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3) Sabotaged
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Alaskan courage volume 5
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English
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"Growing up in Yancey, Alaska, Kirra Jacobs and Reef McKenna were always at odds; now working together to stop an ecoterrorist threatening the Iditarod and Alaskan lives, Kirra and the entire McKenna family attempt to prevent tragedy in this final book of the ALASKAN COURAGE series"--
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Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she's sad to be leaving Marilla and the twins, she's excited to finally become a full-fledged BA, and to embark on new adventures with the other Avonlea folks attending Redmond-a group that includes her friend Gilbert Blythe. At Redmond Anne meets Philippa Gordon, a frivolous but charming girl who pulls Anne into the center of the Redmond social scene. As Anne becomes the object of several boys' affection,...
7) Walden
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In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond, Massachusetts. During the two years spend there, he began to write 'Walden', his most important work, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential books in Western literature.
9) Silenced
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Alaskan courage volume 4
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English
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"After Kayden McKenna discovers the body of a fellow climber, she and Jake Westin team up to investigate the death--provoking threats on her entire family"--
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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English
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In this adaptation of his best-selling book, The Heart and the Fist, Eric speaks directly to teen readers, interweaving memoir and intimate second-person narratives that ask the reader to put themselves in the shoes of himself and others. Readers will share in Erics evolution from average kid to globe-traveling humanitarian to warrior, training and serving with the most elite military outfit in the world: the Navy SEALs. Along the way, theyll...
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While on a camping trip with Uncle Louie, two young mice named Angelina and Henry become lost in the woods until the "fit and fearless" Angelina saves the day. This newest title in the Angelina Ballerina series begins as Angelina and Henry leave to go camping with Uncle Louie. They love exploring the Big Cat Mountains, but when they wander too far from camp, their fun turns to fear. Full-color illustrations.
12) Divergent
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Divergent trilogy volume 1
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English
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In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
13) The jumbies
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English
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Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
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IVP Books
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English
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International Justice Mission president Haugen has found that "the pathway out of a nearly comatose state of boredom, ineffectiveness and triviality lies in the struggle for justice." This book describes how to break out of a ho-hum Christian life and see God's powerful and mysterious ways at work.
15) Allegiant
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Divergent trilogy volume 3
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English
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The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she...
16) Rain rising
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Series
Rain novels volume 1
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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First edition.
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Rain, who struggles with low self-esteem, must overcome sadness after her older brother Xander is severely beaten up at a frat party, but through the help of an after-school circle group, Rain finds the courage to help herself and her family heal.
17) Daring greatly: how the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead
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The #1 New York Times bestseller. More than 2 million copies sold! Look for Brene Brown s new podcast, Dare to Lead, as well as her ongoing podcast Unlocking Us! From thought leader Brene Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done...
18) Insurgent
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Divergent trilogy volume 2
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English
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"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
19) Second chance
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English
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A free-spirited editor-in-chief of New York's leading fashion magazine meets a conservative widower with two daughters in this novel about second chances in both love and life. In this tale of modern-day relationships and compromises made in the name of love, Daniel Steel shows just what can happen when one gathers enough courage to hope again.
20) Sounder
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A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.
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