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In June of 1954, 18-year-old Emmett Watson, released after serving 15 months for involuntary manslaughter, discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car and have hatched a different plan for Emmett’s future.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Reunited when the elder's husband is sent to fight in World War II, French sisters Vianne and Isabelle find their bond as well as their respective beliefs tested by a world that changes in horrific ways.
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English
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Known as Lady Death--a lethal hunter of Nazis--Mila Pavlichenko, sent to America on a goodwill tour, forms an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and a connection with a silent fellow sniper, offering her a chance at happiness until her past returns with a vengeance.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold.
11) French braid
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English
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Follows the Garrett family from 1959 onward as they discover that their actions advance across decades and ripple through generations.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to the hands of Fate.
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Bridgerton series volume 4
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English
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Secretly drawn to her best friend's brother for years, Penelope Featherington believes that she knows everything about Colin Bridgerton, until she stumbles upon his deepest secrets.
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Series
Bridgerton series volume 3
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English
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Relegated to the role of servant by her stepmother, Sophie Beckett must sneak her way into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball, where she has a chance encounter with the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton.
16) The lioness
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In 1964, Hollywood royalty Katie Barstow and her new husband, along with her glittering entourage, arrive for their luxury African safari, but are instead taken hostage by Russian mercenaries, in this blistering story of fame, race, love and death set in a world on the cusp of great change.
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English
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When mod English model Veronica Weber, while at the Frick museum, chances upon a series of hidden messages, she is led on a hunt that could not only solve her financial woes but could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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In 1947, pregnant Charlie St. Clair, an American college girl banished from her family, arrives in London to find out what happened to her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, and meets a former spy who, torn apart by betrayal, agrees to help her on her mission.
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