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Author
Series
Michael Bennett mystery volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
During a state funeral for a former First Lady at a New York City cathedral, armed men disguised as monks seize the church and dozens of hostages, and NYPD officer Michael Bennett takes on the dangerous role of lead negotiator in the standoff.
Author
Language
English
Description
When his foster father, a wealthy merchant and bookseller, finances Johann Gutenberg and his printing press, Peter Schoeffer is ordered to become Gutenberg's apprentice and begins his education in the "darkest art" as they print copies of the Holy Bible, drawing the wrath of the Church.
3) Loving Frank
Author
Language
English
Description
Mamah and her husband, Edwin, commission the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives.
5) Angel fire
Author
Language
English
Description
Someone to watch over me? Sean Seamus Desmond, newly-announced Nobel Prize winner, relishes the unknowns of science, but a real-life mystery of love and passion ... in the form of a beautiful woman who says she's his guardian angel? Impossible. Yet there in his New York hotel room is an enchanting creature named Gabriella Light, who inexplicably and dramatically has just saved his life. Voluptuous and exquisitely dressed, sexy Gabriella, angel or...
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo, Benjamin, Trap, Petunia, and Bugsy Wugsy, go back in time to Germany in the 1400s to stop the pirate cats from sabotaging the workshop of Gutenberg - the inventor of the printing press.
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Waking up in an unfamiliar place, unable to remember who he is, and attacked by a force he cannot see, Eric Sanderson discovers he is being hunted by a psychic predatory shark that may exist only in his mind but soon starts making some very real appearances in his world.
Author
Publisher
Viking Penguin Inc
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
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Description
A hijacked jumbo jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Gibreel and Saladin, are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur--Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the initial act in an odyssey that merges the actual with the imagined.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It's a job usually reserved for men, but in the war, those...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Hubble Middle School just got a 3-D printer for the use of the S.M.A.R.T.S. club, but when somebody breaks into the school at night to use the printer, Zoe, Jaden, and Caleb are blamed--so the friends need to use their skills to prove their innocence, bring the troublemaker to justice, and save their club.
15) 100 cupboards
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 141
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
17) Dragon
Author
Series
Five ancestors volume 7
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Long, a dragon-style kung fu master and the oldest of the five survivors of the destroyed Cangzhen, must get to the Forbidden City before Tonglong declares himself emperor.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"The winter of the year my father carried a gun for his own protection was the coldest on record in Chicago." So begins Ward Just's An Unfinished Season, the winter in question a postwar moment of the 1950s when the modern world lay just over the horizon. It was a time of rabid anticommunism, worker unrest, and government corruption that even the small-town family could not escape.
Author
Series
Capital mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
KC and Marshall take a tour of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and when they discover that someone has been stealing bricks of newly printed money, they resolve to find the thief.
Author
Series
Nate the Great volume 26
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Nate and his dog Sludge help Rosamond discover who has been tearing pages out of her books.