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81) Sharpshooter
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Some things are worth fighting for. Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war. That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. Now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II. But Vietnam is not the war he was expecting. Now, for the first time, Ivan is forced to question what he's really...
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ruby's story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savannah to Ivan and Bob. In the timeless way that only Katherine Applegate could craft, this highly anticipated...
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 13
Language
English
Description
On the eve of Russian General Boris Karpov's wedding, Jason Bourne receives an enigmatic message from his old friend and fellow spymaster. In Moscow, what should be a joyous occasion turns bloody and lethal. Now Bourne is the only one who can decipher Karpov's cryptogram. He discovers that Karpov was willing to betray his Sovereign to warn Bourne of a crippling disaster about to be visited on the world. Bourne has only four days to discover the nature...
Author
Publisher
Océano de México
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
87) Walking wounded
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck were best friends at home and in Vietnam, but now Rudi has been killed in action, and the remaining three are the only ones who know the truth about their friend's death--and the knowledge threatens to tear them apart.
88) Either/or
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that...
Author
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Balkan variation on the tale of "The Three Little Pigs," in which three young rabbits set out on their own, but only one of them follows her father's advice on how to be safe from a hungry fox.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The end-all-be-all guide to ramen from Ivan Orkin, the iconoclastic New York-born owner of Tokyo's top ramen shop. While scores of people line up outside American ramen powerhouses like Momofuku Noodle Bar, chefs and food writers in the know revere Ivan Orkin's traditional Japanese take on ramen. Ivan Ramen chronicles Orkin's journey from dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to the chef and owner of one of Japan's most-loved ramen restaurants, Ivan Ramen....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Fighting was a practiced routine for Lieutenant Ivan Castro. But when a mortar round struck the rooftop of his sniper's post in Iraq, he found himself in a battle more difficult than even he could have imagined. The direct hit killed two other soldiers and nearly claimed Castro's life as well. Mangled by shrapnel and badly burned, Castro was medevac'd to Germany more dead than alive. His lungs were collapsed. He couldn't hear. One eye had been blown...
97) Post grad
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After graduation, Ryden's plans of getting the perfect job and the perfect guy go awry when circumstances force her to move back in with her parents.
98) Dave
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Bearing an uncanny resemblance to the chief executive, Dave Kovic is recruited as a stand-in for events the president would rather not attend, but Dave finds himself continuing the masquerade indefinitely when the president suffers a stroke while having sex with one of his aides.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide. In the years that followed, Demjanjuk was twice stripped...