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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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"Artificial intelligence leads to shockingly real danger for the Gray Man in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A car accident in Japan. A drowning in Seoul. A home invasion in Boston. Someone is killing the world's leading experts on robotics and artificial intelligence. Is it a tech company trying to eliminate the competition or is it something even more sinister? After all, artificial intelligence may be the deadliest...
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2024.
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English
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"For centuries, the Everlys have seen their best and brightest disappear, taken as punishment for a crime no one remembers, for a purpose no one understands. Their tormentor, a woman named Penelope, never ages, never grows sick - and never forgives a debt. Violet Everly was a child when her mother left on a stormy night, determined to break the curse. When Marianne never returns, Penelope issues an ultimatum: Violet has ten years to find her mother,...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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340 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008"--
Having fled conflict in the former-Soviet Republic of Georgia as children, Saba and his brother have fought to make peace with the past. In particular, they struggle with the sacrifices of a mother who remained in a war...
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Daughters of the lamp volume 1
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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336 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Sahara prefers logic and science over magic, but when she travels to Cairo for a family wedding, her resistance to magic fades when she discovers that she is next in a line of women tasked with guarding Ali Baba's treasure.
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Heroes of Havensong volume 2
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
2024.
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First edition.
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419 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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English
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Realizing their destinies as saviors, Blue, River, Shenli, and Wren grapple with their roles and expectations, and as they embark on separate quests amidst looming war, they navigate individual challenges, choices, and revelations in their quest to decipher the Fates' plan for them.
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Montana yesterday and today volume 1
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English
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"Spanning from 1891 to 2023, this bold new saga of the American West follows Ashton Maddox who runs the biggest Black Angus ranch in the country as he and County Sheriff John T. Drew do what their forefathers did many years ago: join forces against a common enemy" --
"Two families. Nine generations. One stretch of land under the Big Sky of Montana Territory. From national bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone, a bold new saga...
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Kingdoms and empires book volume 5
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Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
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443 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Here are only a few of the wonderful, strange, and mysterious elements in this breathtaking visit to the Kingdoms and Empires: A very proper girl named Lillian Velvet, living a very lonely life with a nasty Grandmother. A jar of coins, each with the power to take Lillian on a journey to a different time and place...and also to grant a single wish. A small boy in a barn about to be crushed to death by a load of hay. A family, each member in mortal...
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Song of the last kingdom volume 2
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English
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Determined to finish her mother's mission, Lan seeks to destroy the legendary four Demon Gods, while Zen, who made a perilous pact with one of these demons, seeks to use their power to save his kingdom and the girl he loves.
"The epic sequel to the book Song of Silver, Flame Like Night, is a fast-paced, riveting YA fantasy inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China. The Demon Gods have risen. Skies' End has fallen to the colonizers....
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Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
1993.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 28
Physical Desc
425 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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A spellbinding tale of life and love, death and adventure, in North America eleven thousand years ago, when mammoths roamed the continent. Award-winning archaeologists Michael and Kathleen Gear, using the best archaeological information, have created a stunning vision of our pre-history, and of the men and women who lived in this rapidly changing world. The great glaciers that cover the Sierra Nevada mountains are melting, destroying the habitats...
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Cotton Malone novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day....
13) The Forty-Niners
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English
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In 1848, Cord Bennett, leaving his family behind to stake his claim in California, arrives in the gold-rich canyon of Rio Oro, controlled by deadly and ruthless criminals, where he discovers in a land of opportunity, not all that glitters is gold.
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Sun of blood and ruin volume 1
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English
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"Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there's a new vigilante in town serving justice. This reimagining of Zorro-featuring a heroic warrior sorceress-weaves Mesoamerican mythology and Mexican history two decades after the Spanish conquest into a swashbuckling historical fantasy debut with magic, intrigue, treachery, and romance. A new legend begins...in sixteenth-century New Spain, witchcraft is punishable by death, Indigenous...
15) Beasts of war
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Beasts of prey volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
442 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Once a prisoner to Fedu, the vengeful god of death, Koffi has regained her freedom, but she is far from safe. Fedu will stop at nothing to hunt her down and use her power to decimate the mortal world. Koffi knows when Fedu will strike: during the next Bonding, a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event. To survive, Koffi will have to find powerful new allies quickly, and convince them to help her in the terrible battle to come.
16) Lone wolf
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English
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"Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis,...
17) Dead man's hand
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Pike Logan thrillers volume 18
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English
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To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue Ukrainian band of partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia's military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst and assigns the loyal commander of the Russian national guard to root them out. It's a mission Victor Petrov is expected to undertake after he prevents Sweden from joining NATO, by assassinating a deputy minister of...
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(Stacey Heather).Winston Chu volume 2
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 353 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When San Francisco adults forget who they are and mysterious exotic birds flock to the city, twelve-year-old Winston Chu and friends team up to investigate the strange occurrences and face off against Mr. Pang's older magpie-turned-human brother, Mr. Gu.
20) Lost dog
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Series
Adventure friends volume 2
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
54 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 19 cm.
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English
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"Miguel and Clarke help a neighbor find their lost dog, Spider. They grab their walking sticks and map. Then they set out to search the woods. Across four short stories, their adventure leads them to Spider -- and to the perfect spot for a secret fort!"--
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