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In fifteenth-century England, when his father's murderer is revealed to be his guardian, seventeen-year-old Richard Shelton joins the fellowship of the Black Arrow in avenging the death, rescuing the woman he loves, and participating in the struggle between the Yorks and Lancasters in the War of the Roses.
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Series
Rome escape line volume 1
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannführer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn...
3) Agatha
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1978
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Agatha Christie disappears in the midst of marital problems. She is found in a hotel registered under the name of her husband's mistress and cannot remember anything.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Lonely Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she enjoys caring for injured animals, but her budding friendship with Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, emboldens Oriol, an aspiring writer, to open up and create a world of words for herself.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Twelve-year-old Suzy Bowles dreams of life outside the small town of Burr Oak Michigan, but when she stumbles on the opportunity to learn ostrich-riding with the infamous Madame Marantette her obligations to her family on the farm threaten to derail her dreams of a bigger life. Includes photographs and information on Madame Marantette.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. the younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn't have long to live. When George becomes captivated by a brand-new book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and begs her to find out where Narnia came from, there's no way she can refuse. Megs soon finds herself taking tea with the Oxford don and...
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
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A groundbreaking figure in every sense of the word, Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was one of the first Black nurses during the Civil War, tending to the wounded soldiers of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Afterward, she was a key figure in establishing a postbellum educational system for formerly bonded Black people, opening several dedicated schools in Georgia. Taylor was also one of the first Black women to publish her memoirs....
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Series
Great escapes) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
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"In 1863, Colonel Thomas Rose and Major A. G. Hamilton led fifteen desperate Union soldiers out a grimy tunnel underneath the nightmarish Confederate-run Libby Prison in Richmond, VA"--
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Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
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Mirror image: When Millicent Barnes spies her exact double at a bus station, she becomes convinced that the double is trying to take her place in the world. Dust: A man is about to be hanged for drunkenly running over a little girl in a decaying town. But when the girl's anguished father flings "magic dust" into the air, a change comes over the squalid village. Five characters in search of an exit: A clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer, a bagpipe player...
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