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Hannibal Lecter novels volume 3
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As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknamed "Bullalo Bill," FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him. That man, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unusual tastes and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind.
2) Red dragon
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Hannibal Lecter novels volume 2
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Will Graham's unusual, fearful ability to project himself into the minds of psychopaths puts him on the trail of Francis Dolorhyde, whose bizarre and bloody murders of two suburban families have been triggered by his viewing of a William Blake watercolor.
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With a vast cast of characters and nationalists, twists of fate, and tales of inspired leadership, David Anthony Durham perfectly captures the legendary Hannibal's world . Beginning in ancient Spain, where Hannibal's father had carved out a Carthaginian empire, the novel traces the origins of the war, the opening moves, and Hannibl's inspired choice to attack Rome via a land route most believed impossible. In graphic, panoramic prose, Durham describes...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...
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Hannibal Lecter novels volume 1
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At last the evolution of his evil is revealed. Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him. Hannibal's uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle's beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki. Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal...
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2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
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Becky Thatcher wants to set the record straight. She was never the weeping ninny Mark Twain made her out to be in his famous novel. She knew Samuel Clemens before he was "Mark Twain," when he was a wide-eyed dreamer who never could get his facts straight. Yes, she was Tom's childhood sweetheart, but the true story of their love, and the dark secret that tore it apart, never made it into Twain's novel.
Now married to Tom's cousin Sid Hopkins, Becky...
8) Red Dragon
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Hannibal Lecter volume 2
Pub. Date
[2002]
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Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. "The Tooth Fairy" is a vicious murderer who kills entire families at once, covering the eyes of his victims...
9) Hannibal
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Hannibal Lecter novels volume 4
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[1999]
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Seven years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody, seven years since FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling interviewed him in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane. The doctor is still at large, pursuing his own ineffable interests savoring the scent, the essences of an unguarded world. But Starling has never forgotten her encounters with Dr. Lecter, and the metallis rasp of his seldom-used voice still sounds in her...
10) Hannibal
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Presents the life and military exploits of the famous Carthaginian general.
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[1999]
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"Powers traces the meandering course of Twain's decidedly uninnocent youth, marked by the loss of siblings, murderous violence and his father's bankruptcy and early death. There is the "floating dream-atmosphere" of the slave quarters on his uncle's farm, an atmosphere charged with voices that were a luscious hybrid of languages. These voices summoned images of talking animals, magic spells, ghosts and slave auctions, and lead directly to the tidal...
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2010
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Manhunter: A retired detective enters the dreams of a serial killer in order to catch him and almost loses his own sanity.
Silence of the lambs: A young female FBI agent is sent to interview notorious killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, in hope of obtaining information that will help the Bureau catch another killer.
Hannibal: It has been seven years since Hannibal Lecter escaped, and when one of his victims seeks revenge on him FBI agent Clarice Starling...
14) Hannibal rising
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Hannibal Lecter volume 1
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[2007]
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After young Hannibal is forced to watch his little sister, Mischa, being devoured by starving soldiers in his Lithuania homeland. Hannibal vows to avenge his sister's death by slaying those who committed not only war crimes against the Lecters, but also against other families during WW II. Hannibal's revenge plan includes his cannibalism to justify his insatiable appetite for human flesh. Hannibal excels in his medical school classes dissecting cadavers....
15) Hannibal
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Hannibal Lecter volume 4
Pub. Date
2001.
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It has been seven years since Hannibal Lector escaped, and when one of his victims seeks revenge on him he uses FBI agent Clarice Starling as bait.
Pub. Date
[2007]
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Hannibal: After escaping from the asylum in Baltimore, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, moves to Florence, Italy where he has become one of the curators of the Palazzo Vecchio. His cover is broken when a cop, for money, turns Dr. Lecter over to his old patient, Mason Verger. FBI agent Clarice Starling finds out about Mason's evil plot to feed Dr. Lecter to a bunch of man-eating hogs and will do anything to make sure that Mason doesn't succeed.
Silence of the...
17) Red dragon
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. "The Tooth Fairy" is a vicious murderer who kills entire families at once, covering the eyes of his victims...
18) Hannibal
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Pub. Date
[2004]
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One of Dr. Hannibal Lecter's surviving victims is poised to enact sweet revenge on the world's most feared cannibal. FBI agent Clarice Starling is brought back on the case when Lecter decides to come out of retirement to face his adversary.
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2010
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Hannibal's battle plan at Cannae became the mother of all great battle strategies-the first battle of encirclement that has been imitated (often to disastrous effect) endlessly over the past two thousand years. In this brilliant, long-overdue, and beautifully written account, Robert L. O'Connell gives listeners an epic account of one of the most dramatic battles of antiquity. The Ghosts of Cannae is at once a book about a specific battle (the massive...
20) Greece
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Using dramatic reenactments, state of the art cinematography, location shooting, CGI and 3-D animation, historians and experts talk about ancient Greece.