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"A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still, Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success--and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal screwups, he might just prove himself right. A shot at redemption...
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English
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Clara Sinclair has learned to live one lonely day at a time. It was the only way she managed to survive her husband's death in World War II and raise their young son alone. But now she's at a loss as to how to handle the defiant teenager he has become, even as she struggles to keep her family financially afloat. She's fresh out of ways to turn her luck around -- until a daring stranger's unexpected kindness sparks hope she hasn't felt in a long time...
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Lexile measure
1090L
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English
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Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is born from a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty and...
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Summer vacation becomes a season in hell for an ordinary family who unwittingly stir something invisible, insidious, and insatiable from its secret slumber, unleashing a wave of horror only the darkest evil could create, that only a master of spine-tingling terror like John Saul could orchestrate. For deep in the shadows in the dark of the night lurks something as big as life and as real as death.
45) Back roads
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Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is.With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned...
47) Chiefs
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Over 40 years ago, Stuart Woods found a battered chief-of-police badge in his grandmother's house. It had belonged to his grandfather, who had been shot in the line of duty. The story of the lawman's death inspired Woods to write Chiefs. This novel won an Edgar Award and was made into a popular TV miniseries. In 1919, Delano, Georgia appoints its first chief of police. Honest and hardworking, the new chief is puzzled when young men start to disappear....
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Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
351 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Nick has even found the courage to come out to his mom. But coming out isn't something that happens just once, and Nick and Charlie try to figure out when to tell their friends that they're dating. Not being out to their classmates gets even harder during a school trip to Paris. As Nick and Charlie's feelings get more serious, they'll need each other more than...
49) One false move
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Pub. Date
2004
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English
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When a bank robbery goes horribly wrong, leaving six people dead, con artist Melanie Starks, her seventeen-year-old son Charlie, and a paroled prisoner take an innocent author hostage and hide out in his secluded cabin in Platte River State Park.
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"Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and their three children back for the festivities. In the midst of it all, Samuel and Willadee's outspoken eleven-year-old daughter, Swan, is a bright light. Her high spirits and fearlessness have alternately seduced...
51) Ben is back
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Ben Burns, a drug-addicted teenager, shows up unexpectedly to visit his family on Christmas Eve. His wary mother welcomes him, but after finding out he's still in danger, she must to do everything she can to help her family.
52) Lure of the dead
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Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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As creatures of the dark hunt for the witch assassin Grimalkin, who carries the captured Fiend's head, Spook's apprentice Tom tries to find a way to finish this terrifying evil once and for all.
53) Cimarron rose
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Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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James Lee Burke, best-selling author of the Louisiana-based Dave Robicheaux crime fiction series, now begins a new series with a new landscape. In Cimarron Rose, Burke brings his talent for lyrical writing and hard-edged suspense to the American West. Billy Bob Holland is a lawyer for the people of sunbaked Deaf Smith, in southern Texas. Although occasionally he is haunted by memories of a violent past, his life is serene-until a local guitarist,...
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Pub. Date
2015
Lexile measure
HL 700L
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English
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"For Tim, it wouldn't be smart to fall for Alice. For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. But Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if 'smart' is always right. When these two crash into each other, they crash hard. ...Told in Tim's and Alice's distinctive, disarming, entirely compelling voices, this return to the setting of My life next door is a love story about failing first, trying...
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English
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"One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy's life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim's brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford,...
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Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Neve Halloran and her daughter Mickey are starting a new life near a wildlife sanctuary in South County Rhode Island. Mickey becomes friends with a lonely boy who is also fascinated by the creatures of the coasts and Neve is drawn to a man who has devoted his life to the sanctuary.
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Everyone in Tenney's Harbor, Maine, knows about the Garrison tragedy, when a house fire killed four of the five family members. Fingers point at Pearl Haskins' father, who was the caretaker of the property, but Pearl doesn't believe it. Pearl's future never held much promise beyond waiting tables at the local country club. This year Tristan, the last surviving Garrison, and his group of affluent and arrogant friends have made a point of sitting in...
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Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvi, 272 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Boys may seem impervious to school pressures, but they often fear failure so much that they totally opt out. He's Not Lazy helps parents understand--and constructively handle--the underlying issues affecting their sons. A renowned expert on ADHD explains how to deal with a conflicted boy who really wants to do well, discover hidden obstacles to his success, develop his confidence, and empower him to accept responsibility for his own future"--