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81) Bionic
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A junior in high school, Mira has come back from a car crash with experimental prosthetics and chips that are implanted directly into her brain which has enhanced her hearing, and her athletic abilities--which all seems great until her friends and boyfriend turn against her, she gets cut from the lacrosse team because of her "unfair advantages," and the people in her town start calling her a cyborg; but worst of all she feels emotionally detached...
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
James Dean is remembered as the embodiment of the rebellious American youth. Rising to megastardom overnight, he became an idol of teens in the 1950s. Casper Van Dien stars as James Dean in the retelling of this enigmatic bad boy that infatuated America and captured their hearts.
James Dean was a remarkable talent and rebel who took Hollywood by storm. As his star rose, his passionate affair with Pier Angeli angers her mother and studio chief Jack...
84) Crossroads
Author
Language
English
Description
The owner of a New England glassworks company, widow Cassie Wright struggles to raise her surviving child, Gwen, in the face of unbearable tragedy, but as Gwen blossoms into an independent young woman, dissention drives the two apart, until Gwen has her own child, a little girl who reunites the estranged family.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When a car accident leaves gorgeous but prickly genius Ian Fairchild with a debilitating injury and an addiction to painkillers, this city boy has to find a safe place to recover. He escapes to the remote Canadian wilderness, as far from the lights of Manhattan as he can get-and in the company of a woman he has no reason to trust. Will they make it through the winter? Former Marine Captain Cecily Knight prides herself on being self-sufficient. Her...
86) Intent to kill
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ryan James' promising baseball career was derailed before it even got started - when a hit-and-run driver killed his wife, Chelsea, leaving Ryan alone to care for their beautiful little girl. Now, three years later, he's a popular sports radio host in Boston, still haunted by a tragic crime that was never solved. But on the anniversary of Chelsea's death, Ryan receives a chilling message from an anonymous tipster: "I know who did it." The shocking...
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel set in the vineyards of Northern California that tells the story of a young girl who, in the wake of a tragic accident, seeks solace in a damaging love affair with a much older man. Eva, a divorced and happily remarried mother of three, runs a small bookstore in a town north of San Francisco. When her second husband, John, is killed in a car accident, her family's fragile peace is once again overtaken by loss. Emily, the eldest, must grapple...
93) The long run: a New York City firefighter's triumphant comeback from crash victim to elite athlete
Author
Publisher
Dist. to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The author tells the story of his fight, after a cycling accident, to recover as he teaches himself to walk again, and eventually to run in the 2008 New York City Marathon.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
For five days teenager Hannah Ashton has been living a nightmare because Greater Houston is devoid of people and totally silent, but then she finds Leo Sterling, a boy from her school whom Hannah considers to be both hot and trouble; together they set out to explore their city, and their own emotions--but above all they need to find out what has happened to their world, or risk being separated forever.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Ent
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Fallen Greek bride: "Infamous Morgan Copeland has graced the tabloids as America's Sweetheart for years. Until scandalous family allegations change the headlines overnight to Socialite in Disgrace! Her reputation in tatters and holding on to the last shreds of her pride, Morgan seeks her estranged husband's help, knowing that to convince merciless Drakon Xanthis, she will have to get down on her knees and beg ... . At first Morgan had merely been...
96) Adaptation
Author
Series
Adaptation (Malinda Lo) volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the aftermath of a series of plane crashes caused by birds, seventeen-year-old Reese and her debate-team partner, David, receive medical treatment at a secret government facility and become tangled in a conspiracy that is, according to Reese's friend, Julian, connected with aliens and UFOs.
98) Crash
Author
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring an introduction by Zadie Smith; "Jim's Desk" and introductory notes by Chris Beckett The short stories "Crash," "Tolerances of the Human Face," and "Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty" by J. G. Ballard Treatments and letters about the BBC2 Review short film about J. G. Ballard titled "Crash!" that aired in February 1971 Introduction to the French edition of Crash An excerpt of an interview with Will Self and J. G. Ballard from 1994 When J....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year's Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn't expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben Ross. Their chemistry is instant and electric. Ben cannot even wait twenty-four hours before asking to see her again. Within weeks, the two are head over heels in love. By May, they've eloped....
100) Wayward Pines
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Secret Service agent Ethan Burke wakes up in a hospital in a strangely idyllic mountain town in Idaho. But the more Ethan tries to find out what happened to him, and to two missing fellow agents, the more he discovers that nothing is as it seems in Wayward Pines. Desperate to learn the truth and return to his family, Ethan eventually unveils a terrifying secret that affects all of mankind.
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