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Traitor's game volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Kestra Dallisor has spent the last three years in exile, but that does not stop her from being drawn back into the web of her father's dangerous politics. He's second-in-command to the despotic and seemingly immortal king, Lord Endrick. With his arsenal of Ironheart soldiers and vicious condors, Endrick rules the land of Antora with a cruel and bloody fist. Her father's position makes Kestra a valuable bargaining chip, which a group of rebels understands...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1948, Sally Horner was just eleven years old when she was kidnapped by a man claiming to be an FBI agent. Seven years later, Vladimir Nabokov published Lolita, perhaps the most seminal novel of the twentieth century. Sarah Weinman's investigation into how the two are connected is a thrilling, heartbreaking mix of literary scholarship and true-crime writing."--back cover.
In 1948, Sally Horner was just eleven years old when she was kidnapped by...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes turn the Riviera upside-down to crack their most captivating case yet in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today." It's summertime on the Riviera, where the Jazz Age is busily reinventing the holiday delights of warm days on golden sand and cool nights on terraces and dance floors. Just up the coast lies a more traditional pleasure...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up residence in one of the city's most iconic sites: The Hotel Ritz....
25) Fair play
Author
Series
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair comes a historical love story about a lady doctor and a Texas Ranger who meet at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Saddled with a man's name, the captivating Billy Jack Tate makes no apologies for taking on a man's profession. As a doctor at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, she is one step closer to having her very own medical practice--until Hunter Scott asks her to give it all up to become his wife....
Author
Publisher
NICO 11 Publishing & Design
Pub. Date
copr. 2020
Language
English
Description
YARDS AFTER CONTACT is the inspiring story of Jack Hoffman through the eyes of his father, author Andy Hoffman. Jack was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor at age five and this story chronicles Jack's fight to survive his tumor, not only with treatment and surgery, but through a friendship with the University of Nebraska Cornhusker football team. Jack stole the hearts of people across the country with "The Run," a touchdown during the Huskers'...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's "ministry of ungentlemanly...
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