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Thomas Grey novels (J. H. Gelernter) volume 1
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English
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"A desperate sea battle; a fortune risked on the turn of a card; a duel at dawn with the loser ... Patrick O'Brian meets James Bond. The year is 1803, and the British Secret Service is contending with a belligerent France under Napoleon. The service suffers a blow in the loss of a prime agent, Thomas Grey, who-despondent at his wife's untimely death-resigns from British Intelligence and departs England for Boston, where he intends to become a lumber...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Language
English
Description
From Pevear and Volokhonsky, the bestselling, award-winning translators of "Anna Karenina" and "The Brothers Karamazov," comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy's master epic.
3) Once a spy
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English
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"British intelligence officer Simon Duval resigns his commission and returns to England. There he finds his cousin's widow, Suzanne Duval, the Comtesse de Chambron, working as a seamstress and living in reduced circumstances. While both believe they are beyond love and passion, their sympathetic bond leads Simon to propose a marriage of companionship, and Suzanne accepts. As she joins Simon in a search for his long missing foster brother, warmth and...
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Adventures of a young sailor volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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After being framed for cowardice in a sea battle, thirteen-year-old Sam and his friend Richard are sent to Australia, where they must fight for their lives in the outback.
Author
Series
Adventures of a young sailor volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Sam endures harsh conditions, battles, and a shipwreck after being pressed into service aboard the HMS Miranda during the Napoleonic Wars.
6) My bonny light horseman: being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, in love and war
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Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
While trying to run a respectable shipping business in 1806, teenaged Jacky Faber finds herself in France, spying for the British Crown in order to save her friends.
7) Nick of time
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Ted Bell's NICK OF TIME is an epic adventure story starring young Nick McIver, who uses a time machine to rescue two young children taken prisoner by pirates. Along the way, with courageous feats of derring-do, not to mention his resourcefulness, our young hero-"the most reliable boy in England"-changes the course of events in two time periods, the Napoleonic Wars and World War II.
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