Don Leslie
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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A wall went up around Alex Brady's heart when his father, a New York firefighter, died in the Twin Towers. Turning his back on the only woman he ever loved, Alex shut out all the people who cared about him to concentrate on fighting crime. He and his trusty K9 partner, Bo, are determined to eliminate evil in the world and prevent tragedies like 9-11. Then the worst fire season in California's history erupts, and Alex faces the ultimate challenge to...
3) Pathfinder
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Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
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Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him.
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The author melds personal history with frank biological data about every stage of life, creating an "autobiography about my body" that seeks meaning in death, but moreover, life. Shields filters his frank--and usually foreboding--data through his own experience as a 51-year-old father with burgeoning back pain, contrasting his own gloomy tendencies with the defiant perspective of his own 97-year-old father, a man who has waged a lifelong, urgent battle...
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Pub. Date
p2003
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For three decades, Robert Ludlum's best-selling novels have set the standard for international intrigue. Gayle Lynds continues that tradition in The Altman Code. Covert-One agent Jon Smith must race against the clock to uncover the truth about a Chinese ship and its cargo, a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party, the faction in Washington working to undermine the elected government, and the international cabal who is thrusting...
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Pub. Date
2000.
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. It outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws teach the need for prudence, the virtue of stealth, and many demand the total absence of mercy, but like it or not, all have applications...
7) Take four
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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Are fairytale endings only in the movies? After Chase Ryan returns to his family and a job in his hometown, his best friend and fellow filmmaker Keith Ellison pairs up with former Hollywood heartthrob Dayne Matthews to finish following the dream-making movies that might change the world. Keith Ellison and Dayne Matthews have finally inked a deal to have the nation's top young actor star in their current film. But at the same time, the actor takes...
8) Take one
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Series
Baxter family series. Above the line volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Two unknown producers struggle to fulfill their dreams to change lives through the power of film. With millions of investors' dollars on the line, everything starts to fall apart and they realize they may be in over their heads. Is it possible to beat the odds and make a movie unlike anything ever done before? Or, will they lose everything in the process?
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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Sheriff's deputy Alex Brady, who still grieves his father's death on September 11, concentrates on fighting crime in Los Angeles, until the worst fire season in California history sends him in pursuit of environmental terrorists."
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Pub. Date
2007.
Description
As in his bestselling The 48 Laws of Power, Greene puts a modern spin on wisdom that has stood the test of history, only this time his role model is Sun Tzu rather than Machiavelli. The argument is fairly standard: despite our most noble intentions, "aggressive impulses that are impossible to ignore or repress" make military combat a fitting metaphor for getting ahead in life. Greene's advice covers everything from steeling one's mind for battle to...
12) Victory Square
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Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Upon reaching the tumultuous 1980s, Olen Steinhauer's literary crime series set in Eastern Europe comes full circle as one of the People's Militia's earliest cases reemerges to torment its inspectors, including militia chief Emil Brod, the original detective on the case. His arrest of a revolutionary leader in the late 1940s resulted in the politician's imprisonment, but at the time Brod was too young to understand how great the cost would be. Only...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Follows filmmakers Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison as they celebrate their first successful movie, and who, in the midst of family relationships, broken budgets, and conflicting dreams, must find their way through the maze of pain and questions that comes with everything they thought they wanted.
14) Take two
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Series
Baxter family series. Above the line volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Will the price of fame be worth the cost?
Filmmakers Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison have completed their first feature film, and Hollywood is buzzing with the news. In the wake of that excitement, the producers acquire rights to a novel that has all the ingredients they want for their next project. At the same time they cross paths with a well-connected player who introduces them to the right people, and suddenly every studio
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