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1) Muted
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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"For seventeen-year-old Denver, music is everything. Writing, performing, and her ultimate goal: escaping her very small, very white hometown. So Denver is more than ready on the day she and her best friends Dali and Shak sing their way into the orbit of the biggest R&B star in the world, Sean Mercury Ellis. Merc gives them everything: parties, perks, wild nights -- plus hours and hours in the recording studio. Even the painful sacrifices and the...
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Muted: It's illegal to wear clothes. In some streets, it's also illegal to sing. Concetta, a famous Italian a Capella singer, from before "the change," breaks these totalitarian laws. As punishment, her vocal chords are brutally slashed, and her eardrums surgically perforated. Unable to cope living a life without song, she resolves to drown herself in the river, clothed in a dress stained with performance memories. But, Concetta's suicide attempt...
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"Seeking Arnolds" begins with the personal story of a search for a departed father, deceased while still young, by his son. Guided by repeated events of wonder and mystery, the search is successful and leads to exploration of the family saga, including the flight from Communism and immigration to America in the WWII era. The often bitter history of the Latvian homeland and the surrounding area is explored, with compilations of the suffering that visited...
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What happens when the "angel" of the pack goes bad? Will her fall cause the others to lose self-control and give in to the lusts, anger, and deception that is trying to reel them in?
Nikki was once your typical teenage girl full of class, sass, and laughter, but lately she's dressing dark, snapping on everyone, and watching her back at every turn. It all begins when she gets kicked off the cheerleading squad for a mishap, and she discovers a shocking...
8) Mute
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Mute is science fantasy of mutation and psi: special mental powers. The protagonist, Knot, is a double mutant: He has a physical deformity, and the psi power to make others forget him. He's satisfied with his life - until the lovely Finesse walks into his life to recruit him for a dangerous galactic mission. She is aided by two small animal mutants: a telepathic weasel and a clairvoyant crab. Knot tries to resist, aided by his psi, but the woman's...
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Bitterbynde trilogy volume 1
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In a dark and perilous realm, an outcast without a name or a memory seeks a voice, a past, and a future in the first installment of a modern classic fantasy trilogy In all of Erith, there is perhaps no one as wretched as the nameless mute foundling confined to the lowest depths of Isse Tower. Abused by many and despised by all, the pathetic creature lives without memories in the shadows. The amnesiac longs to escape-to roam the wild landscape in search...
10) Mute
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Cold. Hungry. Alone.
Riana knew what these words meant in a way most people never would. She had lived most of her life on the streets. She knew what it was like to be an outcast. The worst part, was knowing that she was the one to blame for this lifestyle she and her brother lived.
For as long as Kyle could remember, his life had revolved around Riana. And, that was the way he liked it. But, as new problems arose and old problems grew worse, would...
12) Mute Witness
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Sean and Austin have the perfect life. Their new relationship is only made more joyous by weekend visits from Sean's eight-year-old son, Jason. And then their perfect world shatters. Jason is missing. When the boy turns up days later, he has been abused and has lost the power to speak. Small town minds turn to the boy's gay father and his lover as the likely culprits. Sean and Austin struggle to maintain their relationship amid the innuendo and the...
13) Mute Speech
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Throughout his career, shaped by a notable collaboration with Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly by examining its relationship to aesthetics. Like Michel Foucault, he broke with his many of his predecessors to upend dominant twentieth-century historical narratives and critical theories. Often overlooked in the canon of his works, Mute Speech contains the critical seeds of Rancière's most...
14) Mute Witness
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It's February in the Hudson Valley and Oak Falls veterinarian Dr. Kate is once again up to her galoshes in corpses
Hudson Valley winters can be brutal…and deadly! Dr. Kate is once again on the case (not to mention thin ice) after discovering a young engaged couple frozen to death in the lake. To make matters worse, her temporary receptionist appears to have overdosed from a recreational sedative used at the animal hospital. Kate barely has time...
15) The Mute Runt
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If you wish to follow me I can be found on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Feel free to follow and message me on one of those platforms. Enjoy The Mute Runt.This book contains mature themes, I recommend The Mute Runt for those aged 18 and up. In a world of magic, of good and evil, a rising shadow has began to overwhelm humanity and has reawakened the Haloing's. Runts are rare in the werewolf world, it is even more rare for a Haloing to be a runt....
16) The Mute Enemies
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We are waiting for the time to meet, but it is difficult because we can never meet alone. When we do meet, we can't manage the moment of separation. We always reminisce about the past and we walk together through our present and future life.
I don't understand what I'm doing and what's going on. A memory haunts me and will haunt me until I find out the source of my fear!
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The Mute Swan - a giant star-ship setting off on a long, one-way voyage. On board a new, young, maintenance engineer, Pen Pleasant, about to find his contract for thirty hours of duty over a two year period superseded by events beyond his control turning a routine job into the adventure of a lifetime.
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013" Leonard Barkan is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His books include Michelangelo: A Life on Paper (Princeton); Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture; The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism; and Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome.
The skirmish between painting and...
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When her innocence is taken and she loses the things she loves, all she has left is everything she hates. Vengeance becomes her comfort and pain becomes her pleasure. To survive was her only hope to make them suffer. Tragedy gave birth to the silent assassin, Silencia in this action, adventure and suspense filled thriller.
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