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The winner of the National Book Award returns with a moving story of a family of women drawn together by the trials of the times.
The women in the Hand family are no strangers to either controversy or sadness. Those traits seem, in fact, to be a part of their family's heritage, one that stretches back through several generations and many wars. A Dangerous Age is a celebration of the strength of these women and of the bonds of blood and shared...
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This book contains Dame Rose Macaulay's 1921 novel, "Dangerous Ages". A young writer with a sizeable family returns to college as a way to spend her free time, but finds that she is perhaps not as sharp as she once was. Sick of her chaotic family, she decides to settle down, but realizes that her boyfriend was no longer willing to wait and has fallen for someone else... and her own niece, no less. Struggling with all the commitments that come with...
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Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States' most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined the future of the liberal world order. The papers in this volume outline the history and importance the system of institutions and normative values that have underpinned the international system since the end of WWII. They also highlight some of the key threats to this order...
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Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, but always perceptive, these short stories by The Woman on the Mountain, Sharyn Munro, will delight readers as she turns from observing her wild animal neighbours to write about her fellow humans in their hopeful stumble through time - 'life'.This collection of fictional stories is linked by short commentaries on her own evolving life, as candid as her readers have come to expect. Many of these stories are award-winners,...
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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When Athena's parents suddenly disappear, she calls on her friends on the Kid Squad to help figure out what happened--and uncovers the surprising connection between her parents, a biological weapon called the Age Bug, and their old enemy Dr. Alowishus Cobalt.
8) To the Studs
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Designed for love…
No one says no to fiery but talented home designer Neve Harper-which is how she convinces her elusive neighbor, Duke Kennicot, to help out with her latest renovation job. Not only is Duke a design aficionado, he's got the inside scoop on the cabin's owner. And since Neve's ulterior motive is a romance with the boss, Duke is her ideal wingman. Except from the moment they're alone in the remote Ozark mountain location, Neve discovers...
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A field-tested guide to surviving a nuclear attack, written by a revered civil defense expert.
This edition of Cresson H. Kearny's iconic Nuclear War Survival Skills (originally published in 1979), updated by Kearny himself in 1987 and again in 2001, offers expert advice for ensuring your family's safety should the worst come to pass. Chock-full of practical instructions and preventative measures, Nuclear War Survival Skills is based on years of...
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Fresh out of college and following a brief and disastrous stint playing minor league baseball, David Goodwillie moves to New York intent on making his mark as a writer.
Arriving in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, Goodwillie quickly falls into one implausible job after another. He becomes a private investigator, imagining himself as a gumshoe, a hired gun-only to realize that he's more adept at bungling cases than at solving them. When, in his stint...
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Outrageous and outrageously funny, The Girl That He Marries is a swift satiric jab at love and romance, a novel that gets right to the heart of the modern man/woman relationship. It is the story of Stephanie-nearly thirty and still single, a bright and attractive young woman with an unerring instinct for unmarriageable men and a nagging fear she's going to grow old alone.
Enter Richard: urbane, ambitious, and eminently marriageable. The adored...
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Ranger's apprentice. Main series volume 1
(John Anthony)Ranger's apprentice volume 1
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 1
(John Anthony)Ranger's apprentice volume 1
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 12
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When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 11
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Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability -- and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger. But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes...
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Emily Windsnap volume 5
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Neptune, King of the ocean, sends half-mermaids Emily and Aaron to the land of the midnight sun to investigate the source of the dangerous storms brewing in the ocean.
16) Minecraft
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"Engaging images accompany information about Minecraft. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7." --
17) Beyond danger
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Accused of murdering his former state senator father, Beau Reese must place his trust in private investigator Cassidy Jones, who believes in his innocence and sets out to find the truth, while trying to deny her attraction to him.
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2023
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"Easily my favorite book of the year.” —Tillie Walden, Eisner Award–winning creator of Spinning
A twisty, spellbinding adventure about a girl and her dog who want to save the world, Danger and Other Unknown Risks is the highly anticipated YA graphic novel debut from Eisner Award-winning and New York Times bestselling creators Ryan North and Erica Henderson.
I'm gonna tell you a story,...
A twisty, spellbinding adventure about a girl and her dog who want to save the world, Danger and Other Unknown Risks is the highly anticipated YA graphic novel debut from Eisner Award-winning and New York Times bestselling creators Ryan North and Erica Henderson.
I'm gonna tell you a story,...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Perfect for middle grade readers and history enthusiasts, New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold War in Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon.
A Newbery Honor book
A National Book Awards
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One and only Ivan stories volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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"Bob, a mutt of uncertain heritage, sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan the gorilla and Ruby the elephant. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family. -- adapted from back cover" --