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Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In this thrilling novel from a New York Times bestselling author, Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered: a predator known only as the Wolf.
Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues baffled. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes....
Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues baffled. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
This Newbery Award-winning children's classic tells the story of Jessie, a young boy snatched off the docks in New Orleans and thrown aboard a slave ship in a suspenseful and horrifying depiction of survival.
3) Dark watch
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Cuatro vientos volume 83
Publisher
Noguer
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
3. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
136 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Irish fiddler Sullivan escapes from prison after being implicated in the loss of Erasmus Kemp's slave ship, only to reencounter his nemesis in a struggle that pits Kemp's desire for wealth against Sullivan's advocacy for the disadvantaged.
Author
Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
viii, 243 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bad luck continues to follow Tom Tin and his mates as they find themselves aboard a formerly abandoned ship, are taught to be sailors by two black-hearted castaways they rescue, and sail to a Caribbean island where they make important new friends and enemies.
11) A falcon flies
Author
Series
Ballantyne novels volume 1
Publisher
Zaffre, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Zaffre Publishing edition.
Physical Desc
646 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thrown together on a voyage to Africa's fever-ridden shores, Dr Robyn Ballantyne and the ship's Master battle with all the fury of natural enemies. This is a saga of adventure and exploration, plotting the courage and determination of one woman amidst fierce and ruthless men.
12) Marley: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jacob Marley, business partner to Ebenezer Scrooge, is a rapacious and cunning boy who grows up to be a forger, a scoundrel, and the man who will be both the making and the undoing of Scrooge. They meet as youths in the gloomy confines of Professor Drabb's Academy for Boys, where Marley begins their twisted friendship by initiating the innocent Scrooge into the gentle art of extortion. Years later, in the dank heart of London, their shared ambition...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 497 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Booker Prize-winning author, a child of the Nigerian Civil War, reinvents through the story of the Atlantic slave trade the beautiful soul and resilient culture of his country. A boy and a girl meet by chance on a riverbank in Africa. One is the son of a king, struggling to find his place in the world, the other the daughter of a craftsman from the secretive tribe of master artists. The prince, entranced, stays hidden in the bushes. The girl,...
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