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1) Empty places
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Determined to bring her destitute family together in rural Kentucky in 1932, Adabel Cutler wrestles with town gossip, the arrival of a mysterious stranger, a mining disaster, and deep family secrets.
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English
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Part travel adventure, part history, part exploration
In The Last Empty Places, bestselling author Peter Stark takes the listener to four of the most remote, wild, and unpopulated areas of the United States outside of Alaska, and mainly not part of protected wilderness: the rivers and forests of Northern Maine; the rugged, unpopulated region of Western Pennsylvania, that lies only a short distance from the East's big cities; the haunting canyons...
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English
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It's the oldest story in the world: Boy meets Girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. But when the boy is Nick Sharman, and the girl has a violent ex-jailbird as an old boyfriend, who promises extreme retribution on anyone who gets involved with her, it's never going to be that simple... and both Sharman and the girl are looking at a lot of trouble.
With a bent brief planning an audacious multi-million pound robbery with a bunch of heavy duty thugs in...
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English
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Empty Promise Places follows a boy and his family as they attempt to survive the life they are given. He knows nothing different until modest glimpses of others' lives show him a vast world apart from his own. This story is sure to appeal to fans of The Glass Castle and will ring true for many in Appalachia. It will perhaps astonish readers who are unfamiliar with the everyday lives of those growing up in poverty.
Author
Publisher
Subjudica House Press
Pub. Date
c2017
Language
English
Description
" It was just a quick sandwich in the hospital cafeteria... But when she returned to her daughter's room... Whatever happened to Melissa's daughter is anyone's guess. The police seal the hospital doors; a search proceeds but the four-year-old is nowhere to be found The girl is gone, vanished without a ransom note, without a body being found, without a trace. The detectives believe she has most likely been sold into human trafficking. No matter, Melissa...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
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When Taylor Greer hits the road she has no real destination, only to get as far from Kentucky as possible. By the time she ends up in Arizona, she has inherited a three-year-old Cherokee girl from an Indian woman she met in a bar.
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English
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"Six people sit down to a sumptuous meal at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary-"rosemary for remembrance." A strange sentiment considering no one is likely to forget the night, exactly a year ago, that Rosemary Barton died at exactly the same table, her beautiful face unrecognizable, convulsed with pain and horror. But then Rosemary had always been memorable-she had the ability to arouse strong passions in most...
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"Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping Regency romance of smugglers, adventure, mystery, and life-changing love from celebrated author KJ Charles. Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and well-used to disappointment. Still,he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming man in a London molly house, he falls head over heels--until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In this memorable story, a young boy finds solace flying his kite from the rooftop after soldiers take his father and brother away. Without his father and brother, the young boy's life is turned upside down. He and his family have to stay inside, along with everyone else in town. At suppertime, he can't stop looking at the two empty places at the table and his sister can't stop crying. The boy looks out the window and is chilled to see a tank's spotlight...
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English
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What happens after the worst happens? Before May 31, 2008, September Vaudrey's life was beautiful. But on that day, with one phone call from the ER, her whole world-everything she knew and believed-was shaken to the core. Katie, her 19-year-old artist daughter, had been in a car accident and would not survive. How does a family live in the wake of devastating tragedy? When darkness colors every moment, is it possible to find light? Can God still be...
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Witchlight trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Ghosts from Lizard's past-and the man who wants to be her future. The empty places in Elsie's soul-and the temptations of raspberry-laced courage. Walk once more with Jennie's students as they come to the end of their WitchLight journeys.
17) Martian Sands
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English
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1941: an hour before the attack on Pearl Harbour, a man from the future materialises in President Roosevelt's office. His offer of military aid may cut the War and its pending atrocities short, and alter the course of the future... The future: welcome to Mars, where the lives of three ordinary people become entwined in one dingy smokesbar the moment an assassin opens fire. The target: the mysterious Bill Glimmung. But is Glimmung even real? The truth...
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City where we once lived books volume 1
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English
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"In a near future where climate change has severely affected weather and agriculture, the North End of an unnamed city has long been abandoned in favor of the neighboring South End. Aside from the scavengers steadily stripping the empty city to its bones, only a few thousand people remain, content to live quietly among the crumbling metropolis. Many, like the narrator, are there to try to escape the demons of their past. He spends his time observing...
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It's amazing how heavy the weight of emptiness can feel, how much room it can take up in our souls, how much pain can be caused by something that isn't even there. But while we may see the emptiness of our lives as our greatest problem, that's not how God sees it. When God looks into the empty places of our lives, He sees His greatest opportunity. God does His best work in the emptiness of our . . .
• Insatiable craving for things that don't satisfy
•...
20) Soft Parade
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English
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Rev. Lawrence Schmetterling, the pastor of an evangelical church in Colorado Springs, meets the wrong woman in the wrong place at the wrong time. Early in the morning, while driving him back to her place to beget a multitude of sins, she pulls off on the side of the road and shoots him in the face.
When Pastor Larry's mind suddenly awakens in a black hole, he believes he's dead and this dark, empty place is Hell.
But is he really dead? And is this...