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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
62) Comfort food
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English
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A celebrity chef shows her friends and family the joy of fulfillment--and manages to spice up her own life at the same time.
65) Of mice and men
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they...
66) Death benefit
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English
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Behind the prim gates of the Greenwich, Connecticut, McMansions, Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to another possible profit source: the $25 trillion life-insurance industry. By securitizing the policies of the old and sick, they hope to make another financial killing. At the same time, Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall-two exceptional yet aloof medical residents-are working closely with their medical center's premier scientist...
67) The red queen
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English
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Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her house is the true ruler of England and that she has a great destiny before her. Her ambitions are disappointed when her sainted cousin Henry VI fails to recognize her as a kindred spirit, and she is even more dismayed when he sinks into madness. Her mother mocks her plans, revealing that Margaret will always be burdened with the reputation of her father, one...
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English
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After her mother's death, Gabrielle Brooks sets sail to the Caribbean in search of her father, discovers he has become a pirate, and spends three happy years sailing with him. His decision that she should return to London to find a proper husband leads to intrigue, scandal, and Gabrielle's passionate quest for revenge, as she finds herself falling in love with a carefree sea captain with no interest in matrimony.
71) Cure
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English
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"...New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she's been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up biotech companies caught in a zero sum game...." --inside front cover.
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Bloody Jack adventures volume 3
Publisher
Listen And Live Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Jacky leaves the Boston school for young girls, and boards a ship to London in search of her cherished Jaimy. Unfortunately though, her journey is far from smooth.
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Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Janet Evanovich presents a special addition to the Stephanie Plum series. For the first time ever, listeners can experience three between-the-numbers Stephanie Plum novels (Visions of Sugar Plums; Plum Lovin'; and Plum Lucky) together in one entertaining audiobook. Join the ditzy yet lovable New Jersey bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, as she gets lucky in Atlantic City, crosses paths with the smoldering Diesel, and tries to get into the holiday spirit,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
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In this book the author, a New York Times columnist advances the work on globalization published in his book The Lexus and the Olive Tree. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point, as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution, he analyzes the events, inventions, and business practices that have resulted in a changed world, one he calls Globalization 3.0. In this new edition...
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Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 4
Publisher
Listen And Live Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In polite company at the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls, Jacky tries her very best to raise her pinky while drinking tea and curtsy in appropriate company. Her daring past comes to light, however, when her and her classmates are kidnapped during a field trip and placed in the hold of a slave-trading ship. Jacky swiftly organizes an escape plan, and crosses her fingers in hopes that it will work.
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