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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 41
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English
Description
During the civil war, five Union soldiers and a dog quietly escape from the clutches of the Confederate Army at Richmond, Virginia by hot air balloon. Their intention was to drift safely over to the Union lines and rejoin their own troops. Instead, while aloft, they are caught in a high wind and whisked thousands of miles out to sea.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic-a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire. It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingeria-the 29th state of the Ottoman Empire-located in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. Half the population is Muslim, the other half are Orthodox Greeks, and tension...
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English
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On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has...
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English
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated,...
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Series
Paradise (Elin Hilderbrand) volume 2
Language
English
Description
A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a plane crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too. Now Irene and her sons are back on St. John, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious life -and death - of a man they thought they knew. Along...
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Wild robot volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
10) The bomb
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.
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Language
English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's...
13) Lightlark
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Series
Lightlark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In order to break a curse on her kingdom, Isla Crown, the young ruler of Wilding, must compete in the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play, and to survive she must lie, cheat, and betray--even as love threatens to undo everything.
Every 100 years the island of Lightlark appears. Its purpose: to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. The Centennial offers...
14) Stranded
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Series
Stranded. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.
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Series
The Broadmoor legacy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Twenty-one-year-old Amanda Broadmoor wrestles with her desire to work in the medical field, despite her family's wishes for her to marry and have children, when cholera breaks out in Rochester, New York in 1899.
16) Trial by fire
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Series
Stranded. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Being shipwrecked on a jungle island in the middle of the South Pacific was bad enough. But now that Carter, Vanessa, Buzz and Jane have lost their boat--and almost everything on board--to another violent storm, it's like starting over. That means finding food and shelter, making fire for the first time, dealing with the wild boars that roam the island--and of course, figuring out how to get along (and not kill each other in the process)"--Page 4...
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Series
Paradise (Elin Hilderbrand) volume 3
Language
English
Description
After uprooting her life in the States, Irene Steele has just settled in at the villa on St. John where her husband Russ had been living a double life. But a visit from the FBI shakes her foundations, and Irene once again learns just how little she knew about the man she loved. With help from their friends, Irene and her sons set up their lives while evidence mounts that the helicopter crash that killed Russ may not have been an accident. Meanwhile,...
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Fargo adventures volume 7
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
There are many rumors about the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Some say it was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king and that great treasure lies beneath the waters. Others say terrible things happened here, atrocities and disappearances at the hands of cannibal giants, and those who venture there do not return. It is cursed. Which is exactly what attracts the attention of husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi...
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