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English
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Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. It's not her first time starting over, but her efforts at a new beginning aren't helped by an anonymous local blog that dishes about the scandalous events that caused her marriage to fail. Merilee finds some measure of peace in the cottage she is renting from town matriarch Sugar Prescott. Sugar's stories give Merilee a different perspective...
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Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The fan-favorite Defector and former Deadspin columnist shares his long recovery from a catastrophic brain hemorrhage and how he learned to live with a broken mind as he tried to figure out who this new person is, in this fascinating, darkly funny comeback story.
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Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Based on acclaimed singer-songwriter Ellis Paul's Christmas song, this hilarious tale focuses on an inevitable part of the holiday season -- lights! Year after year, the neighbors on one suburban street try to outdo one another with their holiday decorations, until one night their efforts take out the world's power grid. Once the neighborhood is dark, though, they're finally able to clearly see the stars above -- a simple, perfect Christmas show....
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night the Lights Went Out comes an exquisite new novel about best friends, family ties and the love that can both strengthen and break those bonds. New York Times bestselling author Karen White crafts evocative relationships in this new contemporary women's fiction novel about best friends who share a devastating secret, set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. It's been nine years since Larkin fled...
9) The hike
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English
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When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania, he decides to spend the afternoon before his dinner meeting on a short hike. Once he sets out into the woods behind his hotel, he quickly comes to realize that the path he has chosen cannot be given up easily. With no choice but to move forward, Ben finds himself falling deeper and deeper into a world of man-eating giants, bizarre demons, and colossal insects. On a quest...
10) I Was Legion
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Earth is not the cradle of humanity. It is the Throne.
Almost four hundred years the Terran Imperium has languished, an Empire in name only. The young colonies exploded out of the Diaspora Era, supplanting the homeworld in importance as they left a broken world in their wake. Earth's people, guided by the Conwin line, have clawed and climbed from the darkness left the night the lights went out. They built and rebuilt the weary and weakened world...
11) Tales from the San Diego Chargers Sideline: A Collection of the Greatest Chargers Stories Ever Told
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English
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During his 27-year tenure with the San Diego Chargers, equipment manager Sid Brooks kept over 5,000 football players from appearing naked before their cheering fans. The first African American to hold the job of equipment manager in the NFL, Brooks' job was to see that each player left the locker room in uniform. But the means to that end was far more complicated-and outrageous-than one would believe.
This reissue of Tales from the Chargers Locker...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this epic adventure thriller, a family struggles to reunite in a post-apocalyptic American landscape: a world of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters, where every single piece of technology-computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights-has mysteriously blacked out-forever. A grand romantic saga about family-not just the family born into, but the family chosen. A swashbuckling journey of hope and rebirth, seen through the eyes...
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English
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Rarely has an Evangelical upbringing been depicted with the relentless honesty, wide-ranging empathy, and Superbad-meets-Siddhartha playfulness of HELL IS A WORLD WITHOUT YOU. During the time of Pizza Hut buffets, 9/11, and all-night Mario Kart parties, a grieving teenager faces a mortal crossroads: fire-and-brimstone certainty vs. forbidden love. And whether or not you've ever begged God to delay the Rapture (so you could have time to lose your virginity),...
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English
Formats
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Seven friends. Five years of silence. One mystery that will bring them back together again. It's been five years since Marley Bricket died from an accidental shooting. On the night of the annual memorial, Olivia Stanton, the only witness to Marley's death, gets an unexpected visitor in the form of Nick Cline - the boy who pulled the trigger on what he didn't know was a loaded gun. Since the tragedy, nothing in the quiet desert town of Cadence, California,...
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As Paul leads his group of power workers ever further east, destination Florida he finds himself leading an ever bigger convoy. It is just as well as their journey becomes increasingly perilous. They soon find themselves caught up in a war with an army that is led by people with an agenda quite distinct to theirs; these people see the lack of electricity as an opportunity to become hugely wealthy emperors within the new reality. The power workers...
18) The big picture
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Publisher
Jackpot Music
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Shel Silverstein meets Buddy Holly. Uncle Rock's CD is a salute to his musical heroes, with stylistic nods to Bowie, the Stones, Cat Stevens, and Johnny Cash. Cross-generational rock for kids from 2 to 92.
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Series
Daily Bread volume 1
Language
English
Description
The cast and crew of Tiffany McMillan's cooking show are stranded on a farm when a solar flare hits. Preppers, led by Bubba and Carol, have been monitoring solar activity. Holly the perfectionist vegan, to Briana the prepper girl, a group of home-schoolers in a rural area where they are used to power failures and a group of others are at a hotel in town when suddenly they are all left in the dark.