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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
Author
Series
Passage trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Description
The latest test subject in a covert government experiment, abandoned six-year-old Amy is rescued by an FBI agent who hides them in the Oregon hills, from which Amy emerges a century later to save the human race from a terrifying virus.
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
Language
English
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a small Florida town, a young lawyer, Keith Russo, is shot to death as he works late. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but Cullen Post, the Episcopal minister in charge, gets more than he bargained for. Powerful people murdered Russo-- they do not want Miller exonerated, and will...
7) Building big
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Focusses on the connections between the planning and design problems and the solutions that are finally reached when building bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers, domes, and dams.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own.
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.
10) Rogue Lawyer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...
11) Beowulf
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality"--
Author
Series
Discworld volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Rincewind, a cowardly wizard, is the only one who can save Discworld as it falls slowly towards a red star.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...
16) 1984: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
17) See me
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Colin Hancock, a young man with a dark, destructive past now focused on keeping his life straight, has his plans to remain single challenged by Maria Sanchez, a hardworking lawyer.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
ix, 304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Young readers edition, First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
xiii, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2013, Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's...