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The outsmarters / by Ellis, Deborah,1960-;
"Eleven-year-old Kate lives with her grandmother, who runs a junk shop in a big old house on the outskirts of town. It sometimes feels sad to be in the business of collecting other people's leftover stuff, but Kate knows sad. She's a bit lonely, and she doesn't remember her mother, who left long ago. Still, Kate dreams that one day her mother will return, and when she does, she'll need money. So Kate sets out to make some, just in case. At first she wants to offer psychiatric advice, like Lucy in the Peanuts cartoon. Gran squashes that idea: "You are not a psychiatrist. You'll just get sued." But what about a philosopher, who Gran says is just someone who thinks deeply about important things. "I do that all the time," Kate says, and soon she opens up a Philosophy Booth to provide answers to life's big and small questions for $2 a pop. But who can answer Kate's questions? Where does her grandmother go in her truck at night? And why won't she talk about Kate's mother? These are hard questions to answer, and Kate gets help from two kids who come into her life. Myndeelee, who moves into the house behind Gran's, and Brandon, who Gran seems to hate, though Kate can't figure out why."--
Subjects: Families; Grandmothers; Friendship; Survival; Self-reliance in children;
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Stink and the Big Bad Badgers / by McDonald, Megan.; Reynolds, Peter H.(Peter Hamilton),1961-;
Stink and his friends are raring to learn wilderness survival skills and form their own troop, the Big Bad Badgers, but there is more for the squabbling scouts to learn than tying knots, reading animal tracks and eating insects.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Stink (Fictitious character); Friendship; Wilderness survival;
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Dear Edward : a novel / by Napolitano, Ann,author.;
A twelve-year-old boy struggles with the worst kind of fame--as the sole survivor of a notorious plane crash.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Airplane crash survival; Aircraft accidents; Grief in children; Loss (Psychology); Orphans; Families;
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The fourth closet / by Cawthon, Scott,1971-author.; Breed-Wrisley, Kira,author.;
"What really happened to Charlie? It's the question that John can't seem to shake, along with the nightmares of Charlie's seeming death and miraculous reappearance. John just wants to forget the whole terrifying saga of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, but the past isn't so easily buried.Meanwhile, there's a new animatronic pizzeria opening in Hurricane, along with a new rash of kidnappings that feel all too familiar. Bound together by their childhood loss, John reluctantly teams up with Jessica, Marla, and Carlton to solve the case and find the missing children. Along the way, they'll unravel the twisted mystery of what really happened to Charlie, and the haunting legacy of her father's creations."--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Five Nights at Freddy's (Video game); Robots; Survival; Zombies;
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The starlight claim / by Wynne-Jones, Tim.;
Four months after his best friend, Dodge, disappeared in a boat accident on Ghost Lake, Nate decides to make a treacherous journey to his family's remote camp at Ghost Lake. It's half pilgrimage, half desperate hope he will find his missing friend. However, when he arrives, he finds the camp has been occupied by strangers--men who have escaped from a maximum-security prison.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Teenage boys; Escaped prisoners; Best friends; Missing persons; Wilderness survival;
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Last breath [videorecording] / by Brooks, David,1969-film producer,screenwriter.; Cole, Finn,1995-actor.; Gallagher, Kelly,film producer.; Harrelson, Woody,actor.; LaFortune, Mitchell,screenwriter.; Liu, Simu,1989-actor.; Parkinson, Alex,film director,screenwriter.; Dark Castle Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.; Longshot Films,production company.;
Edited by Tania Goding; director of photography Nick Remy Matthews.Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, Cliff Curtis.A heart-pounding film that follows seasoned deep-sea divers as they battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface. Based on a true story, Last Breath is an electrifying story about teamwork, resilience, and a race against time to do the impossible.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for brief strong language.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Allcock, Duncan; Lemons, Chris; Yuasa, David; Deep diving; Diving accidents; Male friendship; Rescues; Saturation diving; Survival;
