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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Flying together on a storm-ravaged night, a gifted surgeon facing a painful separation from his wife and a young magazine writer on her way to her wedding are plunged into a life-and-death ordeal. As the days turn into weeks on the unforgiving mountain, the two heal from their physical wounds even as they are forced to confront surprising and painful truths about their lives.
2) Life of Pi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Pi Patel, the son of a zookeeper, has a fervent love of stories and practices not only his native Hinduism but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. The ship sinks and Pi finds himeself in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra and a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi. Can Pi and...
Author
Series
Maze runner volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Another visionary novel from the great science fiction writer H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau tackles the thorny issues thrown up when humankind plays God and explores notions of society and identity, bringing the mythical chimera - part human, part animal - into the age of science.
Author
Series
Alaskan quest volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life in the rugged Alaskan Territory finds Jacob Barringer and Jayce Kincaid facing the isolation of the frozen north after their ship is lost to the ice in the Artic. Back at Last Chance Creek, Helaina and Leah form a bond as they help each other through the long wait, not knowing what has become of the men they love. As unexpected loss invades their world and tragedy looms once again, they must find the strength to trust in God's faithfulness, despite...
11) Comfort & joy
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recently divorced and having no family of her own, Joy Candellaro is beginning to dream of a new life with widower Daniel O'Shea and his son, Bobby, until a fateful Christmas Eve forces her to make a painful choice.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Forced into an overcrowded lifeboat after a mysterious explosion on their trans-Atlantic ocean liner, newly widowed Grace Winter battles the elements and her fellow survivors and remembers her husband, Henry, who set his own safety aside to ensure Grace's.
Author
Series
(Thomas W.)Parson and Gold volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When their plane is shot down in a blizzard while transporting an important Taliban detainee, navigator Michael Parson and Army interpreter Sergeant Gold fight for survival in the harsh terrain of Afghanistan, where they struggle to outmaneuver terrorists and dubiously trustworthy villagers.
14) Survival
Author
Series
Island volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finding their way to a deserted island after their ship sinks, Luke, Ian, JJ, Charla, Will, and Lyssa struggle to survive and soon discover that they are not alone on the island.
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