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62) Forever
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Series
Baxter family series. Firstborn volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
"Katy Hart is thrilled about her future with Hollywood's Dayne Matthews. But as she plans a wedding and looks for a house on the shores of Lake Monroe, she receives tragic news. Now everything about the future they planned together is hanging in the brink. Only a miracle can help them find their way through"--Container.
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English
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"Just in time for the 2008 presidential election--where the future of the Court will be at stake--Toobin reveals an institution at a moment of transition, when decades of conservative disgust with the Court have finally produced a conservative majority, with major changes in store on such issues as abortion, civil rights, presidential power, and church-state relations. Based on exclusive interviews with the justices themselves, THE NINE tells the...
67) Gaudy night
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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Description
Returning to Oxford for a reunion dinner at her old college, Harriet Vane is delighted to be back in familiar, beloved surroundings. The idyllic return is shattered by a series of nasty messages referring to her earlier trial for murder.
68) Unveiled
Author
Series
Lineage of grace volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Author
Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
New Jersey private eye, Stephanie Plum, is joined by a pistol-packing granny and a vice cop in her hunt for a bail jumper who shot his best friend.
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Language
English
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Description
On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded was the result of...
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English
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Description
By turns heroic and calculating, compassionate and utterly merciless, Alexander recounts with a warrior's unflinching eye for detail the blood, the terror, and the tactics of his greatest battlefield victories. Whether surviving his father's brutal assassination, presiding over a massacre, or weeping at the death of a beloved comrade-in-arms, Alexander never denies the hard realities of the code by which he lives: the virtues of war. But as much as...
Author
Publisher
Listen & Live Audio
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
In Hitler's Scientists, British historian John Cornwell explores German scientific genius in the first half of the twentieth century and shows how Germany's early lead in the new physics led to the discovery of atomic fission, which in turn led the way to the atom bomb, and how the ideas of Darwinism were hijacked to create the lethal doctrine of racial cleansing.
Author
Publisher
Fonolibros de Colombia
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Toda la colección de tramas alrededor de los piratas que esconden un tesoro en una isla, como tratan de recuperar el mapa que los va a llevar a él y como triunfan los buenos sobre los malos cuando ya la derrota parece inminente.
75) Night prey
Author
Series
Prey series volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
"A series of deaths leads to the possibility of a brutal serial killer of unusual skill and savagery. And if Lucas is right, the killer is just getting warmed up ..."--Container.
76) The full box
Author
Publisher
Audio Rennaisance
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
The series kicks off with Full House, featuring polo instructor Nicholas Kaharchek and divorced mother Billie Pearce. With Full Tilt the series shifted to Beaumont, South Carolina and a new romance between Jamie Swift, a local newspaper reporter, and Maximillian Holt, a mysterious millionaire. Their time together has gone Full Speed into all sorts of adventures, but the experience has been a Full Blast.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"Contains Stephen's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on the American family, race, religion, sex, sports, and many more topics." Includes this comedian and television pundit's "fight for the traditional values that have served this country so well for so long."
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
c2009, p1995
Language
English
Description
For Coming of Age, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Peabody Award-winning radio host, himself an octogenarian, has interviewed several very different men and women ranging in age from 70 to 99. Some are powerful celebrities (Maggie Kuhn of the Grey Panthers, economist John Kenneth Galbraith); others are obscure people in small towns. Together they represent an extraordinary panorama of American life and work throughout this century and the ways...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
The junior senator from Illinois discusses how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can address such issues as globalization and the function of religion in public life.
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