1981
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English
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A charming novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined.
Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly...
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Series
Beartown volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
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English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten alive...
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English
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The #1 New York Times Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. Have you ever seen a town rise? Ours did that, too. A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team. So it's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. What makes...
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English
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Britt-Marie can't stand mess. She eats dinner at precisely the right time and starts her day at six in the morning because only lunatics wake up later than that. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. But at sixty-three, Britt-Marie has had enough. She finally walks out on her loveless forty-year marriage and finds a...
7) Hunted
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Series
Spirit animals. Main series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Four children have discovered that they have spirit animals, a rare bond between human and animal that has launched them on a quest to save their world. The team heads to the forests of Eura, where another Great Beast is hidden.
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English
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An intimate and rousing memoir by progressive trailblazer Ilhan Omar-the first African refugee, the first Somali-American, and one of the first Muslim women, elected to Congress. Ilhan Omar was only eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her mother had died while Ilhan was still a little girl. She was being raised by her father and grandfather when armed gunmen attacked their compound and the family decided...
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Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Akame and her teammates have finally arrived at the headquarters of the religious organization but awaiting them are both the Jaegers and the Four Demons from the Temple of the Imperial Fist! And in the midst of the most intense battle yet, Mine finally gets her chance to confront Seryu!!--Back cover.
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Publisher
Yen Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
General Esdeath assembles a special police squad called the Jaegers and sets her sights on the annihilation of Night Raid in the name of the emperor. Meanwhile, Tatsumi, desperate to overcome the loss of another ally, decides to participate in a grand fighting tournament engineered by Esdeath herself...Back cover.
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Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Tatsumi's fantasy of leading a righteous assassin's life is brutally shattered when Sheele is lost in battle. But though Tatsumi resolves to stand tall against his sorrows, a new group of Teigu Wielders appears before him: the Three Beasts!! In the battle between Teigu, where there can be only one victor, who will fall prey to death?! --
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Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It's Night Raid versus the Jaegers in Volume 5 of the hit dark fantasy Akame ga KILL! When the Jaegers' Dr. Stylish attacks the Night Raid base, Tatsumi and the others are forced out of their hideout to escape the deadly assassin! Pursued by Dr. Stylish's army of experimental soldiers, Night Raid must defeat the mad scientist or risk being made his next test subjects! --
16) Greywaren
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Series
Dreamer trilogy (Maggie Stiefvater) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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This is the story of the Lynch family. Niall and Mor escaped their homeland for a few start, and lost themselves in what they found. Declan has grown up as the responsible son, the responsible brother-only to find there is no way for him to keep his family safe. Ronan has always lived on the edge between dreams and waking.... but now that edge is gone, and he is falling. Matthew has been the happy child, the brightest beam. But rebellion beckons,...
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English
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Bring meaning and joy to all your days with this internationally bestselling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai-the happiness of always being busy-as revealed by the daily habits of the world's longest-living people. "Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years." -Japanese proverb According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai-a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world's longest-living...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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It's the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school. Her teacher Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect after illicit text messages are discovered between them--and Jessica's blood is found in his car. The subsequent trial taps straight into America's most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex,...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Things My Son Needs to Know About the World collects the personal dispatches from the front lines of one of the most daunting experiences any man can experience: fatherhood. As he conveys his profound awe at experiencing all the "firsts" that fill him with wonder and catch him completely unprepared, Fredrik Backman doesn't shy away from revealing his own false steps and fatherly flaws, tackling issues both great and small, from masculinity and mid-life...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales"--