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Publisher:
WindRush Publishers
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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"[This] is a book that will shock you, give you chills, and make you cheer! It is one of the least-known and least-presented major awards offered by the Boy Scouts of America. But similar to the Eagle Scout medal, it also is highly celebrated--perhaps more. It's the Honor Medal for Lifesaving. In its various forms, it embodies the Medal of Merit for saving a life, the Honor Medal for doing so at personal risk, and the Honor Medal with crossed palms...
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Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date:
c2002
Language:
English
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Publisher:
Penguin Press
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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"Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven't told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to...
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Tina Clough
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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When Cara's boarder is shot on the street right in front of her events develop fast and before long she is under threat and possibly risking her life. Within days she must make a crucial decision whether to stay or flee to keep herself safe, and from that point her entire life changes. Can she successfully discard her identity and live under the radar in a cash-based society? Can she trust the stranger, who offers her support, or is he only after...
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Publisher:
IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I had a dream that I was in a blue poufy dress with a white pinafore, and I was constantly being made fun of and treated like a child. I wanted to be a queen, but I didn't want to be left alone or tested. #2 I was diagnosed with scoliosis four years earlier during a routine insurance medical for the television series Road to Avonlea. My world began to curve nonsensically...
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Lexile measure:
990L
Average Rating:
3 stars
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In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
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English
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3 stars
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Detective Harriet Blue is a very good cop . . . gone very bad. In the space of a week, she has committed theft and fraud, resisted arrest, assaulted a police officer, and is considered a dangerous fugitive from the law. It's all because of one man, Regan Banks. He viciously killed the only person in the world who matters to Harriet-and he plans to kill her next. As she recklessly speeds toward the dark side-and finally crosses it-Harriet won't stop...
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Series:
In death novel volume 48
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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In this gritty and gripping new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Eve Dallas fights to save the innocent--and serve justice to the guilty--on the streets of New York. Homicide cop Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband, Roarke, are building a brand-new school and youth shelter. They know that the hard life can lead kids toward dangerous crossroads--and with this new project, they hope to nudge a few more of them onto the right path....
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English
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The six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity and frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by and overpowering fear that the kids are about to face a danger greater than any they've ever known. All that the children want is to return to the one place...
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Lexile measure:
1080L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2 stars
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Seven stories of the human baby brought up by the wolves and taught the Law of the Jungle by the bear and his animal friends. Includes also songs or chants of the animals.
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English
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5 stars
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A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.
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Lexile measure:
930L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
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English
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Maggie Spritzer and the other members of the Sisterhood investigate The Haven, a commune run by the dubious sons of a disgraced, Ponzi-scheme-running Chicago businessman.
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Lexile measure:
890L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.

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English
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5 stars
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"Eve Duncan's daughter Jane MacGuire seems to have found a perfect life with Seth Caleb - until a ruthless madman threatens to destroy it all. Jane is an internationally renowned artist, while Seth channels his unique abilities as an agent for the MI6 intelligence service. But when Seth crosses crime lord Hugh Bohdan, he incurs the wrath of one of the world's most powerful criminal empires...one whose tentacles reach across the globe and even to the...
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HL: High-Low 740L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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At Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body. Both students were on track toward valedictorian and bright college futures, but this prank quickly turns into a very dangerous game and they are at more than one disadvantage as it looks like things could turn deadly.
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Lexile measure:
780L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Contemporary fiction. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance . . . reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self . . . ' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the...
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Series:
Kentucky volume 3
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In this edge-of-the-seat finale to the trilogy that has reunited the Coleman and Thornton families, New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels sets our pulses pounding as horsewoman Nealy Coleman faces her greatest challenge--to produce another Derby winner and show the world that a determined woman never quits... Kentucky Sunrise When it comes to men, Nealy is very content with her new husband, lawyer Hatch Littletree. When it comes to horses,...
Book cover for "The two princesses of Bamarre".
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Lexile measure:
570L
Language:
English
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With her adventurous sister, Meryl, suffering from the the Grey death meek and timid Princess Addie sets out to find a cure.
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English
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Eustacia Vye longs to escape from Egdon Heath, but the man she chooses to save her longs to stay. Out of their struggle, the unfulfilled passion of his heroine, and the daily rhythms of late-nineteenth-century rural life, Hardy builds a drama fully worthy of the magnificent stage on which he places it. The Return of the Native is dominated by the brooding presence of Egdon Heath, located in Thomas Hardy’s imaginary Wessex, and in no other book did...