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Arthur Less novels volume 1
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English
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Milestone birthdays are hard, but turning fifty for Arthur Less is especially difficult. So what does he do? He plans a multi-nation journey, not to celebrate, but to escape. His former lover is getting married, and he’s trying to run away from the heartbreak of it all. Less is a good-looking, charming fellow, but he’s a real mess.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
An Andalusian shepherd boy, named Santiago, travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of treasure buried in the pyramids. Along the way he meets a gypsy woman, a man who calls direction of his quest. What starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a meditation on the treasures found within.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A starry-eyed romantic, a cynical writer, and (the ashes of) an elderly woman take the road trip of a lifetime that just might upend everything they believe about true love. Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she'd reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she didn't expect that would mean traveling to Key West with three tablespoons of Mrs. Nash's remains in her backpack....
5) Past tense
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 23
Language
English
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"Jack Reacher has extended his thumb and hit the pavement. His plan is to follow the autumn sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road in rural New Hampshire, deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been: The town where his father was born. He thinks, What's one extra day? and takes the detour. At the same moment, in the same isolated area, a car breaks down. Two...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
This is a story of people whose lives are changing - a southern gentleman returning home to lead a more peaceful life and his talented New York wife who is not quite sure she is ready to make the transition. They are moving north to south, fast pace versus slow pace, downsizing. And while they are doing this, they are getting glimpses into other people's lives over the course of a summer, holidays that will amuse, shock and transform them.
Author
Series
Gabriel Finley volume 1
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gabriel, with the help of the young raven Paladin, which whom he has a magical bond, travels to the foreboding land of Aviopolis, where he must face challenges and unanswerable riddles to rescue his long-missing father.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Left at the Mostly Silent Monastery as a toddler and home-schooled by a retired nun, twelve-year-old Bicycle rides cross-country to meet a famous cyclist who she hopes will be her first friend.
9) Punkzilla
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A runaway boy nicknamed Punkzilla who sustains himself on the streets of Portland through petty crimes decides to try to kick his meth habit, turn his life around, and go on a journey to Tennessee to visit his dying older brother.
Author
Publisher
Heritage Press
Pub. Date
c1947
Language
English
Description
A detailed, almost daily, record giving an accurate and authentic narrative of over two years in the life of a common sailor before the mast in the American merchant service of the early 1800s. The book is written in journal fashion in the words of an ordinary sailor on the brig "Pilgrim" on her voyage from Boston, round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before,...
Author
Series
100 year old man novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A larger-than-life old man with a fondness for vodka goes on an unexpected adventure in this whimsical novel — perfect for fans of Forrest Gump and A Man Called Ove.
The international publishing sensation — more than six million copies sold worldwide!
A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert) decides it's not too late to start over . . .
After a long and eventful...
The international publishing sensation — more than six million copies sold worldwide!
A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert) decides it's not too late to start over . . .
After a long and eventful...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
During one week, unlikely partners Minerva Highwood, one of Spindle Cove's confirmed spinsters, and Lord Payne must fake an elopement, convince family and friends they are "in love", outrun armed robbers and travel 400 miles without killing each other--or falling in love for real.
15) The other Joseph
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A masterful depiction of a life driven off the rails by tragedy and sin—a man now summoned by the legacy of a beloved, lost brother to embark on a journey in search toward understanding, happiness, and redemption.
Haunted by the disappearance of his older brother Tommy in the first Gulf War, the tragic deaths of his parents, and the felony conviction that has branded him for a decade, Roy Joseph has labored in lonesome exile—and
...16) Train
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Board a commuter train in New York, then follow the journey west and see the stations, the scenery, the different types of trains, and all the people who travel and work on the railroad system.
17) Liesl & Po
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A mix-up involving the greatest magic in the world has tremendous consequences for Liesl, an orphan who has been locked in an attic, Will, an alchemist's runaway apprentice, and Po, a ghost, as they are pursued by friend and foe while making an important journey.
18) Stuart Little
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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The classic story by E. B. White, author of the Newbery Honor Book Charlotte's Web and Trumpet of the Swan, about one small mouse on a very big adventure!
Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure.
Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little...
19) The wild things
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A novel adaptation of Maurice Sendak's children's book "Where the Wild Things Are" based on the screenplay of the 2009 motion picture, following Max, a young boy, as he tries to understand a world that is out of his control.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands--where empires and faiths collide. From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a...
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