Linke, Dorit
Summary: Expelled from their secondary school in East Germany because of their rebellious attitudes, Hanna and Andreas plan to escape by swimming across the cold and choppy waters of the Baltic Sea in a harrowing twenty-five hour journey to freedom in West Germany. Hanna is an accomplished distance swimmer, Andreas is not, and the danger of being caught, drowning, or dying of exhaustion is very real--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LINYogis, Jaimal
Summary: "When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real--especially when the egg hatches overnight."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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Summary: From the mega-bestselling creator of Heartstopper, a must-have novella in which Heartstopper's lead characters, Nick and Charlie, face one of their biggest challenges yet. Absence makes the heart grow fonder... right? Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie love their nearly inseparable life together. But soon Nick will be leaving for university, and Charlie, a year younger, will be left behind....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian s courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history s most thrilling survival epics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2017
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2 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ZAMCox, Lynne
Summary: At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland. At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men's and women's world records for swimming the English Channel-a thirty-three-mile crossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes. At eighteen, she swam the twenty-mile Cook Strait between North and South Islands of New Zealand, was caught on a massive swell,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COX, LYNNE COXLaughlin, Terry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Total Immersion, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.21 LAUSingh, Simran Jeet
Summary: "The inspiring true story of Fauja Singh, who broke world records to become the first one hundred-year-old to run a marathon, shares valuable lessons on the source of his grit, determination to overcome obstacles, and commitment to positive representation of the Sikh community"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FAUPope, Rob
Summary: "Becoming Forrest is the incredible story of Englishman Rob Pope, a veterinarian who left his job in pursuit of a dream - to become the first person ever to complete the epic run undertaken by one of Hollywood's most beloved characters, Forrest Gump. After his momma urged him "to do one thing in life that made a difference", he flew to Alabama, put on his running shoes, and sped off into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperNorth 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POPE, ROB POPCurrinder, Michael
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Leo Coughlin's life is increasingly stressful because his autistic older brother Caleb's behavior is becoming more bizarre and even violent, and their parents' marriage is falling apart--but Leo finds an escape in long distance running, and in two new friends: Curtis, himself a potential state champion who teaches him the strategy of running, and Mary, his would-be girlfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Currinder 2017Auyeung, Pearl
Summary: "Once upon a morning in Hong Kong, in the alley of Tai Yuen Street, a girl is promised a mooncake with a double-yolk center ... the special mooncake seems like the only excitement on an otherwise boring day in the market where nothing changes ... until an exhausted stranger falls to his knees right in the street! He ran through forests, swam through rivers, and even stowed away on a ship, all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AUYKeefe, Jess
Summary: "Thirty-Thousand Steps is a powerful and transformative memoir that interweaves the author's obsessive training to becoming a distance runner, along with her singular, focused research into the science of addiction in the shadow of grief after the death of her brother"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEEFE, JESS KEEHoover, Colleen.
Summary: "Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HOOMcDougall, Christopher
Summary: McDougall reveals the secrets of the world's greatest distance runners--the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, Mexico--and how he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of super-athletic Americans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Summary: "Absence makes the heart grow fonder... right? Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie love their nearly inseparable life together. But soon Nick will be leaving for university, and Charlie, a year younger, will be left behind. Everyone's asking if they're staying together, which is a stupid question... or at least that's what Nick and Charlie assume at first. As the time to say goodbye gets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OSEDonoghue, Emma
Summary: Over the course of a year, the lives of two women--Sile, a flight attendant and world traveler, and Jude, a young archivist stubbornly attached to the town of Ireland, Ontario--intersect, in a story that reveals the joys and sorrows of a long-distance relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONBerentson, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERColgan, Jenny
Summary: "Life is sweet for Issy Randall, owner of the Cupcake Cafe. Taught how to bake by her beloved late grandfather, she is proudly carrying on the family tradition with her London eatery. Not only is business thriving, the icing on the cupcake is that she also happens to be head over heels in love. Plus she's surrounded and supported by close friends, even if her cupcake colleagues Pearl and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Sparks, Nicholas.
Summary: John, a high school dropout, enlists in the Army not knowing what else to do with his life. While in the Army he meets Savannah, they fall in love and she awaits his return from the Army. After 9/11 John feels it's his duty to re-enlist. During their long separation Savannah falls in love and marries someone else.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPAAlbertalli, Becky
Summary: "It's been more than a year since Simon and Blue turned their anonymous online flirtation into an IRL relationship, and just a few months since Abby and Leah's unforgettable night at senior prom. Now the Creekwood High crew are first years at different colleges, navigating friendship and romance the way their story began--on email."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALBAtta, Dean
Summary: The son of a film director, Mack grows up on set and into a hopeless romantic -- one who falls hard for the handsome and popular Karim, who eventually notices him back, right before Mack has to relocate to Scotland. Not wanting to lose his first love, Mack asks Karim to be long-distance, but while they're trying, fearless and confident Finlay shows up on set, and Mack's world turns upside down...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ATTCotugno, Katie
Summary: One conversation can change everything. Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: she and her best friend, Emily, plan to head to Cornell together in the fall, and she volunteers at a voter registration call center in her Philadelphia suburb. But everything changes when one of those calls connects her to a stranger from small-town Ohio. Colby is stuck in a rut, reeling from a family tragedy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC COTMoyes, Jojo
Summary: Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is thrown into the world of the superrich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes, and a never-ending array of household staff and hangers-on. Lou is determined to get the most out of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOYWalker, Adrian J.
Summary: Follows the experiences of a man stranded on the wrong side of the country who pushes his limits to traverse more than five hundred miles of devastated wasteland to return to his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017