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41) Early departures
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
What if you could bring your best friend back to life--but only for a short time? Jamal's best friend, Q, doesn't know that he died, and that he's about to die again. He doesn't know that Jamal tried to save him. And that the reason they haven't been friends for two years is because Jamal blames Q for the accident that killed his parents. But what if Jamal could have a second chance? A new technology allows Q to be reanimated for a few weeks before...
42) Cut
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
43) Her only wish
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Betsy Detweiler is on a mission to get out of Kentucky and experience new things. What better place to start than with her friends in Pinecraft, Florida? From the moment Betsy walks into the Snow Bird Golf Course to sign up for lessons, August Troyer is mesmerized. Betsy is beautiful yet awkward, outgoing yet unsure, joyful yet hesitant. She's like no one he's ever met before. As Betsy and August embark on a month of enjoying life to the fullest,...
Author
Series
After such knowledge novels volume 3
Publisher
Del Ray Impact
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Blaine McCracken novels volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rogue agent Blaine McCracken always answers the call, and this time it comes after a disaster at sea. The culprit seems to be dark matter -- both a limitless source of potential energy and an unimaginable destructive weapon. Joining forces with his trusty sidekick, Johnny Wareagle, McCracken must race to stop a wealthy magnate and a doomsday cult leader who both seek to harness dark matter for their own nefarious reasons. McCracken's only hope is...
46) The appraisal
Author
Series
Helena Marsh novels volume 1
Publisher
ECW Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the vein of Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels comes this year's smart new thriller with literary chops When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his family's Titian painting, Helena flies to Budapest to close what she expects will be a reasonably simple sale. But nothing is ever simple in this beautiful, flawed city where corruption abounds. Helena discovers that there are multiple bidders for the painting,...
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old figure skater Olivia Kennedy's Olympic dreams have ended. She's bitter, but enjoying life as a regular teenager instead of trying to live up to expectations of being the daughter of Olympians Michael Kennedy and Midori Nakashima...until Jonah Choi starts training at her family's struggling rink. Jonah's driven, talented, going for the Olympics in speed skating, completely annoying... and totally gorgeous. Between teasing Jonah, helping...
Author
Series
Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Never go into the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnare your soul." Serafina has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds of Biltmore Estate. There's plenty to explore in her grand home, but she must take care to never be seen. None of the rich folk upstairs know that Serafina exists; she and her pa, the estate's maintenance man, have lived in the basement for as long as Serafina can remember....
50) Little wolves
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Their family farms devastated by a Minnesota drought in 1987, a father searches for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, while a pastor's wife returns to the town for mysterious reasons of her own.
51) How we decide
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Offers a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making--and how it can help us make better choices.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
...Senior fellow at the Cato Institute and opinion writer for The New York Times, both diagnoses "the crisis of Islam" in the modern world, and offers a way forward. Diving deeply into Islamic theology, and also sharing lessons from his own life story, he reveals how Muslims lost the universalism that made them a great civilization in their earlier centuries. He especially demonstrates how values often associated with Western Enlightenment -- freedom,...
53) That darkness
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As a forensic investigator for the Cleveland Police Department, Maggie Gardiner has seen her share of Jane Does. The latest is an unidentified female in her early teens, discovered in a local cemetery. More shocking than the girl's injuries--for Maggie at least--is the fact that no one has reported her missing. She and the detectives assigned to the case (including her cop ex-husband) are determined to follow every lead, run down every scrap of evidence....
54) The boys
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries Barb, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. She fills his world with a sense of adventure, expanding his horizons beyond his comfortable routine. Because Ethan fears becoming a father, one day Barb brings home two young brothers, Tommy and Sam, for them to foster, and Ethan immediately falls in love with the two boys. When the pandemic hits, he becomes obsessed with...
55) Radiant shadows
Author
Series
Wicked lovely volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Ani, a half-mortal driven by her hungers, and Devlin, faery assassin and brother to the High Queen, have reason to fear one another even as they are drawn together to save all of Faerie.
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Stellaxis operatives 06 and 22 have escaped. Years ago, they survived a corporate civil war; Stellaxis kidnapped and modified them into celebrity supersoldiers. But 06 and 22 have finally broken free from their barracks. They flee into a strange city they barely remember, trying to remain anonymous while their faces appear on billboards. It will be an expensive disaster for the director of the supersoldier program if word gets out about the escaped...
57) Those who knew
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a brutal regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days may be guilty of murder. She says nothing, assuming no one will believe her, given her family's shameful support of the former regime and her lack of evidence. They are the same reasons she told no one, a decade earlier, what happened with the senator while they were dating"--
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"After her girls' ice hockey team is cut for budget reasons, Michigan tries out for the boys' team, and earns a place on the starting lineup. But when she bests her teammates with her skills and her refusal to back down, hazing crosses the line into assault."--
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, an imprint of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
What if you're not who you think you are? What if you don't really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be. wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells gripping true stories that show the limits of human reason. Susie realises her husband harbours a terrible secret, Dylan leaves the cult he's been raised in since birth, Alex discovers he can no longer return to his former...
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