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21) Amazing grace
Author
Language
English
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Description
The lives of three women are changed forever when an earthquake devastates San Francisco, exposing the financial fraud of socialist Sarah Sloane's husband, allowing teen pop sensation Melanie Free the chance to practice her true calling as a nurse, and testing Sister Maggie Kent's devotion to her calling.
24) Mayday
Author
Language
English
Description
An airliner on a routine flight from San Francisco to Tokyo is struck by a U.S. Navy missile. Because of the sudden change in cabin pressure, all but five people on board are either dead, comatose, or raving mad. As Flight 52 becomes the ultimate test of survival, onboard horrors begin to mount up. In addition, the airline, the insurance company, and the Navy are desperate to cover up the mishap--no matter what the cost.
25) Rescues!
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Publisher
Time Inc. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
From rampaging reptiles to tornadoes, blizzards, plane crashes, a mountain lion attack, Pearl Harbor, Southeast Asia's tsunami and even a dog with nine lives, this book presents a collection of I-can't-believe-I-lived-through-it tales from People magazine's first thirty years.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
What comes after the moment that forever changes your life? This question haunts Julia Bechtel, Noah Prine, and Kim Collela, the only survivors of a terrible boating accident that claims the lives of nine other people off the coast of Maine. Julia, a 40-year-old wife and mother, has always taken the path of least resistance. Feeling strangely connected to Noah, the divorced, brooding lobsterman who helped save her life, Julia begins to explore the...
34) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.
36) Escape
Author
Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
They didn't want to be on the boat in the first place. They didn't want to be stuck at sea with a bunch of strangers. But when you're in the midd of the Pacific Ocean, there's no way out. And when a terrifying storm hits, there's no way to fully prepare. It's all about survival.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 8
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Book Two in the stunning conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles
At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune's past—including Paul Muad'Dib and Lady Jessica—to use their special talents
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, ©1995
Edition
Standard or widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
When their boat capsizes in turbulent waters off the Pacific Northwest coast, John McCormick is rescued, but his 14-year-old son Angus, and recently adopted stray Golden Labrador, are washed ashore where they fight to survive in the rugged wilderness.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan Palmer must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed younger sister, and their dog alive until help arrives.
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