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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In the ten years since 90 Minutes in Heaven was published, millions of people worldwide have read the incredible true story of Don Piper's experience with death and life--and in reading they have found their own lives changed. After a semi-truck collided with Don Piper's car, he was pronounced dead at the scene. For the next ninety minutes, he experienced the glories of heaven. Back on earth, a passing minister felt led to stop and pray for the accident...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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"After losing her sister in a devastating car accident, chef Quinn Weller is finally getting her life back on track. She appears to have it all: a loving family, a dream job in one of L.A.'s hottest eateries, and a gorgeous boyfriend dying to slip an engagement ring on her finger. So why does she feel so empty, like she's looking for a missing piece she can't find?"
6) Scythe
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Series
Arc of a scythe volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
7) Countdown
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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When a young nurse downloads an app that alleges to foresee a person's time of death, it claims she has three days to stay alive. With time running out, and an eerie figure haunting her, she must find a way to survive.
8) Thunderhead
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Series
Arc of a scythe volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Hannah examines whether love and commitment are enough to sustain a marriage when two people who have put their individual dreams on ice get a chance to defrost them . . . in fast-moving prose punctuated by snappy asides.”—People
Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance,...
Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance,...
10) Next girl to die
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Series
Calderwood cases volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"It's been fifteen years since Claire Calderwood's sister, Rachel, was brutally murdered in their small hometown in Maine. Claire has finally carved out a life for herself as a homicide detective in Detroit, but the past comes calling when the local police back home ask for her help with a murder eerily similar to Rachel's. Still haunted by Rachel's cold case, Claire returns home, hoping to solve the crime and finally put her grief to rest. As she...
11) Sweet on you
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English
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Britt and Zander have been best friends since they met thirteen years ago, but unbeknownst to Britt, Zander has always loved her. When Zander's uncle dies of mysterious causes, and they work together to uncover his uncle's tangled past, will the truth of what lies between them come to light?
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Sin Eater's daughter volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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For four years sixteen-year-old Twylla has lived in the castle of Lormere, the goddess-embodied, whose touch can poison and kill, and hence the Queen's executioner--but when Prince Merek, her betrothed, who is immune to her touch returns to the kingdom she finds herself caught up in palace intrigues, unsure if she can trust him or the bodyguard who claims to love her.
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