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Scot Harvath thrillers volume 4
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English
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From #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling author, Brad Thor, comes Blowback.
Scot Harvath's counterterrorism career has just crashed and burned—thanks in part to a ruthless senator with her sights set on the White House. But when the war on terror takes a chilling turn, the president has no choice but to secretly bring Harvath back inside. Deep beneath an Alpine...
Scot Harvath's counterterrorism career has just crashed and burned—thanks in part to a ruthless senator with her sights set on the White House. But when the war on terror takes a chilling turn, the president has no choice but to secretly bring Harvath back inside. Deep beneath an Alpine...
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IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved, Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes "an intimate picture of middle-class family life" (The New York Times) that challenges the notion that home is a fixed place, and celebrates the subtle complexities of life on all sides of the American experience.
Two families meet at the Baltimore airport while waiting for their baby girls...
Two families meet at the Baltimore airport while waiting for their baby girls...
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English
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From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review).
"One of the best books Baldwin has ever written—perhaps the best of all." —The...
"One of the best books Baldwin has ever written—perhaps the best of all." —The...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Yoon Choi explores the Korean-American experience at its interstices: where first and second generations either clash or find common ground; where meaning falls in the cracks between languages; where relationships bend under the weight of tenderness and disappointment; where displacement turns to heartbreak.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam.
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English
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Journeying to London to do a shoot of one of the world's most celebrated writers, Soho photographer Hope Dunne is attracted by Finn O'Neill's boyish charm and accepts his invitation to his isolated Irish estate, where gaps in his history and confusing lies raise Hope's suspicions.
10) The crossover
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
11) On the come up
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Natasha, whose family is hours away from being deported, and Daniel, a first generation Korean American who strives to live up to his parents' expectations, unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together.
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Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Anita Hemmings, the first African American student at Vassar College, is successfully passing as white, but is confronted by her wealthy roommate who threatens to reveal Anita's secret after she becomes infatuated with Anita's brother.
17) Boo, Katie Woo!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Disappointed that her monster costume does not frighten anyone, Katie Woo still finds a way to have a happy Halloween.
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Tiger's apprentice volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A boy and a group of magical animals carry the fate of the world on their shoulders in this fantasy adventure by a two-time Newbery Honor–winning author.
It isn't every day you meet a tiger. And certainly not a tiger in a suit and tie who informs you the fate of the world is in your hands . . .
Tom has always felt different from everyone else living in San Francisco's Chinatown, but he has no idea just how very different he is...
It isn't every day you meet a tiger. And certainly not a tiger in a suit and tie who informs you the fate of the world is in your hands . . .
Tom has always felt different from everyone else living in San Francisco's Chinatown, but he has no idea just how very different he is...
19) When birds could talk & bats could sing: the adventures of Bruh Sparrow, Sis Wren, and their friends
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Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A collection of stories, featuring sparrows, jays, buzzards, and bats, based on those African American tales originally written down by Martha Young on her father's plantation in Alabama after the Civil War.
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Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A 50th anniversary tribute to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 finds an elderly woman reflecting on her family's history, from the passage of the 15th Amendment through her participation in the protest march from Selma to Montgomery.
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