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Heartland. Volume 1

Brooke, Lauren.


Lauren Brooke.(A Working Partners series)Contents: Coming home -- After the storm -- Breaking free.A compilation of the the first three books in the Heartland series.Heartland, a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, is a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again. Amy calls Heartland home, and she has inherited her mother's gift, the ability to listen to horses and understand what they need. When a tragic accident changes everything, Amy must truly believe that miracles can happen at Heartland. .
Date Published:2005

Lauren Brooke.(A Working Partners series)Contents: Coming home -- After the storm -- Breaking free.A compilation of the the first three books in the Heartland series.Heartland, a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, is a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again. Amy calls Heartland home, and she has inherited her mother's gift, the ability to listen to horses and understand what they need. When a tragic accident changes everything, Amy must truly believe that miracles can happen at Heartland. .

Date Published:2005

True Colours

Hannah, Kristin.



Date Published:2019

The red rock ranch collection : books 1-3 /

Joy, Brittney,


Lucy's chance -- Showdown -- Rodeo daze. Lucy's chance: "Sixteen year old Lucy Rose is spending her first summer away from home and she has two things on her mind: an abandoned, violent horse and a blue-eyed cowboy. Only neither is hers. Lucy has never attracted much attention from boys, but she can't seem to ignore her blue-eyed co-worker, Casey Parker. A true cowboy, Lucy is fascinated by his gentle way with the horses at Red Rock Ranch. However, she is very aware that Taylor Johnson, rodeo queen extraordinaire, already has her spurs in him. And there's no crossing Taylor. . . . Not until a mysterious horse appears on the ranch and pushes Lucy and Casey together. The two are willing to do anything to save the black gelding that doesn't want a thing to do with them or the human race. But every step forward with the broken animal makes Lucy fall harder - for him and for Casey." Showdown: "Taylor and Lucy mesh together like a tight cinch and a broncy horse - an explosion waiting to happen. . . . Blonde and sassy, Taylor Johnson is used to guys falling at her feet. Blue ribbons always come easy. And, dropping a grand on new cowboy boots and a pair of chaps is the norm. So why does the new stable hand keep getting under Taylor's skin? . . . A newbie to Red Rock Ranch, Lucy Rose is comfortable in a ponytail and jeans. Her makeup routine consists of a dirt smudge and chapstick. And, if she had her choice, she'd spend every minute with her beloved horse Chance . . . and far away from Taylor, the rodeo princess in need of an attitude adjustment. But, in a twist neither saw coming, Taylor and Lucy are forced to work together. Will they play nice? Or will their summer at Red Rock Ranch go out in a bang?" Rodeo Daze: "Lucy always dreamed of competing in a horse show-- but she'd never thought it'd become reality. When a big competition comes to Three Rivers, the whole town's talking about who will win the title. Lucy is happy to stay on the sidelines to watch-- until a tragedy causes her to step up and participate with her horse, Chance. With frenemy Taylor as her coach and a bitter new rival to challenge, Lucy isn't sure she can handle the pressure. Plus her relationship with Casey is growing, and she needs to know where she stands. Lucy doesn't want to be "just friends" with the cute cowboy. Can Lucy get over her stage fright and make all her dreams come true-- in the arena and with Casey?"
Date Published:2020

