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Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. Published in French as L'Île Mystérieuse in 1874, this novel is a sequel to Verne's earlier Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American...
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
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Carlo Rotella, an award-winning writer and ringside veteran, unearths the hard wisdom in any kind of fight, from barroom dustup to HBO extravaganza. He vividly describes the tough choices and subtle pleasures that come the way of every fighter, from perennial underdogs on the tank-town circuit to the one-time heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, who still spars to retching exhaustion daily.
Rotella uncovers the often-startling light that boxing sheds...
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A wall of silence surrounds a cadet’s death at an elite military academy: “Superb . . . This is an outstanding book.” —Publishers Weekly
Detective Commissario Guido Brunetti has been called to investigate a parent’s worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice’s elite military academy.
Brunetti’s sorrow...
Detective Commissario Guido Brunetti has been called to investigate a parent’s worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice’s elite military academy.
Brunetti’s sorrow...
6) Iguanas
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Grolier Educational
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
7) Rays
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Grolier Educational
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
8) Cougars
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Grolier Educational Corp
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
9) The ask
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
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From the author of Home Land and Venus Drive comes Sam Lipsyte'ssearing, beautiful, and deeply comic novel, The Ask.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Milo Burke, a development officer at a third-tier university, has "not been developing": after a run-in with a well-connected undergrad, he finds himself among the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after odd jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is offered one...
10) Pikas
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Grolier Educational
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
11) Toads
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Grolier Educational
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
12) Parrotfish
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Grolier Educational
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
13) Albatrosses
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Grolier Educational
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
14) Scorpions
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Grolier Educational
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
16) Butterflies
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Grolier Educational
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
17) Sea otters
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Grolier Educational
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
18) Wild dogs
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Grolier Educational
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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