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Series
Harry Potter volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Harry Potter can't wait to get back to Hogwarts after a summer with no friends and no magic. But his second year at school is rife with fresh torments, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart; a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom; and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny. These seem minor when the real trouble begins, and someone -- or something -- starts turning Hogwarts...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
With the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken, from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS. The Terror Years draws on several articles he wrote...
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 15
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Lindsay Boxer has a beautiful baby daughter and a husband she loves unconditionally. She'd always been too focused on her career as a San Francisco police detective to wonder what domestic bliss might feel like, but now she knows, and she's never been happier. She can't imagine that a brutal murder at a luxury hotel, and the disappearance of a gorgeous blond woman from the scene, could have anything to do with her own life and marriage -- yet soon...
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Series
Harry Potter volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Return to Hogwarts in this stunning edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. J.K. Rowlings complete and unabridged text is accompanied by full-color illustrations on nearly every page and eight paper-engineered interactive elements: Readers will explore the Knight Bus, reveal the Grim in a teacup, spin the Time-Turner, and more."--
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Language
English
Description
A gripping narrative that spans five decades, The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Lawrence Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in...
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Series
John Wells novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
John Wells, an American CIA agent, has spent the last decade of his life successfully infiltrating the inner sanctums of al-Qaeda. Guilt-ridden over not having been able to stop the actions on September 11, he readily accepts the chance to return to the U.S. when he's recruited as one of the primary participants for an act of terrorism designed to bring the country to its knees. After being taken into custody by a suspicious CIA, Wells escapes and...
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 16
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Lindsay Boxer is learning to love again. After the picture-perfect world she shared with her husband, Joe, and their beautiful young daughter shattered under the weight of Joe's double life, Lindsay is determined to put the pieces back together. But before she can welcome Joe back with open arms, their beloved hometown of San Francisco faces a threat unlike any the city -- or the country -- has ever seen. When the danger hits even closer to home,...
Author
Series
Camel Club novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
On the night of the State Dinner honoring the British Prime Minister, there is an explosion as the Prime Minister's motorcade leaves the White House. Oliver Stone witnesses the event. A bomb has been detonated in what looks like a terrorist plot directed at the President and the Prime Minister. In the aftermath, British MI-5 agent Mary Chapman, an experienced, lethal operative with an agenda of her own, is sent to assist and coordinate the investigation...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Now 14, Harry has only two more weeks with his Muggle relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yet one harrowing night vision has Harry on edge and contacting his godfather-in-hiding. Happily, the prospect of attending the Quidditch World Cup is enough to make Harry momentarily forget that Lord Voldemort and his sinister familiars, the Death Eaters, are out for murder.
11) Canyons of night
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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The island of Rainshadow is home to the mysterious, privately-owned woods known only as the Preserve. Now, after fifteen years away, both Charlotte Enright and her teen crush, Slade Attridge, have returned. But will their psi talents and Slade's dust bunny companion be enough to keep them from getting drawn into the darkness at the heart of the Preserve?
12) Missing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Even for Private Investigations, the world's top detective agency, it's tough to find a man who doesn't exist.... Craig Gisto has promised Eliza Moss that his elite team at Private Sydney will investigate the disappearance of her father. After all, as CEO of a high-profile research company, Eric Moss shouldn't be difficult to find. Except it's not just the man who's gone missing. Despite the most advanced technology at their disposal, they find every...
13) Private London
Author
Series
Private volume 2
Language
English
Description
Dan Carter is the head of the London office of Private, the world's largest and most technologically advanced investigation agency. Jack Morgan, Private's owner and CEO, put his faith in Carter, and has entrusted him with some of their most important cases. None more important than Hannah Shapiro. The daughter of one of Private's wealthiest and most valuable clients, Hannah and her mother were kidnapped when she was thirteen years old. Hannah survived;...
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 13
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident. The scene is more gruesome than anything she has seen before. It definitely wasn't the crash that killed these people. While Lindsay starts to piece this case together, she gets a call she wasn't expecting. Sightings of her ex-colleague-turned-ruthless-killer Mackie Morales have been...
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Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 15
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xi, 301 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"ISIS reigns supreme in huge swathes of Iraq and Syria and poses a threat to stability in the Middle East. When an American airstrike kills the ISIS leader's only son, he vows revenge. He discovers that a U.S. Navy admiral, now on duty in the Pentagon, led the strike. The ISIS leader has him kidnapped by American home-grown ISIS sympathizers. Their orders: smuggle him out of the United States and bring him to Mosul for execution. When the normal levers...
17) Private Berlin
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Private, the world's most respected investigation firm, has branches around the world, each staffed with the smartest, fastest, and most advanced agents, who have cutting-edge forensic tools that not even the most powerful governments possess. At Private Berlin, agent Chris Schneider has disappeared. Chris had taken a secretive personal leave and hadn't spoken to anyone from the office in days. The Private team retraces his footsteps to the cases...
Author
Publisher
Real Simple Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
191 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Using a combination of photographs and sketches, the editors explain how to spiff up every room in the house, and even go so far as to give instructions on organizing oneś organizational spaces (such as drawers and medicine cabinets).
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
95 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shares suggestions, quizzes, and real-world tips to help girls get organized in order to alleviate stress, improve personal habits, and develop better time management skills.
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Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 15
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In a safe house near the Syrian border, a clandestine American operations team readies to launch a dramatic mission months in the making. Their target: the director of social media for ISIS, Abu Muslim al-Naser. Multiple analysts, as well as a senior congresswoman, are in country to monitor the raid, but before the team can launch, the safe house is attacked. What unfolds in the bloody aftermath is a political and public relations nightmare. As horrific...
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