Lucy's chance -- Showdown -- Rodeo daze. Lucy's chance: "Sixteen year old Lucy Rose is spending her first summer away from home and she has two things on her mind: an abandoned, violent horse and a blue-eyed cowboy. Only neither is hers. Lucy has never attracted much attention from boys, but she can't seem to ignore her blue-eyed co-worker, Casey Parker. A true cowboy, Lucy is fascinated by his gentle way with the horses at Red Rock Ranch. However, she is very aware that Taylor Johnson, rodeo queen extraordinaire, already has her spurs in him. And there's no crossing Taylor. . . . Not until a mysterious horse appears on the ranch and pushes Lucy and Casey together. The two are willing to do anything to save the black gelding that doesn't want a thing to do with them or the human race. But every step forward with the broken animal makes Lucy fall harder - for him and for Casey." Showdown: "Taylor and Lucy mesh together like a tight cinch and a broncy horse - an explosion waiting to happen. . . . Blonde and sassy, Taylor Johnson is used to guys falling at her feet. Blue ribbons always come easy. And, dropping a grand on new cowboy boots and a pair of chaps is the norm. So why does the new stable hand keep getting under Taylor's skin? . . . A newbie to Red Rock Ranch, Lucy Rose is comfortable in a ponytail and jeans. Her makeup routine consists of a dirt smudge and chapstick. And, if she had her choice, she'd spend every minute with her beloved horse Chance . . . and far away from Taylor, the rodeo princess in need of an attitude adjustment. But, in a twist neither saw coming, Taylor and Lucy are forced to work together. Will they play nice? Or will their summer at Red Rock Ranch go out in a bang?" Rodeo Daze: "Lucy always dreamed of competing in a horse show-- but she'd never thought it'd become reality. When a big competition comes to Three Rivers, the whole town's talking about who will win the title. Lucy is happy to stay on the sidelines to watch-- until a tragedy causes her to step up and participate with her horse, Chance. With frenemy Taylor as her coach and a bitter new rival to challenge, Lucy isn't sure she can handle the pressure. Plus her relationship with Casey is growing, and she needs to know where she stands. Lucy doesn't want to be "just friends" with the cute cowboy. Can Lucy get over her stage fright and make all her dreams come true-- in the arena and with Casey?"

Date Published:2020

Chosen by a Horse.

Richards, Susan, 1949-



Date Published:2007

Heartstopper : Volume 5 /

Oseman, Alice.


Nick and Charlie are very much in love. They’ve finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick’s house... but with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change?
Date Published:2023

Icebreaker

Grace, Hannah.


Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team. Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins. Nate's focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means they are forced to share a rink with the figure skating team--including Anastasia, who clearly can't stand him. But when Anastasia's skating partner faces an uncertain future, she may have to look to Nate to take her shot.
Date Published:2022

Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team. Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins. Nate's focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means they are forced to share a rink with the figure skating team--including Anastasia, who clearly can't stand him. But when Anastasia's skating partner faces an uncertain future, she may have to look to Nate to take her shot.

Date Published:2022

Wildfire

Grace, Hannah.


Maple Hills students Russ Callaghan and Aurora Roberts cross paths at a party celebrating the end of the academic year, where a drinking game results in them having a passionate one-night stand. Never one to overstay her welcome (or expect much from a man), Aurora slips away before Russ even has the chance to ask for her full name. Imagine their surprise when they bump into each other on the first day of the summer camp where they are both counselors, hoping to escape their complicated home lives by spending the summer working. Russ hopes if he gets far enough away from Maple Hills, he can avoid dealing with the repercussions of his father's gambling addiction, while Aurora is tired of craving attention from everyone around her, and wants to go back to the last place she truly felt at home. .
Date Published:2023

Maple Hills students Russ Callaghan and Aurora Roberts cross paths at a party celebrating the end of the academic year, where a drinking game results in them having a passionate one-night stand. Never one to overstay her welcome (or expect much from a man), Aurora slips away before Russ even has the chance to ask for her full name. Imagine their surprise when they bump into each other on the first day of the summer camp where they are both counselors, hoping to escape their complicated home lives by spending the summer working. Russ hopes if he gets far enough away from Maple Hills, he can avoid dealing with the repercussions of his father's gambling addiction, while Aurora is tired of craving attention from everyone around her, and wants to go back to the last place she truly felt at home. .

Date Published:2023

Daydream

Grace, Hannah.


Academic superstar and fellow junior, Halle Jacobs, befriends Henry Turner when he accidentally crashes her book club and the pair work together to overcome their collegiate challenges.
Date Published:2024

Artemis

Weir, Andy.


Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
Date Published:2017

Project Hail Mary : a novel /

Weir, Andy,


"A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it's up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery--and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he's got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could imagine it, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian-while taking us to places it never dreamed of going" -- from the publisher.
Date Published:2022

"A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it's up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery--and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he's got to do it all alone. Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could imagine it, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian-while taking us to places it never dreamed of going" -- from the publisher.

Date Published:2022

Pet sematary

King, Stephen.


