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Book cover for "This is not a game".
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Publisher:
Dutton
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"A grandmother and granddaughter are snowed in at a lavish party at a mansion where the host has been murdered, and the unlikely sleuthing pair must draw on a unique skillset to navigate a dangerous game together"--
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Series:
Hunger Games volume 1
Lexile measure:
810L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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"The Hunger Games as you've never seen it before--in a remarkable illustrated edition. Even at the age of sixteen, Katniss Everdeen knows it takes hard work, keen observation, and inner fortitude to survive in the world. Her home, District 12, is under the merciless rule of the Capitol, continually forced to pay after losing a long-ago civil war in the nation of Panem. One of the ways the Capitol keeps control is its annual Hunger Games, a televised...
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Dave Hayes
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Is there hope for America and the world after the 2020 election? Donald Trump was favored to win the 2020 Presidential election. But Covid, mail-in-ballots, and relentless attacks from the deep state controlled media led to a Joe Biden presidency. Many patriots have given up hope that the country can be saved. But the anonymous insider known as Q says there is a plan in place to save America and the world and nothing can stop what is coming.In this...
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Series:
Dagmar Shaw volume 1
Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Once upon a time, there were four of them. And though each was good at a number of things, all of them were very good at Dagmar is a game designer trapped in Jakarta in the middle of a revolution. The city is tearing itself apart around her and she needs to get out. Her boss Charlie has his own problems -- 4.3 billion of them, to be precise, hidden in an off-shore account. Austin is the businessman -- the VC. He's the one with the plan and the one...
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English
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4.7 stars
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"As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they're about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back in Kentucky, Thea and her grandmother Lucy both awaken...
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English
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3.6 stars
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A tale of court intrigues in the land of Seven Kingdoms, a country "blessed by golden summers that go on for years, and cursed by cruel winters that can last a generation." Treachery, murder, incest. "Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister...
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Lexile measure:
640L
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English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
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English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case, but soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal's motives--or who will die next. Two ex-Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, have been hired to defind a man's innocence in a burglary involving an aristocratic family. Then a series of secrets leads...
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Publisher:
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games, a nationally televised event in which 'Tributes' must fight with each other until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for the games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts to make impossible...
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Lexile measure:
780L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Child hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive. Andrew "Ender" Wiggins is the result of a desperate breeding experiment, combined with years of harsh & unforgiving training. Ender thinks he is only playing computer simulated wargames--in fact, he is commanding the last great fleet of Earth. Annotation. Winer of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile...
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Will Robie volume 5
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English
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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Will Robie returns home from a mission overseas to discover that his boss--codenamed Blue Man--has vanished. His last known location was in remote Colorado, and there have been no other sightings or communications since. But there is violence brewing in this small town, and Robie and his sometime-partner Jessica Reel will be lucky if they make it out alive, with or without Blue Man.
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Lexile measure:
750L
Language:
English
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The mysterious death of eccentric millionaire Samuel W. Westing brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date:
[2015]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst, and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of ǵross indecencý, an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality. Little did officials know they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing.
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English
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3.7 stars
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The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her. At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game. They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen...
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Series:
Big Nate volume 6
Publisher:
Andrews McMeel
Pub. Date:
[2013]
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 300L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"To sixth-grader Nate Wright, life is one big game. So when he suits up for any sport, he does it with an unmistakable swagger. From fine-tuning his trash-talking skills on the basketball court to his cocky 'tude in the soccer goal, Nate can be a bigger challenge to his teammates than their opponents"--Page 4 of cover.
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English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a Victor's Tour of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, and announces a...
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Publisher:
Lionsgate
Language:
English
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Coriolanus Snow mentors and fosters feelings for the female District 12 tribute during the tenth Hunger Games.
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Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele,...
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Publisher:
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Based on actual events, the status of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame is leaked by the White House after her husband writes an article challenging the basis for the U.S. war on Iraq.
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English
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3.5 stars
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"Bringing together a cast of fascinating characters in a riveting tale of ambition and corruption, politics, passion, and ultimate justice, Dangerous Games is a thrilling drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. Television correspondent Alix Phillips dodges bullets and breaks rules to bring the most important news to the world--from riots in America to protests on the streets of Tehran. With her daughter in college, and working...