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1) Mortal
Author
Series
Books of mortals volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Rom Sebastian discovered a secret and consumed an ancient potion of blood to bring himself back to life. Nine years later, surviving against impossible odds, he has gathered a secret faction of followers who have also taken the blood--the first Mortals in a world that is dead. But the Order has raised an elite army to hunt and crush the living, and no one knows the path to survival.
2) Slammed
Author
Series
Slammed volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Following the unexpected death of her father, eighteen-year-old Layken is forced to be the rock for both her mother and her younger brother. Outwardly, she appears resilient and tenacious, but inwardly, she's losing hope. One young man brings change to all of this. --Provided by publisher.
3) Wintergirls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When Travis Boyette is paroled because of an inoperable brain tumor, for the first time in his life he decides to do the right thing and tell police about a crime he committed that another man is about to be executed for.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Ninety minutes after dying in a car wreck and ascending to heaven, Dan Piper miraculously returned to life on earth. His faith in God was severely tested as he faced an uncertain and grueling recovery. The experience dramatically changed Piper's life. Now he shares his story, encouraging those who are recovering from serious injuries and dealing with the loss of a loved one.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Hartes and the Golds, professional folk living next door in an affluent New Hampshire town, are close friends, and their children, Chris Harte and Emily Gold, have been inseparable all through childhood. When they slipped into the tempestuous realm of love in high school, it was a transition their parents fully expected and welcomed. But Emily is secretly appalled by the incestuous nature of her relationship with Chris, and when she discovers...
Author
Series
Sisters of the salt volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last -- the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge -- and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed...
10) Fracture
Author
Series
Fracture volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After falling through the ice of a frozen lake and being resuscitated by her best friend Decker, seventeen-year-old Delaney begins experiencing a strange affinity for the dead and wonders whether she is predicting death or causing it.
13) Adam
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark has a near-death experience when a mysterious serial killer attempts to murder him, forcing Daniel to re-create his death and challenge his belief system in order to identify his would-be killer.
14) The toll
Author
Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the finale to the Arc of a Scythe trilogy, dictators, prophets, and tensions rise. In a world that's conquered death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by the immortal beings it created? Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to...
Author
Series
Austin family volume 4
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.
19) Pet sematary
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creed's beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thingas is evidenced by the makeshift graveyard in the nearby woods where generations of children have buried their beloved pets....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people who claimed near-death experiences are impossible.. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the "soul" is really a product of brain chemistry. Then came the day when Dr. Alexander's own brain was attacked by a rare illness. Then, as his doctors weighed the possibility of stopping treatment, Alexander's eyes popped open. He had come back. Alexander's recovery is a medical...
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