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1. Running toward danger: real life scouting action stories of heroism, valor & guts

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Author:
Malone, Michael S. (Michael Shawn), 1954-
Publisher:
WindRush Publishers
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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J SCOUT 369.43 MAL
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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...

2. Running toward danger: stories behind the breaking news of 9/11

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Author:
Trost, Cathy, 1952-
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date:
[2002]
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English
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3. Running Towards Danger

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Author:
Clough, Tina
Publisher:
Tina Clough
Pub. Date:
2023
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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...

4. Run towards the danger: confrontations with a body of memory

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Author:
Polley, Sarah
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Pub. Date:
2022
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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...

5. Oliver Twist

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Timeless Classics
Vintage classics
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940L
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English
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4 stars
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Oliver Twist is born in the harsh confines of a workhouse, his mother expiring in childbirth, his father unknown. After enduring years of brutal treatment, Oliver runs away to London, where he falls in with a band of child pickpockets led by the villainous Fagin. His foray into a life of crime soon lands him into the arms of the law, when Oliver's fortunes finally appear to turn as the robbery victim becomes his benefactor. But Fagin isn't about to...

6. Kidnapped

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Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Series:
Timeless Classics
Rainbow classics
David Balfour volume 1
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
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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.

7. Liar liar

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Author:
Patterson, James, 1947-
Series:
Detective Harriet Blue volume 3
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English
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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...

8. Pitch dark: a novel

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Author:
Doiron, Paul
Series:
Mike Bowditch mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods in this nail-biter of a thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron, Pitch Dark. Legendary bush pilot Josie Jonson can't believe her luck when a skilled builder just happens to show up after she purchases land near Prentiss Pond. All Mark Redmond asks in return for building Josie's dream cabin is that he be left alone to homeschool his 12-year-old...

9. Connections in death: [an Eve Dallas novel]

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Author:
Robb, J. D., 1950-
Series:
In death novel volume 48
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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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....

10. X-O Manowar

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Author:
Venditti, Robert
Publisher:
Valiant Entertainment
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English
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ALL-NEW ARC! ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! X-O MANOWAR AND NINJAK GO DEEP UNDERCOVER FOR..."THE KILL LIST"! With two kingdoms now under his command, Aric of Dacia has pledged loyalty to his adopted nation - the United States of America - and has given him a new mission: destroy the Vine's network of humanoid alien agents once and for all. To do it, he'll have to turn to the one man among us he can own former enemy, the deadly MI-6 operative called Ninjak!...

11. White fang

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Author:
London, Jack, 1876-1916
Series:
Dover thrift editions
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Whole story
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English
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"A beloved Jack London classic novel reissued for contemporary readers. Rediscover Jack London's beloved classic in this unique hardbound edition. First published as a serial in Outing magazine in 1906, White Fang has been called "one of London's most interesting and ambitious works." Follow the wolfdog White Fang in a story of violence and hardship, morality and redemption, and finding home during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. Truly a must-have for...

12. The jungle book

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Author:
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Series:
Treasury of illustrated classics
Disney classic
Puffin classics
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Lexile measure:
1080L
Language:
English
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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.

13. The lake house

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Author:
Patterson, James, 1947-
Series:
Doubleday large print home library
When the Wind Blows volume 2
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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...

14. The Woods

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Author:
Tynion IV, James
Publisher:
BOOM! Studios
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English
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New story arc! Bay Point Prep, one year later. The students have survived a year in the Woods, settling into their new roles at Bay Point. Isaac and Ben are together and would be perfectly happy if not for the dreams Isaac has of Adrian and his anger toward Karen for her role in his disappearance. Karen is training to be a Hunter, while Sanami and Maria handle the day-to-day running of the school. Calder is missing. The Black City is still out there,...

15. The long road home

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Author:
Steel, Danielle
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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.

16. The golden compass

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Author:
Pullman, Philip, 1946-
Series:
Pullman Philip volume 1
Laurel-leaf books
His dark materials volume 1
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930L
Language:
English
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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.

17. Harbinger

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Dysart, Joshua
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Valiant Entertainment
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Before the Harbinger Foundation, before Project Rising Spirit, Toyo Harada spent decades circling the globe, recruiting empowered individuals to his cause through coercion, intimidation and influence. But how is one deal brokered in secret between Harada and Rising Sprit Securities forty years ago now wreaking havoc in the modern day? And when the past comes roaring back, how will Peter Stanchek and the rest of Harada's most wanted react to the revelation...

18. The two princesses of Bamarre

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Author:
Levine, Gail Carson
Series:
Two Princesses of Bamarre volume 1
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.

19. 19 Yellow Moon Road

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Author:
Michaels, Fern
Series:
Sisterhood volume 33
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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.

20. The subtle knife

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Author:
Pullman, Philip, 1946-
Series:
His dark materials volume 2
Lexile measure:
890L
Language:
English
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3.8 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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