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2) Kartography
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey.
In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her finest achievements: the story of a woman’s spiritual adventure that becomes...
In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her finest achievements: the story of a woman’s spiritual adventure that becomes...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 283
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final, uncompleted novel by Charles Dickens. John Jasper is a choirmaster who is in love with one of his pupils, Rosa Bud. She is the fiancee of his nephew, Edwin Drood. A hot-tempered man from Ceylon also becomes interested in her and he and Drood take an instant dislike to one another. Later, Drood disappears, and as Dickens never finished the novel, Drood's fate remains a mystery indeed.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
Español
Formats
Description
During his college years, the very family solidarity that allows Francisco to survive as a child is tested. Not only must he leave his family when his goes to Santa Clara University, but while Francisco is there, his father abandons the family and returns to Mexico.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jen has dumped Andy, and he's handling the breakup in exactly the way all his friends and family might have expected: very, very badly. Crashing at his mother's house and obsessively photographing his hairline, Andy embraces the rites and rituals of every breakup--the ill-advised decision to move onto a houseboat, the forced merriment of a lads' night out, the accidental late-night text to the ex--all resulting in a never-ending shame spiral. Even...
14) Harry Sue
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Although tough-talking Harry Sue would like to start a life of crime in order to be "sent up" and find her incarcerated mother, she must first protect the children at her neglectful grandmother's home day care center and befriend a paralyzed boy.
15) Intimacy
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
An unmarried couple's separation is complicated by children. The father is a TV scriptwriter who has been unfaithful, the mother is in publishing and the setting is London. As he narrates their story, the man describes his mixed feelings, torn between the prospect of freedom and the loss of his sons.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Quentin is the Heartbreak Messenger--someone who, for a fee, will deliver a breakup message to the soon-to-be ex. His business is surprisingly successful, but as he interacts with his clients, message recipients, and his best friend Abigail, he wonders if his own heart can remain intact.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
An Englishwoman falls for an older man who takes her to France where she discovers he is already married. When she leaves him, he pursues her and confines her to a lunatic asylum in Germany. But she will escape. The novel was written in 1866 and was rejected by the publisher as too sensational.
20) Then
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
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