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A "debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer's harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love her--only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness"--Amazon.com.
Avery Delacorte, a sophomore on her university's nationally ranked team, struggles under the weight of new expectations but life is otherwise pretty good. That all changes when Avery's...
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"When four college friends graduated from the University of Northwest Oregon, their lives stretched before them, full of promise and vows to stay connected. But life has a way of derailing well-laid plans. Now they haven't spoken in twenty-five years. But against all odds, three of them have found themselves back in the same place-- at their alma mater, wondering how they got there. When they discover their fourth friend, Hope, has died, Jenna, Ireland,...
4) Troublemaker
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Isabeau Maran, a police chief in a West Virginia mountain town, crosses paths with Morgan Yancy, the leader of a paramilitary group who's been ambushed and almost killed.
For Morgan Yancy, an operative and team leader in a paramilitary group, nothing comes before his job. But when he's ambushed and almost killed, his supervisor is determined to find out who's after the members of his elite squad-- and why. For his safety, Morgan is sent to a remote...
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Literature experience volume level 7
Animal behavior and communication theme book
Houghton Mifflin reading volume grade 7
Literature experience volume level 7
Animal behavior and communication theme book
Houghton Mifflin reading volume grade 7
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Miyax rebels against a home situation she finds intolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward her pen pal, who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she comes to love them as though they were brothers. With their help, and drawing on her father's training, she struggles day by day to survive. In the process, she...
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After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.
7) Rivers
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Following years of catastrophic hurricanes, the Gulf Coast has been brought to its knees. The government has drawn a new boundary line ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rules. Cohen is one who stayed. Unable to overcome the crushing loss of his wife and unborn child who were killed during an evacuation, he returned home to Mississippi...
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c2011
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Red fury: A lost 10-year-old Indian boy thrust into the bigotry of a white community early in the 20th century finds friendship with a neglectful rancher, a school teacher, and a wild stallion -- Captain Johnno : A frustrated deaf boy sets sail for a deserted island -- Lost in the barrens: an orphaned teen and a young tribal hunter get lost in the wilderness -- Rugged gold: Rugged Gold follows a widow's courageous journey in the Alaskan wilderness...