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At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters, scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain, through a year and four races at Indian Mount Downs,...
2) Troublemaker
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English
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For Morgan Yancy, an operative and team leader in a paramilitary group, nothing comes before his job. But when he's ambushed and almost killed, his supervisor is determined to find out who's after the members of his elite squad--and why. Due to worries that this unknown enemy will strike again, Morgan is sent to a remote location and told to lay low and stay vigilant. But between a tempting housemate he's determined to protect and a deadly threat...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Remy, a talented, seventeen-year-old auto mechanic, questions his decision to join his girlfriend when she starts college in Pennsylvania after a visiting artist helps him to realize what his family's home in a dying West Virginia mountain town means to him.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Cannon tells about his life in the 1940s as the son of a West Virginia railroad man, loving the trains and expecting one day to work on the railroad like his father and brothers.
5) Shiloh
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
6) Missing May
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
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Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1999, c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Hoping for a chance at meaningful work away from his status-obsessed wife, New York executive Charlie visits West Virginia to oversee a mining project and finds a friendship with Natty, who longs to escape her own unfulfilling existence.
15) Shiloh
Author
Publisher
Fondo de Cultura Económica
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
16) The end games
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"In the rural mountains of West Virginia, seventeen-year-old Michael Faris tries to protect his fragile younger brother from the horrors of the zombie apocalypse"--
17) Project princess
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Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Princess Mia and her friends volunteer to build a house for the less fortunate during their spring break.
18) Key of valor
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English
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Zoe McCourt, a hairstylist and friend to Mallory and Dana, attempts to find her key. McCourt has one month, just like her friends, to make her way through a cryptic set of clues to find it. She finds herself supported by her friends, even though she has to put up with the sorcerer Kane, who tries to stop her. Along the way she experiences deep feelings for her courter, Bradley Vane IV. Conclusion to the Key trilogy.
19) Way Down Deep
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel.
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English
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"Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Macedonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture...
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