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1) The Odyssey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit. Tolkien considered The Silmarillion his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world...
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Everyman's library volume 223
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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The internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel offers a rich and brilliant chronicle celebrating the endless variety of life in the mythical Latin America town of Macondo.
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ABRAMS
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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From the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender comes the instant USA Today and New York Times bestselling novel starring Avatar Kyoshiânow in paperback!
Justice begins with one woman.
After nine years of desperate searching for the next Avatar, the discovery of young, charming Avatar Yun has brought stability to the four nationsâthat is, until Earth Kingdom-born Kyoshi, Yunâs unassuming friend and
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 105
Language
English
Description
"Les Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published in France in 1862, it is Victor Hugo's greatest achievement--the ultimate tale of redemption. Former prisoner Jean Valjean struggles to live virtuously after an unexpected act of forgiveness by a kindly bishop changes his life. His righteous actions change people's lives in surprising ways and culminate in romance between two young people. Now available...
6) Fourth wing
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Series
Empyrean volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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2024 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List
Goodreads Choice Nominees 2023
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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....
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Lord of the rings volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 29
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English
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In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in THE HOBBIT. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to seventy years. This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates, boldly and brilliantly, African-American culture and heritage....
10) The alloy of law
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Mistborn novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history--or religion.Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy...
11) Ever the brave
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Clash of kingdoms volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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With King Aodren insisting on making her a noblewoman in exchange for saving him, Britta reluctantly agrees, but she soon is tasked with rescuing the kingdom once more from an enemy that has Channeler powers like herself.
12) Everless
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Everless volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In the kingdom of Sempera, time is extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one's own lifespan. The rich aristocrats like the Gerling family tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember; she and her father were once servants at their estate, Everless, until an accident drove them away. After discovering her father is dying, Jules is desperate to earn more...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
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English
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The power struggles and personal drama surrounding the design and construction of a cathedral in twelfth-century England, led by Philip, prior of Knightsbridge, his stonemason Tom, and the haunted Lady Aliena.
14) Watership Down
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
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English
Description
Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits. As the rabbits skirt danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band, its humorous characters, and its compelling culture, complete with its own folk history and mythos. Fiver's vision finally leads them to Watership Down, an upland...
15) Evermore
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Everless volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The legends speak of the ancient magic of the wicked Alchemist and the good Sorceress. But Jules Ember has learned the truth: She is the Alchemist, and Caro--a woman who single-handedly murdered the Queen and Jules's first love, Roan, in cold blood--is the Sorceress. The kingdom believes that Jules is responsible for the murders, and a hefty bounty has been placed on her head. Caro is intent on destroying Jules, who stole her heart twelve lifetimes...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The epic, can't-miss follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Avatar, The Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi.
Kyoshi's place as the true Avatar has finally been cemented-but at a heavy cost. With her mentors gone, Kyoshi voyages across the Four Nations, struggling to keep the peace. But while her reputation grows, a mysterious threat emerges from the Spirit World. To stop it, Kyoshi, Rangi, and their reluctant allies must join forces before...
17) The fates divide
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Carve the mark volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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When Cyra's father Lazmet Noavek, a soulless tyrant thought to be dead, reclaims the throne, Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are desperate to stop him from igniting a barbaric war.
18) Throne of glass
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
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Earth's children volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 52
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English
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Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni -- one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.
20) Dune
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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In new, hardcover edition is the novel that shaped modern science fiction. Set on the desert planet Arrakis begins the story of a great family's plan to bring to fruition an unattainable dream. Winner of the first Nebula Award. This is the best-selling science fiction classic. It begins the story of the man known at Muad'dib & of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind's most ancient & unattainable dream. "Unique-I know nothing comparable...
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