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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The CIA tries to set up a former Washington power broker to be assassinated by a foreign spy because they want his knowledge of a sophisticated satellite surveillance system to be eliminated. However, they underestimate him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Third-string Cleveland Browns quarterback Rick Dockery throws three interceptions in the closing minutes of the AFC championship game with Denver and is immediately cut. His agent finds him a new job, as starting quarterback, but in Parma, Italy, for the Parma Panthers. Rick knows nothing about Italy or Europe, and so the adventure begins.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
viii, 290 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eliana, unhappy in her marriage to the philandering Maurizio and caring for a sick child, falls in love with Ross Story, an American who has come to Italy to work at a local art museum, but it seems as though their romance is doomed due to the laws that would award custody of her young son to her husband if she were to leave.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
What was freedom, she thought, other than the right to exercise one's choices? Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naïve girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a large, unexpected inheritance, she is finagled into a marriage with the charming, penniless, and—as Isabel finds out too late—cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond,...
Author
Series
Pendergast volume 5
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
viii, 497 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a series of bizarre murders in which claw prints are found near each of the victims, agent Pendergast teams up with officer Vincent d'Agosta in an investigation with apparent ties to the supernatural.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human destinies unexpectedly linked by desire, greed, and salvation.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
405 p. : maps (on endpapers) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 1946 and Adam Miller, a U.S. Army war crimes investigator, has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother. While there, Adam falls in love with a Jewish woman scarred by her experiences during the war and a violent murder places him at the center of a web of deception, intrigue, and unexpected moral dilemmas.
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