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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author.
A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press
How did Fidel...
A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press
How did Fidel...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
c2007
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Emma Lion loves to make new friends, but Mama tells her to be careful and never talk to strangers. Emma sees new people to meet everywhere she goes. How will she know who is a stranger?
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When the stranger named Dunbar comes to the town of Cantera, he shows interest in local history, especially the Frenchman's Quarry and the death of the owner's son twenty years earlier. Dunbar also asks about Pat Roderik, the town marshal, and Dolores Carreau, the Frenchman's widow. And then the murders begin. Now it is Dunbar's mission to pursue the perpetrator, deal with his henchman, and bring him to justice"--Book jacket.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a way out of the woods, frustrated, hungry and battling to stay warm, they discover their mysterious connection and realize what they have to do in order to get out of the woods alive.
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Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As Lu waits in the rain after school, many people offer to take her home but she will only go with someone on the list of those allowed to pick her up. Includes resources for adults and a form for the reader to make his or her own list, with a parent or guardian's help.
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Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Eve, and Nikki Michaels is on the last leg of her drive to celebrate the holidays with her family in Salt Lake City, so when blizzard conditions force her off the freeway in Bliss, Idaho, she finds her situation anything but blissful. Snowed in at a rest stop, Nikki finds kinship with a stranger, a fellow traveler, who helps her find the magic of Christmas again.
13) The photo album
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Series
Publisher
Annie's Attic
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"No one seems to recognize the young man caught in the background of some old photos that Annie found in the attic of Grey Gables. But Mary Beth, owner of A Stitch in Time, turns strangely pale when Annie shows the photos at the Hook and Needle Club meeting. Annie is determined to find out who this stranger is and what became of him. His young, sad face haunts her and she feels compelled to unearth his story. Then disturbing information gleaned from...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version]
Language
English
Description
Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption; before everything goes to hell.
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel from the bestselling book series, this powerful love story is filled with inspiring life lessons about faith, trust and first impressions. In the quaint town of Sugarcreek, Ohio, policewoman Rachel Troyer is fiercely protective of her three Amish aunts. When a penniless stranger named Joe shows up with his five-year-old son, the aunts insist on helping them. But Rachel has immediate suspicions and devotes herself to investigating...
16) 9/11
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When five people find themselves trapped in an elevator after a plane hits the World Trade Center, they work together to try to survive.
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Korean
Description
A rash of brutal murders sweeps a quiet rural village where a mysterious stranger just appeared. When the investigating officer watches his daughter fall under the same savage spell, he consults a shaman for answers, unknowingly escalating the situation into something far more dangerous.
20) Guess who
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2018.
Language
English
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The rules are simple.
But the game is not.
At eleven years old, Morgan Sheppard solved the murder of a teacher when everyone else believed it to be a suicide. The publicity surrounding the case laid the foundation for his reputation as a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. He parlayed that fame into a gig as TV's "resident detective," solving the more typical tawdry daytime talk show mysteries like "Who is the father?" and "Is he cheating?"
Until,...
But the game is not.
At eleven years old, Morgan Sheppard solved the murder of a teacher when everyone else believed it to be a suicide. The publicity surrounding the case laid the foundation for his reputation as a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. He parlayed that fame into a gig as TV's "resident detective," solving the more typical tawdry daytime talk show mysteries like "Who is the father?" and "Is he cheating?"
Until,...
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