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1) The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars
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Language
English
Description
The “enormously entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that “artfully re-create[s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off” (The New York Times)
AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME • “Fascinating . . . won’t disappoint readers in search of a book like Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City.”—The...
AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME • “Fascinating . . . won’t disappoint readers in search of a book like Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City.”—The...
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Pendragon volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal and somewhat reluctant 14- year-old boy who is swept into an amazing five-year quest.
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Pendragon volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Each of the Travelers returns home to learn the truth about their origins before being reunited for a final, ineveitable confrontation with Saint Dane, whose efforts to control Halla are destroying its very foundations.
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Pendragon volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Bobby and the Traveler from Cloral--Spader--have flumed to New York City, 1937. Against a backdrop of gangsters, swing music, and the distant sound of a brewing war, the two must uncover the evil Saint Dane's newest plot.
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Pendragon volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Bobby Pendragon travels to the territory of Cloral, a world covered by water, and discovers that he must expel marauders from the land and find the lost land of Faar.
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Pendragon volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The territory of Veelox has achieved perfect harmony. Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon arrives on this territory in pursuit of the evil Saint Dane, but all is peaceful on Veelox -- because it's deserted. The inhabitants have discovered a way to enter their own personal dream worlds, where they can be whoever they want, wherever they want. Their bodies lie in stasis while their minds escape to this dream realm. Fresh from his battle with Saint Dane...
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Pendragon volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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With Saint Dane seemingly on the verge of toppling all of the territories, Pendragon and Courtney set out to rescue Mark and find themselves traveling--and battling--their way through different worlds as they try to save all of Halla.
8) Black water
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Pendragon volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Just when 15-year-old Bobby Pendragon thinks he understands his purpose as a Traveler he is faced with an impossible choice.
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Pendragon volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Taking advantage of a severe drought and the long-standing distrust between two tribes, the demonic Saint Dane attempts to take over Loor's home planet of Zadaa, opposed once again by the teenaged Pendragon and other Travelers.
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Pendragon volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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With more questions than answers about Saint Dane, Bobby travels to the territory of Quillan and is forced to play games where only the winner survives.
11) Raven rise
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Series
Pendragon) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
While Pendragon is trapped on Ibara, Alder returns to Denduron and reluctantly goes into battle again, and other Travelers face obstacles of various sorts, Saint Dane gains the power he seeks on Second Earth and makes his push to destroy and rebuild Halla.
12) The stray dog
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Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (ca. 12 min.) : digital 4 3/4 cm. + 1 book (1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.)
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None
Description
When a little dog appears at a family picnic, a girl and boy play with him all afternoon. They name him Willy. At day's end, they say good-bye. But the dog has won their hearts and stays on their minds. The following Saturday the family returns to the picnic grounds to look for Willy, but they are not alone-- the dogcatcher is looking for him, too!
13) Pandora's legion
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Series
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (11 hrs.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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English
Description
a new type of war is being fought by private paramilitary companies at the beck and call of the highest bidder. With the military and intelligence agencies spread thin, the US is constantly calling upon the services of these organizations and Strategic Solutions Inc. is among the best. Al-Qaida has infected men and women with the highly communicable and deadly Marburg virus and sent them to major cities and sensitive locations throughout the world...
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English
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A mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century impresses his friends and horrifies adults by associating with the son of the town drunk, running away from home, attending his own funeral, witnessing a murder, getting lost in a cave, and finding lost treasure.
16) Cryptonomicon
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Language
English
Description
In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse -- mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy -- is assigned to Detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Waterhouse and Detatchment 2702 -- commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe -- is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's...
17) Into the storm
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Destroyermen volume 1
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English
Description
Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker -- a Great-War vintage 'four-stacker' destroyer -- finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, knows that he and his crew are in dire straits. In desperation, he heads Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover -- and emerges somewhere else. Familiar landmarks appear, but the water...
18) Anathem
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Language
English
Description
Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
19) Maelstrom
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Series
Destroyermen volume 3
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English
Description
Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the U.S.S. Walker, are once again at war. Having sided with the peaceful Lemurians against the savage, reptilian Grik, they now find themselves scrambling to prepare for the attack that is sure to come, searching for resources to support their forces -- even as they look for allies to join their struggle. Meanwhile, the Japanese juggernaut Amagi, also trapped in this strange world,...
20) River of bones
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Series
Destroyermen volume 13
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Commander Matt Reddy and his crew are afraid it may finally be the end of the USS Walker. Ever since their ship was transported to another world, and they became embroiled in a deadly conflict between the Lemurians and the vicious Grik, the Walker has been taking a pounding. With Walker out of commission for repairs, Reddy takes command of a different ship and joins a desperate battle to block the Grik swarm. Meanwhile, the humans and their allies...