Stephen Davies
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Part thriller, part love story, this contemporary YA novel is based on true-to-life events in Mali in 2012 and centers on the power of individuals to take a stand against terrorism. Kadi is the 15-year-old daughter of a librarian in modern-day Timbuktu. Ali is the son of shepherds and has been conscripted by the Defenders of Faith, an arm of Al Qaeda. When these two teens meet, it's hate at first sight. Forced together by a series of tumultuous events,...
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Sophie lives in Gorom-Gorom, with her carnivorous-plant obsessed dad. Despite living there for two years and speaking the local language, Sophie finds it difficult to make friends. So when she meets Gidaado, a young griot (story-teller), she agrees to join him and his albino camel, Chobbal, on a journey to his village. It is not until they have set off, that Sophie begins to realise just how dangerous the desert is - it's full of djinnis that creep...
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Watch out! The Locusts are coming... A terrifying army of locusts is making its way along the edge of the Sahara desert, devastating crops in one village after another. Gidaado's village is next. When the locusts arrive Gidaado will need all his wits about him in order to survive. He will need his friend Sophie. He will need his three-stringed guitar. And he will need an albino camel as fast as the harmattan wind...
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Never mess with power-hungry people!' Or so Sophie's Dad is always telling her. But when her friend Gidaado the Fourth starts working for a famous General, Sophie finds herself mixed up in some very dirty business. She discovers that General Crêpe-Sombo is not at all the kind, peaceful man he pretends to be. To expose the villain before he becomes President, Sophie and Gidaado will need all their wits about them. They will also need a dog whistle,...
5) Chessboxer
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'Gripping and surprising. I gulped it down' Sarah Crossan
Leah Baxter is a genius. She's a few wins away from becoming a junior chess grandmaster, and her life is on course to achieve everything her mom and coach want for her.
But Leah is at stalemate — grieving for her father, and feeling suffocated. She decides to make the ultimate sacrifice and quit chess. But chess doesn't want to quit her. Soon Leah discovers her new gambit: chessboxing,...
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'Get back on the bus!'
One of the policemen was walking towards them holding his pistol.
Haroun flicked on his helmet-lamp and peered in through the window of the car. Claude Gerard was dead!
When the Director of the Saharan uranium mine where he works is mysteriously murdered, fourteen year-old Haroun embarks on a dangerous new role as a spy in the service of the French Government. A shocking conspiracy is unearthed - somebody is trafficking...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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After carrying a bowl of milk on her head across dunes and the River Niger, and even up a mountain, without spilling a drop despite many distractions, Penda gets a surprise when she arrives at the grasslands to give her father his lunch.
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Flying Eye Books
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2019.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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179 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"Meet Hilda--explorer, adventurer, avid sketchbook-keeper, and friend to every creature in the valley! Well ... almost every creature ... Newly initiated into the Sparrow Scouts, Hilda and her friends are ready to explore and document the wilderness. Yet as luck would have it, there is a dark, menacing creature afoot near Trolberg, and Hilda is whisked back home to safety. Even so, intrigue seems to follow our blue-haired heroine wherever she goes,...
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Origin mystery volume 3
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Brilliance: Audible Studios
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[2020]
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8 audio discs (9 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the wake of global cataclysm, scientists race through the ruins of the Atlantean ship left on Earth, across Atlantean science stations in space, and into the past of a culture whose secrets could save humanity.
11) Midnight Alley
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A gritty, atmospheric glimpse into Los Angeles's noir underworld.
Ash Levine, the top detective in the LAPD's elite Felony Special Squad, is called out to solve the murder of two young black men found shot to death in a Venice alley. The case is a high priority because one of the victims is the son of City Councilman Isaac Pinkney, a frequent critic of the LAPD. Searching for the killer throws Levine into the world of Los Angeles's Russian Mafia,...
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When a legendary ex-cop is murdered in L.A., the pressure's on to find the killer. Lt. Frank Duffy needs his best detective on the case, but his best detective, Ash Levine, quit a year ago.
A tenacious, obsessive detective, Ash resigned after Latisha Patton, the witness in a homicide case he was working, was murdered. Without his job, Ash is left unanchored-and consumed with guilt that he somehow caused Latisha's murder.
When he's asked to rejoin...
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Intrigue...Corruption...Manipulation. In this engaging thriller, David Perry demonstrates his skill as a master storyteller taking us behind the counter into the world of pharmacy. The Cyclops Conspiracy accelerates through intense terrain toward an incredible finish. As the story opens, pharmacist Jason Rodgers stands nose-to-nose with his tortured past following the untimely death of his mentor, Thomas Pettigrew. He is reunited with his former lover...
14) Girl Divided
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In the middle of the American Second Civil War, born with a face that is half black and half white, Jetta belongs nowhere. In New Orleans, where she lives with her grandmother after her parents' death, she is believed to be a demon come to curse them all. Everywhere in the town, the blacks-or people of any color-are being persecuted and, one day, Jetta is moved by the white military and shipped outside of the city walls to live in a closed ghetto...
15) Lord of Monsters
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Build a dungeon. Command minions. Fulfill carnal desires with sexy monster girls . . . Pay the price for making a deal with a daemon. After being saved from his own execution by a deal-making daemon, Keaton is tasked with killing a dungeon lord. A straightforward task for a former assassin, but the moment Keaton's dagger plunges into the dungeon core crystal, he becomes the newest lord of The Labyrinth. What starts as a maze of useless caverns quickly...
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Keaton and his monster girls have defeated their first rival dungeon lord, but there are many more out there who'd love to take them down. One in particular seems eager to get his hands on Cassia, and when he demands the lieutenant under penalty of invasion, Keaton must think fast to keep his trusted companion safe.
The quest to undermine that greater evil leads Keaton to ally himself with an alluring succubus who feeds on the sexual energy of wayward...
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Strange, poignant tales of life on tomorrow's Earth and in outer space from multiple Hugo Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction Clifford D. Simak. Virtually every major author from science fiction's fabled golden age-including Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein-agreed that Clifford D. Simak was one of the greatest among them. Named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, the award-winning author created enduring...
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Ten thrilling and intriguing tales of space travel, war, and alien encounters from multiple Hugo Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction Clifford D. Simak. From Frank Herbert's Dune to Isaac Asimov's Foundation series to Philip K. Dick's stories of bizarre visions of a dystopian future, the latter half of the twentieth century produced some of the finest examples of speculative fiction ever published. Yet no science fiction author was more...
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Ten stories of wonder and imagination by an author named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America In the collection's title story, Frederick Gray is closing in on seventy and has outlived his usefulness as a professor of law. He has no family; his best friend, fellow faculty member Ben Lovell, has recently died. Before Gray moves into a retirement home, he takes a final canoe trip to a favorite fishing spot he and Lovell...
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When his brother is mysteriously saved from drowning, Frederico is inspired to research his Quinta's history and discovers a celtic sanctuary donated to the Cistercians by Portugal's first king Afonso Henriques. The truth behind folklore of a treasure trove hidden in this Royal Forest near the Knights Templar port of Atouguia slowly dawns. In the visigothic chapel, a fresco painting showing Our Lady with a beard holds the key to the great secret of...