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1) Middlemarch
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Language
English
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A portrait of 19th century English provincial life focusing on Dorothea Brooks and her two marriages, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family.
2) Main Street
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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Describes the lonely predicament of Carol Kennicott, who is caught between her desires for social reform and individual happiness. Her dilemma is intensified by the fact that she lives in a small, self-satisfied, Midwestern town.
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English
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Ain't She Sweet? Not exactly . . .
The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But fifteen years have passed, and life has taught Sugar Beth its toughest lessons. Now she's come home-broke, desperate, and too proud to show it.
The people of Parrish don't believe...
4) Coo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"Coo, a ten-year-old girl raised by a flock of pigeons, delights in finally making human contact, but quickly learns that our world is more cruel and complicated than she could have guessed"--
5) Sure of You
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate, yet subversively funny, Sure of You could only come from Armistead Maupin.
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English
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Agatha Award-Winning Author: When a book critic dies in an English village, a mystery-writing sleuth smells a rat. A number of mystery authors, including Lorinda Lucas, call the village of Brimful Coffers home. Occasionally, there is a violent death ... for example, the demise of a hapless rat, done in by Lorinda's two kitties. But when the victims are book critic Plantagenet Sutton and a visiting writer, Lorinda finds the case much more difficult...
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Cedar Cove volume 9
Publisher
MIRA Books
Language
English
Description
Olivia Lockhart-Griffin Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, I'm sorry to say that our good sheriff, Troy Davis, has suffered a disappointment in love. He was hoping to marry his onetime girlfriend, Faith Beckwith, who recently moved back to town. Well, the latest is that Faith ended the relationship last month, even though both of them are widowed and available. According to Troy, there were a few misunderstandings between them -- some inadvertently...
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English
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Chabon's sensational debut novel: the coming-of-age story of Art Bechstein, a recent graduate whose life is forever changed by one sultry summer Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn't want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. Bechstein spends the summer after his graduation from a Pittsburgh university searching for his future and finding his own sort of trouble...
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English
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This city boy has it all figured out ... Until he goes toe-to-toe with a fierce cowgirl who's snagged the home field advantage. Holiday, Texas is known far and wide as the most celebratory town in the Southand no shindig is complete without one of its founding members. It's a real shame the last remaining Holiday is a city slicker, but what's that old saying about putting lipstick on a pig ... ? Beck has no intention of being charmed by some crazy...
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English
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First published in 1930, "Not Without Laughter" is the debut novel by Langston Hughes and a deeply personal, semi-autobiographical tale of an African-American family in rural Kansas. Langston Hughes, born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, spent much of his youth in Lawrence, Kansas and it is here that he set his first novel. "Not Without Laughter" tells the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a young man and focuses on his "awakening...
11) Calamity Town
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English
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Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death. The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade. He...
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English
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Olivia Lockhart-Griffin
Cedar Cove, Washington
Dear Reader,
Jack and I are just back from our honeymoon, and I'm eager to catch up with my friends Bob and Peggy Beldon, who run the Thyme and Tide bed-and-breakfast at 44 Cranberry Point. It's a popular place but (needless to say!) things haven't been the same since a man died there. Turns out his name was Max Russell, and Bob had known him briefly in Vietnam. Nobody has any idea why he showed up...
13) Dhalgren
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Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Bellona, reality has come unglued, and a mad civilization takes root A young half-Native American known as the Kid has hitchhiked from Mexico to the midwestern city Bellona-only something is wrong there . . . In Bellona, the shattered city, a nameless cataclysm has left reality unhinged. Into this desperate metropolis steps the Kid, his fist wrapped in razor-sharp knives, to write, to love, to wound. So begins Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany's masterwork,...
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Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Olivia Lockhart-Griffin
Cedar Cove, Washington
Dear Reader,
Do you remember Teri Miller? She works at Get Nailed, the beauty salon here in town. Well, Teri got married a little while ago-to Bobby Polgar, the famous chess champion. They've moved into a beautiful house, 74 Seaside Avenue, which has a spectacular view of Puget Sound.
Teri's my hairdresser, and she confided that something seems to be worrying Bobby. When she asked him about it,...
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 1991 New American Writing Award. Originally published in 1952, this poignant, romantic biography of the poet Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931) is well worth a second chance. From early on, Lindsay was a wanderer, tramping hundreds of miles along country roads, visiting small towns, never holding a job, writing poems of uplift and defiance, and giving them, or his drawings, away on the streets, selling them for food or declaiming them on...
Author
Series
Cedar Cove volume 2
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Olivia Lockhart
Cedar Cove, Washington
Dear Reader,
If you've been to Cedar Cove before, you've probably met my friend Grace Sherman. You can usually find her at home-she lives at 204 Rosewood Lane-or at the public library, where she works. Like me, she grew up in this town and she's raised two daughters here. But did you hear that about six months ago, her husband disappeared? Just...disappeared. Where's Dan? Why did he go? Who's he with? Will...
17) Maurice's Room
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A hilarious tale from Newbery Medal winner Paula Fox: Maurice loves to collect things-but what happens when he collects too many things? Eight-year-old Maurice is a collector. It doesn't matter how big or how small it is-if he likes something, he'll bring it home with him. His newest addition is a dried octopus hanging by a string from the ceiling. There's also a bottle of dead beetles, four painted turtles, and practical stuff like nails, screws,...
18) Hard City
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The searing novel of a brutal boyhood in 1940s Chicago -- and a young man walking the knife's edge between a life of crime and a brighter future. The son of a single mother addicted to heroin, Richie grows up in poverty and hardship. His adolescence is a constant battle between hope -- in the form of a kind boxing coach, a job in a bowling alley where he can sneak a nap, and a determination to track down his disreputable father -- and brutality. Desperately...
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Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Lucy Drake and Brendan Caine have only one thing in common ... And it's likely to tear them apart. Because it was Brendan's late wife, Jessie -- and Lucy's best friend -- who'd brought them together in the first place. And since Jessie's passing, Brendan's been distracted by his two little ones ... and the memory of an explosive kiss with Lucy years before his marriage. Still, he'll steer clear of her. She's always been trouble with a capital T. Lucy...
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Return to #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove, where sometimes you have to take a leap of faith to find the love you deserve. In the small town of Cedar Cove, everyone knows everybody else's business -- and they usually have an opinion about it. Recently divorced, Zach and Rosie Cox were given an unusual custody deal by Judge Olivia Lockhart: instead of their children moving between homes, the kids keep the family home...
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