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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and an aging simpleton.
Now with a new introduction by the author.
Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for...
Now with a new introduction by the author.
Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for...
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
America has enemies -- ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first -- and last -- mistake of his career... It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this...
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Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Resolved to leave her home for good, young runaway Beverly is determined not to depend on anyone else, but as she settles in her new home and job, she forms connections with the people around her that alter her perspectives about life and herself.
Author
Series
Seraphina volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"Tess Dombegh journeys through the kingdom of Goredd in search of the World Serpents and finds herself along the way"--
In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can't seem to keep out of trouble. When Tess's family decides the only path for her is a nunnery, she chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her...
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Series
Sunny Randall mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Boston private investigator Sunny Randall finds herself in the middle of a shooting war with the mob when she is hired by a wealthy family to locate their runaway daughter Millicent, and must call upon her underworld contacts to rescue the teen who has turned to prostitution.
8) Crossroads
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to achieve fame as a blues guitar player, a gifted young musician sets out in search of legendary bluesman, Willie Brown.
9) Grace
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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She was my first kiss. My first love. She was a little match girl who could see the future in the flame of a candle. She was a runaway who taught me more about life than anyone has before or since. And when she was gone my innocence left with her. As I begin to write, a part of me feels as if I am awakening something best left dead and buried, or at least buried. We can bury the past, but it never really dies. The experience of that winter has grown...
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English
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Detective Renée Ballard is working the night beat -- known in LAPD slang as "the late show" -- and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard can't let him go through department records, but when he leaves, she looks into the case herself and feels a deep tug of empathy and anger. She...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"Ezra Ahern wakes up one day to find his older sister, Bea, gone. No note, no sign, nothing but an email address hidden somewhere only he would find it. Ezra never expected to be left behind with their abusive stepfather and their neglectful mother, how is he supposed to navigate life without Bea? Bea Ahern already knew sh eneeded to get as far away from home as possible. But a message in her inbox changes everything, and she finds herself alone...
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Publisher
Marvel Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
They were six normal teenagers linked only by their wealthy parents' annual business meeting...until a chance discovery revealed the shocking truth: their parents are the secret criminal society known as the Pride. For years, the Pride controlled all criminal activity in Los Angeles, ruling the city with an iron fist...and now, with their true natures exposed, the Pride will take any measures necessary to protect their organization--even if it means...
13) If only
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While adjusting to his family's move from California to Utah, and while the adults concerned about the looming Cuban Missile Crisis and his father recovering from an immune disorder, Eric meets Grace--his classmate and a runaway--and decides to hide her in the clubhouse in his backyard. Eric grows closer to Grace but can their new relationship survive the harsh realities of life?
Author
Series
Skink volume 7
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Classic Malley — to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard — he knows his cousin’s in trouble before she does. Wild Skink — he’s a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets, and giant gators.
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Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Sparky Graves has been plagued by adversity all his life. Orphaned as a baby, he has been raised in a home where his adoptive brother Kal can do no wrong and Sparky is blamed for every misdeed. The reality, however, is that Kal is a cruel and manipulative bully whose escalating torment leaves Sparky with no choice: he has to run away. After hitchhiking cross-country, sparky finds a safe haven in the unlikeliest of places. On a dusty...
16) The harbor
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Series
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When fifteen-year-old Oscar Dreyer-Hoff disappears in this 'masterpiece of Nordic noir' (Booklist, starred review), the police assume he’s simply a runaway--a typically overlooked middle child doing what teenagers do all around the world. But his frantic family is certain that something terrible has happened. After all, what runaway would leave behind a note that reads: He looked around and saw the knife that had stabbed Basil Hallward. He had...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure and to escape her overbearing mother, ... Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. Once there, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, which Olivia refers to as 'Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls.'...
18) The 400 blows
Author
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A young boy, neglected by his parents and teachers, runs away from home and ends up on the wrong side of the law.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
362 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the tropical paradise that is Miami, Avis and Brian Muir are still haunted by the disappearance of their ineffably beautiful daughter, Felice, who ran away when she was thirteen. Now, after five years of modeling tattoos, skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping in a squat house or on the beach, Felice is about to turn eighteen. Her family -- Avis, an exquisitely talented pastry chef; Brian, a corporate real estate attorney; and her brother, Stanley,...
Author
Series
Runaways volume 1
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Runaways eliminate the Pride from Los Angeles, it leaves a vacuum of power in the city's underworld, and soon Nico, Karolina, Gert, Chase, and Molly are on the run again to uncover the truth behind their parents' past before it catches up to them.
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