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81) The judge's list
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In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change.
Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby’s father was murdered twenty...
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Jake Brigance novels volume 3
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Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance digs in and discovers that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Jake’s fierce commitment to saving Drew from the gas chamber puts his career, his financial...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Sylvester the donkey finds a magic pebble and unthinkingly wishes himself a rock when frightened by a lion. Although safe from the lion, Sylvester cannot hold the pebble to wish himself into a donkey again. Caldecott Medal winner. Full-color illustrations.
85) The human body
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Explores the human body through illustrations and photographs, including how our bodies are organized, the role DNA plays in our makeup, how the brain and nervous system conrol our movements, why we have dreams and memories, and how we sense the world around us..
86) The economic valuation of community forestry: analytical approaches and a review of the literature
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Series
Economic development report volume EDR07-8
Pub. Date
[2007]
87) Tough trucks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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This book delivers lumbering tractor-trailers, dump trucks, tankers, and monster trucks galore-just the way kids love them. Rumble down the road with a team of wacky animal truckers in this "truck-tastic" picture book.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, the Rough-Face Girl and her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the affections of the Invisible Being. This variation on the Cinderella tale takes place in an Algonquin village on the shores of Lake Ontario.
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[2018]
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"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality...
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1998
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"This new edition contains more than 600 entirely new entries, to reflect the new figures and issues of English literature in the new millennium, and the existing entries have been extensively revised and updated to incorporate the latest scholarhip. But it remains faithful to Sir Paul Harvey's original vision of an authoritative work placing English literature in its widest context: no other volume offers such extensive exploration of the classical...
92) Chemistry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores the world of natural chemistry, how it is used on a daily basis to produce food and water, to check for infections and diseases, and to help in forensics; and contains full-color captioned photographs and text that explains such topics as chemical reactions, the periodic table, atoms and molecules, and more.
93) The solar system
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents color-illustrated profiles of the sun and each planet in the solar system, describing their size, composition, moons and rings, and other characteristics, and includes a brief discussion of asteroids and comets.
94) Ancient Greece
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Readers can journey back in time to ancient Greece in this visually stunning introduction to one of the world's founding nations that features fascinating information, statistics and facts showing how the ancient Greeks transformed our world.
95) Rogue lawyer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...
97) Dinosaur
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Unique 3-D color photography that you can really see! Discover the real world of dinosaurs with amazing 3-D pictures that allow the reader to spy on fierce, meat-eating dinosaurs or their extraordinary plant-eating cousins. Examine a dinosaur's teeth or peer into a nest full of eggs. A new way of seeing, a new way of learning! With it's dazzling 3-D color photos and unique mirror viewer, 3-D Eyewitness reveals the natural world as never seen before....
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first reported in women in 1981 and by 1990 had become the sixth leading cause of death in 25 to 44 year old women in the United States. By 1999 women accounted for 23% of all new AIDS diagnoses and 32% of newly reported HIV diagnoses. By 1995, heterosexual transmission surpassed injection drug use as the most common mode of transmission in women.
100) Trapshooting
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[2020]
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"This title introduces young sports fans to trapshooting, introducing the sport's history, rules, equipment, and why more and more athletes love playing it. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a glossary, and an index." -- Amazon.