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The Rise of Nine (Lorien Legacies, Book 3)

by Pittacus Lore

Published: 2012-08-21

Hardcover: 360 pages

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Until the day I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive. Together, we are much more powerful. But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others. . . . I went to Spain to find Seven, and I found even more, incl...

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Rise of the Evening Star (Fablehaven)

by Brandon Mull

Published: 2008-04-22

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At the end of the school year, Kendra and her brother Seth find themselves racing back to Fablehaven, a refuge for mythical and magical creatures. Grandpa Sorenson, the caretaker, invites three specialists -- a potion master, a magical relics collector, and a mystical creature trapper -- to help protect...

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Rise of the Red Crescent

by K C Lindberg

Published: 2011-08-17

Paperback: 218 pages

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What if after 9/11, the terrorists moved into the US and then struck the nation from inside across the Eastern, Central, and Pacific times zones in coordinated and total surprise. This is the premise of Rise of the Red Crescent based on a dream and the research of a mother/son team in AL.

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Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year

by David Von Drehle

Published: 2012-10-30

Hardcover: 480 pages

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The electrifying story of Abraham Lincoln's rise to greatness during the most perilous year in our nation's historyAs 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death's door. The federal government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke, and the Union's top general was gravely il...

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Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution

by Jeff Shaara

Published: 2004-06-29

Paperback: 512 pages

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Jeff Shaara dazzled readers with his bestselling novels Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, and Gone for Soldiers. Now the acclaimed author who illuminated the Civil War and the Mexican-American War brilliantly brings to life the American Revolution, creating a superb saga of the men...

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Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America

by Sharon Davies

Published: 2009-02-16

Hardcover: 352 pages

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It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August 11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, in broad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer's motive? The priest had marri...

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Rising Sun

by Michael Chrichton

Published: 1993

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America

by John M. Barry

Published: 1998-04-02

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An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one ...

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Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago

by Ann Durkin Keating

Published: 2012-08-15

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. Aft...

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The Risk of Being Ridiculous

by Guy Maynard

Published: 2010-10-01

Paperback: 298 pages

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It's Boston 1969 and nineteen-year-old Ben Tucker lives in a funky apartment on Mountfort Street with his tribe of fellow long-haired freaks. Together they mix radical street politics, a love of rock of roll, and celebratory drug use in their desperate search for lives that make sense in ...