Carolyn McCormick
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English
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Inspired by Ann Rule's true crime collection Empty Promises. Javier (Kevin Rodriguez) and Robin Rivera (Maddie Nichols) are celebrating their one-year anniversary on a camping trip. But when Javier ends up dead, Robin finds herself alone in the rough wilderness. She accepts help from another camper, a mysterious stranger named Sam (TC Matherne) and slowly places her life in his hands.
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Easy tree patterns from one of the most respected paper-piecing experts and the inventor of the Add-a-Quarter ruler.
Pine tree blocks have been loved by generations of quilters, but those little triangles can be intimidating. Now, Carolyn Cullinan McCormick has the solution. She has taken twelve classic tree patterns and turned them to easy paper-pieced blocks. She has even included a brilliant, eye-catching sashing to enhance the center.
Each pattern...
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English
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Carolyn Cullinan McCormick, inventor of the Add-A-Quarter ruler, has done it again! She has turned 17 difficult Feathered Star patterns into manageable paper piecing patterns for quilters who have shied away from making these exquisite blocks. She has added a sweet border block as the perfect finishing touch. Just follow the easy step-by-step diagrams to make
your own version of this beautiful quilt. Whether
you make your quilt using Carolyn's striking...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"The Hunger Games as you've never seen it before--in a remarkable illustrated edition. Even at the age of sixteen, Katniss Everdeen knows it takes hard work, keen observation, and inner fortitude to survive in the world. Her home, District 12, is under the merciless rule of the Capitol, continually forced to pay after losing a long-ago civil war in the nation of Panem. One of the ways the Capitol keeps control is its annual Hunger Games, a televised...
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Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
6) Mockingjay
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Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
The Capitol is angry that Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice, stirring unrest by having defied the rules, and President Snow has made it clear that she, her family and friends, and the people of District 12 may all be held accountable.
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Women's Murder Club volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Women's Murder Club faces its toughest challenge as Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile murder of two San Francisco millionaires and reporter Cindy Thomas digs into the brutal slaying of a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless
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Women's Murder Club volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After an assailant guns down a mother and her infant at a mall and a cat burglar kills the wife of an A-list actor, a detective and her partner must pick up the pieces, but not before one of the killers forces the detective to put her life on the line
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Women's Murder Club volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When one of the Women's Murder Club members is left struggling to survive after a brutal attack, her three companions work to keep her attacker behind bars, while a newly-partnered police inspector investigates kidnappings in which children and their nannies are being abducted without ransom demands
10) 10th anniversary
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Women's Murder Club volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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A police detective's wedding celebration is forgotten when she is called to investigate a missing newborn and a series of violent events
11) 7th heaven
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Women's Murder Club volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Investigating the arson deaths of a wealthy couple, a San Francisco detective and an assistant district attorney find the case further complicated by the disappearance of a former governor's son, internal pressure, and the media
12) 4th of July
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Women's Murder Club volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Charged with police brutality after a routine arrest goes wrong, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer waits for her trial in the town of Half Moon Bay, where she discovers a link between a string of murders and a case she worked on years earlier.
13) The 5th horseman
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When patients mysteriously take a turn for the worse at a San Francisco hospital, a woman police detective and the Women's Murder Club must face an unspeakable menace
14) 3rd degree
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Women's Murder Club volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer calls upon the members of the Women's Murder Club for help when a series of violent incidents puts police on the trail of a killer or killers intent on murdering someone every three days, and the investigation becomes urgent when Boxer learns one of her friends is a target.
15) Annihilation
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English
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Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
16) Heartsick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Addicted to painkillers and still bound to the beautiful serial killer who had abducted and tortured him before turning herself in, a Portland detective is caught in another deadly duel with a murderer targeting teenage girls
18) Me to Play
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Two actors with debilitating, incurable Parkinson’s disease put up an Off-Broadway production of Endgame, the comic masterpiece Samuel Beckett wrote after his mother died from the same disease that says “nothing’s funnier than unhappiness.”
19) The war
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which World War II touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America
20) The Dust Bowl
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns documents the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.