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Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Mariah Lyons risks her life to solve the brutal murder of her father, Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a well-respected academic, who in a stroke of luck comes into the possession of an ancient and highly valuable parchment stolen from the Vatican in the 15th century. Mariah Lyons risks her life to solve the brutal murder of her father, Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a well-respected academic, who in a stroke of luck comes into the possession of an ancient and highly...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment, six Alexandrians grapple with the ethics of their astronomical abilities while the outside world mobilizes to destroy them, forcing them to decide what they're willing to betray for limitless power and who will be destroyed along the way.
3) Desert heat
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Series
Sinclair sisters trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author's "signature tender but sexy lovemaking scenes make this an all-around winner" in the trilogy that began with Midnight Sun (Booklist).
It takes a certain kind of rough and tumble man to show a Sinclair girl how to ask for everything she wants . . .
For Patience Sinclair, leaving the ivy-covered halls of Boston for the wide, open spaces of Texas means a chance to stop looking over...
It takes a certain kind of rough and tumble man to show a Sinclair girl how to ask for everything she wants . . .
For Patience Sinclair, leaving the ivy-covered halls of Boston for the wide, open spaces of Texas means a chance to stop looking over...
4) The portent
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English
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"The climactic ending of The Fa�cade left Brian Scott and Melissa Kelley with only each other - and the terrible secrets they carry. The Portent finds them living under new identities, their future clouded by constant fear of being exposed. By the time Brian and Melissa learn they're being watched, their carefully constructed lives will be over. Follow Brian and Melissa into the center of an unthinkably vast, centuries-old conspiracy, conceived...
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Atlas volume 2
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English
Description
"The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to Olivie Blake's New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas Six-guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos. Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Society. Two paths lay before them. All must pick a side. Alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and The Society of Alexandrians will be revealed...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
While attending a conference in Istanbul, Dr. Alithea Binnie happens to encounter a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems: first, she doubts that he's real, and second, because she's a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually, she's beguiled and makes a wish that surprises...
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Edge chronicles. Original series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Quint finally begins his training at the Knights Academy, Maris adjusts to life in Undertown, and Sanctaphrax shivers in anticipation of a legendary storm, while a storm of a different kind brews between sky-scholars and earth-scholars.
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Series
Rogues to riches volume 2
Language
English
Description
A widowed duchess falls in love with a bookish gentleman, but the enemies that drove her from London threaten her new romance.
Author
Series
Babylon rising volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Michael Murphy is a scholar of Biblical prophecy and an archaeologist who defies danger to fearlessly hunt down and authenticate ancient artifacts from Biblical times. His latest discovery will send him hurtling from a life of excavations and revelations to a confrontation with the forces of the greatest evil. For this ancient secret accelerates the countdown to the time of the end for all mankind.
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English
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In 1947, American historian and World War II veteran Martin Mitchell wins a Fulbright Fellowship to document the end of British rule in India. His wife, Evie, convinces him to take her, hoping a shared adventure will mend their marriage, which has been strained by war. Martin and Evie find themselves stranded in a bungalow due to violence between Hindus and Muslims. In that house, hidden behind a brick wall, Evie discovers a packet of old letters,...
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Winner of Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award for Best Mystery
On assignment in the Middle East, television journalist Cotten Stone stumbles upon an archeological dig that uncovers the world's most-sought-after religious relic: the Holy Grail. With his last dying breath, Dr. Gabriel Archer gives it to Cotten, uttering "You are the only one" in a language she's heard from only one other person—her deceased twin sister.
What begins
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English
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"Annie Oakley's Wild West Americana and time travel come together in this genre-defying novel that explores trauma and the cost of female revenge. Ruth McClintock is obsessed with the past. For nearly a decade, she has been studying Annie Oakley, convinced that the legendary sharpshooter experienced a scarring event in adolescence that led her to fight for the right of every American woman to own and operate a gun. This fruitless search has cost Ruth...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 42
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English
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Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigates the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler, a quest that takes her across Europe and into the pasts of her father and his mentor.
14) Caleb's crossing
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English
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Once again, the author takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, she has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of the story is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless...
Author
Series
Babylon rising volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
�2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the fourth novel in the Babylon Rising series, biblical archaeologist Michael Murphy stumbles upon clues to an ancient evil as he follows a trail to the long-lost temple of Dagon, the deadly Philistine deity that is half-human and half-fish.
16) Babylon rising
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The co-creator of the Left Behind( series begins a new series of faster-paced thrillers based on prophecies that are relevant to today. Michael Murphy, a scholar of Biblical prophecy and a field archaeologist, defies danger to fearlessly hunt down and authenticate ancient artifacts from biblical times.
Author
Series
Babylon rising volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Biblical archaeologist Michael Murphy embarks on a quest to uncover one of the Bible's most significant artifacts, a search that forces him to match wits with the evil Talon, a mysterious opponent with dire plans for all humankind.
Author
Series
Babylon rising volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Michael Murphy, a field archaeologist and scholar of biblical prophecy, embarks on a quest that takes him to Mt. Ararat in search of Noah's Ark, an expedition that leads to dramatic discoveries about the Bible's prophecies.
20) The reaping
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Investigative scholar Katherine Winter is a debunker of modern 'miracles, ' bringing scientific light to superstition and fraud. But events in Haven, Louisiana, defy even her expertise. There, the 10 Biblical Plagues, including locusts, frogs and a river of blood, seem to be recurring. And the more she seeks answers, the more she questions her own beliefs.
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