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1) Melancholia
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A planet called Melancholia is on a collision course with Earth while Justine and Michael prepare to celebrate their wedding and, as tension mounts, relationships are strained as family members contend with their own fears.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years. Includes an author's note which provides factual information on tsunamis.
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"The first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, in the tradition of THE NEST. "Hypnotic, passionate, ominous and tender--unforgettable." --Jenna Blum, New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Those Who Save Us The Rain Watcher is a powerful family drama set in Paris as the Malegarde family gathers to celebrate the father's...
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"The post-apocalyptic saga takes you headlong into the fury that only Mother Nature can dish out -- and that only those who have prepared for can survive. Massive electrical storms roll across the upper peninsula of Michigan as a result of the supervolcano eruption. Destructive lightning sets the city on fire, illuminating the night with blood-red skies. Allexa Smeth and her town of Moose Creek are finding it more and more difficult to survive the...
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"For fans of The Good Wife, Catherine McKenzie's Forgotten is a pure, page-turning pleasure." -- Gwendolen Gross, author of The Orphan Sister "By turns hilarious and heart-tugging ....A thoroughly enjoyable read!" -- Juliette Fay, author of Deep Down True If your old life vanished completely, should you try to get it back or create a whole new one? That's the intriguing question at the heart of Catherine McKenzie's Forgotten. The smart, funny, and...
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"The survival saga of Allexa Smeth and the town of Moose Creek continues. Second in the smash-hit post-apocalyptic thriller series. While the rest of the nation has begun the slow process of recovering from the devastating earthquakes of months earlier, the small town of Moose Creek is still suffering. The food bank and soup kitchen Allexa Smeth helped established to feed her community have closed, but the locals rally and find ways to feed themselves,...
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"Unprepared. Undaunted. The blockbuster post-apocalyptic thriller series continues with the story of an ordinary woman facing an extraordinary disaster. When a seemingly minor tremor escalates into a major earthquake, Christine, the spoiled daughter of John Tiggs, is stranded in the middle of it in St. Louis. Caught at ground zero of the violent catastrophe, Christine must overcome her fears and prejudices to stay alive and find her way home -- on...
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"A crumbling country, an emotional reunion, and a rush of violence bring the post-apocalyptic thriller series to a stunning conclusion. John Tiggs, mining engineer and munitions expert, tried to get back to the small town of Moose Creek after the first ash fall from the Yellowstone caldera. Instead, he got picked up during a martial law crackdown and thrown in a labor camp. To free himself, he agrees to work for FEMA for six months helping with their...
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"It's nature versus humans with a country torn in half as the post-apocalyptic series continues. "Fast-paced and intense! I couldn't put it down." -- Kerry Alan Denney, author of A Mighty Rolling Thunder The world was shaking apart and the North American continent was at the heart of it. An earthquake ripped the country in half at the New Madrid fault line. Shipping ceased and sent the country into a tailspin, with small towns like Michigan's Moose...
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A shocking natural disaster rocks the country. And, only one woman is prepared to handle the fallout. A post-apocalyptic thriller series begins.
When a major crisis rocks the nation, supply lines are shut down everywhere.
The small town of Moose Creek feels the effects almost immediately as they begin to run out of food.
In the remote regions of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the residents are hit again, when the power is cut off to them in the...
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IN THIS POIGNANT AND BREATHTAKING DEBUT, ONE MAN SEARCHES FOR MEANING IN THE WAKE OF INCOMPARABLE TRAGEDY ... Karom Seth should have been in the Twin Towers on the morning of 9/11, and on the Indian shores in 2004, when the tsunami swept his entire family into the ocean. Whether it's a curse or a blessing, Karom can't be sure, but his absence from these disasters has left him with crushing guilt--and a belief that fate has singled him out for invincibility....
15) Fragment
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When avalanching glaciers thrust a massive Antarctic ice sheet into the open ocean, the captain of an atomic submarine must risk his vessel to rescue the survivors of a smashed polar research station; in Washington the President's top advisor scrambles to spin the disaster to suit his master's political aims; and meanwhile two intrepid newsmen sail south into the storm-lashed Drake Passage to discover the truth. Onboard the submarine, as the colossal...
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"An amazing journey into the fire and beyond!"
"A story of heartbreak and resilience, with a few bad guys thrown in for good measure."
"This may be fiction, but it tells a very 'real' story of disaster and heroism"
When a small, paradisiacal mountain town is, faced with a wildfire of historic proportions, survival is only the beginning. Once the fire is out, the chase to find answers begins.
James Augustine woke on that fateful Thursday morning, optimistic...
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Woodly Wiley Pierre was not your ordinary 3rd grader. She was as tall as the 5th graders and outlined like a pear. Her skin, the color of garden soil on a warm summer's day, was as smooth as a flower's petal. She explored the rainbow in her clothing...
Woodly Wiley Pierre is an immigrant.
She doesn't look, dress, speak, or even eat like anyone else in her new school. Worst of all, her classmates don't seem to like her. She misses Haiti, but an earthquake...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Molly Moon's hypnotic eyes give her the power to stop the world and travel through time. Now Molly makes a stunning new discovery - she's a mind reader! But can her incredible talents help to rescue her lost twin from future? And will Molly be a match for the maniacal Princess Fang and her crazy mind machine?
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"The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration." 2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father...
20) Promise: A Novel
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In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart-one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager-fight for their families' survival in this lyrical and powerful novel. "Gwin's gift shines in the complexity of her characters and their fraught relationships with each other, their capacity for courage and hope, coupled with their...
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