Jasper
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Have you ever wondered what life is all about?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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In the good old days, magic was indispensable; it could both save a kingdom and clear a clogged drain. But now magic is fading. Drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and magic carpets have been reduced to pizza delivery. Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer Strange runs Kazam Mystical Arts Management, an employment agency for magicians - but its hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. And then the visions start, predicting the death of the...
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
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In an alternate United Kingdom, King Snodd aims to control the world by controlling magic, and only sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange, acting manager of an employment agency for sorcerers, stands between Snodd and his plans.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange faces the impossible when the mighty Shandar emerges from his preserved state and presents her with a task that sends her and her companions on a journey from which they may never return.
6) The patient
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"In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case-a 40-year-old man who was originally admitted to...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the sixth novel of the renowned Thursday Next series, “geeky humor jostles with genuine insight” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) as Thursday embarks on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England.
[One of Our Thursdays Is Missing] is jam-packed with spot-on parody, puns, and wry observations about words and genres that will...
[One of Our Thursdays Is Missing] is jam-packed with spot-on parody, puns, and wry observations about words and genres that will...
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Jamison "Kango" Watts was once known as an invisible man, a quiet "fixer" who always got the job done with clean hands and cash in his pocket. Now he's living the quiet life in DC, running a soul food restaurant and doing the occasional job to scratch his old itch. All that changes when Jelly, his old yoga teacher, blows into town with the ultimate score, one that will take Kango first to London and then back to Brooklyn to face old enemies and ghosts...
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Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was the founder of Fascism and iron-fisted ruler of Italy for two decades. He was also an extremely able politician who won the esteem of many statesmen, including Winston Churchill and influential persons in the United States.
This biography describes Mussolini's childhood, his education (including his suspension from school for attacking other boys with knives), his World War I experiences and severe wounding, his involvement...
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What did Mozart and Bach, Oscar Wilde and Anthony Trollope, George Washington and Frederick the Great, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt have in common? They were all Freemasons, a subject of endless fascination. To the layman, they are a mysterious brotherhood of profound if uncertain influence, a secret society purported in some popular histories to have its roots in the fabled order of the Knights Templar, or in the mysteries of the Egyptian...
11) Blockchain
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Unleash Blockchain's Potential and Embrace the Digital Revolution. Are you interested in technology revolutionizing industries and altering how we communicate and conduct business? Look nowhere else! The best resource for comprehending and utilizing the potential of blockchain is "Blockchain: Unlocking the Power of Blockchain- Your Essential Handbook for the Digital Revolution."
As you set out on a journey through the fundamental ideas, uses, and...
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CISSP Secrets: Unlocking Your Journey to Cyber Proficiency
A Simplified Guide with Detailed Explanations
Are you looking to elevate your career and cement your understanding by acing the CISSP Exam 2024-2025?
Are you in search of an all-encompassing guide that equips you with everything you need to excel in the CISSP Exam 2024-2025?
Look no further!
This guide is your ultimate companion for enhancing your knowledge, applying your...
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Jasper Fforde's delightfully zany Thursday Next series shows no signs of slowing down with its seventh entry, The Woman Who Died a Lot. Despite being semihappily semi-retired from SpecOps, Thursday accepts the head librarian position at the Swindon library. But soon threats from a supreme Deity, a mnemonomorph, and the nefarious Goliath corporation press Thursday back into active duty.
14) Our Return
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She meets Cade Lawson, a quiet but skilled ranch hand with a mysterious past. Together, they embark on a journey to save Timberwood Farm from financial ruin. Nora implements a bold plan to transition to organic farming methods, facing numerous challenges along the way. As they work to revitalize the farm, Nora and Cade's initial antagonism gradually evolves into mutual respect, friendship, and eventually, love.
Through it all, their determination,...
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Eve, a normal black woman in every way, never imagined she would be drawn into the dangerous world of organized crime...
But Nico Vicari is relentless. The brooding, dark mafia enforcer has made it clear-he wants Eve.
He refuses to take "no" for an answer.He has always craved a woman like her: dark, delicious, so far removed from his mafia criminal life.
She swore she'd never fall for a man like him-ruthless, possessive, and deadly.
The chemistry...
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In Bounded Wilderness, Kathryn Jasper focuses on the innovations undertaken at the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in central Italy during the eleventh century by its prior, Peter Damian (d. 1072). The congregation of Fonte Avellana experimented with reforming practices that led to new ways of managing property and relations among clergy, nobles, and the laity.
Jasper charts how Damian's notion of monastic reform took advantage of the surrounding topography...
17) Ex-Con's Captive
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The death of a wealthy Nigerian unites his daughters from around the globe...
Each one is devastatingly beautiful, with toasted walnut-brown skin, Ivy League educations and new inheritances of over $10 million.
TYRA JACKSON:
Tyra Jackson's estranged father left a terrifying nemesis in his wake.
The Ex-Con, Leon Wilkins has killed for his country, for his boss, and for his own ends...
The three-time killer kidnaps Tyra in hopes of acquiring a...
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Crispin Barclay, a chiseled 6'6" college student, killed his parents.
The rumor spreads about the hot, blond billionaire heir after his parents' mysterious death.
He's vicious.
Cruel.
Exactly the type to kill his parents for money.
Nobody stands in his way.
Nobody says "no" to him.
Except her.
The impossible, dark-skinned, Amina Hewett.
Crispin wants her more than he's wanted anyone.
He...
19) Family, Pack
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Some family curses really should be passed on...Tommy Roling does everything humanly possible to raise his infant daughter Corinne the right way. But a half year out of high school, Tommy finds himself a single parent as well as flat broke.And, with every full moon, he can't fight the urge to strip off his clothes and run wild through the pastures outside town.So when a stranger shows up, slashed to death, the day after Tommy's most recent full-moon...
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In the days before his fortieth birthday, London-based journalist Jasper Rees trades his pen for a French horn that has been gathering dust in the attic for more than twenty-two years, and, on a lark, plays it at the annual festival of the British Horn Society.
Despite an embarrassingly poor performance, the experience inspires Rees to embark on a daunting, bizarre, and ultimately winning journey: to return to the festival in one year's time and...