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1) The trees
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The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of a middle-American landscape from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The trilogy earned author Conrad Richter immense acclaim, ranking him with the greatest of American mid-century novelists. It includes The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) and follows the varied fortunes of Sayward Luckett and her family...
2) The Town
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Awakening land trilogy volume 3
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The final novel in the "Awakening Land" trilogy, in which Sayward Wheeler completes her mission, living to a ripe, old age, and seeing her family and friends make the transition from the ways of the wilderness to the ways of civilization.
3) The fields
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Awakening land trilogy volume 2
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The continuing saga of Sayward Luckett Wheeler, in which she marries an educated New Englander and bears eight children.
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Awakening volume 1
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Although not perfect, life for Dylan Styles is initially just the way he likes it. Once a professional student, he finds his footing in Digger, South Carolina, the small farming community where he grew up. Here on his grandparents' old farm, Dylan and his wife, Maggie, find happiness in the daily rhythms of the natural world. Maggie's pregnancy only adds to their contentment. However, a complicated delivery changes everything; their son is stillborn,...
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Great awakenings volume 2
Pub. Date
c2005
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Seven years after leaving the colony of Havenhill, Connecticut, Josiah Rush is asked to return, but his hopes of finding forgiveness and acceptance are dashed when he becomes convinced that the colony is infected by a deadly disease.
6) Proof
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Great awakenings volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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In a dramatic courtroom thriller, a young defense attorney defends the churchby attempting to prove the Holy Spirit exists, only to discover that the HolySpirit is fully capable of proving himself.
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Great awakenings volume 4
Pub. Date
c2006
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Ever since his parents drowned while crossing the Atlantic after a revival, Daniel Cooper has felt as if the world is out to get him. For the past year he's had to live with his Uncle Asa and Aunt Camilla -- and all their rules. One night, deciding he's had enough, Daniel sneaks out his bedroom window and flees to the alley behind his employer's casket shop. What he sees there shocks him to the core. Pursued by two men, Daniel embarks on an agonizing...
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Pub. Date
2006
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The moving sequel to bestselling author Charles Martin's The Dead Don't Dance. After slipping into a four-months-long coma following the tragic loss of their son in childbirth, Dylan's wife, Maggie, finally awakens—but can the young couple pick up the broken pieces of their lives and move forward?
In a sleepy rural town in South Carolina, Dylan and Maggie Styles were a young couple in love, preparing eagerly for the
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Great awakenings volume 3
Pub. Date
c2006
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First-year student Asa Rush isn't surprised that he's one of a handful of Christians on campus. After all, he's been recruited by President Timothy Dwight to help bring revival to the school. Once a bastion of faith, Yale is now a hotbed of atheism, following on the tails of the popular French revolution. But fellow student Eli Cooper is determined to make Asa's life miserable -- especially when both men fall in love with the sensuous, wealthy,...
10) Awaken
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2011
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Maddie lives in a world where everything is done on the computer. Work, school, even dating can be done from home, and people do not venture out. Maddie plays soccer, and likes physicality and camaraderie of team sports, but for the most part, she's okay with the solitary digital life - until she meets Justin. Justin likes being with people. He enjoys the physical closeness of face-to-face interactions. People aren't meant to be alone, he tells her....
11) Frozen
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Cold awakening trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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"The Download was supposed to change the world. It was supposed to mean the end of aging, the end of death, the birth of a new humanity. But it wasn't supposed to happen to someone like Lia Kahn. And it wasn't supposed to ruin her life."--Cover.
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Cold awakening trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Living with other "mechs" since her wealthy parents transplanted her brain into a mechanical body to prevent her from dying in a horrible accident, Lia becomes a pawn in a religious leader's movement to outlaw "mech" technology and eradicate machines such as Lia.
13) Torn
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Cold awakening volume 3
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
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Lia is back at home, pretending to be the perfect daughter, but she has become the public face of the mechs, devoting her life to convincing the world that she and others like her deserve to exist, until shocking truths are revealed, forcing her to make a life-changing decision.
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Cold awakening trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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"One year ago, Lia Kahn died. A few days later, she woke up. She had a new body: mechanical, unfeeling, inhuman. She had a new family: mechs like her, who didn't judge her for what she could no longer be. She had a new life, one that would last forever. At least is was supposed to. But now everything Lia thought she knew has turned out to be a lie; everyone she thought she loved has been stolen away. And someone is trying to get rid of the mechs,...
15) Middle Ground
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Pub. Date
2012
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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In this provocative cautionary tale for teens, the sequel to Awaken, seventeen-year-old Maddie's rebellion against the digital-only life grows dangerous. Maddie is in Los Angeles, trying to stay out of trouble. But one night, a seemingly small act of defiance lands her in the place she fears the most: a detention center. Here, patients are reprogrammed to accept a digital existence. Maddie is now fighting for her mind, her soul, and her very life.
...16) Still Point
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Pub. Date
2014
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In the final installment to the trilogy begun with Awaken, Maddie returns home to make her final stand against Digital School, and uncovers deeply guarded secrets about her family an new truths about herself.
17) Aftermath
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
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A story bridging the period between "Return of the Jedi" and "The Force Awakens" follows the efforts of the Rebel Alliance to defeat the fracturing forces of a desperate Empire.
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2015
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In a galaxy far, far away, on the desert planet of Jakku, the quiet town of Reestkii is raided by a band of slavers. As the slavers pillage the settlement, a traveling merchant—Bobbajo the Crittermonger—calms the frightened villagers with a story of the tiniest creatures...facing the greatest of enemies. Don't miss this eBook adventure and more from TALES FROM A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY: ALIENS, available now!
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Universe of Artemis Awakening volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
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"In Artemis Invaded, Jane Lindskold returns to the world of Artemis, a pleasure planet that was lost for millennia, a place that holds secrets that could give mankind back unimaginable powers. Stranded archaeologist Griffin is determined to make his way back to his home world with news of the Artemis discovery. He and his gene-modified native companion, the huntress Adara, and her psyche-linked puma Sand Shadow, set out to find another repository...
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2015
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a cruiser transporting precious cargo for the traitorous Count Dooku's during the Clone Wars crashed into the Sea of Sand on the planet Ponemah, leaving its treasures buried. Years later, Captain Sidon Ithano, known as the Crimson Corsair, and his pirate crew receive a signal from the downed cruiser. The pirates set off after whatever lies beneath the sand, but the hidden ship's signal has gone far and wide....
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