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From the jungles of Borneo to the hidden canyons of the American West, from small-town fight clubs to a Parisian café at the end of World War II, here are tales of betrayal and revenge, courage and cowardice, glory and greed, as only Louis L'Amour can tell them... A charismatic boxer itches to fight all comers--but his only shot at the championship is in beating the man who ruined his father... A beautiful movie star finds a dead man in her apartment...
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Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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When fifth-graders Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon meet the owner of the new candy store in town and are given a magical candy that endows them with super powers, they find that along with its benefits there are also dangerous consequences.
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Series
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1998 Modern Library pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 271 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was published in 1903. His story of the dog Buck, who learns to survive in the bleak Yukon wilderness, is viewed by many as his symbolic autobiography. White Fang (1906), which London conceived as a "complete antithesis and companion piece to The Call of the Wild," is the tale of an abused wolf-dog tamed by exposure to civilization....
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Series
Heroes of Olympus volume 2
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so that the Prophecy of Seven can be fulfilled.
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Attentive readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are already familiar with how a bookish and determined young woman named Isabella first set out on the historic course that would one day lead her to becoming the world's premier dragon naturalist. Now, in this remarkably candid second volume, Lady Trent looks back at the next stage of her illustrious (and occasionally scandalous) career. Three years after her fateful...
10) A son of the sun
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Pub. Date
1912
Physical Desc
333 pages, plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Son of the Sun" is a 1912 novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London depicts...
12) Fire study
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Apprenticeship is Over-Now the Real Test has Begun.
When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder-able to capture and release souls-spreads like wildfire, people grow uneasy. Already Yelena's unusual abilities and past have set her apart. As the Council debates Yelena's fate, she receives a disturbing message: a plot is rising against her homeland, led by a murderous sorcerer she has defeated before...
Honor sets Yelena on a path that will test the...
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Series
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
xii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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These unjustly neglected works are among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels. Tom Sawyer Abroad sets the three characters so popular in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Jim--and sends them on a balloon trip to Africa. The balloon has wings and fans which can propel it a hundred miles an hour in still air and three hundred miles an hour with a stiff tail wind. Tom is again the manager, the one with information...
15) Codex born
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English
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"Isaac Vainio's life is just about perfect. He should know it can't last. Living and working as a part-time librarian in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Isaac has finally earned the magical research position he has dreamed of with the Porters. He is seeing a smart, fun, gorgeous dryad named Lena Greenwood. He has been cleared by Johannes Gutenberg to practice libriomancy once again, reaching into books to create whatever he chooses from their pages. Best...
16) Novels & stories
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Series
Pub. Date
1982
Physical Desc
1020 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English