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1. Men in black: International

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The team has always protected the Earth from the scum of the universe, but in this new adventure, they tackle their biggest, most global threat to date: a mole in the organization.

2. Black Beauty

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Author:
Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878
Series:
Great classics for children
Treasury of illustrated classics
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Lexile measure:
900L
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English
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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.

3. The red badge of courage, and other stories

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Author:
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900
Series:
Dover thrift editions
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900L
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English
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5 stars
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During his service in the Civil War a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war. Written by Stephen Crane at the age of twenty-one, The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time-so groundbreaking that critics consider it to be the first work of modern American fiction. Although Crane never witnessed warfare, The Red Badge of Courage is a realistic...

4. Spawn

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Author:
McFarlane, Todd
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Image Comics
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"War To 300," Part Two Last Issue Before Spawn 300! Witness the debut of Todd McFarlane's newest creation The Rapture! Heaven's answer to the mythic Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, these eternal warriors are tasked with eliminating the plague called humanity from the face of the Earth. The War To 300 rages! Next month, new allegiances will form, new enemies will rise, and history will be made! Hollywood News! Soon to be a major motion picture from...

5. Mudbound

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Author:
Jordan, Hillary, 1963-
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English
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The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city-bred wife Laura becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns from World War II in 1946 to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, along with his comrade-in-arms Ronsel Jackson, the oldest son of local sharecroppers, who soon learns that his heroics in battle mean nothing in the Jim Crow south.

6. Lone wolf

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Author:
Hurwitz, Gregg
Series:
Orphan X novel volume 9
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English
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3 stars
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"Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis,...

7. Uncle Tom's cabin

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Author:
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
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Oxford world's classics volume 23
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1050L
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English
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Uncle Toms Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the hearts and minds of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us, in scenes of great dramatic power, the human effects of a system in which slaves were property. When a Kentucky farmer falls on hard times he is forced to sell all his slaves, and among them is Uncle Tom, who's bought by a brutal plantation owner. The novel describes the horror of...

8. Wuthering Heights

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Author:
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
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Oxford world's classics
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880L
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English
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3.7 stars
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"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...

9. Normal women: nine hundred years of making history

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Author:
Gregory, Philippa
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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The #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus-a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history. Most histories have been written by men, about men, relegating women-with the exception of a few queens-to the shadows of time. Now, bestselling author Philippa Gregory reveals the importance of ordinary women, providing...

10. The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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Author:
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Series:
Return of Sherlock Holmes volume 6
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English
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4 stars
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It has been three years since Sherlock Holmes fell to his death after a showdown with his brilliant enemy Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Believing his friend to be dead, Doctor John Watson has moved on with his life. That is, until he discovers Sherlock Holmes alive and in disguise one afternoon in a London shop. A whole new series of adventures awaits Holmes and Watson, and the consulting detective must use the science of deduction to solve new mysteries,...

11. How to seal your own fate: a novel

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Author:
Perrin, Kristen
Series:
Castle Knoll muder mystery volume 2
Castle Knoll murder mystery volume 2
Castle Knoll Files
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English
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"Present day: Annie Adams is just settling into life in Castle Knoll when local fortune teller Peony Lane crosses her path and shares a cryptic message. When Peony Lane is found dead only hours later inside the locked Gravesdown Estate, Annie quickly realizes that someone is out to make her look guilty while silencing Peony at the same time. Annie has no choice but to delve into the dark secrets of Castle Knoll in order to find out just what Peony...

12. The white road: a thriller

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Author:
Connolly, John, 1968-
Series:
Charlie Parker thriller volume 4
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English
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Internationally bestselling author John Connolly takes readers into the dark world of private detective Charlie Parker, whose deadly fight against evil begins when the daughter of a South Carolina millionaire is raped and murdered. In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots...

13. Bloodshot

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VanHook, Kevin
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Tired, bloody, and angry as hell, Bloodshot sets his sights on the man who ordered the citywide hit on him ? the Immortal Enemy! But Bloodshot's road to revenge is about be cut short when Cinder returns with a deadly new upgrade! Swearing vengeance on Bloodshot for ruining his life, can Cinder do what so many others have failed at? Guest-starring the Harbinger Foundation's black ops team!

14. My bondage and my freedom

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Author:
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
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Black rediscovery
Barnes and Noble classics
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English
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African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass tells his life story, describing his years as a slave and his escape in 1838, and reflecting upon life in the U.S. as a freedman. Includes explanatory notes, an introduction, and a further reading list.

15. Bright burning things: a novel

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Harding, Lisa
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"Sonya used to perform on stage. She used to attend glamorous parties, date handsome men, ride in fast cars. But somewhere along the way, the stage lights Sonya lived for dimmed for good. And then, in their absence, came darkness--blackouts, empty cupboards, hazy nights she can't remember. Haunted by her failed career and unresolved childhood trauma, Sonya has fallen deep into an alcoholic abyss. What keeps Sonya from losing herself completely is...

16. The list: a novel

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Author:
Adegoke, Yomi
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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"Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in one month's time. Young, beautiful, and successful--she and her fiancé Michael are considered the "couple goals" of their social network and seem to have it all. That is, until one morning when they both wake up to the same message: "Oh my god, have you seen The List?" It began as a crowdsourced collection of names and somehow morphed into an anonymous...

17. The thirty nine steps

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Author:
Buchan, John, 1875-1940
Series:
Great classic
Vintage Classics
Richard Hannay volume 1
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1000L
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English
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May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure - a desperate hunt across the country and against the clock, pursued by the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. Hannay's life and the security of Britain are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the thirty-nine...

18. In his own words

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Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013
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English
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In spreading the message of freedom, equality, and human dignity, Nelson Mandela helped transform not only his own nation, but the entire world. Now his most important speeches are collected in a single volume. From the eve of his imprisonment to his release twenty-seven years later, from his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize to his election as South Africa's first black president, these speeches span some of the most pivotal moments of Mandela's...

19. The men who killed the Luftwaffe: the U.S. Army Air Forces against Germany in World War II

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Author:
Stout, Jay A., 1959-
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English
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Dramatic story of World War II in the air. How the U.S. built an air force of 2.3 million men after starting with 45,000 and defeated the world's best air force. Vivid accounts of aerial combat. Jay A. Stout, a retired U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot, is a senior aviation consultant for a leading defense corporation and has appeared on Fox News as a combat aviation expert. His previous books include Fortress Ploesti (978-1-932033-18-2) and Hammer...

20. Ninja-K

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Author:
Gage, Christos N.
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Valiant Entertainment
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A Blockbuster New Jumping-On Point! In Margaret Thatcher's Britain, meet the future of espionage: the hard-hitting, brutalizing super-spy codenamed Ninja-H! From the encrypted files of The Ninja Programme, another secret chapter revealed! The Cold War is in full swing and the United Kingdom's top-secret intelligence unit has come to a crossroads. As their once-elite collection of secret agents finds itself outmatched by the escalation of the United...
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