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"Set in the Parisian underworld and plotted like a detective story, the work follows Jean Valjean, a victim of society who has been imprisoned for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread. A hardened criminal upon his release, he eventually reforms, becoming a successful industrialist and mayor of a northern town. Despite this he is haunted by an impulsive, regretted former crime and is pursued relentlessly by the police inspector Javert. Valjean eventually...
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Everyman's library volume 223
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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The internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel offers a rich and brilliant chronicle celebrating the endless variety of life in the mythical Latin America town of Macondo.
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Foundation series volume 4
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English
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The Foundation, a colony of psychologists, battles for supreme power in the galaxy
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Earth's children volume 2
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English
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This 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 for the Others,...
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 for the Others,...
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The Sacketts volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that line to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor did he back away from any challenge. His determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast savage North American continent where no white man had been before. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, Jubal forged a legend as a powerful medicine man whom they called "Ni'kwana, master of mysteries."...
9) The rebels
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N. Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1977?], c1975
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[Book club ed.].
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English
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Beginning with a rag-tag group of Continental soldiers and sweeping across the nation's earliest war-torn years, the rebels continue the chronicle of Philip Kent, patriot soldier, and the colorful men and women who were in the struggle for American independence.
10) River god
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Egyptian series (Wilbur A. Smith) volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
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