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1) The walk
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After advertising executive Alan Christoffersen loses everything he holds dear, he embarks on a walk across America, a journey where he will meet people, form relationships, and learn important lessons as he walks to a new life.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling Author Duo Delivers Heart-Stirring Drama. Jack Livingston has been raising his nine-year-old adopted niece, Natalie, since the accident that took her parents' lives. While he travels for work, Natalie is lovingly cared for by Laura, an Amish nanny who loves her as her own. Kelly Maines is nearing the end of her rope. Her baby was kidnapped, the apparent victim of a black market adoption ring, and for eight years, Kelly has tirelessly pursued...
4) Blood vines
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In this bare-knuckled adrenaline ride from New York Times bestselling author Erica Spindler, Alex Clarkson's worst nightmares are about to come true...
A sinister, hooded figure...
When Alexandra Clarkson starts having terrifying visions filled with blood and ceremonial images, she tries to find a rational explanation — maybe her mind is playing tricks on her, resurrecting creepy tableaux from her research on religious ceremonies and sects. But...
5) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter Karen Kingsbury has enriched the lives of countless readers with her spiritually uplifting tales. When Joy Came to Stay illustrates the miraculous power of faith to overcome even the most debilitating suffering. Maggie Stovall has a successful career and a happy marriage, but she also bears the crippling weight of a secret from her past. As she slips farther and farther into depression, her...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the tragic first-century massacre of hundreds of Jewish people at Masada presents the stories of a hated daughter, a baker's wife, a girl disguised as a warrior, and a medicine woman who keep doves and secrets while Roman soldiers draw near.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Changing her name and appearance to flee town after leaving her husband dead, Tanya Dubois forges an uneasy alliance off the grid at the side of a female bartender with whom she races from city to city to escape her past.
9) Sinner man
Author
Series
Hard case crime book volume HCC-126
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Language
English
Description
To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?
10) Mo's mustache
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Monster Mo's big, beautiful mustache inspires all of his friends to copy his style by growing fabulous mustaches of their own, leaving Mo to wonder how he will continue to distinguish himself.
Author
Series
The books of beginning volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After years of moving from one orphanage to another following their parents' disappearance, Kate, Michael, and Emma learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy.
12) Are you a cow?
Author
Publisher
Little Simon Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 15 cm.
Language
English
Description
A chicken asks who the reader is while listing different types of animals and ruling each one out as the reader's identity.
13) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
14) Clockwork prince
Author
Series
The infernal devices volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
502 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.
15) Cherry
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. Cleveland, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq....
16) Raven's Gate
Author
Series
Gatekeepers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Red's factory-applied label clearly says that he is red, but despite the best efforts of his teacher, fellow crayons and art supplies, and family members, he cannot seem to do anything right until a new friend offers a fresh perspective.
Author
Series
The edge chronicles volume 1
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
276 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
20) Sunrise
Author
Series
Warriors power of three volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Firestar's grandchildren, Hollyleaf, Lionblaze, and Jay feather, finally discover who their true parents are, there are dire conseqyences for ThunderClan and the warrior code.