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1) The escape
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English
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Special Agent Puller's brother is the country's most wanted criminal, but his conviction points to a cover-up—and a dangerous enemy bent on burying the truth in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
It's a prison unlike any other. Military discipline rules. Its security systems are unmatched. None of its prisoners dream of escaping. They know it's impossible...until now.
John Puller's older brother, Robert, was convicted...
It's a prison unlike any other. Military discipline rules. Its security systems are unmatched. None of its prisoners dream of escaping. They know it's impossible...until now.
John Puller's older brother, Robert, was convicted...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war.
3) The parasite
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Series
Michael Vey volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
"Michael and his friends learn that returning to a normal life is not only more difficult than they imagined, but that normal doesn't last. Like the mythical Hydra, cutting off the head of the global Elgen only created more enemies"--
4) The brethren
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. The third for a career-ending drunken joyride.
Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse...
Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those men.
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was...
Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 1
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English
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN—WATCH NOW ON PRIME VIDEO!
From Tom Clancy, the celebrated author of the Jack Ryan series, comes the #1 New York Times bestseller that puts CIA operative John Clark front and center....
His code name is Mr. Clark. His work for the CIA is brilliant, cold-blooded and efficient...But who is he really?
In a harrowing tour de force, Tom Clancy shows how an ordinary man named...
From Tom Clancy, the celebrated author of the Jack Ryan series, comes the #1 New York Times bestseller that puts CIA operative John Clark front and center....
His code name is Mr. Clark. His work for the CIA is brilliant, cold-blooded and efficient...But who is he really?
In a harrowing tour de force, Tom Clancy shows how an ordinary man named...
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English
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Jake Brigance is called upon to help his old friend, disgraced former attorney Mack Stafford, make his return; young death row inmate Cody Wallace has one final request just several hours before execution; two young attorney brothers, Kirk and Rusty Malloy, look to Diantha Bradshaw to help save their once prosperous firm which they inherited from their father.
10) Incarceron
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
11) Throne of glass
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
12) Wanted: a novel
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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English
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Escaped convict Branson Faulkner and rodeo veterinarian Jo Power team up to find new evidence that will prove Branson's innocence of a murder committed seven years ago. They soon discover an alarming connection between a string of homicides, and one truth is clear: there's a murderer on the loose who will stop at nothing to cover his tracks.
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Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A captivating young adult edition of the award-winning #1 New York Times best-seller documents the inspirational true story of how Louis Zamperini, a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic athlete and World War II pilot, crashed into the ocean and survived for weeks on a life raft only to become a prisoner of war. Includes more than 100 photographs and an exclusive interview with Louis Zamperini."
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Series
Prison healer novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
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English
Description
Tasked with keeping a captured and terminally ill Rebel Queen alive long enough to survive the formidable elemental Trial by Ordeal, death prison healer Kiva Meridan receives a coded message from her family before risking her life to take the queen's place.
15) Ash princess
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Series
Ash princess novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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English
Description
Held captive by the brutal Kaiser since age six when she witnessed her mother's murder, Theodosia, called Ash Princess, is now sixteen and prepared to reclaim the throne by any means necessary.
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Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
"After a rocky start as a missionary in Ukraine, Elder Neal Christensen is struggling to learn the Russian language and embrace an unfamiliar life away from his small Northern California town. And in an instant, a peculiar encounter with the wrong people changes everything. Dragged from his apartment in the dead of night, Neal is taken to prison and charged with the theft of a priceless museum piece. As days turn into weeks, he is thrown into a world...
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Series
Michael Vey volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The start of an action-packed teen series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans.
To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette's syndrome. But in truth, Michael is extremely special—he has electric powers. Michael thinks he is unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor has the same mysterious powers. With the help of...
To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette's syndrome. But in truth, Michael is extremely special—he has electric powers. Michael thinks he is unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor has the same mysterious powers. With the help of...
19) Rose under fire
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Series
Code name Verity volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
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English
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When the author was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, she barely resembled the reckless young woman she had been when she committed the misdeeds that would eventually catch up with her. Happily ensconced in a New York City apartment, with a promising career and an attentive boyfriend, she was suddenly forced to reckon with the consequences of her very brief, very careless dalliance in the world of drug trafficking. She spent thirteen months...
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