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Book cover for "Tall water".
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Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Book cover for "Lord of the flies".
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770L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral...
Book cover for "Gulliver's travels".
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Lexile measure:
NC: Non-Conforming 1370L
Language:
English
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Gulliver's Travels is Jonathan Swift's satirical masterpiece, the fantastic tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon. At first, he is shipwrecked in the land of Lilliput, where the alarmed residents are only six inches high. His second voyage takes him to the land of Brobdingnag, where the people are sixty feet high. Further adventures bring Gulliver to an island that floats in the sky and to a land where horses are endowed...
Book cover for "Little house on the prairie".
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English
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5 stars
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When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous...
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Publisher:
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
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"Determined to protect his land and legacy at any cost, John Dutton takes his fight to the halls of government in the most explosive season of Yellowstone yet. But with greater power comes further scrutiny...of his family, his land, and the morally questionable measures he's taken to protect them both. As new threats emerge and old enemies return, John, Beth, Kayce, Rip, and Jamie learn that power has a price. Head back to the ranch and dive into...
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English
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3.3 stars
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A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.
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"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...
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April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three people who died forty-four years before. But it is neither the engine nor its grisly contents that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next. . . .
1906: For two years, the western states of America have been suffering an extraordinary crime spree: a string of bank robberies...
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English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant"--
Book cover for "Sulfur Springs".
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"In William Kent Krueger's latest pulse-pounding thriller, Cork O'Connor's search for a missing man in the Arizona desert puts him at the center of a violent power struggle along the Mexican border, a struggle that might cost Cork everything and everyone he holds most dear. On the Fourth of July, just as fireworks are about to go off in Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor and his new bride Rainy Bisonette listen to a desperate voicemail left by Rainy's...
Book cover for "Dad and the dinosaur".
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Pub. Date:
2017
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 560L
Language:
English
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"A boy keeps a toy dinosaur in his pocket to help him be brave like his dad--but when the dinosaur goes missing, Dad knows just what to do"--
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Lexile measure:
610L
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English
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As a cold, harsh winter approaches, the cats from the mountains prepare to divide into several camps, requiring each cat to decide where his or her allegiances lie.
Book cover for "365 days to Alaska".
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English
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4 stars
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When eleven-year-old Rigel Harman's parents divorce, she and her sisters must move from the Alaskan wilderness to suburban Connecticut, and while she yearns to return in a year, she eventually realizes she must move forward.

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Lexile measure:
620L
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English
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When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
Book cover for "A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall".
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall is an exuberant literary debut—a novel of real ideas and a playful examination of our in-between world, one that explores the nature of family, identity, art, and belief while also marking the introduction of an original new voice in contemporary fiction.

Owen Burr is the six-foot-eight, Olympics-bound senior captain of the Stanford University water polo team. In his final collegiate match, however,

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Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Pattan has an amazing pumpkin. It grows bigger than the goats, bigger than the elephants... so BIG that it is as TALL as the mountains. Then one day, the storm clouds burst and the waters rise. Pattan, his family, and all the animals are in danger from the momentous flood. Can Pattan and his giant pumpkin save the day? Based on a traditional tale told by the Irula people of southern India -- From dust jacket.
Book cover for "I survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919".
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I survived volume 19
Lexile measure:
610L
Language:
English
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When the massive metal tank filled with sticky brown molasses that rises up over her crowded North End neighborhood explodes, young Carmen must fight for her life, as a tsunami of molasses rushes through the streets.
Book cover for "Betty and Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest".
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Publisher:
Archie
Language:
English
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Two brand new stories!!! First, in "Sunny with a Chance of Rescue," Betty and Veronica meet up for their favorite summer activity, scoping out the annual lifeguard trials on the beach and checking out the cute guys training to become lifeguards for the season! This year, they get a mischievous why not take some action instead of just spectating like they always do? Will they catch the eye of a cute lifeguard, or end up in deep water? Then, in "Mall...
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Lexile measure:
550L
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English
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When a legendary sea monster starts making waves in the Sea of Wrenly, Prince Lucas and his friend Clara travel to the Island of Primlox seeking information that might help them calm the beast.
Book cover for "Go, Diego, go!".
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Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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Diego and friends look to save different types of animals throughout the world -- Bottlenose Dolphin looks to become and animal rescuer after an oil spill pollutes the water -- Diego and Victor Vicuna search for the missing Prince Vicuna.