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Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Set during the Golden Age of Pirates and the shadowy aftermath of the Salem witch trials, this vivid literary debut is inspired by the captivating true story of real-life pirate Samuel Bellamy, combining high seas adventure, star-crossed longing, surprisingly timely questions about social justice and freedom, and the emotionally satisfying tale of one strong-willed young woman determined to choose her own path.1715, Eastham, Massachusetts: As the...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
Author
Series
Demonwars saga:the buccaneers volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press, and imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations (maps) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Pinquickle's Folly, New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore returns to his signature world of Corona, introducing a dynamic new part of the southern coast never written of before as a great starting place for readers in the DemonWars Saga: The Buccaneers. The first adventure in the Buccaneers trilogy begins in the free sea outside of the control of the usurping Xoconai empire, where the dwarven powrie pirates and merchants sail. But...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a cattle train bound for Texas is ambushed by blood-thirsty rustlers, legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen, on a mission of vengeance, vows to bring swift--and deadly--justice to the men responsible.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Three days of camping and fishing with best friends - what could possibly go wrong? Bobby thought a trip down the Cass River with his three best friends sounded like a great idea. They had a four-day fall break and were looking for an exciting adventure during the Halloween weekend. Just weeks earlier, their science teacher, Mr. Hill, had shown them pictures of a giant northern pike. These huge fish came up out of their deep hiding spots in the fall...
Author
Publisher
Lake 7 Creative
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Jack London's "Call of the Wild" in which Buck must learn to adapt to abuse as a Klondike sled dog, to life with a loving master, John Thornton, and finally, when Thornton dies, to life in the wild as a leader of the wolf pack.
Author
Series
Hometown hunters collection volume 1
Publisher
Bakken Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
142 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Boone Mason has lived his entire life in Pikesville, Michigan. The small town that once was booming, has become dull and boring to him. This all changes when hints of a legendary, massive buck begin to appear in the town. Boone's main passion in life is hunting, the love of the sport has been passed down from many generations. Both his grandfather and dad grew up being avid hunters, so it comes as no shock that Boone would have...
Author
Series
Brannigan's land volume 3
Publisher
Pinnacle Books / Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Something fishy is going on with the beef at Circle P. After a quick-and-dirty shootout with a small band of rustlers, Ty Brannigan and his son Matt do another count of their cattle -- and find they have fifty heads more than before. Seems the rustlers were hiding stolen cows from other ranches among the Brannigan herd. And that's just the tip of the cowpie. In jail, the rustlers rat out their partners to the local marshal. They're not just stealing...
Author
Series
Hometown hunters volume 6
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Revised edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
158 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Tucker causes trouble in his new school he is shipped off to live with his aunt and uncle in a remote area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. There is something magical and mysterious about Uncle Ed's place. He is warned early and often by his uncle never to venture into the West Woods. But why?
10) The Ice Queen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Merry Christmas and Happy Ice Queen! Fourteen-year-old Josey and her ten-year-old, video-game-obsessed brother, Mason, live in Baudette, Minnesota, the Walleye Capital of the World. Their family owns and operates Baxter's Bait Shop, a town landmark. Every year before Christmas, Baudette hosts an ice-fishing tournament called the Ice Queen that draws thousands of anglers and generates a lot of money for local businesses. First place prize for catching...
Author
Series
Hometown hunters volume 5
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Revised edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
iii, 151 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Blair Thomas lives in the friendly, lakeside town of Lainey, Michigan, on the beautiful shores of the Lake Huron. Lainey boasts superb hunting opportunities and offers visitors miles of sandy shoreline and weekend tours of the historic Tesla Lighthouse. It is the beginning of the fall, duck hunting season, and Blair and her dad are busy preparing for her very first duck hunt. The forecast is calling for extremely high winds and rain, absolutely perfect...
Author
Series
Hometown hunters volume 3
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
144 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Dré and his father go on a hunting trip, everything seems to go wrong: from a near plane crash to an avalanche. Then Dré and his dad find themselves hunted by a giant Kodiak brown bear and wondering if they'll live to tell the tale.
Author
Publisher
Alaska Northwest Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count a while ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native ('with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in'), he's the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa...
Author
Series
The Fishing Chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fishing-obsessed Casey James loved spending time aboard the Orca II, his dad's charter boat. The coastal waters south of San Francisco provided great fishing and adventure. Each fall the waters surrounding the Farallon Islands become populated with large and powerful great white sharks. This extremely aggressive species holds the interest of many, especially fourteen-year-old Casey. A late October fishing trip took an unexpected turn when the Orca...
18) Fate & fortune
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
600 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In "Vixen in Velvet," the high-born Victoria trades places with a tavern maid to avoid an arranged marriage, and in "Whitefire," Katerina, seeking vengeance against the marauders who destroyed her village, finds an ally in her sworn enemy.
Author
Publisher
Lake 7 Creative
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Become a vampire hunter from classic literature, and make choices to survive Bram Stoker's Dracula in this interactive Choose Your Path adventure. You are Jonathan Harker, an ordinary man thrust into an extraordinary situation. You have been tricked and imprisoned. You've come face to face with a monster and left behind to suffer a terrible fate. Now, you must put an end to Count Dracula's evil reign. Assemble your team of vampire hunters, and prepare...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate...