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Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home."At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Allie is still recovering from the loss of her family's beloved waterfront restaurant on Florida's Gulf Coast when she loses her second husband to a terrifying highway accident. Devastated and losing hope, she shudders to contemplate the future--until a cherished person from her past returns. Joseph has been adrift for many years, wounded in both body and spirit and unable to come to terms with the trauma of his Vietnam War experiences. Just as he...
Author
Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade stand. Her latest customer, a bearded stranger, drains his cup and heads to his car, his mind on a boat he's restoring at a nearby lake. But the little girl's pretty yellow dress can't quite hide the ugly scar on her chest. The stranger understands more about it than he wants to admit. And the beat-up bread truck careening...
Author
Series
Terrible two volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks, but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Friends and pranking partners Miles and Niles face a tough challenge when their favorite goat and nemesis, Principal Barkin, is replaced by his stern, no-nonsense father, Former Principal Barkin, who turns the school into boot camp"--
6) Jack
Author
Series
Gilead volume 4
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa--the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack--and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and his...
Author
Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this new edition that includes a study guide, popular author Walter Brueggemann writes that the Sabbath is not simply about keeping rules but rather about becoming a whole person and restoring a whole society. Brueggemann calls out our 24/7 society of consumption, a society in which we live to achieve, accomplish, perform, and possess. We want more, own more, use more, eat more, and drink more. Brueggemann shows readers how keeping the Sabbath...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ben has so often tried to convince people he has seen Bigfoot that when a real yeti arrives and borrows his bicycle, no one comes to see if Ben is telling the truth.
Author
Series
Terrible Two volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"School's out, and Miles and Niles are running wild in the woods outside town: climbing trees, exploring caves, and, yes, pranking. But these leafy, lazy days of mischief darken when bully Josh Barkin and his cadets from a nearby kids' boot camp discover the merrymakers--and vow to destroy them"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Terrible Two volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As the Terrible Two face the end of their time together in Yawnee Valley, they are determined to pull a prank that changes the town forever.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Oliver and Nathan, determined to get to the bottom of their new homeroom teacher's fishy behavior, discover Mr. Aidact is actually an AI robot from a secret experimental program.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
John Burley's The Absence of Mercy is a harrowing tale of suspense involving a brutal murder and dark secrets that lie beneath the surface of a placid, tight-knit Midwestern town.
When a brutally murdered teenager is discovered in the woods surrounding a small Ohio town, Dr. Ben Stevenson-the town's medical examiner-must decide if he's willing to put his family's life in danger to uncover the truth. Finding himself pulled deeper into an investigation...