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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"On June 23, 2018, twelve young players of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach enter a cave in northern Thailand seeking an afternoon's adventure. But when they turn to leave, rising floodwaters block their path out. The boys are trapped! Before long, news of the missing team spreads, launching a seventeen-day rescue operation involving thousands of rescuers from around the globe. Combining firsthand interviews of rescue workers with in-depth...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
To save her sister, who, along with her American diplomat husband and children, is trapped behind the Iron Curtain, Ruth Macallister embarks on a dangerous mission, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet agent forces them to make a heartbreaking choice.
Autumn, 1948: Iris Digby, her American diplomat husband Sasha, and their two children vanish from London. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In Linette Moore's debut, middle-grade graphic novel, The Prisoner of Shiverstone, eleven-year-old Helga Sharp is found unconscious in a drifting rowboat near the coast of Utley Island. Utley, as Helga finds out when she awakens in the hospital, is forbidden territory: it's a prison island to which the Mainland has exiled troublesome mad scientists for generations. Helga is questioned by the island's guards and though they're suspicious of her story,...
64) The finest hours
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
Author
Series
Talon saga volume s 1-4
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Immerse yourself within the pages of the gripping Talon Saga by New York Times bestselling author Julie Kagawa. Dragons walk among us in human formlet alone with a human, and a former dragonslayer at that. With ex-soldier of St. George Garret dying at her feet after sacrificing his freedom and his life to expose the deepest of betrayals, Ember knows only that nothing she was taught by dragon organization Talon is true. Titles originally published...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Flight 1421 crashes into the ocean six minutes after take-off, the surviving passengers believe they are the lucky ones until the plane starts to sink to the ocean floor, trapping them inside, and they must wait to be rescued as both air and time run out.
Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
There's trouble in paradise for Biggles…
Biggles is summoned suddenly to the London Hospital for Tropical Diseases, where he hears the deathbed revelations of a man named Linton, who has a message from a mutual friend, Angus Mackail. Linton and Angus, alongside many others, were duped into investing in farmland reclaimed from the jungle in central South America, an area known as Paradise Valley.
But this is no second Eden. The 'investors' swiftly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with the National Park Service: a unique brand of park rangers who respond to medical and traumatic emergencies in some of the most isolated and dangerous parts of America. In 2014, Kevin Grange left his job as a paramedic in Los Angeles to work in a response area with 2.2 million acres: Yellowstone National Park. Seeking a break from city life and urban...
Author
Language
English
Description
Known for his critically acclaimed contemporary thrillers, New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin explores intriguing new territory in Worthy Brown's Daughter, a compelling historical drama, set in nineteenth-century Oregon, that combines a heartbreaking story of slavery and murder with classic Margolin plot twists.
One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy
...70) The ember stone
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a powerful vulture uses dark magic and an army of spies to attack the magical land of Perodia, a tiny owl, his squirrel best friend and a lone surviving firehawk become their home's unlikely defenders
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Yoda's top secret mission becomes a battle for survival, pitting the Jedi Master and three clone troopers against enemy assassin Asajj Ventress and her massive droid army. Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker leads a clone squadron attack against the destructive vessel, damaging but not destroying it. When Padm�e Amidala and C-3PO fall into a trap and are taken hostage aboard the ship, Anakin and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi boldly infiltrate it in the hope...
72) Uncharted
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The sparks are flying in this fast-paced romantic suspense featuring: Forced proximity Competence kink galore Survival romance A chillingly brilliant foe And scorching, brain-melting heat despite the freezing Alaska setting Stranded together in a frozen wilderness, there's nowhere left to run... Hotshot pilot Leo Eddowes is afraid of nothing and no one. So when she's asked to evacuate a man from the wilds of Alaska, she doesn't hesitate. But with...
73) Hide!
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text follow Pat, a fish, as he is caught by a shark, rescued by his friend Mike the elephant, and called on to return the favor.
74) Kinsman's Oath
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A fantastic futuristic romance complete with political intrigue and out-of-this-world adventure" from the New York Times -bestselling author ( Booklist ). Human telepath Ronan VelKalevi, a Kinsman, was kidnapped by the catlike Shaauri when he was a child. Now, more than two decades later, he has escaped from the aliens who have held him captive for much of his life. On the run, he is saved by the captain of the spaceship Pegasus , Cynara D'Accorso....
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"'A sinister version of The Perfect Storm. Thrilling'--Sunday Times (UK). There's nothing that armchair adventure lovers relish more than a gripping true story of disaster and heroism, and Last Man Off delivers all that against a breathtaking backdrop of icebergs and killer whales. On June 6, 1998, twenty-three-year-old Matt Lewis had just started his dream job as a scientific observer aboard a deep-sea fishing boat in the waters off Antarctica. As...
76) Justice League
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy.
77) Riverbend Gap
Author
Series
Riverbend romance volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"She came in search of the family she'd always wanted -- and found the kind of love she'd never dared imagine. When Katelyn Loveland's car veered off a winding Appalachian Mountain road, she thought she was done for. That is until Cooper Robinson, local sheriff's deputy, came to her rescue. And though Katie narrowly escaped her brush with death, she still fell. Hard. She wasn't the only one. But soon Cooper learns that the woman he's more attracted...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"I loved it!" -- Mary Balogh "[Nash] ignites the page with passion." -- Julia Quinn The Hangover meets Regency England in RITA Award-winning author Sophia Nash's wickedly clever and wonderfully sensual Royal Entourage historical romance novels. In The Art of Duke Hunting , the second in her series, the dashing Duke of Norwich -- on the morning after a most extravagant royal bachelor party that he simple cannot recall -- awakens on board ship and well...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Back Cover Copy: "Am I About to Die?" On December 5, 2012, American medical doctor Dilip Joseph and two colleagues are driving back to Kabul, Afghanistan, after serving villagers that morning at a rural clinic. Suddenly a man waving an AK-47 blocks their path. More armed men jump out of hiding. For Dilip, it is the beginning of a nightmare -- he's being kidnapped by the Taliban. Dilip and his friends endure a nine-hour march into the mountains, gruesome...
80) Isle of dogs
Language
English
Description
When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari Kobayashi embarks on an epic journey in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots.
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