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Hannah Payne has devoted her life to her church and family, but when she is accused of murdering her unborn child and turned into a Chrome, transplanted into a new body that matches the color classification of her crime--red for murder--and left in a bare room where cameras broadcast her every move to the public for their entertainment, Hannah vows to protect the identity of her child's father, a public figure who would be ruined if their affair is...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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Art restorer and former spy Gabriel Allon is called upon by the head of Israeli intelligence to stop a Palestinian plot to kill Yasir Arafat, ending peace talks in the Middle East--a plot run by the man responsible for the deaths of Gabriel's wife and child.
6) The jungle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"The Jungle , a novel by American journalist Upton Sinclair (1878 -- 1968), was written in 1906 to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants living in Chicago and similar industrialized cities in the United States. While his main goal in describing the working conditions in the meat industry was based on an investigation he conducted for a socialist newspaper with the goal of advancing socialism in the United States, most readers...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Colin Pinnock becomes a junior minister in the Prime Minister's government and begins to receive threatening letters along with his congratulatory notes; he is thrown into an investigation into his past and a search for his tormentor.
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English
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President Jack Ryan is back in office and economic and internal political strife has pushed Chinese leadership to the edge, so that the president must use the secret organization The Campus even though revelation of its existence will put its members in danger.
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Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In the year 2070, a captain--R. E. Lee--and crew hijack their starship, "Alabama," on the day of its official launch, replace its intended passengers with political dissidents and their families, and set up a colony light-years away on a world named Coyote.
11) Iron wolf
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English
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When Russian special forces are sent into the Ukraine and Moldova, the free world leaders are outraged and some take action by sending in Cybernetic Infantry Devices under Operation Iron Wolf.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
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English
Description
Jake Grafton and his wife Callie travel to Hong Kong to determine how deeply the U.S. consul-general is embedded in a political money-raising scandal, but when Callie is kidnapped, Jake's mission takes a more sinister turn.
13) The tin drum
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English
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One of the greatest modern novels, The Tin Drum is the story of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Matzerath provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world.
In this edition, Breon Mitchell, acclaimed translator and scholar, draws from a wealth of detailed scholarship to...
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Despite its Biblical title--which comes from the opening lines of the Book of Exodus--award-winning novelist Tommy Wieringa has crafted perhaps his most timely book yet, as he traces two stories doomed to collide. In one, we follow a group of starving, near-feral Eurasian refugees on a harrowing quest for survival; in the other, we follow Pontus Beg, a policeman from a small border town on the steppe, as he investigates the death of a rabbi, one...
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Clifton chronicles) volume 3
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English
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"Embarking on a shared family life, Harry, Emma, Sebastian, and Jessica find their happiness challenged by Emma's brother's engagement to a fortune-seeker, Sebastian's hedonist pursuits, and a grudge-bearing enemy from the past who would destroy their careers"--Provided by OCLC.
19) House secrets
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Government investigator Joe DeMarco sets out to investigate the mysterious death of a reporter that leads him into a political scandal involving Paul Morelli, a handsome and a charismatic Senator from New York and the man most likely to be the Democratic candidate for president in the next election.
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