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On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever.
Thirty five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it.
THE TURNAROUND takes us on a journey from the rock-and-soul streets of the '70s to the changing neighborhoods of...
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In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans, a family with new money and a secretly troubled teenage daughter, raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With little in common except a property line, these two families...
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 19
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English
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While leading a team of young engineers designing Starfire, the world's first orbiting solar power plant, James McLanahan Bradley is caught in the middle of a battle that threatens to become an all-out global war for control of space after the U.S. President ignites an arms race.
"With the death of his heroic father, bomber and space warfare veteran Patrick McLanahan, Bradley McLanahan must now fly solo, leading a team of young engineers designing...
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2021
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English
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"Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event--a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions....
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Landmark Editions
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Two kings, a fox and a raccoon, become embroiled in a race to build the highest stockpile of weapons until a strong wind threatens to topple the piles and makes them both fearful of the consequences.
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 19
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English
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While leading a team of young engineers designing Starfire, the world's first orbiting solar power plant, James McLanahan Bradley is caught in the middle of a battle that threatens to become an all-out global war for control of space after the U.S. President ignites an arms race.
"With the death of his heroic father, bomber and space warfare veteran Patrick McLanahan, Bradley McLanahan must now fly solo, leading a team of young engineers designing...
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Promise Press
Pub. Date
c2001
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English
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Laura McIvor is living a lie. The daughter of parents incarcerated for selling computer technology secrets, she is living under an assumed name, trying to make a life for herself ... alone. But when it's discovered that the software her father sold harbors a virus that renders it useless, the CIA decides to use Laura as leverage for making her father talk. Only CIA agent Jonathan Corrigan can help her, and he's the one who sent her parents to prison....
15) Alaska
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Ozark Pub
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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While Liz is reading a book about Alaska to her twin brother, Matt, a large oval mirror in the room begins glowing and twinkling. It goes crazy, shooting rainbows of light everywhere. Suddenly, they hear a loud whoosh and realize that they are being transported somewhere. They land with a big thud in a snowbank. Includes facts about Alaska.
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Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
�1989
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English
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When her lead dog cannot take part in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a competitor harnesses her cat, Danger, to the front of the sled. The first woman to with the 1049 mile Iditarod introduces her cat, anger, and his tale of life on the last frontier.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Tengo and Frikkie are childhood friends-one is black, one is white; Tengo, a "boy" on Oom Koos's farm on the South African veld, and Frikkie, the farmer's nephew, who one day will inherit the family's land. Though they live in different worlds, their friendship is forged when they are too young to know that there are lines that must not be crossed. But as the tension mounts in South Africa, the boys find their relationship in crisis when they realize...
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Forge
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2004.
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English
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Award winning archaelologists Michael and Kathleen Gear spin a vivid and captivating tale around one of the most controversial archaeological discoveries in the world, the Kennewick Man- a Caucasoid male mummy dating back more than 9,000 years, found in the Pacific Northwest on the banks of the Columbia River!
19) My lucky skin
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Brown Books Kids
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Ayo looks around his kindergarten class and doesn't see anyone with skin that looks dark brown like his. Does this mean there is something wrong with the way he is? When Ayo asks, he learns there is nothing wrong with his skin color, and that no one color is better or worse than any other. We are all beautiful!"--
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Edie Kiglatuk mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"In The Boy in the Snow, half-Inuit Edie Kiglatuk finds herself in Alaska with Sergeant Derek Palliser, helping her ex-husband Sammy in his bid to win the famous Iditarod dog sled race. The race takes a grim turn when Edie stumbles upon the body of a bay left out in the forest. The state troopers are keen to pin the death on the Dark Believers--a sinister offshoot of a Russian Orthodox sect--but Edie's instincts tell her otherwise. Her investigations...
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