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21) Still Alice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life as her concept of self gradually slips away.
Author
Language
English
Description
Across the West, bad men know his name. The deadliest bounty hunter on the frontier, Flintlock is armed with his grandfather?s ancient Hawken muzzleloader, ready to put the blast on the face of injustice. As William and J.A. Johnstone?s acclaimed saga continues, Flintlock will discover an evil too terrifying and deadly to even name. WHEN A MAN SAYS HE?S GOING TO KILL YOU, BELIEVE HIM . The stench of death hangs over Happyville. When Flintlock rides...
23) Brush of wings
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third novel in an unforgettable series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life for a group of friends. Despite needing a heart transplant and against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children--especially since there will be no children of...
24) Zhara
Author
Series
Guardians of dawn volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Forbidden from practicing magic and burdened by her responsibilities, Jin Zhara's life takes an unexpected turn when she becomes involved with the Guardians of Dawn, a group dedicated to fighting a demonic plague that is corrupting magicians.
Author
Series
Hallowed ones novel volume 1
Publisher
Graphia
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Amish teen Katie smuggles a gravely injured young man, an outsider, into her family's barn despite the elders' ruling that no one can come in or out of the community while some mysterious and massive unrest is wreaking havoc in the "English" world.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ivan Ilych, a peaceful public official in the Russian provinces, has his life permanently changed by a serious illness which no doctor can accurately diagnose. Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and...
27) Cold silence
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"While trying to alleviate the suffering of thousands in drought-stricken, war-torn Africa, ex-Marine doctor and bio-terror expert Joe Rush receives a plea for help from a member of his old military unit, currently working as a geologist in a chaotic region of Somalia. Joe arrives on the scene to find an entire group showing horrific symptoms of an ancient sickness once thought to be sent as punishment from heaven. But before Joe can get hard evidence...
28) Sundown
Author
Series
Sky King Ranch volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Everyone else might believe the mysterious woman at Sky King Ranch has lost her memory, but Colt Kingston knows when someone is lying. Now he just has to find out if the lies are meant to save her . . . or protect them"--
"Former Delta Operative Colt Kingston knows when someone is lying. He may not know the truth, but he sure doesn't trust Tae, the woman who is caring for his ailing father at Sky King Ranch. Behind those beautiful blue eyes, he...
29) Deadline
Author
Series
Newsflesh trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When a CDC researcher, after faking her own death, arrives on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun Mason, the head of a news organization, is plunged into the biggest story of his life.
Author
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased...
32) Ashleigh's diary
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Twenty-three-year-old Ashleigh finds her childhood diary and relives her experiences with Stardust, her first horse, which include an encounter with horse thieves and a fight against a deadly virus that swept through the family stables when she was eleven.
33) Phase six
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged--that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing...
34) The living
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
35) A heartbeat away
Author
Language
English
Description
On the night of the State of the Union address, President Max Hilliard expects to give the speech of his career. But no one anticipates the terrifying turn of events that forces him to quarantine everyone in the Capitol building.
36) H2O
Author
Series
H20 volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
When a strange rain falls bearing a fatal, contagious disease, Ruby finds herself alone with the only drinkable water quickly running out.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to her beloved Hollows series with The Turn, the official prequel to the series that will introduce you to a whole new side of Rachel Morgan's world as they've never seen it before! Can science save us when all else fails? Trisk and her hated rival, Kal, have the same goal: save their species from extinction. But death comes in the guise of hope when a genetically modified tomato created to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When a deadly disease breaks out, it is up to Anthea and her friends in the Horse Brigade to transport medicine throughout the kingdom while avoiding Anthea's evil mother and uncovering a powerful secret.
39) The cloud
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When an accident alters his reality, journalist Nat Idle, determined to find out why someone wants him dead, searches for the truth, which leads him to uncover mysterious deaths and a bizarre plague affecting Bay Area children.