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Earth's children volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 37
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English
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From the Publisher: This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman. Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching...
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"Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades. New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939--and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from...
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English
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The Clan of the cave bear is the first of Jean Auel's sensational Earth's Children series. Ayla, a tall, blond, blue-eyed girl lost her family in an earthquake. She is nurtured and protected by some members of the Clan, but there are those who would cast her out because of her strange and threatening ways. Ayla's adventures 25,000 years ago include exquisite details of our world as it might have been.
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Series
Ishmael trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997, ©1996
Language
English
Description
Jared Osborne, a Laurentians priest, investigates an itinerant preacher of unusual power and penetrates his inner circle, where he becomes an anguished collaborator in the dismantling of his own beliefs.
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Stone Barrington novels volume 26
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English
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Stone Barrington is no stranger to schemes and deceptions of all stripes; as an attorney for the premier white-shoe law firm Woodman & Weld, he has seen more than his share. But when he travels to Europe under highly unusual circumstances, Stone finds himself at the center of a mystery that is, even by his standards, most peculiar. While investigating a high-profile murder, he uncovers a puzzling conspiracy involving the European elite and the deadly...
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Sigma Force novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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A fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany--and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain. Meanwhile, madness ravages a monastery in Nepal, as Buddhist monks turn to cannibalism and torture. Lisa Cummings, investigating the atrocity, is suddenly a target of a brutal assassin...
10) Queen of babble
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Series
Queen of babble novels volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
Lizzie Nichols discovers that her inability to keep her mouth shut has landed her once again in hot water when she aggravates her unfaithful boyfriend, Andy, is stranded in London, and takes a job as a bartender for a catered wedding at a French chateau, an affair that ends with the groom in disgrace, a furious bride, and Andy returning to ruin everything.
11) Kudos
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Series
Outline volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona. She begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth and representation, a...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In war-torn England, WWII U.S. soldier Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop is targeted by British intelligence. His map of sexual conquests exactly matches the map created by locations of recent German rocket bombs. Slothrop flees the suspicious superpowers in an attempt to find the mysterious Rocket 00000, which may hold the answers.
14) The power couple
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"When their college-aged daughter is abducted on a European family vacation, Brian and Rebecca Unsworth--both U.S. intelligence staffers--race to find the kidnappers and keep their fragile marriage intact"-- Provided by publisher.
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Klara Walldeen novels volume 1
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English
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"A deep-cover CIA agent races across Europe to save the daughter he never knew ... In the end, you cannot hide who you are. Klara Walldéen was raised by her grandparents on a remote archipelago in the Baltic Sea, learning to fish and hunt and sail a boat through a storm. Now, as an EU Parliament aide in Brussels, she is learning how to navigate the treacherous currents of international politics: the lines between friend and enemy, truth and lies....
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Stella Bled volume 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"November, 1938. It began in Vienna, after a night of fire and fear. Stella Bled Lawrence made a promise and she kept it. But the job isn't done. Abel Hershmann's cousins, unaware of the danger, are heading to Venice in search of him and the family secret he carried. Stella and her husband, Nicky, follow, intent on warning them. But things don't go to plan. Venice is flooded, Stella aggravates her injuries, and the cousins are no where to be found....
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Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
For Stella Bled Lawrence being wealthy and stylish in 1938 is exactly what it's cracked up to be. She's blissfully unaware of the rising tensions in Europe even as she travels to Vienna on the eve of the Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass, Hitler's first large-scale action against the Jews of Germany and Austria. Stella and her husband, Nicky, witness the night's atrocities first hand and during the chaos a family friend disappears. They search...
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Alex Cross novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As a psychopath escapes from jail in the U.S. to begin murdering again, a similar killer goes on a rampage in Europe. It befalls to Alex Cross, the Washington detective, to bring the two men to justice.
19) Go, went, gone
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European...
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Earth's children volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 53
Language
English
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After their epic journey across Europe, Ayla and Jondalar have reached his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as southwest France. Jondalar's family greet him warmly, but they are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses.
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