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Lily wants to get home. Her friends want to get even.
Lily needs a ride-a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they're barely on speaking terms. As it turns out, Natasha's also giving a ride to Elke Azizi, the girl Lily got expelled from their school four years ago. Elke hasn't forgotten, and neither has Natasha.
It's getting...
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Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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The last show has ended, but the nightmare is just beginning.
Tonight, Riverview Theaters is closing forever, the last remaining business in a defunct shopping mall. The moviegoers have left, and Jo and her six coworkers have the final shift, a shift that quickly takes a dark turn.
First a stranger arrives with a chilling accusation. Then the power goes out and their manager disappears, along with the keys to the lobby doors and the theater safe,...
3) Peak
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
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Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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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...
5) Poppy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.
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The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Two former prisoners of the Vietnam War, one an Indian from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and the other a veterinarian, both alcoholic and psychologically scarred, reunite and fly to Montana's Glacier National Park. When they make a forced landing in the wilderness, their plane breaks a strut and they have no choice but to make camp for the winter. Eventually, two young sisters who have wandered off their trail join them. Marooned together in a...
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Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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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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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Have we really come so far, when a tour of the Continent is so desirable a thing? We've traded our swords for treaties, our daggers for promises-but our thirst for violence has never been quelled. And that's the crux of it-it can't be quelled. It's human nature."
For her sixteenth birthday, Vaela Sun receives the most coveted gift in all the Spire-a trip to the Continent. It seems an unlikely destination for a holiday: a cold, desolate land where...
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Dover Publications
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2012.
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English
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Thought to have been inspired by the true-life experiences of a marooned sailor, Robinson Crusoe tells the story of the sole survivor of a shipwreck, stranded on a Caribbean island, who prevails against all odds, enduring three decades of solitude while mastering both himself and his strange new world. First published in 1719, the novel has long been one of the English language's great adventure stories. In the journal he shares with us, the endearing,...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Fans of classic frontier survival stories, as well as readers of dystopian literature, will enjoy this futuristic story about an epic cross-country journey. In a Handful of Dust is set ten years after the first novel, Not a Drop to Drink, as a dangerous disease strikes the community where teenage Lucy lives. When her adoptive mother, Lynn, takes Lucy away from their home and friends in order to protect her, Lucy struggles to figure out what home means....
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"1855: Virginia Reeve is summoned by an eccentric Brit with a compelling offer. Lady Jane Franklin wants her to lead a dozen women into the Arctic in search of the ships of her husband's lost expedition, and she's willing to pay handsomely. All four search attempts Lady Franklin has sponsored have failed. She has decided only a radical new approach can succeed: let women make the decisions. Lady Franklin will disavow all knowledge of the expedition...
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"Talents, Incorporated was first published in 1962 at the height of the Cold War. The order of the day was MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) and Murray Leinster, pseudonym for William F. Jenkins, author of Talents, Incorporated, does a better job of presenting the absurdity of governing for defeat than does Wibberley. Wibberley assails the patronizing near Imperialism of the anti-Communist frenzy of the era. Both are hilarious, disconcerting, and...
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Framed and braving the mountain wilderness-he needs her help to clear his name.
A downed plane holds evidence that will prove framed DEA agent Jesse Santorum is innocent-and he must reach it before a drug cartel does. But to find the plane hidden high in the mountains of Montana, he needs wilderness guide Abigail Murphy's expertise. Can they survive the treacherous mountains and their well-armed pursuers long enough to expose the true criminals?
From...
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Series
Publisher
Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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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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Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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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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Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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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...
18) Brace For Impact
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Can she trust a stranger? The sole survivor of a deliberate plane crash, Maddy Kane has gone from protected witness to roaming target. Badly injured and lost in the wilderness, Maddy is forced to trust the stranger who came to her aid. No mere hiker, Will Gannon is former Delta Force. The battle-scarred medic knows he is Maddy's only hope in a desperate situation. With survival a long shot, can the two become allies, and maybe more--before it's too...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"When buried secrets surface, she's caught in a criminal's crosshairs. Aquarium employee Olivia Smith isn't sure why someone wants her dead--but Marine Corps pilot Brady Johnson knows a secret that could explain it. Brady vowed he'd tell no one that Olivia's husband had been on the run from his own mob family before he died, but he also promised he'd keep Olivia safe. With danger running deep, they'll have to work fast to stay alive."--
20) No Accident
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English
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No matter how you try to hide it, the truth will always come out . . .
When a small plane crash ends with a group of seven teens washed up on a deserted island, their first thought is survival. With supplies dwindling and the fear of being stranded forever becoming more of a reality, they quickly discover that being the most popular kid in high school doesn't help when you're fighting to stay alive.
And when strange and terrifying accidents start...
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