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1) Snow
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
After years of lonely political exile, Turkish poet Ka returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral and learns about a series of suicides among pious girls forbidden to wear headscarves.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
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Description
"Boris Pasternak's Widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhnosky, the award-winning translators of war and Peace and Anna karenina, and to whom. The New York Review of Books declared. "the English-speaking world is indebted."" "First published in Italy in 1957 amid internatrional controversy--the novel was banned in the Soviet Union Until 1988. and Pasternak declined the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
A Chinook helicopter carrying a squad of Navy Seals suddenly plummets to earth in Afghanistan. A car driven by FBI agents tailing a suspicious vehicle is mysteriously rendered immobile in San Francisco. The U.S. is under secret attack and only Jack Hatfield, a popular television host hounded from his position by left-wing forces in the media for speaking the truth, suspects the danger of this lethal conspiracy. With the help of Dover Griffith, an...
5) Animal farm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
George Orwell's famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Once a key operative in secret Israeli-intelligence missions, Gabriel Allon is on the run from his past assuming a quiet life as a meticulous restorer of priceless works of art. But now he is being called back into the game. The agent with whom he is teamed hides behind her own beautiful mask as a French fashion model. Their target, a cunning terrorist on one last killing spree, a Palestinian zealot named Tariq who played a dark part in Gabriel's...
8) Wild ginger
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes." Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution. It is through the quieter, more skeptical Maple, a less than ardent Maoist whose father is languishing in prison for a minor crime, that we see this story to its tragic end. The Red Guards have branded Wild Ginger's deceased...
10) We
Author
Language
English
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Description
Is a dystopian novel completed in 1921. It was written in response to the author's personal experiences with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, his life in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond and work in the Tyne shipyards at nearby Wallsend during the First World War. It was at Tyneside that he observed the rationalization of labour on a large scale.
11) 1984
Author
Series
Signet classic volume CE 2493
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In a bleak world where even thoughts are controlled by the Party, a minor bureaucrat tries to rebel.
12) Flower net
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thriller on a joint American-Chinese investigation into the smuggling of immigrants and human organs. Featuring a Chinese policewoman and an American lawyer, the novel examines cultural differences.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In Dubious Battle is regarded as John Steinbeck's first major novel. Because it stirred up controversy by criticizing social and political practices of the 1930s, Steinbeck found himself accused of being a Communist. But despite this criticism, he went on to create Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, both considered to be masterpieces of American literature. In California apple country, a group of migrant workers decides
...14) Absolute power
Author
Language
English
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Description
A burglar in the bedroom of a mansion has his work interrupted by the arrival of the mistress of the house with the president of the U.S. The couple have a fight and she is killed. The burglar flees, taking along a blood-stained letter opener as evidence, but is spotted by presidential bodyguards. The White House chief-of-staff, an ambitious woman, has him tracked and killed, but not before the burglar has told his story to a lawyer. The lawyer realizes...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
Pub. Date
c1979
Language
English
Description
Harvard, the New Deal, the Holocaust, World War II, Watergate, two prison terms, and a giant conglomerate - Walter Starbuck, who tries to live by the Sermon on the Mount, experiences them all. Shall the meek inherit the earth? Perhaps on a short-term basis.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
After a Los Angeles lawyer is killed by the Chinese mafia, his brother flies to Hong Kong, accompanied by a black woman detective. Together they battle an organization smuggling drugs and immigrants into the United States. By the author of King Con.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
In Ireland for a visit, sleuths Nuala McGrail of Chicago and her husband, Dermot Coyne, investigate the murder of an Irish revolutionary who was killed 70 years ago. The probe is made possible by Nuala's psychic ability.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A Jewish immigrant family in New York branches out, one lot assimilating by abandoning its Jewishness, the other retaining it. Several generations later they merge again, brought together by a militia incident in Wyoming, she a reporter for an eastern Jewish newspaper, he a western FBI agent, and it's love on sight. By the author of Lily White.
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