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First published in 1937, To Have and Have Not is one of Hemingway's most entertaining novels. This realistic adventure tale and subtle portrait of an unlikely love affair demonstrates "Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions as the tough allow themselves."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 18
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1997, c1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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The Hardy boys embark on another puzzling mystery when they try to discover who is stealing rare collections of ancient pirate treasure and smuggling them out of the United States.
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 13
Publisher
Armada
Pub. Date
1977, c1973
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English
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The search for a stolen boat leads the Hardy brothers to Mexico, where they become involved with a band of Indians and a strange smuggling operation.
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Series
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1992, c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Despite attempts against their lives, Frank and Joe accept a case involving the most powerful man in a small town in Georgia and an allegation of piracy and smuggling.
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 26
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1970]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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The Hardy brothers embark on a freighter trip under mysterious circumstances and find themselves involved with a smuggling ring.
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English
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Hector is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers{u2019} money for a mechanic and have not returned. Those left behind have no choice but to wait. Hector finds a name in his friend Cesar{u2019}s phone. AnniMac. A name with an American number. He must reach her, both for rescue and to pass along the message Cesar has come so far to deliver. But are his messages going through?...
12) High on a hill
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English
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Anabel Lee and her father have made a middle-of-the-night move from their former home to a remote hilltop house. When a young boy calls to the house, he brings trouble for Anabel and her father.
14) The marble mask
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English
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Joe Gunther, a Brattleboro, Vermont, cop, is the head of the new Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI), a joint task force charged with statewide responsibility for major crimes. In The Marble Mask, the VBI's first case takes the force north to Stowe, where a fifty-year-old corpse has turned up in a crevasse on Mt. Mansfield. Some of the more interesting minor characters in author Archer Mayor's long-running series about the amiable elder sleuth make...
15) Edge of battle
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English
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Jason Richter and his high-tech unit Task Force TALON are charged with securing the Mexican border, where a terrorist band has been operating with impunity and enflaming the passions of the population.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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A mistress. A mountain of debt. A mysterious wreck of a building. Delilah Swanpoole, Countess of Derring, learns the hard way that her husband, "Dear Dull Derring," is a lot more interesting--and perfidious--dead than alive. It's a devil of an inheritance, but in the grand ruins of the one building Derring left her, are the seeds of her liberation. And she vows never again to place herself at the mercy of a man. But battle-hardened Captain Tristan...
19) Devil in Tartan
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HQN Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Peril and passion on enemy seas…
Lottie Livingstone bears the weight of an island on her shoulders. Under threat of losing their home, she and her clan take to the seas to sell a shipload of illegal whiskey. When an attack leaves them vulnerable, she transforms from a maiden daughter to a clever warrior. For survival, she orchestrates the siege of a rival's ship and now holds the devilish Scottish captain Aulay Mackenzie under her command.
Tied,...
20) Cry no more
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Milla, still searching for her son ten years after he was kidnapped from her arms as an infant, now works through Finders, an agency she started to help find lost and missing children, but her quest puts her in touch with two very different and powerful men, one a generous contributor and one a reputed assassin, and she must decide who to trust and who wants her dead.
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