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"Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves confused and disembodied, blinking under the fluorescent lights of their high school music room. They are greeted by the man they know as their music teacher, who restores the ghostly teens to their corporeal forms with a flick of his fingers and explains: nearly a year ago they went missing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, and have long been presumed...
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Bone Street rumba volume 1
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English
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Carlos Delacruz in one of the New York Council of the Dead's most unusual agents- an inbetweener, partially resurrected from a death he barely recalls suffering, after a life that's missing from his memory. He thinks he is one of a kind- until he encounters other entities walking the fine line between life and death.
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Dispatcher volume 1
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Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone?999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life. Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher?a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death's crosshairs, so they can have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher...
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Hope in a Time of Fear explains the meaning of Jesus's resurrection. The followers of Jesus were unprepared for the event and failed to recognize him. All of them physically saw him and yet did not spiritually truly see him. It was only when Jesus reached out and invited them to see who he truly was that their eyes were open. This book offers a new way to look at a story everyone thinks they understand"--
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Simple and biblically accurate text alongside bold, colorful illustrations introduces readers to the most beloved stories of the Bible. The Story of Easter is the perfect gift for parents and other caretakers to share their love of Christ with their young ones year-round"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Details the events leading up to the crucifixion of one of the most influential men in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this young revolutionary was brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion human beings attempt to follow his teachings and believe he is God. Killing Jesus takes readers inside Jesus's life, recounting the seismic political and historical events that made his death inevitable - and changed the...
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Revivalist novels volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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After members of a support group for addicts of the experimental drug Returne suddenly disappear, Bryn Davis begins to wonder if the government is methodically removing a threat to their security, or if some unknown enemy has decided to run the zombies into the ground.
14) Easter
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Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Text from the King James Bible and stained-glass illustrations depict the story of the last week of Jesus' life, his crucifixion, and his rising from the dead.
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FaithWords
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The impossible true story about the powerful impact of prayer that inspired the major motion picture starring Chrissy Metz, Topher Grace, Dennis Haysbert, and Josh Lucas.
Through the years and the struggles, when life seemed more about hurt and loss than hope and mercy, God was positioning the Smiths for something extraordinary--the death and resurrection of their son. When Joyce Smith's fourteen-year-old son John fell through an icy Missouri lake...
16) The returned
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English
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Harold and Lucille Hargave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their only son, Jacob, died tragically at his eighth birthday party in 1966. In their old age they've settled comfortably into life without him, their wounds tempered through the grace of time .... Until one day Jacob mysteriously appears on their doorstep -- flesh and blood, their sweet, precocious child, still eight years old. All over the world people's...
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English
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When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creed's beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing...as is evidenced by the makeshift graveyard in the nearby woods where generations of children have buried their beloved...
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Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Jesus Calling: The story of Easter, from bestselling author Sarah Young, uses storytelling from throughout the Bible, simple Bible verses, and short Jesus Calling devotions to show kids how Easter was part of God's plan from the very beginning"--
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