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English
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"From the New York times bestselling author of 'The Paris Wife' comes an atmospheric novel of intertwined fate and heart-wrenching suspense: A detective hiding away from the world. A series of disappearances that reach into her past. Can solving them help her heal? Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
xii, 301 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A masterpiece of warrior wisdom that shows how to overcome obstacles with positive action. The best-selling author, Navy SEAL, and humanitarian Eric Greitens offers a self-help book unlike any other. Two years ago, Eric Greitens unexpectedly heard from a former SEAL comrade, a brother-in-arms he hadn't seen in a decade. Drew Sheets had been one of the toughest of the tough. But ever since he returned home from war to his young family in a small logging...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 450 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them -- women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. Ensuring the rights and opportunities of women and girls remains a big piece of the unfinished business of the twenty-first century. While there's a lot of work to do, we know that throughout history and around the globe women have overcome the...
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Series
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Peijing and her family are adapting to their new life in Australia, but when cracks in her family life start to appear, she must find a way to cope with the uncertainties of her own little world and figure out where she fits in.
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Language
English
Description
"From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Timesbest-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void, '" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and...
11) Perfect
Author
Series
Impulse volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
622 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre, tell in their own voices of their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.
12) White Fang
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Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 1 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. + 1 book.
Language
English
Description
Life is hard and dangerous for both people and animals in the frozen Canadian North. For a wolf like White Fang it is a continuous fight to find food -- a fight in which many animals die. When White Fang meets the people of the North -- first Indians and then White Men -- he learns to live with them like a dog. But some men are cruel to their dogs and others are kind. Will White Fang's life be any easier now?