Amy Ryan
2) Vibes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Kristi, a sophomore in an alternative high school, is aware that nearly everyone dislikes her--even those obsessed by her large breasts--but begins to doubt her psychic insights after learning long-held family secrets and some classmates' true feelings.
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Shot is an intimate portrait of a young woman's sudden transition to a chronic, life-threatening, auto-immune disease. Treatment for a routine infection one Monday morning yielded, with stunning speed, to a glucose monitor, test strips, insulin vials, and a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. In Shot, Amy Ryan shows what it really takes to live with and manage an incurable disease. She charts the essential duties that keep her stable while revealing the...
4) Flame
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In the thrilling conclusion to Amy Kathleen Ryan's Sky Chasers series, Waverly, Kieran, and Seth struggle to survive on-board the New Horizon-and take down their enemies before it's too late
Waverly and the other members of the Empyrean have been scattered, and their home ship destroyed. Their mission to rescue their parents didn't go as planned, and now they're at an even greater disadvantage: trapped with their enemies on the New Horizon, trying...
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Zen and Xander are sisters-truly, madly, deeply sisters, and this is their last summer together.
Zen is the "good" girl with a black belt in karate and a newfound penchant for kicking heads. Xander is a wild scientific genius with a self-destructive streak a light-year long. They have three things in common: they're brown-eyed blondes, they've noticed the boy next door has turned into a hottie, and they miss their mom, who died almost a year ago.
These...
6) Glow
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English
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One of School Library Journal's Best Fiction Books of 2011. If a violent battle destroyed the only world you've ever known, would you be brave enough to save who was left? Would love be strong enough to survive the fight? Either way, there's no turning back. The Empyrean is the only home 15-year-old Waverly has ever known. Part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space, she and her boyfriend Kieran will be pioneers of New...
7) Spark
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Series
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English
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After a desperate escape from the enemy ship, Waverly has finally made it back to the Empyrean. The memory of home has been keeping her alive for the past months… but home is nothing like she left it. Forced to leave their captive parents behind on the New Horizon, she's returned only to find that Kieran has become a strict leader and turned the crew against Seth. What happened to the Kieran she thought she knew? Now Waverly's not sure whom she...
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Pamela Dorman Books, Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Midwestern chef Lars Thorvald has three loves in his life - his kitchen; his wife, Cynthia; and his newborn daughter, Eva. When Cynthia falls in love with wine - and a dashing sommelier - he's left to raise Eva on his own, and devotes his life to sharing his passions with his only child, starting with pureed pork shoulder.After a childhood shaken by tragedy, Eva will find solace and salvation in the flavors of her native Minnesota. She is blessed...
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If you've ever felt bad about your eating habits, read on... it's important for your health!
Have you ever thought about your happiness? What about your health?
Have you ever really thought about what is best for you to eat?
STOP AND LISTEN TO YOUR BODY!
We all want to lead happier and healthier lives. However, many of us don't really know where to start. If you are looking for a way to improve your life, you may want to consider starting a new...
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Irish novelist Anne Enright won the coveted Man Booker Prize for her eloquent novel The Gathering. In The Forgotten Waltz, Enright crafts a stunning tale about a Dublin woman's affair and its heartrending consequences. Gina Moynihan is already married when she meets Sean Vallely. But longing and desire soon overtake them-and their lives begin to crumble shortly after.
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John Rosow is a private detective hired to tail Harold Fullmer. After uncovering Harold's identity as a missing person-one of the thousands presumed dead after the terrorist attacks of 9/11-Rosow is persuaded by a large reward to bring Harold back, unwillingly, to his wife in New York City. Ultimately, however, Rosow must decide whether it's right or wrong to return Harold to a life that no longer exists.
12) Beau Is Afraid
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English
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A paranoid man (Joaquin Phoenix) embarks on an odyssey to get home to his mother in this darkly funny epic and elemental nightmare.
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Academy-Award®-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (CAPOTE) and Academy-Award®-nominee Amy Ryan (GONE BABY GONE) star in this humorous tale of love, betrayal, and friendship that The New York Post calls "Dryly Hilarious." The story centers around Jack and Connie, two single people who on their own might continue to recede into the anonymous background of the city, but with each other begin to find the courage and desire to pursue their budding relationship....
15) The Infiltrator
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English
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Based on a true story, U.S. Customs agent Robert Bob" Mazur (Bryan Cranston) goes deep undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar's blood-soaked drug trafficking scene plaguing the nation in 1985 by posing as slick, money-laundering businessman Bob Musella. Teamed with impulsive and streetwise fellow agent Emir Abreu (John Leguizamo) and rookie agent posing as his fiancé Kathy Ertz (Diane Kruger), Mazur befriends Escobar's top lieutenant Roberto Alcaino...
16) Gone Baby Gone
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When two private detectives are hired to take a closer look into the mysterious disappearance of a little girl, they unravel a multitude of twists and turns where nothing is what it seems. Ultimately they must risk everything in the search to find her.