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"On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves to lure ships into the rocks. When the Council watch lays...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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"Two years after her parents' surprising and painful split, twelve-year-old Jo and her mom find themselves on the 100-mile hike on the Superior Hiking Trail along Lake Superior's north shore--a journey that Jo had always looked forward to hiking with her dad. It's not a situation that either of them ever predicted they'd find themselves in, yet here they are in the wilderness with their entire lives stuffed into a pair of thirty-pound packs. Along...
3) Feedback
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Variant volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"After escaping the walls of Maxfield Academy, Benson Fisher finds himself trapped in a town that is also under the school's control--where he discovers that Maxfield's plans are deadlier than anything he imagined"--
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Showtime
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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The Yellowjackets barely made it through summer in the woods, but now as winter begins to bite, we'll see if hunger and desperation turn into full-on psychosis. While there may or may not be a dark and powerful force inhabiting the wilderness, their survival could depend upon what they choose to believe. Meanwhile, twenty-five years later, each survivor must ask themselves Is the darkness coming for them, or is it coming from them?
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A contestant on a brand-new game show offering young criminals the chance at freedom and a cash prize by winning over viewers, Emerson desperately needs the money to save her family, but little does she know that winning is her only chance at survival because losing means death
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Apocalypse bow wow volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015
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IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Brownie, Apollo, and their ragtag group of strays are delighted when the rat shows them a nearby Twonkies factory that could provide a lifetime supply of food, but to reach the treats, Apollo will have to have a duel with the very large, very sophisticated "cat" that guards the factory
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Angry Robot
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud which separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population. Some generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing, worshipping celebrities as dim gods and using emojis in place or written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighborhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with...
8) Fiercely ME
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In her self-published memoir, Stephanie narrates her remarkable journey through childhood, adolescence, and early-adult life with parents who struggled with addiction and poverty. She describes her fight to survive and reveals her growing understanding of the role that inner strength and determination has played in her personal and professional achievements.
Stephanie explores how she learned to overcome debilitating depression, the return of...
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This story is about the life of a girl who grew up in the Tompkins projects in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She enjoyed life with her family, joining her family for holiday fun, going on picnics, and enjoying the summer fun. Her teenage years were moving fast. She gets married to her childhood sweetheart, Leonard Brown, and life quickly changes from fun to the life of drugs and trying to hide their secret drug life. Drugs and death prove to be too...
10) Never Say Uncle
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Cherie Lewis has created a captivating read that is a page-turner and a book that will be hard to put down. Being as intensely private as she is talented, Cherie Lewis shares her inspiring story like no one else can, giving the reader the ride of a lifetime as she desperately searches for her life's purpose. This is a story told with bravery, insight, integrity, and the unwavering desire to survive. Never Say Uncle is a novel based on a true story...
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From the "boots on the ground," often dangerous efforts to stop the horrid spread of infectious diseases on the Yukon and Kuskokwim, to pioneering efforts. Rescuing a badly aborted Russian girl from the Bering Sea and then a Medivac to Moscow led to shocking personal contacts in Russia, which directly resonate to this day. Rogues and Rascals abound in Anchorage.
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Titling his book Journey to the End of the Century, SACHAL puts us in the macrocosm of the culture of the Soviet Union through the microcosm of his life there. It was a harsh and difficult beginning: homelessness, starvation, loneliness, diseases, and a painful existence. Never complaining, little Sacha learns how to use experience in the most magical ways. He recounts how he bravely endured, how to use the system of control to survive and fully be...
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Just as travel and danger walk hand in hand in the Far North, Swallowed Alive, volume 2, follows in the footsteps of Swallowed Alive, volume 1, presenting stories of misadventure in the arms of Mistress Alaska. Danger is but a whisper away from those who travel Alaska's trails. And danger never falters in her efforts to unseat man.
Stories of crevasses; dog team, river and ATV travel; bigfoot; trapping; hiking; fighting marlin; bear, bird, mouse,...
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After being labeled for the majority of my life, I was frightened by the things that would occur. It was fear that kept me in my cage. Being sexually abused, abandoned by my father, my childhood was taken away. I even hated to see myself in the mirror, and in my mind, I became a reflection of all the things that I didn't want to see. I never imagined that I would have to endure so much pain, that God would allow my life to become so unpleasant, until...
15) A Private Life
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English
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Don't get me wrong here, I've had an amazing life, the last thing that I want anyone to think is that this book, My Private Life, is about sour grapes. I consider myself a true American red-blooded capitalist like all other good Americans. This book is about my experiences growing up, my experiences fighting back and growing up to become the best that I can be.
Growing up black in the South, I felt that I had the cards stacked against me from the...
16) Connected Dots
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Jose Luis Fernandez fought an underground war against the dictator of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista, late 1950s. Jose was imprisoned and tortured twice, but he never stopped believing in the cause, he never stopped believing in the revolution, he never stopped believing in their leader, Comandante Fidel Castro. After succeeding against Batista, Jose found himself close enough to Fidel Castro to realize his life had changed, but it was not for what he had...
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Our marriage was given about two weeks to two months to survive. We stood two chances of making it work out--slim and none. But through commitment and stubbornness, we hung in there. The name sumpter is in the dictionary and says "a packhorse," which I relate to a mule, telling Bill he was stubborn as a mule. This book tells a little of the years we lived in Rapid City and how we grew. I'm sure there are others that have endured more turmoil and grief,...
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"Into the Shadows, I Ran" begins with the Khmer Rouge's forced evacuation of Cambodia's cities immediately after the fall of Phnom Pen and Saigon in April of 1975. The story traces Tha Chhay's attempted escapes from the forced labor camps when he was a boy. After the Khmer Rouge fell from power, he traveled extensively around Cambodia as a boy merchant. After buying and selling goods in different markets across Cambodia, he saved enough gold to hire...
20) Sole survivor
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2012, ©1997
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English
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A Los Angeles crime reporter whose wife and daughters were killed in a plane crash meets a woman who claims to have survived the crash while a shadowy orgaization tries to stop her
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