Lindsay's Picks | Payson Library

1) Endurance: Shackleton's incredible voyage

Author

Lansing, Alfred

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

"Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. But...

2) Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero

Author

McDougall, Christopher

Description

"A delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor . . . McDougall is a gifted storyteller who gets to the heart of the human-animal connection." —John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
From the best-selling author of Born to Run, a heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America, and, in the process, discovering the life-changing...

3) The indifferent stars above: the harrowing saga of a Donner Party bride

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4) What if it's true?: a storyteller's journey with Jesus

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Martin, Charles

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Book, eAudiobook

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"Writing as our guide, Martin uses a storyteller's imagination to illuminate key moments from the Scriptures, primarily from the life and ministry of Jesus. In addition, Martin shares key moments from his own life journey as a disciple--and bondservant--of Christ and a mentor to others. The result is a striking exploration of truth that helps us not just think differently, but live differently. Today." -- From page 4 of cover.

5) The day the world came to town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

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Book, eAudiobook

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Shares the experiences of the citizens of Gander, Newfoundland, who were hosts to the more than six thousand passengers of thirty-eight U.S.-bound jetliners forced to land there in the wake of the September 11th attacks

6) The library book

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, while exploring the crucial role that libraries play in modern American culture.

7) The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

Author

Gemeinhart, Dan

Series

Coyote Sunrise Book 1

Formats:

Audio Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

"Sometimes a story comes along that just plain makes you want to hug the world. The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise is Dan Gemeinhart's finest book yet — and that's saying something. Your heart needs this joyful miracle of a book." —Katherine Applegate, acclaimed author of The One and Only Ivan and Wishtree
A 2020 ILA Teachers' Choice
A 2019 Parents' Choice Award Gold Medal Winner
Winner of the

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8) The Law of Finders Keepers

Author

Turnage, Sheila

Series

Tupelo Landing Book 4

Formats:

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

The heart-warming conclusion to the beloved Mo & Dale Mysteries by Newbery Honor author Sheila Turnage featuring the most shocking case yet!
Pirate fever sweeps through the town after an opportunistic treasure hunter shows up looking to lay claim to Blackbeard's lost gold buried somewhere in Tupelo Landing. When the (probably) world-famous Desperado Detectives—Mo and Dale and Harm—are hired by Mayor Little's mother...

9) Song for a whale

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Twelve-year-old Iris and her grandmother, both deaf, drive from Texas to Alaska armed with Iris's plan to help Blue-55, a whale unable to communicate with other whales.

10) All rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

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"Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mom at the Blue River Co-ed Correctional Facility in tiny Surprise, Nebraska. His mom is a resident on Cell Block C, and so far Warden Daugherty has made it possible for them to be together. That is, until a new district attorney discovers the truth--and Perry is removed from the facility and forced into a foster home. When Perry moves to the "outside" world, he feels trapped. Desperate to be reunited...

11) The Screaming Staircase

Author

Stroud, Jonathan

Series

Lockwood & Co Book 1

Formats:

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

*NOW A NETFLIX SERIES*
Dive into the first book of this frightfully fun series and join the ghost-hunting gang as they defend our world from the most fearsome phantoms!
A sinister Problem has occurred in London: all nature of ghosts, haunts, spirits, and specters are appearing throughout the city, and they aren't exactly friendly. Only young people have the psychic abilities required to see and eradicate these supernatural foes....

12) Navigating Early

Author

Vanderpool, Clare

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

"Odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters"--Provided by publisher.

13) Masterminds

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Series

Masterminds trilogy Book 1

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

The first book in the action-packed trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman is perfect for fans of Stranger Things and James Patterson.

Eli Frieden has never left Serenity, New Mexico...why would he ever want to? Then one day, he bikes to the edge of the city limits and something so crazy and unexpected happens, it changes everything.

Eli convinces his friends to help him investigate further, and

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14) Insignificant events in the life of a cactus

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Series

Life of a cactus Book 1

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges. Thirteen-year-old Aven was born without arms and has trouble fitting in at her new school after her parents take a job at a dying western theme park, but she makes a new friend in a fellow disabled boy who helps her solve a mystery at the park.

15) The trumpet of the swan

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Book, Audio Book, eAudiobook

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Louis, a voiceless Trumpeter swan, finds himself far from his wilderness home when he determines to communicate by learning to play a stolen trumpet.

16) Echo: a novel

Author

Ryan, Pam Muñoz

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Book, Audio Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica.

17) Al Capone Does My Shirts: Tales from Alcatraz Series, Book 1

Author

Choldenko, Gennifer

Series

Al Capone at Alcatraz Book 1

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Audio Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

The Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Bestseller that is historical fiction with a hint of mystery about living at Alcatraz not as a prisoner, but as a kid meeting some of the most famous criminals in our history. Al Capone Does My Shirts has become an instant classic for all kids to read!
Today I moved to Alcatraz, a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I'm not the only...

18) Junie B. Jones collection / (bks. 17-20 Junie B. Jones)

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19) The mountain between us

Author

Martin, Charles

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

Dr. Ben Payne and writer Ashley Knox are the only passengers aboard a small plane they chartered in a snowstorm to get them home. The plane crashes in the Utah mountains unbeknownst to anyone. Ben and Ashley survive, but the pilot is killed. Although injured, they realize that their only hope for rescue is to make it down the mountain to help.

20) Long way gone

Author

Martin, Charles

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

"No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home."At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O'Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a six-string guitar and the bold wager that he had talent. But his wager soon proved foolish. Five years after losing everything, he falls in love with Daley...