with his faith. Raised to believe homosexuality is a sin, Theo finds himself on the ropes with his girlfriend as well as his straight coworker, whom he can't stop staring at. Luckily, before he can panic too much, Theo discovers the support system provided by the Men's Center. At the center, he meets Alex, and the two hit it off. Unlike Theo, Alex wears his sexuality like a favorite shirt. Alex is...
13) Reliance
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Rising star attorney Harper Callahan hires Ian Burke to landscape his backyard, but it's his heart that gets the real makeover. Cautious at first, Ian is soon won over by Harper's good looks and charm, and before they know it they're on the fast track to romance. Then a brush with death makes Harper and Ian reassess their plans for the future… and offers them an opportunity for adventure. What starts out as a casual fantasy of owning and operating...
14) Never Too Late
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A second chance to realise her dreams...
A classically trained pianist, Steph works as a recording engineer for a small studio when she's offered the job of a lifetime—travel to the Italian Riviera to help world-famous band, Royalty, record their reunion album after a decades-long hiatus.
Steph could definitely do with the distraction. Her boyfriend—who also happens to be her boss—is increasingly unreliable and erratic, and she's awaiting news...
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This warm, quirky, character-filled series begins with a life-changing event that triggers Harper and Ian, the anchors of all three stories, to search for an adventure that takes them out of the city and out of their comfort zones. Pooling their collective talents, they risk everything when they set their sights on a dilapidated resort located on the North Shore of Lake Superior called Beneath the Palisade.
Beneath the Palisade: Reliance
When attorney...
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Beneath the Red Dust takes you the remote outback of Australia where the heat is unforgiving, the people are tough and the land is brutal. Jenny Tyler has grown up here, and returns after a decade to a country that, while familiar, is full of secrets. Jenny has not been back to the Australian Outback since her father died in what the Coroner called 'a tragic accident'. Unable to face the large cattle station which had been her home for seventeen years,...
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Gabe Hawkins and his crew of cowboys are preparing to cross the South Platte River in Nebraska. Ogallala, the town that claims to be too tough for Texas, is in front of them.
As trail boss, no women on drives was always Gabe's most important rule. However, he broke that rule twice this trip. The first was when Laurel Evans married one of Gabe's best hands and signed on as cook's helper. The second took place when Merina Montero and her four-year-old...
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If you like sweeping sagas, strong women of faith, and romantic overtones, then you'll adore April W Gardner's moving 3-book journey of heart and spirit. Beneath the Blackberry Moon Boxed Set includes Parts 1-3 of this addictive story plus a compilation of 26 deleted scenes. PART 1: American frontier, 1813. On a moonless night, settler's daughter Adela McGirth encounters a band of native intruders on her family's land. A member of the party shows...
19) Beneath Her Skin
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Brooke Stone runs a slumping hot air balloon business and pride keeps her from asking for help. Her last flight of the day introduces her to Damon Sinclair. He is mysterious, sexy, and he wants her to work for him. But there is deception at play. Someone is gunning for her, strategically placing Brooke at the center of danger, while Damon uses all his government resources to help her. She is two steps away from a break down, yet her new savior proves...
20) Out of the Ashes
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Ásta's life is turned upside-down when her father marries a woman with a shocking secret. Her distaste for her step-mother is only matched by her new-found desire to protect her step-sister, and she makes plans for their escape.
Brynja fears everything-including her new sister-but as time goes on, she realizes how many lies she's been told by her mother. Worse, she finds herself caught in a quandary-she can keep herself safe only at the expense...
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