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Author
Publisher
Emanate Books
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"As a troubled teenager, Tamara Laroux saw no way out. Desperate for her pain to end, crying out to God for forgiveness, Tamara does the unthinkable and embarks on a supernatural journey that will forever change the way she views God and the value of life on earth. As she plummets from her body to a place of vast darkness, torment, and agony, Tamara's senses become heightened. She instantly realizes the finality of her rash decision. As she mulls...
782) The honest truth
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
784) The green mile
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, 1999.
Language
English
Description
A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life - and his family's - as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation's Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence. A moving story of a father coping with his pain and a revealing examination of holding...
786) The dead & the gone
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
787) The newcomer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After she discovers her sister Tanya dead in her New York City townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya's ex; sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Even in the grip of grief and panic, Letty heeds her late sister's warning that anything bad happened to her, it would be Evan, and to promise to take Maya and run. So Letty grabs four-year-old niece Maya and hits the road. She sheds her old life and checks into an uncertain...
788) Genuine Sweet
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Genuine Sweet, twelve, of tiny, impoverished Sass, Georgia, inherited the ability to grant any wish except her own but with help from new friends, her life and town are improving until unexpected trouble arrives and Genuine learns the difference between wishing for a better life and building one.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Hercules Beal has to figure out how to fulfill his teacher's assignment of performing the Twelve Labors of Hercules in real life, and discovers important things about friendship, community, and himself along the way.
"Herc Beal knows who he's named after - a mythical hero - but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Traces how the author learned after her husband's sudden death that he owed millions of dollars in taxes to the IRS and that she was going to be held liable or even imprisoned, and recounts her long journey toward recovery and independence.
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's son Carl died at twenty-five years old in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You, Give It Back describes the first year after that devastating phone call, until the shock slowly wears off. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child--showing how grief transforms your relationship to reality, your loved ones, and time--and a book about the language of poetry, loss, and love. How do you...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"To escape her father's overprotectiveness, twenty-year-old Kenzie Caine spends the summer working at a horse farm rehabilitating Tennessee Walking horses, where a good deed results in a violent end to the summer and the revelation of her attractive assistant's secrets." --
793) Saga: Volume eleven
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 11
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new allegiances in the universe's never-ending war. Romeo & Juliet meets Star Wars in this genre-blending, sci-fi/fantasy space opera about star-crossed lovers from enemy worlds. An epic for mature readers, SAGA follows new parents Marko and Alana as they risk everything to raise their child amidst a never-ending galactic war."--Amazon.
794) The similars
Author
Series
Similars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Similars are all anyone can talk about at the elite Darkwood Academy. Who are these six clones? What are the odds that all of them would be Darkwood students? Who is the madman who broke the law to create them? Emma couldn't care less. Her best friend, Oliver, died over the summer and all she can think about is how to get through her junior year without him. Then she comes face-to-heartbreaking-face with Levi--Oliver's exact DNA replica and one...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Patterson and Martin Dugard dig through stacks of evidence--X-rays, archaeologist Howard Carter's files dealing with the discovery of a long-lost crypt, forensic clues, and stories told through the ages--to arrive at their own account of King Tut's life and death. The result is an exhilarating true crime tale of intrigue, passion, and betrayal that casts fresh light on the oldest mystery of all.
798) Pet sematary
Language
English
Description
Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed, who, after relocating with his wife Rachel and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family's new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall, setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences....
799) My brother
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult...
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