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1) Batman!
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Pub. Date
c2012
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Describes Batman's skills, sidekick, and secret hideout; the enemies that he faces; and the tools that he uses to battle crime.
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Jason Bourne series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
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The harrowing story of a man with no memory, Jason Bourne, an assassin hunted by unseen armies for reasons he doesn't remember. A shooting victim, suffering from amnesia, finds himself with a Swiss bank account in the name of Jason Bourne, a professional assassin being manipulated by a top-secret American government organization to kill his arch rival, the dreaded Carlos.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
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"Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went - a place that both terrified and healed him, that could...
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Dark Tower volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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In The Gunslinger, King introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting, solitary figure at first, on a mysterious quest through a desolate world that eerily mirrors our own. Pursuing the man in black, an evil being who can bring the dead back to life, Roland is a good man who seems to leave nothing but death in his wake.
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Pub. Date
2006.
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The author of "Death by Misadventure" brings back her outrageous heroine, Australian sleuth Phryne Fisher, in the second mystery of this delightful series set in the roaring '20s. This time, Phryne has to figure out who finished off a family man whose entire family hated him.
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"A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller. On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece's entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming,...
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Pub. Date
2012, c2004.
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When St. Kilda has its first Flower Festival, the Honourable Phryne Fisher becomes the honorary Queen of the Flowers. But when one of her flower maidens and her adopted daughter Ruth both go missing, Phryne puts aside her duties as queen and takes up her duties as investigator.
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The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the green-grey eyes, diamante garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions - is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite conversations with retired colonels, and dancing with weak-chinned men. Instead, Phryne decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective...
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Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 52
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All goes well until a rival magician appears. Jonathan Strange is handsome, charming, and talkative-the very opposite of Mr Norrell. Strange thinks nothing of enduring the rigors of campaigning with Wellington's army and doing magic on battlefields. Astonished to find another practicing magician, Mr Norrell accepts Strange as a pupil. But it soon becomes clear that their ideas of what English magic ought to be are very different. For Mr Norrell, their...
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Pub. Date
2007.
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A young Jewish student is found dead in Miss Sylvia Lee's East Market bookshop. Miss Lee is an unlikely killer. Phryne Fisher is asked by the father of Simon Abrahams to investigate and finds herself in a world of Yiddish, refugees, rabbis, kosher dinners, and ultimately in a situation far graver and more political than first imagined.
15) The BFG
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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The Big Friendly Giant is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and it's lucky for Sophie that he is. If she had been carried off by any of the other giants she would have been breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are headed to England to steal some little children, she and the BFG decide they must stop them once and for all.
16) Urn Burial
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Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia's Victorian mountain country, but the peaceful surroundings mask danger and murder. Her search for answers takes her deep into the dungeons of the house and into the limestone Buchan caves. distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
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Lord of the rings volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
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"The standard harcover edition of the concluding volume of The Lord of the Rings includes a large format fold-out map and extensive appendices. As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and takes part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg....
18) Dead Man's Chest
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When she tries to go on summer holiday, Phryne Fisher discovers that the Johnsons, who were supposed to be at the vacation home, are nowhere in sight, beginning a mystery that involves smugglers, pirate treasure, and the mysterious Madame Selavey.
19) Endangered
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"New York Times-bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more-Joe's eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: The body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway-alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force...