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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....
11) Captain Blood
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Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini.
The protagonist is the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, a fictional Irish physician who had had a wide-ranging career as a soldier and sailor (including a commission as a captain under the Dutch admiral De Ruyter) before settling down to practice medicine in the town of Bridgwater in Somerset.
The book opens with him attending to his geraniums while the town prepares to fight for the Duke of Monmouth....
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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...
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Warriors super edition volume 12
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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An epic stand-alone adventure in Erin Hunter’s #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series! Also includes an exclusive ten-page Warriors manga adventure.In this Super Edition, set just after the events of A Vision of Shadows, ThunderClan deputy Squirrelflight is caught between her conscience and her Clan. Though all five Clans have settled into equally divided territories around the lake, tensions are rising over the new borders. And when a group...
14) Death Squad
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A bounty on his head, the Executioner takes his war to a new front When Mafia pressure destroyed his family, sniper Mack Bolan declared war on organized crime. The Battle of Pittsfield left dozens of mobsters dead, but that was only the beginning. Hunted by the police, the FBI, and every hood in America, Mack plans his next attack. In Los Angeles he crashes a swinger's party and finds his old army buddy George Zitka tied to a chair, being tortured...
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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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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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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...
18) The familiars
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Familiars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Three young wizards-in-training are kidnapped by an evil queen and their familiars--Aldwyn the alley cat, Skylar, a know-it-all blue jay, and Gilbert a tree frog who can see the future--set out on a dangerous journey to rescue the boys.
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HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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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...
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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