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2) Piranesi
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Language
English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For 2,000 years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
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Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 19
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with an "edgy, eerie, irresistible" (Sandra Brown) novel with "plenty of twists" (The New York Times Book Review) featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who must use her skills to discover the identity of a faceless corpse, its connection to a decade-old missing child case, and why the dead man had her cell phone number.
It's sweltering in Charlotte, North...
It's sweltering in Charlotte, North...
7) Vespertine
Author
Series
Vespertine volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language
English
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When her convent is attacked by possessed soldiers, Artemisia defends the Gray Sisters by awakening the revenant bound to a saint's relic, even though she runs the risk of being possessed permanently by the powerful ancient spirit.
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Series
Dead Sea squirrels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Michael sneaks into a cave near the Dead Sea where his father has been working and finds a pair of 2,000-year-old squirrels, which he stows in his backpack and takes home to Tennessee.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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After her charmed life ends in a car crash, teenager Samantha relives the last day of her life seven times during one week in which she untangles the mystery surrounding her death and discovers the true value of everything she's in danger of losing.
10) Between
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
By weaving through her memories and watching the family and friends she left behind, eighteen-year-old Liz Valchar solves the mystery of how her life ended in the Long Island Sound.
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Series
Reign of the fallen volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Odessa, a master necromancer in Karthia, where nothing has changed in two hundred years, uncovers a disturbing conspiracy and must fight alongside her fellow mages against terrifying, bloodthirsty Shades and their creator.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
After being assigned to her university's prestigious and controversial neo-anthropological studies program, eighteen-year-old deaf student Delaney Meyers-Petrov must learn to channel her ability to slip between worlds--and, along with her capricious TA Colton Price, who seems determined to despise her, must uncover buried institutional secrets.
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Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife.
Two months before Sutton died, her best friend's brother disappeared. Now Thayer's back, and Emma has to move fast to figure out if he's after revenge... or if he's already gotten it...
15) Reboot
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Series
Reboot duology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
"Seventeen-year-old Wren rises from the dead as a Reboot and is trained as an elite crime-fighting soldier until she is given an order she refuses to follow"--
Author
Series
Riley bloom volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
After crossing the bridge into the afterlife, a place called Here where the time is always Now, Riley's existence continues in much the same way as when she was alive until she is given the job of Soul Catcher and, together with her teacher Bodhi, returns to earth for her first assignment, a ghost called the Radiant Boy who has been haunting an English castle for centuries and resisted all previous attempts to get him across the bridge.
18) Night train
Publisher
National Entertainment Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
While on a night train, three strangers discover a corpse and a box of diamonds. At first, the three scheme to ditch the body and split the fortune, until their greed and paranoia pits them against each other.
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Details the important archaeological discovery of the ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls and discusses efforts to translate them, the battle over their possession, and the people who have figured in their history.
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