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1. Desperate undertaking

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Author:
Davis, Lindsey
Series:
Flavia Albia mystery volume 10
Language:
English
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In Lindsey Davis's next audiobook in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of death. In the first century, under Domitian's reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over...

2. The secret of the old clock

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Author:
Keene, Carolyn
Series:
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 1
Lexile measure:
760L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Nancy Drew's keen mind is tested when she searches for a missing will.

3. Oliver Twist

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Timeless Classics
Vintage classics
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Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Oliver Twist is born in the harsh confines of a workhouse, his mother expiring in childbirth, his father unknown. After enduring years of brutal treatment, Oliver runs away to London, where he falls in with a band of child pickpockets led by the villainous Fagin. His foray into a life of crime soon lands him into the arms of the law, when Oliver's fortunes finally appear to turn as the robbery victim becomes his benefactor. But Fagin isn't about to...

4. A swiftly tilting planet

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Author:
L'Engle, Madeleine
Series:
Time quintet volume 3
Lexile measure:
850L
Language:
English
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4 stars
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"In this volume, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg, grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by "kything", goes with him in spirit. Charles Wallace must face the ultimate...

5. Marauder: a novel of the Oregon files

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Author:
Cussler, Clive
Series:
Oregon files adventures volume 15
Oregon files aventures volume 15
Language:
English
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"While stopping an attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker, Juan Cabrillo and his team discover something even more dangerous: a ruthless billionaire's dying wish has allowed a paralyzing chemical to end up in the hands of a terrorist group. When an Oregon crew member falls victim to the poison, Juan Cabrillo becomes desperate to find an antidote before it is too late. He and his team must connect an ancient mystery with a cunning modern enemy in order to...

6. Lassie come-home

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Author:
Wells, Rosemary
Publisher:
H. Holt
Pub. Date:
1995
Lexile measure:
760L
Language:
English
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Sold in financial desperation to a wealthy duke living in the far north of Scotland, a collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey in order to be reunited with her former master in Yorkshire.

7. Death of kings: a novel

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Author:
Cornwell, Bernard
Series:
Last kingdom volume 6
The Warrior Chronicles
Language:
English
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The fate of a young nation rests in the hands of a reluctant warrior in the thrilling sixth volume of the New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales series. Following the intrigue and action of The Burning Land and Sword Song, this latest chapter in Bernard Cornwell's epic saga of England is a gripping tale of divided loyalties and mounting chaos. At a crucial moment in time, as Alfred the Great lays dying, the fate of all--Angles, Saxons, and Vikings...

8. Queen of air and darkness

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Author:
Clare, Cassandra
Series:
Dark artifices volume 3
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 740L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Innocent blood has been spilled on the steps of the Council Hall, the sacred stronghold of the Shadowhunters. In the wake of the tragic death of Livia Blackthorn, the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war. One fragment of the Blackthorn family flees to Los Angeles, seeking to discover the source of the disease that is destroying the race of warlocks. Meanwhile, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and undertake...

9. Lirael, daughter of the Clayr

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Author:
Nix, Garth
Series:
Old kingdom volume 2
Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
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3 stars
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When a dangerous necromancer threatens to unleash a long-buried evil, Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the Old Kingdom and reveal their true destinies.

10. The undertaker's daughter

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Author:
Blædel, Sara
Series:
Ilka Jensen volume 1
Undertaker volume 1
Language:
English
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"Already widowed by the age of forty, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a modest, regimented, and uneventful life in Copenhagen. Until unexpected news rocks her quiet existence: Her father--who walked out suddenly and inexplicably on the family more than three decades ago--has died. And he's left her something in his will: his funeral home. In Racine, Wisconsin. Clinging to this last shred of communication from the father...

11. What we devour

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Author:
Miller, Linsey
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 670L
Language:
English
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"Lorena Adler has a secret - she holds the power of the banished gods, the Noble and the Vile, inside her. She has hidden her entire life - both from the world and from her past. She's content to spend her days as an undertaker in a small town, marry her best friend, Julian, and live an unfulfilling life so long as no one uncovers her true nature. But when the notoriously bloodthirsty crown prince comes to arrest Julian's father, he immediately recognizes...

12. West with the night

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Author:
Markham, Beryl
Series:
Audio editions
Lexile measure:
1140L
Language:
English
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2 stars
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West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.

13. The patient: a novel

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Author:
DeWitt, Jasper
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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"In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case-a 40-year-old man who was originally admitted to...

14. All's well that ends well

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Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Plays
Pelican Shakespeare
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English
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"Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well is the story of its heroine, Helen, more so than the story of Bertram, for whose love she yearns. Helen wins Bertram as her husband despite his lack of interest and higher social standing, but she finds little happiness in the victory as he shuns, deserts, and attempts to betray her. The play suggests some sympathy for Bertram. As a ward to the French king, he must remain at court while his friends go off to...

15. Around the world in 80 days

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Author:
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Series:
Timeless Classics
Classic Starts®
Tantor unabridged classics
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Language:
English
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In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.

16. As you like it

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Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Cambridge library collection
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Language:
English
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Description:
Exiled royals--including a duke's daughter, disguised as a man--and country folk, learn lessons about class and gender through a series of love triangles in the Forest of Arden.

17. Lassie come-home

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Author:
Knight, Eric, 1897-1943
Lexile measure:
780L
Language:
English
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Sold in financial desperation to a wealthy duke living in the far north of Scotland, a collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey in order to be reunited with her former master in Yorkshire.

18. The storm on our shores: one island, two soldiers, and the forgotten battle of World War II

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Author:
Obmascik, Mark
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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"From a bestselling author, the heartbreaking, redemptive story of two World War II soldiers whose fateful encounter in the Forgotten War of Alaska has fascinated Americans for decades. In researching his bestselling book The Big Year, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Obmascik rediscovered a long-lost document from World War II: the diary of a Japanese surgeon, recovered from his body by the soldier who killed him. In the Cradle of Storms reveals...

19. Pellucidar

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Author:
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Series:
Hollow Earth volume 1
Pellucidar volume 2
Language:
English
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Description:
In this sequel to At the Earth's Core, return to the world of Pellucidar-an exotic, savage land at the center of the Earth, an untamed wilderness where the sun never sets. When American explorer David Innes first discovered Pellucidar, he fell under the spell of the strange world, earning the respect of many, the undying hatred of a few, and the love of the beautiful Dian. Torn from her arms by trickery, Innes vows revenge and returns to the Inner...

20. The last fallen star

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Author:
Kim, Graci
Series:
Gifted clans volume 1
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Description:
After thirteen-year-old Hattie Oh casts a dangerous spell so her adopted sister, Riley, will get a share of her inherited magic, Riley must undertake a near-impossible quest to save Hattie from death.
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