Chivers Audio Books
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: "I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger." Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what...
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Richard Bolitho stories volume 10
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English
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It is 1792, over ten years since Britain's defeat by the American colonies, and the bitter humiliation still sticks in the Admiralty's craw. Now brutal smugglers, many of them naval deserters, occupy the Channel, plying their trade between England and France. Richard Bolitho's mission: to take three speedy topsail cutters and fight the treacherous raiders off the coast of Kent.
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"In 1805 Ensign Richard Sharpe is on his way home from India. However, his ship is threatened by a French warship, the Revenant, which is terrorizing British shipping. As the French warship races home, carrying a treaty that could ignite India into a new war against the British, the hunt turns into a stern chase. When the Revenant encounters the combined French and Spanish fleets off Cadiz it seems that Sharpe's enemies have found safety. Yet over...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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"Wuthering Heights tells us a story about the life in northern England between 1771 till 1783. The two main characters are Catherine Earnshaw and Hareton Earnshaw, who fall in love with each other when they are children but become separated when they are grown up. The book tells us also about the life of Heathcliff, a homeless boy who loved Catherine. It's seen as a representative work of the gothic novel genre, despite its troubling subject matter...