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1) The road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.
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When their humiliated father, an ex-army Colonel, severs their access to the family fortune, Maddie and Ellis Hyde travel to war-torn Scotland, where colorblind Ellis plans to find the Loch Ness monster his father failed to locate, hoping to win his father's approval once more. Meanwhile, Maddie embraces her true identity. Society awakens the true woman within as Hitler's war rages.
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A sinister adversary has Nick Fox and Kate O'Hare in his crosshairs. Unfortunately, the number one player on their team, Kate's father, is on the run after being betrayed by an old friend. The trio must watch their backs to rid the world of their two greatest foes, and clear their names.
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Marion, fresh out of medical school, flees Ethiopia and makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him--nearly destroying him--Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.
Twin brothers born from a secret love affair between an Indian...
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"From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Born with no air in his lungs, it was only when Reuben Land's father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that Reuben's lungs filled. Reuben struggles with debilitating asthma from then on, making him a boy who knows firsthand that life is a gift, and also one who suspects that his father is touched by God and can overturn the laws of nature. The quiet 1960's midwestern life of the Lands is upended when Reuben's brother Davy kills...
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Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes' young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn't know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
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2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 34
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English
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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that...
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2022.
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English
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"In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the...
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A Texas ranger escapes after a violent encounter with a stolen artifact that has an Austrian arms dealer pursuing him and targeting his estranged son.
Bestseller James Lee Burke returns with his latest masterpiece, the story of a father and son separated by war and circumstance--and whose encounter with the legendary Holy Grail will change their lives forever.
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"New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers his next breakneck stand-alone thriller, following 2014's bestseller Suspicion. When Rick Hoffman loses his job and apartment, his only option is to move back into--and renovate--the home of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since his father's stroke. But when he starts to pull it apart, he makes an electrifying discovery that will put his life in peril--and change everything he...
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"The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental...
14) The given day
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 32
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English
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In this latest from Dennis Lehane, a Spanish influenza epidemic has gripped Boston and a struggling police department's attempt to unionize results in a strike with far-reaching implications. At once political, tumultuous, and absorbing, and with Lehane's usual engrossing plot lines and vivid characterizations, this story is sure to satisfy.
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"In His Father's Footsteps is an unforgettable new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestsellers have made her one of America's favorite storytellers"--
As the son of two concentration-camp survivors, who through talent, faith, fortune, and hard work achieved wealth and success, Max resolves to pursue his own ideals and set an example for his children.
17) Ordinary heroes
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Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how he rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history and driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man who'd...
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 8
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HarperCollins
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English
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Intrepid Miami attorney Jack Swyteck comes to the aid of his former governor father as he investigates the suspicious hunting death of the vice president.
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Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son he'd let slip away.
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[2015]
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English
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Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people -- an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover -- as they careen towards an explosive confrontation.
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