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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Having followed her new husband to his native home in rustic Tuscany, Ellana distracts herself from her marital disappointments by caring for her asthmatic son, and reevaluates her life when she meets American art lover Ross Story.
2) Resolution
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a greedy mine owner threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
5) The hunters
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Acting on orders from the president, Charley Castillo and his team travel to Uruguay in pursuit of answers pertaining to missing oil-for-food scandal funds, only to witness the murder of the man they seek.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding - a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the youngest of the siblings, reunites with his family for the first time in three years. Rafiq and Layla must now contend with the choices and betrayals that lead to their son's estrangement -...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Shortly before World War II, Chi Chi Donatelli and Saverio Armandonada meet one summer on the Jersey shore and fall in love. Both are talented and ambitious, and both share the dream of becoming singers for the legendary orchestras of the time: Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman. They're soon married, and it isn't long before Chiara and Tony find that their careers are on the way up as they navigate the glamorous worlds of night clubs, radio,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
589 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Andrei Kaplan's older brother, Dima, insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his text messages. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. It's the summer of 2008, and his bank account is running dangerously low. Perhaps a few months in Moscow are just what he needs. A wise, sensitive novel about Russia,...
12) The old truck
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"On a small family farm, an old truck falls into disrepair and lies nearly forgotten, except by the family's daughter. The truck is been part of her daydreams as she grows up and develops strength and independence. As an industrious young woman, she pulls the rusted and overgrown vehicle from its almost-grave and restores it"--
Author
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First HarperLuxe edition.
Physical Desc
426 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In July 2014, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian was arrested by Iranian police, accused of spying for America. The charges were absurd. Rezaian's reporting was a mix of human interest stories and political analysis. He had even served as a guide for Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown. Initially, Rezaian thought the whole thing was a terrible misunderstanding, but soon realized that it was much more dire as it became an eighteen-month...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her mother died, vivacious Katey Tyler fled her dull Connecticut town, hoping to meet her relatives in England and find adventure and romance on a grand tour of Europe. She had no idea that her life-changing travels would have both in spades, as well as danger and intrigue, when she catches the eye of ship owner Boyd Anderson and inadvertently stumbles upon a high-stakes kidnapping. When Sir Anthony Malory's young daughter is abducted from London's...
15) Hot rain
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
545 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Allie Parker knows her best friend's death was no accident, but her quest to find the truth soon puts her in the wrong place-at the worst possible time. An unwilling passenger on a boat carrying deadly cargo and dangerous men, Allie's only hope is mysterious Jake Dawson, who warns her that she must play the role of his woman, if she wants to stay alive. Under any other circumstances, she would welcome the attentions of a man with Jake's powerful...
16) Becoming Maria
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
The Pura Belpr Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--Maria on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1970s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy Award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable...
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 14 hours) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"The story begins in 1619--a year before the Mayflower dropped anchor off Cape Cod--when the White Lion disgorges "some 20-and-odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning...