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Love comes softly series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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This story of a frontier family begins where "Love Comes Softly" left off, telling the heartwarming tale of a marriage that began in tragedy but flourished due to the couple's devotion to one another and to God. The husband and wife, Marty and Clark, have been blessed with children, and now it's time for a school to be built for all the town's youth.
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Clark and Marty were caught up in a marriage of convenience that over time turned into deep mutual respect and love. They now preside over a growing family in their little prairie house. As they reach out to those in their frontier community, they discover that love is not limited to the size of one's dwelling.
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"Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. But...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Kayden's father owns a famous resort in the Florida Keys. Merissa works at the resort to fund her education. Kayden is a bit self-centered and does not treat the resort's employees with much respect. Then an unexpected storm strands Kayden and Marissa on a deserted island. Can they survive?
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Defy novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Alexa and King Damian are engaged to be married, but the kingdom of Antion is besieged, their friend Rylan is a prisoner of the enemy, and Alexa has not told Damian that she is at the mercy of the evil Rafe, bound to obey one command of his choosing. Now Alexa must travel deep into enemy territory and confront an army of black sorcerers to rescue Rylan.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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"In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined"--
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In August, 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton, renowned explorer set sail with 27 men on his ship The Endurance. His plan was to be the first expedition to cross the Antarctic continent. Marooned on four feet of ice, in over 8,000 feet deep water, Shackleton and his crew survived some 635 days and nights, without proper shelter or rations, enduring the harshest conditions imaginable.
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Danielle Kent is anything but Amish. But as destiny would have it, she has fallen in love with an Amish man. Now shes 18, pregnant, and hopeful that the childs Amish father-Matthew Lapp-will do the right thing and marry her. She knows Matthew plans to leave his Colorado settlement for a life in the Englisch world. But that plan never included a baby. When Matthew walks away from her and their unborn child, she has nowhere to turn. Her unlikely friendship...
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Pub. Date
2008
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This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions...
10) Endure
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Series
Need series volume 4
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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When evil pixies cause mass destruction and chaos in Bedford, Maine, sixteen-year-old Zara prepares for war, aligning her team of pixies with the humans she loves so much, a task made more difficult by her growing feelings for pixie king Astley.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 25
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NATIONAL BEST SELLER
A stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station—a message of hope for the future that will inspire for generations to come.
The veteran of four spaceflights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile...
A stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station—a message of hope for the future that will inspire for generations to come.
The veteran of four spaceflights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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A renowned marine biologist presents this extraordinary firsthand account of the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance--a century to the day after Shackleton's death--that captures the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuries, both of whom accomplished the impossible.
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Clark and Marty were caught up in a marriage of convenience that over time turned into deep mutual respect and love. They now preside over a growing family in their little prairie house. As they reach out to those in their frontier community, they discover that love is not limited to the size of one's dwelling.
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2015.
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"When Coach Jack Swartz asked my son Harrison if he'd like to be on the Custer County middle school cross-country team, I really had no idea where it would lead."
Hal Walter's essays have been a favorite with "Colorado Central" magazine readers for many years, and have been distributed by the "Writers on the Range" syndicate. He often writes about the subject of autism and neurodiversity as viewed through his personal experiences with his son, Harrison....
17) The book of eels: our enduring fascination with the most mysterious creature in the natural world
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"Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world's most elusive fish-the eel-and a reflection on the human condition"--
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2012
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The first full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators, designers, owners, and performers who made him the icon he is today, from the New York Times “A story as American as Superman himself.”—The Washington Post Legions of fans from Boston to Buenos Aires can recite the story of the child born Kal-El, scion of the doomed planet Krypton, who was rocketed to Earth as an infant, raised by humble Kansas farmers, and...
19) Deep survival: who lives, who dies, and why : true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death
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"In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales pulls readers to the boundary region between life and death, where they peer into the hearts, minds, and souls of those who have survived seemingly impossible situations and those who have given in to death. Through careful dissection of case studies, he illuminates the essence of the true survivor - the internal battles that are waged between fear and hope, reason and emotion, despair and correct action." "He...
20) Endurance
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Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Based on a real military program! Ryan Keene and his sea lion, Hansel are responsible for recovering lost objects form the ocean floor. Only danger were the polar bears, but the most dangerous predator is man. A team of vicious mercenaries are out to get Ryan and Hansel. Forced out in to the frozen wasteland and one of the harshest climates, with no combat training, They will not give without a fight.