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A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author's novels, A Tale...
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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young...
A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young...
3) Horns
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Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples. At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable...
4) Nevernight
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Nevernight chronicle volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father's failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she wanders a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and its thugs. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the hearth of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined. Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic--the Red Church"--...
5) Vicious
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Villains volume 1
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English
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Victor and Eli started out as two brilliant but arrogant college students who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly...
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Friendly and bubbly, Julia Padden likes nearly everyone, but her standoffish neighbor, Cain Maddox, presents a particular challenge. No matter how hard she's tried to be nice, Cain rudely rebuffs her at every turn, preferring to keep to himself. But when Julia catches Cain stealing her newspaper from the lobby of their apartment building, that's the last straw. She's going to break through Cain's Scrooge-like exterior the only way she knows how: by...
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A powerful tale of forbidden love, shame, and revenge comes to life in Manga Classics: The Scarlet Letter. Faithfully adapted by Crystal Chan from the original novel, this new edition features stunning artwork by SunNeko Lee which will give old and new readers alike a fresh insight into the Nathaniel Hawthorne's tragic saga of Puritan America.
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a retired rock star travels to New York to visit his father who is dying, he arrives too late and seeks revenge on the ex-Nazi war criminal who persecuted his father Auschwitz.
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Mortalis trilogy volume 3
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English
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Ex-Intelligence agents try to account for the disappearance of 11 old men - ex-Nazi SS officers.
10) The forever song
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Blood of Eden volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Embracing her vampire side after the death of her beloved Zeke, Allie teams up with her companions to hunt the psychopathic vampire responsible for his murder only to be confronted with brutal surprises.
11) Sadie
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.
12) Black light
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 2
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English
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Bob Lee Swagger, who served as a Marine sniper in Vietnam, has forsaken violence, retiring to the Arizona desert with his wife and child. However, when questions are raised about the murder of Swagger's dad in a shoot-out forty years ago, he is drawn once again into a life-threatening nightmare.
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Jack Reacher novels volume 2
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English
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When a mysterious woman is kidnapped by a politically motivated fringe group and taken to their compound, Jack Reacher must help her escape with her life--from the inside out...
14) Brionne
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Major James Brionne brought Dave Allard to trial for murder. Just before the hanging, Dave swore his brothers would take vengeance... Four years later the Allard boys return to settle the score. Only Brionne's son escaped. They murdered his wife, destroyed his home, and left Brionne nothing but the charred ruins of his past to haunt him. Seeking peace and a new life, Brionne and his boy headed West. But the Allards hadn't finished with him. He knew...
15) Archenemies
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Renegades volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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As Nova, Adrian, and the rest of their crew face escalating crime in Gatlon City, covert weapons and conflicting missions have Nova and Adrian questioning not only their beliefs about justice, but also their feelings for each other.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
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The story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham.
17) The Twits
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Mr. and Mrs. Twit hate almost everything, including their trained monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps. But now the Muggle-Wumps want revenge.
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2021.
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"They rode into town like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Four armed outlaws bringing their own brand of hell to Paris, Texas. First they rob the First National Bank. Then they take a woman hostage as insurance. When Perley Gates learns that Becky Morris is in the hands of these tough customers, he rides alone to get her back. Perley manages to rescue the girl, but not before killing the gang's leader. Now he's incurred the wrath of the other...
20) Razorblade tears
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2021.
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"A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father Buddy Lee...
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