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82) Edge: a novel
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Washington D.C. police detective Ryan Kessler is targeted by "lifter" Henry Loving, he and his family are immediately put under government protection. Assigned to the Kesslers is protection officer Corte: uncompromising, relentlessly devoted to protecting those in his care and a brilliant game strategist. As the "lifter" closes in on his prey, Corte must decide whether to protect his charges, or expose them to a killer in the name of personal...
Author
Series
Marshall Grade novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Ex-undercover cop Marshall Grade is hiding out in New York City when he learns that federal agent Lucas Cohen has survived a kidnapping. Cohen was Marshall's ticket into witness protection, and his captors have a simple question: where's Marshall now? Marshall's undercover work gave him a long list of enemies, and the enemy in this case is a corrupt businessman named Dexter Vine. Vine's almost broke, in debt to people even worse than himself, and...
84) Heartbeat
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This cinematic picture book from critically acclaimed author and illustrator Evan Turk follows the life of a baby whale from birth, to song, to silence, to a new song of compassion and hope for a brighter future. Two hearts, one song. A young whale and her mother sing together. Heartbeat. Then the mother is gone. One heart, one song. The young whale swims, alone and lonely, for days and years and decades until one day a little girl hears her and joins...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Three grown women find escape and camaraderie on sorority row in a delightfully exhilarating novel about fresh starts, whether you want them or not, by New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster. How fast can charity fundraiser CeCe Barclay’s unimpeachable society life come tumbling down? One minute she’s speaking before Chicago’s glitterati. The next, her financier husband is wanted for embezzlement. Her assets seized and her fall mortifyingly...
87) Gone
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett must stop master criminal and assassin Manuel Perrine who has sworn to find and kill Bennett and everyone dear to him.
Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatric and ruthless Mexican strongman, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suits. Detective Michael Bennett is the only US official ever to succeed at putting Perrine behind bars -- but now Perrine is out,...
88) My river
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Frogs, fish, a turtle, and other creatures who live in or around a river state their need for the river, making a plea for protecting this natural resource.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Privacy is complex and personal. Many of us do not know the full extent to which data is collected, stored, aggregated, and used. As recent revelations indicate, we are subject to a level of data collection and surveillance never before imaginable. While some of these methods may, in fact, protect us and provide us with information and services we deem to be helpful and desired, others can turn out to be insidious and over-arching. Privacy in the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"In this personal, moving essay, youth activist Hannah Testa shares with readers how she led a grassroots political campaign to successfully pass state legislation limiting single-use plastics and how she influenced global businesses to adopt more sustainable practices"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On Green Day, Cam and her classmates discuss ways to protect the environment, but when money collected for the school's new skylights disappears, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.
93) My forever dress
Author
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Grandma sews an environmentally friendly party dress for her granddaughter that can be recycled as she grows up.
94) Save the climate
Author
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"You can help save the climate! Make reading your superpower with DK’s beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about climate change, and what you can do to help save the climate - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Save the Climate is a beautifully designed reader all about the causes and effects of climate change, and what everyone can do to help. The engaging...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the powertaking on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are threatening the natural habitat....
96) In plain sight
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's hunt for a missing woman forces him to confront his own past in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances during a bitter struggle between her sons for control of her million-dollar empire. Joe Pickett is convinced one of them must have done her in. But when he becomes the victim of a series of wicked and increasingly...
97) The lonely giant
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A modern fable, The Lonely Giant is a story of conserving the environment, friendship and freedom. The forest giant likes nothing better than smashing, bashing and pulling up trees. But when all the animals run away in fear, the giant finds himself so very sad and lonely. How he misses the crackling warmth of a fire; how he misses the sweet, melodious songs of the birds! Can the lonely giant find a way to bring back the woodland bloom, and even make...
98) Greta Thunberg
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the inspiring true story of Greta Thunberg, the environmental activist. When young Greta learned of the climate crisis, she stopped talking. She couldn't understand why people in power were not doing anything to save our Earth. One day she started protesting outside the Swedish Parliament, creating the School Strike for Climate. Soon,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"There's not a target out there that US Marshals Aiden Yazzie and Charlotte "Charlie" Killinger can't bring down. Until a high-profile witness goes missing and a fellow marshal is murdered. On a killer's hit list, they go on the run. Their will to stay alive is challenged only by their long-denied physical attraction. Can they steer clear of temptation to find their witness and dodge their pursuers before it's too late?"--
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Language
English
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Formats
Description
Secret Service agent Clint Hill brings history intimately and vividly to life as he reflects on his seventeen years protecting the most powerful office in the nation. Hill walked alongside Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford, seeing them through a long, tumultuous erathe Cold War; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert...
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