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1) Lifeguard
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
High risk, high reward: a $5 million heist is the perfect job for Ned Kelly. But when it all goes horribly wrong, he discovers a world of secrets and sabotage.
Working as a lifeguard at a luxurious Florida resort, Ned Kelly meets the woman of his dreams. It feels perfect in every way-except that she's used to caviar and Manolo Blahniks, and he's used to burgers and flip-flops. So when Ned's cousin offers to cut him in on a fast break-and-enter...
Working as a lifeguard at a luxurious Florida resort, Ned Kelly meets the woman of his dreams. It feels perfect in every way-except that she's used to caviar and Manolo Blahniks, and he's used to burgers and flip-flops. So when Ned's cousin offers to cut him in on a fast break-and-enter...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap.
Author
Series
Robert Langdon volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The secret Catholic organization known as Opus Dei has struck. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been found dead inside the museum, surrounded by eldritch ciphers in invisible ink. It is up to Harvard semiotician Robert Langdon and his French cryptologist partner Sophie Neveu to decode the cipers, and get to the bottom of an ever-widening mystery. They discover that the late curator was the gatekeeper of the "Priory of Sion", a secret society...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
This book tells the previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command. These men had a mandate from President Roosevelt and the support of General Eisenhower, but were not provided with vehicles gasoline, typewriters, or authority. Each man gathered scraps and hints to construct his own treasure map using records recovered...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A beautiful and evocative look at identity and creativity, The Gallery of Unfinished Girls is a stunning debut in magical realism. Perfect for fans of The Walls Around Us and Bone Gap.
Mercedes Moreno is an artist. At least, she thinks she could be, even though she hasn't been able to paint anything worthwhile in the past year.
Her lack of inspiration might be because her abuela is in a coma. Or the fact that Mercedes is in love with
...Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Shaw Sebring is sixteen and trying desperately to understand and accept his father's recent suicide. Moving with his mother halfway across the county in an effort to distance themselves from the awful truth, Shaw lands in a new school and finds that the ghost of his father, a best-selling author, has followed him. Determined that he will not follow in his father's footsteps Shaw tries to chart his own course, until circumstances force him to accept...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Myra Whitlock has a gift. One many would kill for.
She's an artist whose portraits alter people's real-life bodies, a talent she must hide from those who would kidnap, blackmail, and worse in order to control it. But since, her magic only works when she understands the cause of the condition she wants to change, she cannot save her own sister from the undiagnosed illness that's slowly killing her. When Myra's offered a small fortune-more than enough...
10) The dead zone
Author
Publisher
Signet Bks
Pub. Date
1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
After four and a half years in a coma, Johnny Smith awakens with a knowledge of the death zone and an ability to see the future, a horrible power that he does not want and cannot escape
11) Richard II
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Classic Books Library presents this new beautiful edition of William Shakespeare's play, "Richard II". This edition features a specially commissioned new biography of William Shakespeare. The play is the first in Shakespeare's tetralogy chronicling the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, and covers the battle for power between King Richard and Henry Bolingbroke (who would eventually be Henry IV). Embezzlement, exile and an uprising...
Author
Series
Robert Langdon volume 4
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces--Dante's "Inferno"--as he battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"An evocative story of the thrills of first love and the anguish of first loss. This will break you and heal you." -Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin'
Not to be missed by fans of Nina LaCour and Becky Albertalli, this powerful novel-from the acclaimed author of Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit-paints a poignant portrait of love in the past, grief in the now, and the healing power of art.
Before: Jess has always...
14) Tagged
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The city is cracking down on graffiti and guerilla art. Between that and cutbacks to the local art gallery it seems like nothing is safe. But Oswald, masquerading as a graffiti artist known as The Wiz, is fighting back-by painting elaborate murals in public places and planting art in the galleries, and then by taking on the mayor himself. As the fight escalates and the stakes become higher, Oswald gets in deeper than he meant to and needs to rely...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Hollywood art dealer Ron Hall and former Louisiana indentured servant Denver Moore reflect on their lives and the friendship that was established between them thanks to Ron's late wife Deborah's volunteer work at Union Gospel Mission in Fort Worth, Texas.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rendered a subject of gossip after a traumatic night that left her with terrible scars on her arms, Echo is dumped by her boyfriend and bonds with bad-boy Noah, whose tough attitude hides an understanding nature and difficult secrets.
18) Oliver Twist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Olvier Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master crimminal, fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After he takes a photograph of a woman who is living on the streets and discovers it to be the meth-addicted mother of his closest friend Marissa, Blake finds himself spending more time with Marissa than with his girlfriend
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