When the Creeds, an ideal loving family, found the old house in rural Maine, it seemed too good to be true... it was. The truth was bloodchilling--something more horrifying than death itself, and hideously more powerful...
Date Published:1983

Five little indians

Good, Michelle,


"Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn't want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission. Fuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Famous for his daring escapes from the school, Kenny can't stop running and moves restlessly from job to job -- through fishing grounds, orchards and logging camps -- trying to outrun his memories and his addiction. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder as she waits for Kenny to return to the life they once hoped to share together. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew. With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward. "--
Date Published:2020

"Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn't want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission. Fuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Famous for his daring escapes from the school, Kenny can't stop running and moves restlessly from job to job -- through fishing grounds, orchards and logging camps -- trying to outrun his memories and his addiction. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder as she waits for Kenny to return to the life they once hoped to share together. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew. With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward. "--

Date Published:2020

Hatchet

Paulsen, Gary.


Gary Paulsen. "A Newbery Honor book". Audience: Junior, intermediate (ages 11-13). After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Date Published:1987

Brian's winter.

Paulsen, Gary.


ADVENTURE FICTION. Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
Date Published:1996

The river

Paulsen, Gary.


Sequel to: Hatchet. Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.
Date Published:1991

Death cure

Dashner, James.


As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
Date Published:2011

Misery

King, Stephen.


The chilling tale of a bestselling novelist who is held captive and tortured by a psychotic fan who wants him to write his next book just for her.
Date Published:1987

Moon of the crusted snow

Rice, Waubgeshig.


Science fiction. Indigenous fiction. A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadearship loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision. Blending action and allegory, Moon of the Crusted Snow upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn.
Date Published:2018

Science fiction. Indigenous fiction. A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadearship loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision. Blending action and allegory, Moon of the Crusted Snow upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn.

Date Published:2018

In the realm of hungry ghosts : close encounters with addiction /

Maté, Gabor.


The only home he's ever had -- The lethal hold of drugs -- The keys of paradise -- You wouldn't believe my life story -- Angelas grandfather -- Pregnancy journal -- Beethoven's birth room -- There's got to be some light -- Takes one to know one -- Twelve step journal -- What is addiction? -- From Vietnam to "Rat Park" -- A different state of the brain -- Through a needle, a warm soft hug -- Cocaine, copamine and candy bars -- Like a child not released -- Their brains never had a chance -- Trauma, stress and the biology of addiction -- Its not in the genes -- "A void I'll do anything to avoid" -- Too much time on external things -- Poor substitutes for love -- Dislocation and the social roots of addiction -- Know thine enemy -- Freedom of choice and the choice of freedom -- Imagining an enlightened social policy on drugs -- A necessary small step: harm reduction -- The power of compassionate curiosity -- The internal climate -- The four steps, plus one -- Sobriety and the external Milieu -- A word to families, friends and caregivers -- There is nothing lost. In this timely and profoundly original book, writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of various addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and outlines what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold. Starting with a dramatically close view of Maté's drug addicted patients, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts weaves in stories of real people while providing a bold synthesis of clinical experience, insight and cutting-edge scientific findings. A haunting, compassionate and deeply personal examination of the nature of addiction.
Date Published:2008

The only home he's ever had -- The lethal hold of drugs -- The keys of paradise -- You wouldn't believe my life story -- Angelas grandfather -- Pregnancy journal -- Beethoven's birth room -- There's got to be some light -- Takes one to know one -- Twelve step journal -- What is addiction? -- From Vietnam to "Rat Park" -- A different state of the brain -- Through a needle, a warm soft hug -- Cocaine, copamine and candy bars -- Like a child not released -- Their brains never had a chance -- Trauma, stress and the biology of addiction -- Its not in the genes -- "A void I'll do anything to avoid" -- Too much time on external things -- Poor substitutes for love -- Dislocation and the social roots of addiction -- Know thine enemy -- Freedom of choice and the choice of freedom -- Imagining an enlightened social policy on drugs -- A necessary small step: harm reduction -- The power of compassionate curiosity -- The internal climate -- The four steps, plus one -- Sobriety and the external Milieu -- A word to families, friends and caregivers -- There is nothing lost. In this timely and profoundly original book, writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of various addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and outlines what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold. Starting with a dramatically close view of Maté's drug addicted patients, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts weaves in stories of real people while providing a bold synthesis of clinical experience, insight and cutting-edge scientific findings. A haunting, compassionate and deeply personal examination of the nature of addiction.

Date Published:2008

Selection.

Cass, Kiera.


For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.
Date Published:2012