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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 16
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"Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life--from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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After her fiance calls off their marriage a week before the wedding. heartbroken Christine Hollister reluctantly agrees to accompany her friend Jessica to Peru to do volunteer work in an orphanage, where she meets American doctor Paul Cook.
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Daughters of Lancaster County volume 3
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English
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Leona is Bishop Jacob Weaver's daughter and a dedicated teacher in a one-room Amish schoolhouse. After her father's tragic accident, Leona's faith wavers. How could God allow something like this to happen to one of His servants? Outlander Jimmy Scott comes to Pennsylvania in search of his real family. When he is hired to paint an Amish schoolhouse, Jimmy and Leona find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Can anything good come from the love...
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Robopocalypse novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Two decades into the future humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love.
Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticutcountryside, to the avenues ofManhattan, and to the blue...
Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticutcountryside, to the avenues ofManhattan, and to the blue...
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Whether you listen to Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life--even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last becoming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology. Both a cutting-edge study and a tribute to the beauty of music itself, this book unravels a host of mysteries that affect everything from pop culture to our understanding...
10) Leota's garden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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At eighty-four, Leota Reinhardt is alone, all of her efforts to reconcile with her adult children hadn't worked in the past, until she meets her estranged grandaughter, Annie, and confides to her the silent sacrifice she had made as a young mother of two, while her husband was gone during World War II.
11) Take three
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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For the sake of a dream . . . or the love of fame?
Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison set out to change the world with their films—and they are finally seeing their dreams come true. The dedicated producers are deep in negotiations with America's top young movie star to play the lead in their next inspirational movie. But life takes a sudden turn for Chase, removing him from Jeremiah Productions permanently. In the process,
...12) The last alibi
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James Drinker is a bit of an oddball. A funny looking geeky loner he walks into Jason Kolarichs office one day with a preemptive concern two women have recently been murdered seemingly by the same killer and Drinker thinks he will be the polices main suspect. One woman was his ex girlfriend he says and the other was a friend. Hes the only link between the victims and he has no alibi for the night of either murder surely the police will realize it...
14) Sunrise
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Book 1 in the bestselling 4-book Christian fiction series that has sold over 1.3 million copies!
A story about God's unending faithfulness and the promise of new beginnings, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction.
A Long-Awaited Celebration
In preparation for their long-awaited wedding day, Dayne and Katy are...
A story about God's unending faithfulness and the promise of new beginnings, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction.
A Long-Awaited Celebration
In preparation for their long-awaited wedding day, Dayne and Katy are...
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A history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance offers insight into the development of such concepts as competition, modern medicine, and the work ethic, arguing that Western dominance is being lost to cultures who are more productively utilizing Western techniques.
"The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years. All over the world, an astonishing...
16) The last child
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this multi-layered tale of broken families and deadly secrets.
17) Someday
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Pressures of the celebrity lifestyle weigh heavily on Dayne and Katy Matthews as they take on separate movie projects. Tabloid rumors talk of trouble and unfaithfulness between the two, but finally something drastic catches Daynes attention and makes him realize the destruction theyre playing with. But will it be too late? The Flanigan family recognizes the deep loss of the Christian Kids Theater program, and they lead a final effort to keep the theater...
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"Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the "Kingdom of God." The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was executed as a state criminal. Within decades after his death, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most enigmatic figures...
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The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can't walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers?...
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Christmas box trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Since it was first published, more than seven million people have been touched by the magic of The Christmas Box When Richard Paul Evans wrote The Christmas Box As Evans began to write, he was amazed at the inspiration that flowed into his mind and heart. He completed the moving story of a widow and the young family who comes to live with her in less than six weeks, and bound twenty copies to give as Christmas presents to family and friends. In the...