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"Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized? Are you often busy but not productive? Do you feel your time is constantly being hijacked by other people's agendas? If you answered yes to any of these questions, the way out is the way of the Essentialist. Essentialism isn't about getting more done in less time. It's about getting only the right things done. Only once we discern what is absolutely...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
6) Velocity
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice...
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"The electrifying debut thriller that asks the question: To save the one you love, is there any price you wouldn't pay? His wife is sick. He needs $200,000 to save her. A mysterious man offers to give him the money with just one catch: He has to murder someone to get it. Gary Foster's life is finally heading in the right direction. After years of trying, his wife, Beth, is pregnant, and he recently opened a business with his brother. But one phone...
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"From the highly acclaimed author of The Outcast and The Alliance, which New York Times bestselling author Lisa Wingate called "a book that begs to be savored," comes an engrossing novel about marriage and motherhood, loss and moving on. When Ruth Neufeld's husband and father-in-law are killed working for a relief organization overseas, she travels to Wisconsin with her young daughters and mother-in-law Mabel to bury her husband. She hopes the Mennonite...
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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When the bookmobile librarian refuses to lend Stanley the story he wants, he learns the importance of advocating for the book of his choosing, and in doing so teaches the librarian the virtue in allowing everyone to select the stories they enjoy.
12) Loving
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In the fourth and final chapter in the Bailey Flanigan Series, Bailey is planning her dream wedding to Brandon Paul in Los Angeles. But doubts are wracking Bailey's mind. Did she make the right choice in choosing Brandon? Or should she return home to Bloomington, Indiana and be with Cody Coleman, her first love?
13) When I wake up
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Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A young child contemplates four different paths their day may take"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A boy wants all of the pets in a pet store but he and his sister can choose only one. End notes discuss Dr. Seuss's pets, his creative process, and the discovery of the manuscript and illustrations for "What Pet Should I Get?"
15) Stepsister
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.
17) Heads you win
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Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: should they board a container ship bound for America, or Great Britain? Alexander leaves that choice to the toss of a coin. In a...
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Brown Books Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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When Mary Marianna discovers a homeless man on the street, she can't seem to get him out of her mind. Sensing her distress, the Great Owl comes to her with advice about how Mary Marianna can help. With her parents at her side, Mary Marianna does her best to get him on his feet. In doing so, she realizes that it is the smallest of choices to help those in need that make the biggest of differences.--Publisher.
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Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Venture capitalist Garrett Kaye has received the offer of a lifetime--become the CEO of a billion-dollar company...but only if he acknowledges he's heir to his recently discovered birth family. To keep his mind off his choices, he lets his attraction to smart, headstrong mixologist Jules Carson sweep him away. But will "no strings" turn into the ties that bind as he faces the impossible choice between his birthright and his future?
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