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Author
Series
Publisher
Wordsworth
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Complete and unabridged.
Physical Desc
596 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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2) Alice Adams
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1921
Physical Desc
434 p.; illus. 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Traces the experiences of three generations of women who live in a Victorian Colorado house, from Nealie, a hired girl torn between two suitors; to motherless Pearl, whose grieving father sabotages her happiness; to proud Susan, who resolves to protect the house's secrets and legacy.
4) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent, Tris Prior, must continue trying to save those she loves while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, Sylvie Pelletier leaves her family's Colorado mountain cabin to start work at a wealthy mine-owner's manor house and is fascinated by he luxury around her until she discovers the family's philosophy is at odds with the unfair labor practices that built their fortune.
7) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
10) The kite runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
11) Snobs: a novel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Physical Desc
265, 13 p.
Language
English
12) Allegiant
Author
Series
Divergent volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. But will she be prepared to face impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love?
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In order to escape an arranged marriage, Adelaide, an Osfridian countess, poses as her servant to start a new life in Adoria, the New World.
15) Enchantée
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
449 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After smallpox takes their parents, seventeen-year-old Camille supports herself and her sister by magically transforming herself into a baroness in the court at Versailles, then faces difficult choices as the French Revolution looms.
Author
Series
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Bao, a poor physician's apprentice, and Lan, the wealthy nobleman's daughter he loves, work together to break a curse and save the kingdom of Feng Lu.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
564 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother and artist, divorces her husband after 27 years of marriage to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.
19) The Gilded Cage
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An American farm girl discovers that she's an English heiress, but claiming her fortune leads to danger and intrigue"--
20) Shadow kiss
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
444 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Rose is coping with the darker effects of being shadow-kissed, her relationship with Dimitri is finally taking off, and when he disappears during a Strigoi attack on St. Vladimir's Academy, she must make a terrible choice.