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1) Fever
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"Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa -- and the world, as far as they know -- to have survived a devastating virus which has swept through the country. Their world turned upside down, Nico realizes that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father's protector, even though he is still only a boy. But Willem Storm,...
2) Fever
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Nameless Detective mysteries volume 33
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Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he'd do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She'd run away before-propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher-and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency's chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco hotel, she demanded a divorce.
A few days later, a beaten and bloody Janice stumbled into the agency begging...
3) Fever
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Winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award!
YA (Young Adult) - appropriate for age 16 and up. Contains non-stop action, kissing, and twists that will keep you guessing to the very end.
PRAISE FOR THE FADE SERIES
5 out of 5 Stars - Kailin Gow has this talent to make the readers finish the book in a day, without a break.- Kitame
5 out of 5 Star - Lots of fresh original ideas in this book that kept me guessing. If you're looking for something...
4) Fever
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Fever is the compilation of many months of shadow work, self-care, and healing. These are not pages for sophists and avoidants: you will find no solace. Here there is rage, grief, and existential discomfort.
The presence of a fever indicates both a source of infection and an innate immune response. It is miserable. Yet sometimes fevers break. That is healing. That is hope.
5) FEVER
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A memoir made up of essays fragments, Fever, examines what it is to desire throughout all phases and states of life and being. Niziolek mixes plain language with poetic prose to interrogate trauma from domestic violence and illness, sexuality, and the different ways we can and do love despite these things. All of this comes together to create a keen focus on the many ways one can experience desire and its intersection with love.
6) Fever
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From acclaimed author and Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology Janet Gilsdorf comes a captivating and timely novel about a young doctor's quest to uncover the cause of a mysterious disease killing young children, and the race to find a cure.
In 1984, in the small Brazilian village of Promiss, a young child begins to fuss, her eyes turning pink and her skin flushed with heat. Four days later, she's dead.
Sidonie Royal, an accomplished physician and...
7) Fever
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A big riskRoxanne Sanchez was out to even the score with the Las Vegas casino owner who had duped her parents. To do so, she had to get past Ike Bancroft, the sexy and ruthless head of security for the most powerful boss on the strip. A bigger rewardWhen the hottest pair of legs Ike had ever seen strolled into the Desert Rose and proceeded to cheat the night away, Ike knew he was in trouble. He sensed that Roxanne wasn't a pro, so what was she doing...
8) Fever
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I could not let go, let alone believe Archer was truly gone. There was something utterly wrong with the statement "Archer Ambrose is dead."To say it was a bad "breakup" would be an understatement. Callie is told Archer is dead, but if the god of love were dead, surely she'd stop loving him? Lucien and Aroha try to help Callie grieve and move on-only Lucien finds it difficult to not love her, which is complicated by Callie's sudden illness, evolving...
9) Fever Crumb
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
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Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 6
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"McDermid is as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there….She's the best we've got."
-New York Times Book Review
Scottish writer Val McDermid is one of the most respected authors at the scene of the crime, and Fever of the Bone offers a bravura display of her exceptional storytelling talents. Criminal profiler Tony Hill and his ally Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan are back in this terrifying psychological thriller,...
12) Fever City
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If you took James Ellroy at his most imaginative and Oliver Stone at his most conspiratorial, and mixed them up in a supersized martini shaker, you would produce the vivid writing, explosive events, and irresistible entertainment of Fever City.
The story kicks off in 1960 Los Angeles, with the daring kidnapping of the child of one of America's richest men. It then darts back and forth between a private detective's urgent search for the child, the...
13) Fever Pitch
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New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods hits it out of the park with this reader favorite story.
Cassie Miles was through with baseball players! Never mind that they looked oh-so-cute in those tight uniforms, her ex-husband had been one-and he'd left her to play the field! Now superstar pitcher J. K. Starr was hanging around, trying to befriend her young son and sneak his way into Cassie's heart.
But soon Cassie had to admit that J.K....
14) Fever Pitch
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Sometimes you have to play love by ear.Aaron Seavers is a pathetic mess, and he knows it. He lives in terror of incurring his father's wrath and disappointing his mother, and he can't stop dithering about where to go to college-with fall term only weeks away. Ditched by a friend at a miserable summer farewell party, all he can do is get drunk in the laundry room and regret he was ever born. Until a geeky-cute classmate lifts his spirits, leaving him...
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When a handsome and mysterious stranger arrives in Crooked River, the town is consumed by rumors. Although a deeply private young man, Dieter befriends everyone from deckhands to shopkeepers. On the rebound from a disastrous relationship, the charming but hesitant Maggie Paterson falls in love. Teddy Mink, the town's notorious, paranoid drug lord, convinced that Dieter's a narc, formulates a plan to silence him. Maggie's recently estranged ex, who...
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The first major biography of the legendary singer-an enthralling accountof a charismatic artist moving through the greatest, most glamorous
era of American music
"I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, and Mr. Cary Grant." So said Peggy Lee, the North Dakota girl who sang like she'd just stepped out of Harlem. Einstein adored her; Duke Ellington dubbed her "the Queen." With her platinum cool and inimitable whisper she sold twenty million...
17) Fever: Stories
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Winner of the 1992 Authors Award for Paperback Fiction, Fever was also nominated for a Commonwealth Award. Like Real Life, Sharon Butala's newest collection of short fiction, it is a collection of short stories that reveals the secret inner lives of women and men, skillfully peeling back their defenses to expose crystallizing moments of joy, pain, fear and guiltless pleasure. In "Fever," a woman whose husband suddenly becomes deathly ill finds herself...
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While on a business trip in Calgary, Cecilia's husband, Colin, falls suddenly and seriously ill. With Colin in the hospital in a fevered sleep, Cecilia feels stunned and disconnected, and she finds herself striking up a sexual relationship with another guest at the hotel that leaves her questioning both her marriage and her own motives. Fever is a collection of sixteen short stories that reveal the secret inner lives of women and men, skillfully peeling...
19) Fever Swamp
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The air is moist. The moisture mixes with your sweat-the heat is relentless. The drone of insects gives you headaches, and the fever from the infected wounds has left you delirious. Your raft is damaged, and there are spirits in the trees. You've only been here for three days.
Fever Swamp is a sandbox role-playing game adventure compatible with Dungeons & Dragons clones.
20) Fever Season
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Eric Zweig is a managing editor with Dan Diamond & Associates, consulting publishers to the National Hockey League. He has written about sports and sports history for many major publications, including the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail His non-fiction sports books for young people include Star Power: The Legend and Lore of Cyclone Taylor and Crazy Canucks. He lives in Owen Sound, Ontario.