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Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other people's secrets. Now they must steal each other's. A Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, operational chief Artemis Procter is made a scapegoat for the disaster and run out of the service. Months later, Sam appears at Procter's doorstep with...
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Captain Underpants volume 07
Publisher:
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date:
2003
Lexile measure:
710L
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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George, Harold, Captain Underpants, and Sulu the Bionic Hamster battle the three Ridiculous Robo-Boogers in an attempt to turn the Bionic Booger Boy back into Melvin Sneedly.
4. On the floor
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Picador
Pub. Date:
2013
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English
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A hard-living investment banker has three days to decide her destiny in this thrilling novel. It has been 182 days of vodka and insomnia since Geri Molloy got dumped. A twenty-eight-year-old investment banker with a rare knack for numbers, Geri counts the days since her breakup with the same determination that has made her serious capital on her firm's London trading floor. But, it is January of 1991, and war in the Middle East is about to shake up...
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AuthorHouse
Pub. Date:
2014
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English
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How long would you hold onto a dream if you knew one day it would become a reality? Could anyone or anything tear it away from you? What if year after year you were told it would never ever be possible? Where does the strength come from to never give up? In her book, The Seventh Floor, Debra Deardorff takes you on a riveting personal journey through the darkest of times of challenge to a realization of a dream - only to find the journey was never...
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M. Culler
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Small town? Check. Stress-free? Check. Olivia loves her new life away from the high-pressure world of Manhattan. Her big city friends mayconsider her a rom-com heroine in the making, the new girl destined to fall head over heels for therugged hometown hero, but that's not Olivia's dream. She just wants to be left alone with her exoticaquarium and her sweet new apartment. But as Olivia soon discovers, even small towns can be full of surprises. In this...
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1030L
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4 stars
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"One of the most popular twentieth-century novels, To the Lighthouse is the story of a woman and her family experiencing the passage of time and seeking to recapture meaning from the flux of things. Though Mrs Ramsay’s death is the event on which the novel turns, her presence pervades every page in a poetic evocation of loss and memory which is a celebration of domestic life and its intimate, trivial details. But, through the character of Mrs Ramsay’s...
9. Gingerbread
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English
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4.5 stars
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"Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories, beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe. Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are....
10. Good different
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2023
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English
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Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse.
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970L
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English
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"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old...
12. Love, Ish
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640L
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English
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Twelve-year-old Mischa "Ish" Love's longtime dream has been to someday live on Mars, but when she collapses on the first day of seventh grade, Ish receives a diagnosis which threatens her future plans.
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Imprint
Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
840L
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English
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Being a superhero isn't easy. But, surviving a middle school dance? That's when things get really hard... Amanda Price never dreamed she'd turn into Bug Girl, a hero with the powers of the insect kingdom. She also never dreamed it would be this difficult. Turns out superpowers aren't much help with Geri, the new bully terrorizing the seventh grade. Or, with Emily. She's supposed to be Amanda's partner in crime-fighting, but she's too busy freaking...
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Cecropia Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Gold! Wealth beyond all imagination! Destroyed off the coast of Santelmo Island a few hundred years earlier, the Santa Rita lies in wait with her treasure on the ocean floor. That is what Bill Marin finds, but it is seven fathoms deep and guarded by some of the biggest, meanest sharks in the Pacific. But they are not the only menace to his treasure. There are sharks above the surface who think nothing of snuffing out a life for money. When El Cangrejo,...
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Otbebookpublishing
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science January 1931 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Dark Side Of Antri" by H.W. Wesso: Commander John Hanson Relates an Interplanetary Adventure Illustrating the Splendid Service Spirit of the Men of the Special Patrol, "The Sunken Empire" by Sewell Peaslee Wright: Concerning the Strange Adventures of Professor Stevens with the...
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Chariss K. Walker
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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5-Stars "Chariss K Walker's series of 8 - This is the best series of books I have read in a very long time. Can't with for 8!" - Carol SilkerLamp's Light, romantic suspense psychic thriller, is the seventh fast-paced, captivating novel in The Vision Chronicles series by award-winning author Chariss K. Walker and picks up where book six left off.5-Stars "My favorite by far! This book is perhaps the most frightening because James sees what could be...
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date:
2011
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English
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The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling military thriller writer and coauthor of the bestselling Rogue Warrior series goes beyond the headlines and worldwide speculation in this pulse-pounding fictional account of the breathtaking hunt for the world's most wanted terrorist, Usama Bin Laden KBL Some truths are better told in fiction. In this riveting novel drawn from actual events and based on real-life heroes whose identities remain classified-including...
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Publisher:
Archie
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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The Black Hood finally corners the mysterious "Connection" on the abandoned seventh floor of City Hall. No cops, no witness - just the two of them, ready to throw down. But when the Connection finally reveals his identity, Greg realizes the game was rigged from the beginning. And it's going to take all of the Black Hood's strength to walk out of this building alive...
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J-Novel Club
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Lyle Walt is struggling. His ancestors have given him a challenge to conquer thirty floors of Aramthurst's dungeon without using their Arts, but with his party divided, it's proving impossible. Aria and Sophia bicker with one another constantly, and Miranda only fuels the flames. Meanwhile Novem watches on without intervening, fending off Lyle's new automaton, who treats her with open hatred. And all the while, Lyle sits with his head in his hands,...