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1) Icebreaker
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"Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. A competitive figure skater since she was five years old, a full college scholarship thanks to her place on the Maple Hills skating team, and a schedule that would make even the most driven person weep, Stassie comes to win. No exceptions. Nathan Hawkins has never had a problem he couldn't solve. As captain of the Maple Hills Titans, he knows the responsibility of keeping the hockey...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
3) Ice: a novel
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As a brewing ice storm approaches, and despite the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly Helton, combat veteran Gabriel McQueen makes the long haul to the middle of nowhere to find out whether she is safe and sound. Spotting strangers in Lolly's home--one of them packing a weapon--Gabriel rescues Lolly from her captors ... but when the escape is discovered, the heat--and the hunt--are on.
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Homeland heroes (Susan Sleeman) volume 2
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English
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"Terrorists planning a deadly attack have entered the US, and FBI Agent Kiley Dawson and ICE Agent Evan Bowers are charged with taking them down--except Kiley blames Evan for the death of her former partner. As threats ensue, they reach their breaking point, racing to save countless lives."--
5) Fire & ice
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Wild at Heart volume 3
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Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"In the late 1860s West, two independent ranch homesteaders go head-to-head over prized land, until Gage Coulter proposes an unexpected plan to Bailey Wilde and, in a moment of weakness, she agrees"--
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My weirdest school volume 11
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Mr. Will, the local ice cream man, brings treats to the students at Ella Mentry School, Dr. Carbies will stop at nothing to ensure no one breaks his latest rule banning desserts.
7) The ice lion
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DAW Books, Inc
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[2021]
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English
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Teen members of a group of archaic humans, Lynx and Quiller, flee the increasing coldness and monstrous predators for a new land, where they meet a strange old man who tells them how to save the world.
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2015.
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"For the past three years, Jon Ronson has been immersing himself in the world of modern-day public shaming--meeting famous shamees, shamers, and bystanders who have been impacted. This is the perfect time for a modern-day Scarlet Letter--a radically empathetic book about public shaming, and about shaming as a form of social control. It has become such a big part of our lives it has begun to feel weird and empty when there isn't anyone to be furious...
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Crooked Lane
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2022.
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English
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When Wallace, a local man, is found dead during the annual Ice Fishing Jamboree, librarian Rain Wilmot finds an enigmatic note to her from Wallace in the books he had returned and seeks to understand the message, while trying to catch a slippery killer.
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"Lucas Shetler lives in a strict Old Order Amish district. His community hasn't embraced the technology common in other Amish communities, so they live without phones and keep food refrigerated with ice blocks. Lucas's family is intent on staying detached from the outside world. Natalie Collins is the furthest from Amish one can be. She's grown up with any convenience she could want but is carrying a past of pain and broken relationships with her...
11) The ice orphan
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DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"It's been 925 summers since the Jemen introduced zyme, a bioluminescent algae, into the world's ocean and unwittingly triggered an Ice Age that has consumed most of the planet. All but a handful of Jemen flew to the stars, but before they left, they recreated several extinct species that had thrived in the last Ice Age. After almost a thousand summers, the archaic hominins that struggle along the edges of massive glaciers are dwindling. All they...
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"Tillie Gingerich is so in love with Melvin Yoder that she agrees to leave her conservative Amish home to live with him in the English world. But when the struggle to make ends meet leads to conflict, and reveals troubling weaknesses in their relationship, Tillie returns to Pontotoc--pregnant and unmarried. Her loving family accepts her, but to convince the rest of the community, they must turn to the bishop. Distraught, Tillie runs away on Christmas...
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Savannah friends arrange for her to be a competitor on a reality show called "Man of my dreams." When one of the show's producers is found dead in a walk-in freezer, felled by a carton of Killer Fudge ice cream, the show becomes the worst kind of soap opera.
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White rabbit chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Kat Parker's spirit returns, insisting Frosty the Ice Man partner with rogue slayer Camilla Marks -- the one who betrayed them all, leading to Kat's death. But when Anima rises from the grave to become a force the slayers may not have the strength to overcome, Frosty, Camilla and all the slayers will have to work together to survive.
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2014.
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English
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Alastair Bonnett explores extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places including micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands. Consider Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast that a British citizen claimed as his own sovereign nation, issuing passports and making his wife a princess. Or Baarle, a patchwork city of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where crossing the street can involve traversing national borders. Or Sandy...
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Matthew Henson volume 1
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Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Matthew Henson and the ice temple of Harlem is the first in a new exciting retro rollicking adventure series. This re-imagined pulp novel follows the Doc Savage-style adventures of the first black man to reach the North Pole: Matthew Henson. The tail end of the Roaring 20s. Harlem. Hired by controversial spiritual leader Daddy Paradise to retrieve his adult daughter who has been kidnapped, adventurer Matthew Henson does just that. Then he must safeguard...
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Ice Cube Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"The poems in this collection function almost like diary entries. Things are pulled from the news: Tony Fauci, the Orange Man, murder hornets, mask madates, George Flyod.... But it's not all worry beads and despair. Not by a long shot. The poems aim for a touch of whimsy. They bring a single flower to the plague. They dress up. And they look to the future while, yes, wearing a mask. " -- cover
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Following the publication of his widely acclaimed, Man Booker-nominated novel Hystopia, David Means here returns to his signature form: the short story. Thanks to his four previous story collections, Means has won himself an international reputation as one of the most innovative short fiction writers working today: an established master of the form.
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""What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here's why: I'm a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I'd highly recommend that you do not read his book." Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet ("choking on bacon is like getting murdered by...
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