Paul Boehmer
1) Ape house
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, embarks on an adventure with reporter John Thigpen to rescue a family of bonobos that escaped from her lab and have been cast on a reality television program.
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
cp2008
Language
English
Description
As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey Island--a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.
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Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to seek Gilgamesh.
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English
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Marc Royce works for the State Department on special assignments, most of them rather routine, until two CIA operatives go missing in Iraq--kidnapped by Taliban forces bent on generating chaos in the region. Two others also drop out of sight--a high-placed Iraqi civilian and an American woman providing humanitarian aid. Are the disappearances linked? Rumors circulate in a whirl of misinformation. Marc must unravel the truth in a covert operation requiring...
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English
Description
Nearly one hundred years ago, a desperate young woman crawled ashore on a desolate arctic island, carrying a terrible secret and a mysterious, emerald-encrusted cross. A century later, acts of man, nature, and history converge on that same forbidding shore with a power sufficient to shatter civilization as we know it.
Army epidemiologist Frank Slater is facing a court-martial, but after his punishment is mysteriously lifted,...
Army epidemiologist Frank Slater is facing a court-martial, but after his punishment is mysteriously lifted,...
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Language
English
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A Polish musician, a Jewish conductor, a secret choir, and the rescue of a trove of music from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
On a cold October night in 1942, SS guards at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp violently disbanded a rehearsal of a secret Jewish choir led by conductor Rosebery d'Arguto. Many in the group did not live to see morning, and those who survived the guards' reprisal were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
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English
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Targeted for vengeance, a lawman finds his face on a wanted poster—and facing every cutthroat gunslinger willing to put a bullet through his badge for the bounty in Spur Award-winning author Larry D. Sweazy's action-packed western adventure.
Theodore Marberry is a grieving father. He groomed his daughter Jessica to take her rightful place among the wealthy families of St. Louis high society. Instead she married a common lawman...
Theodore Marberry is a grieving father. He groomed his daughter Jessica to take her rightful place among the wealthy families of St. Louis high society. Instead she married a common lawman...
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Language
English
Description
With unforgettable characters, a sweeping backdrop, and passionate storytelling, this is a fantasy debut to rival that of Robert Jordan. Filled with adventure and bloodshed, pageantry and piracy, mystery and menace, Assassin's Apprentice is the story of a royal house and the young man who is destined to chart its course through tempests of change.
Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow...
Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow...
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Language
English
Description
Brewster, who created several bestselling books on the "Titanic," uses original research to intertwine, for the first time, the lives of the rich and famous within the powerful arc of the ship's dramatic demise to convey the poignance of this epochal disaster.
The Titanic has often been called 'an exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian era,' but until now, her story has not been presented as such. In this book, the author seamlessly interweaves personal...
11) The warlock
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Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Josh has chosen to side neither with his twin sister Sophie nor with the Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel, but rather to fight alongside Dr. John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare, while the immortal Machiavelli and Billy the Kid follow the Elders' plans to set loose the monsters of Alcatraz on San Francisco and trigger the end of the humani race.
12) The necromancer
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Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.
13) The enchantress
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The two that are one must become the one that is all. One to save the world, one to destroy it. San Francisco: Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel have one day left to live, and one job left to do. They must defend San Francisco. The monsters gathered on Alcatraz Island have been released and are heading toward the city. If they are not stopped, they will destroy everyone and everything in their path. But even with the help of two of the greatest warriors...
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English
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When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that—and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly successful fifth-grade experience that would grow into the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), which today...
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English
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A bestseller "alive with the bustle of ancient times" that "movingly reconstructs St. Luke's search for God" (The New York Times).
Two millennia ago, a Greek man known as Lucanus traveled to Alexandria to study medicine. He would become one of the greatest doctors of his time and heal the sick all throughout the Mediterranean world.
But his extraordinary work as a physician is not his greatest legacy. Today he is known around the world as...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Eleven-year-old Gregor and his younger sister, Boots, return to the Underworld beneath New York City to find the cure for a terrible plague that threatens the life of their mother, as well as the lives of the people, bats, and rats who populate the underworld.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Twelve-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City, where he joins forces with Princess Lexa and Ripred the rat to defend the Underlanders and the Nibblers from the army led by the adolescent rat king, the Bane.
18) Royal Assassin
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Language
English
Description
Young Fitz, the illegitimate son of the noble Prince Chivalry, is ignored by all royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has had him tutored in the dark arts of the assassin. He has barely survived his first, soul-shattering mission, and when he returns to the court, he is thrown headfirst into the tumult of royal life.
With the king near death, and Fitz's only ally off on a seemingly hopeless quest, the throne itself is threatened....
With the king near death, and Fitz's only ally off on a seemingly hopeless quest, the throne itself is threatened....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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When twelve-year-old Gregor finally learns the ancient prophecy, which foretells his death, he must gather his courage to defend Regalia from the army of rats, take his mother and sister home safely, and fight his own dark side.
20) Assassin's Quest
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Language
English
Description
From an extraordinary voice in fantasy comes the stunning conclusion to the Farseer trilogy, as FitzChivalry confronts his destiny as the catalyst who holds the fate of the kingdom of the Six Duchies...and the world itself.
King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz—or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from the grave, deeply scarred in body and...
King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz—or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from the grave, deeply scarred in body and...