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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 21
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The leader, and only survivor, of a team of U.S. Navy SEALs sent to northern Afghanistan to capture a well-known al Qaeda leader chronicles the events of the battle that killed his teammates and offers insight into the training of this elite group of warriors.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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Dewey was left abandoned as a kitten on the coldest night of the year stuffed in the returned book slot at the Spencer Public Library in Iowa. He won the heart of Vicki Myron, the librarian who found him, and for the next 19 years he charmed the people of Spencer.
25) Cotillion
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Young Kitty Charing stands to inherit a vast fortune from her irascible great-uncle Matthew--provided she marries one of her cousins. Kitty is not wholly adverse to the plan, if the right nephew proposes. Unfortunately, Kitty has set her heart on Jack Westruther, a confirmed rake, who seems to have no inclination to marry her anytime soon. In an effort to make Jack jealous, and to see a little more of the world than her isolated life on her great-uncle's...
27) Vanish: a novel
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A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis. An apparent suicide victim, a nameless woman, opens her eyes as the medical examiner unzips the body bag. The woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages . . . one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli.
28) A good yarn
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Blossom street novels volume 2
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The highly anticipated sequel to "The Shop on Blossom Street." Once again, a disparate group of women find friendship and comfort as they learn the age-old craft of knitting.
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When leading actress Clarissa Lisle recieves threats on her life, she hires a young detective, Cordelia Gray to accompany her to a private island where she is to star in The Duchess of Malfi. The highly intelligent private investigator finds herself in a ghastly country house on an island with a gruesome past. Each houseguest has a motive for murder and one of them will kill.
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Dominic of the Dragonseeker Carpathians is on a desperate mission, in the very heart of enemy territory. Solange Sangria is one of the last of the jaguar people. She has long been fighting to save women who are able to shift from the man who slaughtered her family and everyone she loved - her own father. They are two warriors who have lived their lives alone. Now, at the end of their time, they find each other, a complication neither saw coming.
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