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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
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English
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is probably the most influential work of fiction in American history. Stowe's moving Christian epic turned millions of Americans against slavery, bringing the "peculiar institution" immeasurably closer to its fiery destruction.
3) Dracula
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Jonathan Harker is sent to see a client of his company in a distant part of Europe. The castle is deserted and the Count is a very strange host. But little does young Jonathan suspect that he and the people closest to him are about to be put into the worst danger and the most gruesome terror that anyone can imagine! Now they must track and destroy Dracula before he finds and destroys each of them!"--Book back cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Love Comes Softly introduced the characters of Marty and Clark Davis, whose tragic circumstances brought them to a "marriage of convenience" on the frontier prairies during the mid 1800s. The story of how Clark's patient, caring love mirrored that of the heavenly Father, drawing Marty to faith and to love, has captured the hearts and imaginations of over one million readers on Book One alone!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Rafe Caradec--gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune--was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but his word was good. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship's fo'c'sle, Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney's ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyoming, Caradec found land for a man to love, miles of rolling grasslands and towering mountains. He also found that one of the most ruthless men...
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Back home in Yorkshire after military duty, James Herriot sees his family and veterinary practice flourish, even as the world around him changes profoundly When World War II ends and James Herriot returns to his wife and new family in the English countryside, he dreams mostly of Sunday roasts and Yorkshire puddings, but new adventure has a way of tracking him down. Soon Herriot finds himself escorting a large number of sheep on a steamer to Russia,...
11) The gamble
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English
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A story of honesty and humor for anyone who has ever lived and loved from New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer.
Agatha was the picture of primness and propriety, but her green eyes could blaze with anger-or sparkle with humor.
Scott was the picture of lazy charm and happy indifference to what others thought was right and wrong.
They were enemies, then friends. Then the sweet innocence of a child opened their eyes and their hearts-and...
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G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
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The Secret of Father Brown is a collection of short mystery stories written by G.K. Chesterton and first published in 1927. The book features the character of Father Brown, a Catholic priest who also happens to be a skilled detective. Each story in the collection presents Father Brown with a different mystery to solve, ranging from murder and theft to forgery and espionage. Despite his unassuming appearance and humble demeanor, Father Brown proves...
14) The beet queen
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English
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On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt and her husband. So begins an exhilarating forty-year saga brimming with colorful, unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle; seductive Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival; Sita, their lovely but disturbed cousin; and the half-Native...
18) A heart speaks
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English
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A one-volume edition of Second Chance at love's Forsaking All Others (October 1982) and A Promise to Cherish (Februrary 1983.).
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Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1986, c1961
Language
English
Description
Three lonely people come together in this poignant and witty novel of thwarted dreams, scandalous secrets, and star-crossed romance. After being jilted by her fiancé, Dulcie Mainwaring despairs of ever finding true love. For a distraction, she goes to a publishing conference, where she meets Viola Dace, a dramatic woman who refuses to live without romance, as well as Aylwin Forbes, an editor whom Viola adores. The fact that Aylwin is married doesn't...
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