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101) Escaping peril
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 8
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Description
Peril is possibly the most dangerous dragon in Pyrrhia, because she has firescales that can kill an opponent with a touch, but now she has a mission--find her former queen, Scarlet, who is threatening the Jade Mountain Academy, and then stop her, and she is not sure if the persistent SeaWing, Turtle, who is accompanying her, will be a help or a hindrance.
Author
Series
The Twelfth Imam volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
With the stakes high and few viable options left, the president of the United States orders CIA operative David Shirazi and his team to track down and sabotage Iran's nuclear warheads before Iran or Israel can launch a devastating first strike. Annotation: With the stakes high and few viable options left, the president of the United States orders CIA operative David Shirazi and his team to track down and sabotage Iran's nuclear warheads before Iran...
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Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
As the apocalyptic leaders of Iran call for the annihilation of Israel and the U.S., CIA operative David Shirazi is sent into Tehran with one objective: use all means necessary to disrupt Iran's nuclear weapons program, without leaving American fingerprints and without triggering a regional war. A native Farsi speaker whose family escaped from Iran in 1979, he couldn't be better prepared for the mission. But none of his training has prepared Shirazi...
104) The Nativity Story
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Three thousand years ago a war took place where legends were born: Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks, and Hector, prince of Troy. Both men were made and destroyed by the war that shook the foundations of the ancient world. But what if there was more to the tale of these heroes than we know? How would the Trojan War have looked as seen through the eyes of its women? Krisayis, the ambitious, determined daughter of the High Priest of Troy, and Briseis,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Twig's first birthday is coming up, and her whole family -- especially her older sister, Hazel -- is eager to see what she will choose at her doljabi. Whatever item Twig chooses will tell her fortune: Will she pick a hammer and grow up to be a builder? Will she pick a lute and grow up to be a musician? Hazel is hoping that Twig will choose the yarn, just like she did when she was Twig's age. When the big day arrives and Twig makes an unexpected choice,...
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Pub. Date
[2020].
Description
"Radically personal and quintessentially American, an intimate drama at the heart of an apocalyptic vision ... On a small farm beside a lake in Minnesota's north woods an old man is waiting for the Rapture, which God has told him will happen in two weeks, on August 19, 1974. When word gets out, Last Days Ranch becomes ground zero for The End, drawing zealots, curiosity seekers, and reporters--among them the prophet's son, a skeptical New York writer...
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
How the planet's myriad crises are actually the birth pangs of a new Earth, this inspired exploration is Barbara Marx Hubbard's prophetic call for a planetary shift. It explores the aftermath of the coming planetary renaissance that she has heralded for decades, and introduces an established popular global movement to cocreate a massive transition around a symbolic Planetary Birthday event on December 22, 2012. This volume features 12 evolutionary...
110) Blood rights
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Although human, Chrysabelle was born to serve vampire nobility. But when her patron is killed and she becomes the prime suspect, she flees to the mortal world and seeks help from the outcast vampire Malkolm.
111) Nostradamus: 2012
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"It's a year that many have prophesied will bring a catastrophic end to life as we know it. Whatever is in store, many believe that 2012 will mark a major shift in the history of our planet. A detailed, historical investigation of this chilling prophecy that casts the doomsday warning in a frighteningly modern context ... December 21, 2012 is bearing down on us with alarming speed. Whether or not we are able to collectively heed the warnings and affect...
113) Operaci©đn Teher©Łn
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
With the stakes high and few viable options left, the president of the United States orders CIA operative David Shirazi and his team to track down and sabotage Iran's nuclear warheads before Iran or Israel can launch a devastating first strike.
El mundo est©Ł al borde del desastre y el reloj est©Ł avanzando. Iran acaba de realizar su primera prueba at©đmica. Millones de musulmanes alrededor del mundo est©Łn convencidos de que su Mes©Ưas,...
Pub. Date
2006
Description
The Celestine Prophecy is a spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a worldwide awakening, arising within all religious traditions, that moves humanity toward a deeper experience of spirituality.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
In this expanded prequel to THE WHEEL OF TIME saga, Robert Jordan introduces the characters of Moiraine Damodred, a young Accepted soon to be raised to Aes Sedai, and Lan Mandragoran, a young soldier, whose paths are inextricably bound by a shared destiny. For three days battle rages around the great city of Tar Valon, until, on the slopes of Dragonmount, the immense mountain that looms over the city, the future is foretold: a newborn child is prophesied...
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
By now, everyone knows Marnie Piper is a witch. It comes as no surprise when she wins a full scholarship to prestigious Witch University in Halloweentown. Excited about learning alchemy and amulets, potions and portents, Marnie travels through the portal to become the University's most famous coed. But everything is not what it seems. There's a new school rule: No magic allowed. Marnie also learns about an ancient prophecy -- and it turns out she...
120) The harbinger
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
The ancient mystery that holds the secret of America's future.