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Cowboys [videorecording] / by Kerrigan, Anna,film director,film producer,screenwriter.; Graff, Gigi,film producer.; Sellers, Dylan,film producer.; Parker, Chris,film producer.; Zahn, Steve,1968-actor.; Bell, Jillian,1984-actor.; Knight, Sasha,actor.; Dowd, Ann,actor.; Samuel Goldwyn Films (Firm),publisher.;
Steve Zahn, Jillian Bell, Sasha Knight, Ann Dowd, Gary Farmer, Chris Coy, John Reynolds, Bob Stephenson, John Beasley.A troubled but well-intentioned father who has recently separated from his wife runs off with his Trans son into the Montana wilderness after his ex-wife's refusal to let their son live as his authentic self.14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Transgender children; Fathers and sons; Parents of transgender children; Wilderness survival;
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Breakout : a thriller / by Herron, Paul,author.;
Jack Constantine - a former cop who killed one of his wife's murderers in an act of vengeance - is serving his time in Ravenhill Penitentiary, a notorious 'supermax' home to the most dangerous prisoners in the country. When an apocalyptic superstorm wreaks havoc across the USA, the correctional officers flee the prison ... but not before opening every cell door. The inmates must fend for themselves as lethal floodwaters rise and violent anarchy is unleashed. Teaming up with Kiera Sawyer, a correctional officer left behind on her first day of work, Constantine has one chance of survival - he must break out of a maximum security prison. But with the building on the verge of collapse, and deadly chaos around him, time is running out.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Ex-police officers; Prisoners; Survival; Floods; Hurricanes;
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Wild life / by Wei, Opal,author.;
They're walking on the wild side ... The Plan was simple: find a cure for the cancer that nearly took her sister's life. But for Zoey Fong, something about The Plan isn't working anymore. When a crucial tissue sample accidentally winds up in the hands of a very distracting--and disarmingly handsome--visitor, Zoey jumps at the chance to follow him home to retrieve it. Davy Hsieh's rugged island estate is no manicured suburban park. His plan is simple: establish a legitimate animal sanctuary and embrace life as a hermit to make up for a sketchy past. Zoey invading his fortress of solitude should not, under any circumstances, be a romantic development. And yet it's the single most invigorating week of their lives ... when they're able to set their many differences aside and embrace it. Stranded amid all manner of flora and fauna--including a semidomesticated cougar called Baby--Davy and Zoey first have to survive the island. Then they'll need to take a leap of faith, maybe even trusting in each other, to save it.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Animal sanctuaries; Cancer; Islands; Man-woman relationships; Rich people; Survival;
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Sisters of the spruce : a novel / by Shimotakahara, Leslie,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.World War One is in high gear. Fourteen-year-old Khya Terada moves with her family to a remote, misty inlet on Haida Gwaii, then the Queen Charlotte Islands, in northern British Columbia, known for its Sitka spruces. The Canadian government has passed an act to expedite logging of these majestic trees, desperately needed for the Allies' aircrafts in Europe. At a camp on the inlet, Khya's father, Sannosuke--a talented, daring logger with twenty years of experience since immigrating from Japan--assumes a position of leadership among the Japanese and Chinese workers. But the arrival of a group of white loggers, eager to assert their authority, throws off balance the precarious life that Khya and her family have begun to establish. When a quarrel between Sannosuke and a white man known as "the Captain" escalates, leading to the betrayal of her older sister, Izzy, and humiliation for the family, Khya embarks on a perilous journey with her one friend--a half-Chinese sex worker, on the lam for her own reasons--to track down the man and force him to take responsibility. Yet nothing in the forest is as it appears. Can they save Izzy from ruination and find justice without condemning her to a life of danger, or exposing themselves to the violence of an angry, power-hungry man? Drawing on inspiration from her ancestors' stories and experiences, Shimotakahara weaves an entrancing tale of female adventure, friendship, and survival.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Betrayal; Families; Female friendship; Loggers; Sisters; Sitka spruce; Survival; Japanese Canadians;
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