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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. For a start there's...
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English
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A sequel to "Notes from a Small Island" stands as the author's tribute to his adopted country of England and describes his riotous return visit two decades later to rediscover the country, its people, and its culture.
In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the United States. The book about that trip, Notes from a Small Island, is uproarious and endlessly endearing,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Nonfiction
NYT - Travel
Oprah's Book Club
Read-Alikes for 'I'm Glad My Mom Died'
NYT - Travel
Oprah's Book Club
Read-Alikes for 'I'm Glad My Mom Died'
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Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
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English
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"Explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny. God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state in the heart of Trumpland that hasn't elected a Democrat to a statewide office in more than twenty years; but it is also a state in which minorities already form a majority (including the largest number of Muslim adherents). The cities are blue...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out."Jon Krakauer. In the tradition of Into the Wild comes an instant classic of outdoor literature, a riveting work of uncommon depth. The Adventurers Son is Roman Dials extraordinary account of his two-year quest to unravel the mystery of his sons fate. In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, the twenty-seven-year-old son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer...
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English
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie back to the days of deserted islands, secret maps, hidden gold, and nasty pirates.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life.
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English
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A rapturously romantic story of a woman who finds herself transported to the "other lives" she might have lived. It is 1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother. Felix, and the abandonment of her long-time lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks her suffocating depression and undergoes electroshock therapy. Over the course of the treatment, Greta finds herself.
14) Greek odyssey
Publisher
Athena
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Beloved actress Joanna Lumley is a gracious guide on this absolutely fabulous Greek adventure. Lumley travels across Greece, relating the history of iconic sites including the Acropolis, Delphi, Mount Olympus, and Crete with charm and wit. Bonus includes: Twelve-page viewer's guide with an interview wih Lumley, a timeline of Greek history, and artilces on Lord Byron in Greece and the Muses and a biography of Joanna Lumley.
15) Black Rock
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Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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16) Timeline
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Archaeological students on a dig in France find themselves alone when their professor is transported in time to the Middle Ages. The professor's son and students lead an expedition to save their teacher and the world from a time-space disaster.
17) The retake
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Zoe ... and Laura used to do everything together, from taking silly selfies, to joining all the same clubs together and even throwing surprise birthday parties for one another. But lately things have been weird between them. Now Laura will post a photo of her hanging out with other girls before responding to Zoe's simple text... But then a magical app downloads on her phone--and things get even weirder. Suddenly Zoe can travel back in time to moments...
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
2015 ©2015
Language
English
Description
"In 1872, Yellowstone was established as the world's first national park. Vast, beautiful, untamed, Yellowstone's rugged wilderness ignites the imagination like no other national park. Llama trekking, wolf-watching and geyser gazing are just a few of the out-of-the-ordinary activities that await you in this mesmerizing program that gives you a ringside seat for geothermal wonders and up-close looks at the diversity of wildlife that gave Yellowstone...
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