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Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Despereaux Tilling is banished from his mouse colony because of his unusual talents and his fondness for reading, but that is only the beginning of his adventures with the castle's sinister rats and with the lovely Princess Pea.
2) Fireproof
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Language
English
Description
INSIDE BURNING BUILDINGS, Captain Caleb Holt lives by the firefighter's adage: NEVER LEAVE YOUR PARTNER. Yet at home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, he lives by his own rules.
Growing up, his wife Catherine always dreamed of marrying a loving, brave firefighter . . . just like her father. Now, after seven years of marriage, she wonders when she stopped being "good enough." Countless arguments and anger have them wanting to move on to something...
4) Courageous
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Dedicated law enforcement officers Adam Mitchell and Nathan Hayes face a different kind of challenge when they become fathers, but as their children begin to drift farther away, and tragedy hits home, they must find a way to become closer to God.
"Bonus features include: reading group guide, production and movie photos, a special message from Alex & Stephen Kendrick"--Page 4 of cover.
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Despereaux Tilling, a most unusual mouse, is banished from his colony after he talks to the lovely Princess Pea, and when the princess is kidnapped by rats, he sets off to rescue her.
6) The drop
Author
Language
English
Description
"Based on the screenplay he developed for Twentieth Century Fox from his short story "Animal Rescue," New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's The Drop follows a former criminal whose efforts to build a new life with his girlfriend and pit bull rescue puppy fall apart when he becomes mixed up in a robbery gone wrong; scheduled for release in Fall 2014, Fox's film of the same title stars James Gandolfini (in his final on-screen performance),...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Media tie-in edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"The global Men in Black Agency is in the midst of an existential crisis. A mole in the agency's ranks is helping an aggressive race of aliens known as the Hive put the universe in danger. The mission will send agents across the globe, from London, to Morocco, to the Eiffel Tower. It will take two agents, with the ability to see the truth where others do not, to defeat the Hive, uncover the mole, and save the universe." -- Page [4] cover.
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Series
Lexile measure
440L
Language
English
Description
"Roar! It's not bad enough that Mom and Dad are heading to California, leaving Judy and Stink with Aunt Awful (er, Opal), but now two of Judy's friends are going Splitsville, too. Just when it looks like her summer is going to be BOR-ing--eureka!--Judy comes up with the most thrill-a-delic plan ever. Get ready for a race involving tightrope walking, Scream Monster riding, and way more! Add in a treasure hunt for Judy's teacher, a midnight stakeout,...
9) Meet Marley
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Marley, the world's most playful puppy! Marley likes to eat buttons off jackets and to chew on pillows. He slobbers over everything. But his family loves him no matter what!"--p. [4] of cover.
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Language
English
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Baseball star Cory Brand knows how to win. But off the field, he's spiraling out of control. Haunted by old wounds and regrets, his future seems as hopeless as his past. Until one moment - one mistake - changes everything. To save his career, Cory must go back to the town where it all began. His plan is simple: coach the Little League team, complete a recovery program, and get out as fast as possible. Instead, he runs headfirst into memories he can't...
11) The wild things
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Language
English
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During a fight at home, young Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay co-written with Spike Jonze.
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Language
English
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Description
"The town of Haddonfield still lives in the shadow of Michael Myers. It has been four years since he mysteriously vanished. As Laurie attempts to put the tragedies of her past behind her, Allyson is desperate to get away from life with her grandmother in the dead-end town scorched by bloodshed. When local outcast Corey Cunningham discovers the truth of Michael's whereabouts, he inadvertently unleashes a new wave of violence. With Haddonfield once...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.
14) Hiccup the hero
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Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon
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Language
English
Description
"Carson Phillips is at the bottom of the food chain in a high school filled with people he hates, stuck living with his depressed single mother in a small-minded town at the corner of nothing and nowhere. He has just one goal: escape to Northwestern University and a career as a hard-hitting journalist. His guidance counselor tells him that he needs to bolster his application by creating a literary magazine. Which means he needs submissions. From other...
17) Meet the dragons
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
NC 570L
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
While the vikings are away looking for dragons, the teens stay behind to attend dragon school. One of the young vikings, Hiccup, invents a weapon called the mangler, which he uses to knock a dragon out of the sky. However, when he goes to investigate, he finds the creature has been wounded by his weapon and instead of killing it, he befriends it.
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English
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Newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder has returned to her job after covering the story of an ill-fated Pan World flight. Having recently discovered Christine, the daughter she gave up to an adoption agency nineteen years ago, she is reluctant to commit to the handsome sportswriter Kingston Danville. She feels she owes it to Christine to set her love life aside and make up for lost time. But when a reader challenges Peyton's advice to "let caution trump...
19) 47 Ronin
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Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
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When a prophecy traps a kingdom in eternal winter, Anna, a young dreamer, must team up with Kristoff, a daring mountain man, and his reindeer on the grandest of journeys to find Anna's sister, the Snow Queen Elsa, and put an end to her icy spell. Encountering mystical trolls, a hilarious snowman named Olaf, Everest-like extremes, and magic at every turn, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom from destruction.