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Lymond chronicles volume 3
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English
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This third volume in The Lymond Chronicles, the highly renowned series of historical novels takes place in 1551, when Francis Crawford of Lymond is dispatched to embattled Malta, to assist the Knights of Hospitallers in defending the island against the Turks. But shortly the swordsman and scholar discovers that the greatest threat to the Knights lies within their own ranks, where various factions vie secretly for master.
3) Windfall
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Alice loves Teddy, her best friend, but has never told him. When she buys him a lottery ticket that turns out to be a winner, their lives are changed forever and their friendship is put to the ultimate test"--
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Series
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English
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"The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery Series follows Cork in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking...
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English
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"To coin a phrase, Josh is suffering a quarter-life crisis. He just broke up with his long-term girlfriend, lost his job, and moved back home with his parents (shudder). Welcome to rock bottom in Bristol. As Josh starts questioning all his life choices, he has a mad thought: Maybe he would just be better flipping a coin. After all, careful planning has landed him homeless, jobless, and single. What starts as a joke soon becomes serious and Josh decides...
Author
Series
Watchmaker of Filigree Street series volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1884, Keita Mori, a Japanese artisan who knows the future, uses this power to help his friend, Thaniel Steepleton, until Oxford physicist Grace Carrow, who is fond of Thaniel, unwittingly interferes.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Rising high school senior Emily felt lucky until her mother's death, but now, with childhood friend Blake, she sets out to accomplish every exciting, scary, and intimidating task on her mother's bucket list.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks's new novel believes he's found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he's never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories.
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English
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For nearly 300 years, the mysterious journal of Jacobite exile Mary Dundas has lain unread, its secrets safe from prying eyes. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas has been hired by a once-famous historian to crack the journal's cipher. But when she arrives in Paris, Sara finds herself besieged by complications from all sides: the journal's reclusive owner, her charming Parisian neighbor, and Mary, whose journal doesn't hold the secrets Sara expects....
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Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A whimsical tale about friendship and luck finds the literal-minded young Amelia Bedelia and her friends testing superstitions related to such symbols as black cats, four-leaf clovers, and broken mirrors.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Winning a million-dollar dream home in a television sweepstakes, Janey leaves her aunt's house and embarks on a trip to her new hometown only to meet a fellow prize contender, a down-on-her-luck neighbor who shares her name.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Lilah isn't sure what hurt worse: the day Ethan left her to focus on his hockey career or the day he came back eight years later. He might think they can pick up just where they left off, but she's no longer that same girl and never wants to be again. Ethan wants his glory days back. And that includes having Lilah by his side. With her, he was magic. They were magic. All he has to do is make her see that. Just when Lilah might finally be ready to...
14) Born of betrayal
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Years ago, family loyalty caused Fain Hauk to give up everything he loved: His military career. His planet. His fiancée. Even his name. Now decades later, everything has changed. He's built a new life out of the ashes of his old, and he's vowed to never let anything threaten his loved ones again. But when old enemies align themselves with new ones, he's caught in the middle of a brutal war. And when fate throws his former fiancée back into his...
15) The bee sting
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under -- but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewelry on eBay, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way through her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches...
16) Just my luck
Author
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Since entering fourth grade, Benny Barrows worries that he will never be good at anything, that he is responsible for an accident that sent his father to the hospital, and that his attempts at winning a school contest will never be noticed.
17) Colter's Path
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Publisher
Signet Book
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Jedediah "Jedd" Colter is a man with big dreams that go beyond the mountains of North Carolina. When he's offered a job of guiding the recently formed California Enterprise Company of Tennessee from Knoxville to the gold fields of California, Jedd knows that the opportunity is too good to refuse. The Sadler brothers promise him a cut of the fortune that mining brings them, but their real plan is to hit pay dirt by becoming merchants and cheat Jedd...
18) Just my luck
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads, an imprint of Feiwel and Friends and Macmillan Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While working as a housekeeper at the ritzy Grand Palms hotel in Maui, Marty made it a habit to steal small items from the guests. What better way to stick it to the rich snobs they have to clean up after? But now she's having terrible luck, and to turn it around Marty knows she just has to return all of the items she stole. She meets a new guest, Will, who is different from the other guests at the hotel. After a string of misunderstandings and accidents...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The war is on... Counted among the fiercest Andarion warriors ever born, Hauk is one of the five founding members of the Sentella: an organization that has declared war on the League. They rule the Ichidian universe with an iron fist and terrify it with an army of well-trained assassins. Hauk's enemies are legion, but he fears nothing and no one. He will do whatever it takes to survive and protect his Sentella brethren. Sumi Antaxas is one of the...
Author
Series
Clan Kincaid volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
They call him the Beast--a hardened mercenary whose heart seems as cold as his icy blue gaze. They do not know his true name: Niall Braewick, son of the Laird of Kincaid. It has been years since he escaped into the forest the night his father was murdered. Now he has returned, ablaze with a vengeful hunger. He will gain the MacClaren chief's trust, gather his clan, and take back his lands. And take the MacClaren's daughter as well... Though he pulled...
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