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2) My Antonia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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My Ántonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works. It is the last novel in the Prairie trilogy, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Ántonia. The book's narrator,
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Troubleshooters volume 16
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English
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Navy SEAL Izzy Zanella and his estranged wife, Eden Gillman, are set on saving her brother even if that means reconciling with each other to prove to a court that they can give better care to the young teenage boy. Just as their hearts begin to mend, the makeshift family gets caught up in saving another youth from a crime ring in Las Vegas and ends up with a group of dangerous men on their trail.
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Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, having survived a rattlesnake strike, two hurricanes,
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Troubleshooters volume 10
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English
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The men of SEAL Team Sixteen and Troubleshooters, Inc. face off in a winter training exercise in the mountains of New Hampshire. Tracy Shapiro, a receptionist for Troubleshooters', goes missing. Former LAPD detective Lindsey Fountaine and Petty Officer Mark Jenkins search for her and turn up the bodies of brutally tortured women.
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In the near future, as America endures its second Great Depression, former Navy SEAL Shane Laughlin finds work as a test subject at the Obermeyer Institute, only to be plunged into a strange world where mild-mannered scientists can kick his highly skilled ass. These "Greater-Thans" undergo rigorous training to master unique abilities--including telekinesis, super strength, and reversal of the aging process--by accessing untapped regions
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[2015]
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English
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From Dr. Vincent Pedre, a specialist in IBS and other gut-related disorders, comes an easy-to-follow, actionable guide to help the millions of Americans who suffer from chronic stomach pain heal their irritated intestines and eliminate symptoms for good.
9) Crusader
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Blackstone Audiobooks
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p2004, [c2002]
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English
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Harry Camden came out of the wilderness unwillingly. It was a girl who attracted him. But Sparrow Roberts, a fight manager, used this romantic lure only to attract Harry into his own sphere because he knew that Camden had a truly devastating punch. Yet, fighting wasn't what Harry really wanted, nor was he fascinated by any of the blandishments of civilization. He did not want to be a champion boxer and drifted into a life of drunkenness and crime,...
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Ted Kerasote met and adopted Merle, a Laborador mix, while he was on a camping trip. Merle had been living in the wild, and after taking the dog home with him to Wyoming, Kerasote soon realized that Merle could not adjust to inhabiting exclusively in the human world. So he put a door in his house to let Merle live both outside and in. A deeply touching portrait of a remarkable animal, Merle's Door explores the issues that all animals and their human...
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Imagine for a moment, you're Marcus Cooper.
A slick stranger meets you in a bar. You're drunk. You talk a lot. Without you realizing it, he's learning about you. Your desire for money and women. By night's end, he makes you a million-dollar proposition to cause a drunk-driving accident.
Sounds crazy to you? Maybe, maybe not.
You're out of work. Bills are piling up. You owe your bookie six grand. But mostly, you're twenty years removed from being...
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You are closer to the end of your life than the beginning. Each passing day has you questioning what, if anything, your life has meant.
Then, unexpectedly, your best friend, who died tragically when you were both kids in high school, shows up.
What would you talk about?
How would the conversation go?
15) The Oblong Box
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English
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The story opens with the narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from aboard the ship 'Independence'. The narrator learns that his old college friend Cornelius Wyatt is aboard with his wife and two sisters, though he has reserved three state-rooms. After conjecturing the extra room was for a servant or extra baggage, he learns his friend has brought on board an oblong pine box: "It was about six feet in length by two and a half in breadth." The narrator...
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Tantor Media, Inc
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English
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Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East distills eleven years of expert reporting for the New York Times, Reuters, and the Atlantic into a clarion call for change. Here Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde exposes how a dysfunctional Washington squandered billions on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, neglected its true allies in the war on terror, and failed to employ its most potent nonmilitary weapons: American...
18) Loss of Breath
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English
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Loss of Breath is a humorous short story by Edgar Allan Poe that first appeared in a 1832 issue of The Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
19) The Sphinx
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The Sphinx is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe about a man who decides to visit a relative living near the Hudson River north of New York City for two weeks during a cholera epidemic that occurred during the summer of 1832. One day during this visit, the man is reading a book near the window revealing a scenic view of the Hudson River. His attention is focused upon the cholera epidemic nevertheless, and when he glances up from the pages of...
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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Here is a second collection of some of his best stories:...
