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461) The ghost ship
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved by corsairs, manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and France, Holland and the Canary Islands. But the bravest men on board are not who they seem. And the stakes could not be higher. If arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When Judge Parker of Fort Smith, Arkansas, sends two US marshals on a routine prisoner pickup and they never make it to their destination, he sends Marshals Emmet and Jack Youngblood to find them. Emmet and Jack, considered two of the best marshals in the West, come upon the dead bodies of the missing marshals, but their prisoner wagon is not to be found. They follow the tracks left behind by the heavy wagon to Springfield, Missouri. In Springfield,...
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Series
Empress of a thousand skies volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Empress: With a revolution brewing, Rhee is faced with a choice: make a deal with her enemy, Nero, or denounce him and risk losing her crown. Fugitive: Framed assassin Alyosha has one goal in mind: kill Nero. To get his revenge, Aly may have to travel back to the very place he thought hed left forever-home. Princess : Kara knows that a single piece of technology located on the uninhabitable planet Wraeta may be the key to remembering-and erasing-the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
When John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln with a bullet cursed by the notorious Chicken Man, a local voodoo practitioner, he unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events extending far into the future. Instead of killing Lincoln, the bullet puts the president into a coma for sixty-eight years, his body remaining limber and ageless. When he awakens in 1933, Abe Lincoln is a man out of time, a revered icon...and a political pariah. FDR and J. Edgar Hoover...
469) Freefall
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Series
Kensy and Max volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Kensy and Max are into top secret adventures again in the 5th in the Kensy and Max series. The chase to capture Dash Chalmers is on in New York City and when there's another dangerous criminal on the loose, the twins find themselves embroiled in a most unusual case.
470) Un río de paz
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Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Historia de un padre que saca adelante a sus tres hijos en Minnesota.
471) Justice for none
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
This book captures perfectly the Depression - era Midwest in which Gene Hackman was raised --- the grain silos, slaughterhouses, bars, barbershops, and newspaper offices of amall - town and city life. It also explores issues of race, class, truth, and the human consequeneces of war, with a vivid cast of characters whose lives intersect in unexpected ways.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
His girl Friday: A newspaper editor and his ex-wife star reporter exchange verbal insults in his effort to keep her on the job by offering her a prison story scoop.
The talk of the town: A suspected murderer hides out with an unsuspecting professor and his landlady, and...
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Cowboy Bebop series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2002-]
Formats
Description
In volume one, Spike, Jet, Faye, and Ed are cowboys on the new frontier of space. Together this band of 21st-century interplanetary bounty hunters takes on the jobs that anyone in their right mind would turn down.
In volume two, the crew of the Bebop, joined by their data-dog Ein, are a quirky quintet. They may or may not get their bounty, but they'll pursue it with vigor and tenacity -- or at least that's what a MBC TV producer wants to see when...
476) Downriver south
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Ridge Parkman volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"The bloody Civil War has ended at last, and Marshal Ridge Parkman is looking forward to visiting his family at last in exhausted, war-torn western Missouri. But no sooner has he settled in to relax and catch up on things, then whimsical fate drops a mission in front of him that he can hardly ignore. The next thing he knows, he's on a steamboat heading down the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. His assignment is to track a father-son team who are fleeing...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
She's left her dead husband--and within forty-eight hours Tanya Dubois is a fugitive. It's almost impossible to live off the grid today, but Tanya-once-Amelia-now-Debra and Blue, a bartender, have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret... Can she outrun her past?
479) Life before Legend
Author
Series
Legend Trilogy volume Bk. .5
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Find out more about June and Day in this never-before-seen glimpse into their daily lives before they met in Marie Lus New York Times bestselling LEGEND series. As twelve-year-olds struggling to survive in two very different worlds within the Republics stronghold, June was starting her first day of school at Drake University as the youngest cadet ever admitted, and Day was fighting for food on the streets of the Lake sector. LIFE BEFORE LEGEND contains...