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Sigma Force novels volume 14
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Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing; his best friend Monk's wife, Kat, is unconscious on the kitchen floor, and Kat's two daughters have vanished. Kat is in a semi-comatose state and cannot speak-- until a brilliant neurologist offers a radical approach to "unlock" her mind long enough to ask a few questions. Soon Sigma Force is on a frantic quest for answers to mysteries reaching back to the Spanish Inquisition...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women...
3) The crucible
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Tale about the Puritan witch trials in the late 1600's Salem (Massachusetts), and how this historical play's lessons apply to contemporary society.
4) The crucible
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A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
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Riders of the Purple Sage volume 2
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Zane Grey wrote this splendidly thrilling sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage in 1915, but for almost ninety years it existed in a profoundly censored version. Young John Shefford, escaping from his troubled past in Illinois, heads west to follow up the curious legend of three people living imprisoned in Utah’s isolated Surprise Valley, one of whom is a beautiful girl named Fay Larkin. Shefford, half in love with the girl he’s never met, is determined...
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The Crucible trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 29
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The first book of The Crucible, an exciting new historical fantasy from the author of the popular Axis triology. The Nameless Day is, according to the ancient pagan calendar of Europe, the one day of the year when the world of mankind and the enigmatic world of the spirits touch. Mid-century the forces of evil slide across the divide and invade Europe. The Church sends Thomas Neville, an English nobleman, on a secret mission through the shadowy forests...
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Valediction for revenge volume 3
Pub. Date
c2003
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Young Jethro is undecided about remaining or riding into the sunset. His head tells him a man with a price on his head should drift on. But what of the widowed Susan McSween? Or of his friend, Billy the Kid? Or the starving Mescalero Apaches? Or the poor Anglo farmers and Mexican peons strangling from "the ring's" bloody yoke?
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House immortal volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
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A galvanized woman with an endlessly repairable body, Matilda Case stumbles into an alternate time line that should not exist and, to save the world where her loved ones and friends are alive to survive, she must find a way to stitch together time once and for all while being hunted by a madman. By the national best-selling author of Infinity Bell.
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c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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Amy's commitment to her husband, an elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church, is strained by the system of circuit-riding which keeps him away from home, and their faith is further tested by the rigors of the Civil War.
18) Crucible of gold
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Temeraire volume 7
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2013, ℗♭2012
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Continues the fantastical Napoleonic War experiences of Captain Will Laurence and his fighting dragon, who travel to South America to negotiate with the Incas as part of a plan to stop the Emperor's campaign for world domination.