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1) Moloka'i
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"Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands that her father, a merchant seaman, often visits. But at the age of seven, Rachel and her dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy. Forcibly removed from her family, she is sent to Kalaupapa, the isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i. In her exile she finds a family of friends...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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A tale inspired by the writings of Tiro, Cicero's confidential secretary, traces the life of the ancient Roman orator from his beginnings as a young lawyer through his competitions with Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus in the political arena.
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Jane Austen mystery volume 9
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English
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On the heels of completing Sense and Sensibility, Jane heads to Sloane Street for a monthlong visit with her brother Henry and his wife, Eliza. Hobnobbing with the Fashionable Great at the height of the Season, Jane is well aware of their secrets and peccadilloes. But even she is surprised when the intimate correspondence between a Russian princess and a prominent Tory minister is published in the papers for all to see. More shocking, the disgraced...
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After her father dies without leaving her with a dowry, a seventeenth-century Persian teen becomes a servant to her wealthy rug designer uncle in the court of Shah Abbas the Great, where her weaving talents prove both a blessing and curse.
At the age of fourteen, a young woman in 17th-century Persia believes she will be married within the year. But when her beloved father dies, collapsing in the field where he works with the other men from their...
12) Coal black horse
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
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1110L
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English
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English
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1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, an isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. But soon she makes another discovery: her son has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect. A variety of outsiders are drawn to the crime and to...
19) When gods die
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Sebastian St. Cyr mystery volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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June 1811. The beautiful young wife of an aging marquis found dead in the arms of the Prince Regent. From her back protrudes a jeweled dagger. Around her neck lies a bluestone-and-silver necklace said to have been worn by Druid priestesses--and reputed to have mysterious powers. That is, until it was lost at sea with its last owner, the mother of Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin. Shadowed by rumors of his dark past, Sebastian is lured into a dangerous...
20) Among the gods
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Fleeing King Manasseh's tyranny, Joshua leads the faithful remnant to their new home in Egypt, but as years pass, his desire for vengeance becomes an obsession.
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