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101) Pig island
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Following the trail of a strange creature caught briefly on film, so deformed it can hardly be human, Oakes crosses a border of electrical fencing, toxin-filled oil drums, and pig skulls to infiltrate the territory of the groups' isolated founder, Malachi Dove. Their confrontation, and its violent aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces Oakes to question the nature of evil-and whether he might be responsible for the heinous crime about to unfold....
102) The last continent
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Discworld volume 22
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Something is amiss at Unseen Unversity, Ankh-Morpork's most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning. A professor is missing-but a search party is on the way! A bevy of senior wizards will follow the trail wherever it leads-even to the other side of Discworld, where the Last Continent, Fourecks, is under construction. Imagine a magical land where rain is but a myth and the ordinary is strange and the past and present run side by side....
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[2017]
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Braids together three disparate strands--Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and a labor strike in northern Michigan--into one epic saga that holds meaning for working Americans today. Following the trail from Dylan to Guthrie to an event that claimed the lives of seventy-four men, women, and children a century ago, Wolff found himself tracing the history of an anger that has been passed down for decades. Grown-up anger chronicles the struggles between the...
104) Concealment
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Concealment is a timeless love story involving two woman, the horrors of war and the final sacrifice, of a brave man.
Alex is on an assignment following the trail of war criminals, and is unaware of the anguish his friend Clara is going through. She has requested the help of "Island Art Inquiries." Sue Lee and Doctor Jane arrived at her home in Clovelly to learn more about a book from the past. They promised Clara they will find the writer while...
105) Soldiers of God
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When ARKANE Archivist Martin Klein joins the Vatican digital archiving project, he finds an ancient letter mistakenly scanned along with the medieval papal decree Militia Dei, Soldiers of God.It points to a dark secret the Knights Templar once tried to erase from existence, hidden in a medieval fortress under the heart of Paris for almost a thousand years.As Martin follows the trail to the hidden Templar crypt, aided by biblical scholar Camara Mbaye,...
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2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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While working on a project translating letters from sixteenth-century Prague, high school senior Nora Kane discovers her best friend murdered with her boyfriend the apparent killer and is caught up in a dangerous web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all searching for a mysterious ancient device purported to allow direct communication with God.
107) Darkness Without End
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Invited by a Catholic Bishop to work in the Klondike, newlywed Pastor Léon Chevalier and his wife Joliette, discovered that the mines were not only full of gold but also of evil night creatures that feed on human blood. Trying to unravel the mystery, Léon unknowingly followed the trail leading to the Bishop.
108) Finding Yorgy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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In need of money to buy tickets for the Monster Madness Convention, Alex and Ronnie take a job painting a neighbor's garage; easy money, until Alex fears that he has let their neighbor's excitable puppy, Yorgy, out of the house and the boys and their friend, Kendra, follow the trail through swamp and garbage dump--and straight into the heart of the convention, where their chase takes an unexpected turn.
109) The ice queen
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The body of ninety-two-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution style in his house near Frankfurt. A five-digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene. The autopsy reveals an old and unsuccessfully covered tattoo on the corpse's arm--a blood type marker once used by Hitler's SS. Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver Bodenstein are faced with a riddle. Was the old man not Jewish after all? Who was...
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A woman is kidnapped from Fort Henry by a band of renegades and hostile Ohio Valley Indians. Now, Lewis Wetzel and Jonathan Zane take pursuit. With no hope of survival, they follow the trail into the unknown wilderness, vowing it to be their last venture. At trail's end, they will face their bloodiest battle.
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Janitors volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Spencer, Daisy, and their little team of rebels must find the source of all magical Glop and destroy it before it destroys the world as they know it.
112) The ninja's blade
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Lily Wong series volume 2
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"Lily Wong -- a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja -- has more trouble than she was bargaining for when controlling grandparents arrive in Los Angeles from Hong Kong at the same time she goes undercover in the dangerous world of youth sex trafficking. As she hunts for a kidnapped prostitution victim, a missing high school girl, and a sociopathic trafficker, the surviving members of a murderous street gang hunt for her. Life would be easier if Lily...
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When Miss Emily Jackson's brown Burmese cat Mandalay brings her a partially unraveled knit vest, she consults her friends Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. They follow the trail of wool and discover evidence of a horrible crime. Can Watson's medical expertise save a child's life, and can Holmes discover who is willing to kill a child, and why?
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A bit of luck and an astonishing clue lead Kennedy to San Francisco, where a door opens into an entirely new mystery with engrossing twists of its own. Haunted by a broken romance, bewildered by a new one, the reserved and courtly Kennedy proves irresistible to women, much to his (and the readers) delight.
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Balthazar volume 5
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Français
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A father, mother, and son are executed at a roadside rest stop, but it turns out the victims were posing as a family to transport drugs-which are now gone. Following the trail back to the dealer, Balthazar and Camille wind up in a dangerous contest.
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The global coffee trade is a collision between the rich world and the poor world.A group of graduate students is about to experience that collision head-on.Angela, Alex, Rich, and Sofi a bring to their summer research project in Guatemala more than their share of grad-school baggage-along with clashing ideas about poverty and globalization. But as they follow the trail of coffee beans from the Guatemalan peasant grower to the American coffee drinker,...
117) Rogue Huntress
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What werewolf reunion doesn't begin with kidnapping and end with betrayal?
Ember's commitment to family never wavers. So when her elusive brother plants clues leading to the doorstep of a mother she's never met, Ember willingly follows the trail.
Unfortunately, the road to reunion is blocked by a familiar enforcer. Dakota has ditched her bombs and turned to blackmail in an attempt to protect shifter-kind, and this time Ember's twelve-year-old cousin...
118) Slightly Staked
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Welcome to Climax, where the people are friendly, the location is rustic, and things can get a little quirky. Lina Harker has discovered her grandmother's secret. She used to be a vampire. Now, Lina's greatest fear is that a remnant of that vampire DNA is lurking in her cells, waiting to reactivate. Yes, Dracula's lineage had been destroyed, but the 'what if's were too much to imagine.Doggedly following the trail of two families that escaped the Van...
119) Sensei
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A modern-day ronin is traveling across the country systematically murdering martial arts masters in ritualized combat. Connor Burke is a part-time college teacher with a passion for the martial arts. His brother Micky, an NYPD detective, calls him in to help with the investigation. Connor calls for additional help from his teacher, master warrior Yamashita Sensei. Burke begins to follow the trail of clues that stretches across time and place, ultimately...
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Beatrix, Clara, Christopher and Benjamin, They called themselves the Cluefinders Club. So for years they had been meeting after school. They called themselves the Cluefinders Club. The best friends would teach themselves how to be detectives, by finding clues and following the trail until the mystery was solved.