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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Intelligence officer Ryan Evans, having spent time in Fallujah as the captive of insurgents who forced him to learn to kill by breaking bones and leaving victims to die, returns to Texas only to find himself under suspicion when a serial killer who employs the same method of murder begins abducting young girls--including Evans' own estranged daughter.
2) The namesake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
3) Naked lunch
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reprint of the controversial 1959 novel about narcotics addict Bill Lee, his travels in search of drugs, and his eventual descent into the nightmarish fantasy world of Interzone. Includes text corrections, and notes and essays by the author.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home."-- Provided by publisher.
9) The namesake
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
10) Winter garden
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Middle-aged sisters Meredith and Nina, having been estranged from one another and their parents by the actions of their disapproving mother, reunite after their father falls ill, and, by carrying out their dad's dying wish of hearing the true story of their mother's life in war-torn Leningrad, the women find their relationships mending and begin to have a deeper understanding and respect for their mom.
11) The outsiders
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A story about teenage hopes, fears, bravery and violent rebellion and living on the right side of the tracks.
12) The Outsider
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself -- a man of superior intellect who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes. From Richard Wright, one of the most powerful, acclaimed, and essential American authors of the twentieth century, comes a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. The Outsider is an important work of fiction that depicts American racism...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A remote island paradise...
A chance to rekindle their marriage!
Nothing fazes workaholic billionaire Massimo Briatore. Not even the idea of his estranged wife, Livia, accompanying him to Fiji for a family celebration. He's sure he'll have no problem pretending for one weekend that their whirlwind marriage is still intact. Until he lays eyes on her again...
Trapped in paradise, Livia can't escape from the memories of the tenderness and heat...
14) The new me
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-year-old Millie just can't pull it together. Misanthropic and morose, she spends her days killing time at a thankless temp job until she can return home to her empty apartment, where she oscillates wildly between self-recrimination and mild delusion, fixating on all the little ways she might change her life. Then she watches TV until she drops off to sleep, and the cycle begins again. When the possibility of a full-time job offer arises, it...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A "startlingly original" novel of "recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down from not making the art she absolutely must make" (Alexander Chee, Paris Review ). Alma and her family live close to the land, raising chickens and sheep. While her husband works at a nearby college, she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods online, and reads books by the women writers she adores. Then, one night,...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Thanks to his father's genetic experiments, Hugo Danner is born with superhuman levels of strength, speed, and intelligence. Hugo feels compelled to conceal his gifts from a suspicious and uncomprehending world, but he doesn't take on an identity as a costumed crusader. Instead, his struggles to find a place in society that will accommodate his extraordinary skills lead to a checkered career as a boardwalk strongman, Foreign Legionnaire, politician,...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This tour-de-force is widely regarded as the quintessential post-WWII Japanese novel. A plan to kidnap a major corporation's CEO becomes an allegory for the alienation of the individual self, a mirror to modern-day Japanese identity. In 1995 in Tokyo, five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on the horses. They have little in common except a disaffection with their lives. One is a poorly socialized but genius factory welder. One is a demoted...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away. But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos--the first and only love of her life--the careful bubble she's constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy's entire world--growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who...
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