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Time quintet volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
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Library of America volume 310
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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This second volume gathers the final four Kairos novels, in which Meg and Calvin's daughter Polly takes center stage. In The Arm of the Starfish, Polly disappears, and Calvin's research assistant is implicated in her kidnapping. In Dragons in the Waters, Polly and her brother Charles are on a steamer bound for Venezuela when they help solve a murder connected to a stolen portrait of Simon Bolivar. Polly receives an education in different kinds of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel. Includes related readings and study questions.
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In this book you will learn:
That the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem is not the remains of a Jewish temple, but the remains of a Roman temple to Jupiter.
That Jesus and his brother James were vegetarians who were opposed to all animal sacrifices.
That Jesus and James worshipped at a Jewish temple in Egypt, and they lived a century earlier than the commonly accepted time.
That a chronological falsification has taken place in various biblical texts.
That...
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The pursuit of patience is the process of accepting time. This book will help you to understand that time passing is the process of life. We will never run out of time, we will never have too much time and there is only one thing we can do with our time, and that is grow. What direction we grow in is up to us.
Designed to build on 'Thinking for Yourself', we investigate what areas, in which we can grow, understanding how our connections can get us...
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Psalms 69:13-14 (KJV) "But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. Deliver me out of the mire and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters." These last few years have been like a shock wave, coming at you everywhere you look. The news and life itself have become very challenging. My daily activities...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Claire Alalay likes herself best when she plays her father's old piano, a welcome escape from the sadness of missing him -- and from her traditional Filipino mother's prayer groups. After placing third in a local competition, and with hopes of earning a college scholarship, Claire auditions for Paul Avon, a prominent piano teacher, who agrees to take Claire as a pupil. Soon Claire loses herself in Paul's world and his way of digging...
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Can we have a personal relationship with God today?
What does it require to become a believer?
Is it possible to enter the presence of God, like they did in the OT?
Can anything from an old book, like the Bible be used today?
Does applying the Scriptures in the twenty-first century really answer today's questions for living life to the fullest?
The Old and New Testaments reveal much about the character of God. Examples of both good and evil are, revealed...
10) Blood Child
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The former pit-rats have reached their new found freedom after the loss of some of their brother-slaves during their treacherous escape from the Outlanders, their former masters. They have battled their way across the entire Outland nation and have arrived tired, battered, short on patience and worn out. Despite this they arrive ready to begin their new life with an optimism that only slaves possess.Choosing this new life however brings with it a...
11) Fearless
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Anna Campbell is ready to take her first tentative steps back into the world after widowhood. On a singles cruise, she meets divorced professor Ryan Robertson, and the sparks between them are undeniable. Back home in West Texas, Anna and Ryan continue their romance, and Anna decides it's time for their families to meet. Anna is delighted when her daughter, Christina, hits it off with Ryan's daughter, Renée. The two girls are close in age and have...
12) Power play
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In Northern California two successful CEOs are both indispensable to their growing companies’ futures. Both are brilliant at the power game. But the difference between them is huge. One is a man, the other a woman. In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores what that means as she takes readers into the rarefied world of those at the pinnacle of international business and reveals the irrevocable...
In Northern California two successful CEOs are both indispensable to their growing companies’ futures. Both are brilliant at the power game. But the difference between them is huge. One is a man, the other a woman. In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores what that means as she takes readers into the rarefied world of those at the pinnacle of international business and reveals the irrevocable...
13) Batcat
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Batcat volume 1
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English
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Batcat loves being all alone in their home on Spooky Island, spending time playing videogames and watching TV. But, when they find themself being haunted by an annoying, ice cream-stealing ghost, they visit the local Island Witch for a spell to remove their ghostly guest permanently.
14) Four friends
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Gerri can't decide what's more devastating: learning her rock solid marriage has big cracks, or the anger she feels as she tries to repair them. Always the anchor for friends and her three angst ridden teenagers, it's time to look carefully at herself. The journey is more than revealing, its transforming. Andy doesn't have a great track record with men, and she's come to believe that a lasting love is out of reach. When she finds herself attracted...
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Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park whom she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle. Evie, grateful for their charismatic leader's attention, the sense of family the group offers, and the assurance of the girls, is swept into their chaotic cult existence. As things turn darker, her choices become riskier. A wonderfully written debut novel about...
16) Hidden summit
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Virgin River volume 17
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English
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Connor Danson becomes an unwitting witness to a violent crime and he is forced to leave Sacramento until the trial is over but when he arrives in Virgin River he meets Leslie Petruso who left her hometown to get away from her ex-husband and neither want to start a new relationship, but nobody can stay hidden from life or love in this town.
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"Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure while serving in the Trump administration. From June of 2019 until his firing by President Trump after the November 2020 election, Secretary Mark T. Esper led the Department of Defense through an unprecedented time in history--a period marked by growing threats and conflict abroad, a global pandemic unseen in a century, the greatest domestic unrest in...
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What can you do when your life is falling apart around you?
Is it really true that you can "be happy no matter how bad things are" as the majority of pop self-help books and many therapists tell us?
The reality is that life can be challenging. During rough circumstances, we can't always just think happy thoughts and then expect that life will be easier. However, there is something we can do! We can learn from the philosophy and...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding...
20) Country bride
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Hope's Crossing volume 2
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English
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Country bride: Kate Logan is devastated when Clay Franklin, her former fiancé and the man she's always loved, marries Rorie Campbell instead. But at the wedding and after a glass of champagne too many Kate proposes to her long-time friend, rancher Luke Rivers. Luke accepts her proposal and refuses to renege on his promise.
Woodrose Mountain: Hoping for a quieter life in Hope's Crossing, physical therapist Evie Blanchard instead finds herself, despite...