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1) Snow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
3) Ruby's storm
Author
Publisher
Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
On a stormy spring day, Ruby makes her way through the city to visit her grandfather.
Author
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time in Manhattan . . .
. . . there stood a pair of fine old brick townhouses on West Tenth Street. One had a blue door with a tarnished brass knocker in the shape of a dolphin. The other was empty. Behind the blue door lived Sadie, the widow of a famous British rocker who died of an overdose, and two of her children, Hamish and Deen.
The children manage to muddle along as best they can with a loving but distracted mother. But their...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The astonishing sequel to The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, The Committed follows the "man of two minds" as he comes to Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend,...
8) The wonders
Author
Language
English
Description
"Through the rich inner lives of two ordinary, unforgettable women, award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel brings a half-century of the feminist movement to life, revealing the simmering truth that money is ultimately the limiting factor in most women's lives"--
Ma̕ra moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, a caregiver, a cleaner--somehow...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Young Mungo is Stuart's extraordinary second novel. Five years in the writing, it is both a page-turner and literary tour de force, a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars-Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic-they should be sworn enemies if they're to be, seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine...
12) Vinegar Hill
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Ellen Grier and her family move in with her in-laws to help take care of them, and she begins to feel like she is losing her identity.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Kent Anderson returns after two decades with this dazzling novel about justice, character and fate, set against the backdrop of an American city at war with itself.
A 2019 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with violent crime and racial conflict. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with the demons that followed him home...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 198
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had 'assembled as many detestable people as it is possible to pack between the covers of a six-hundred page novel', but concluded that the book was 'brilliantly written', and 'should be read as a parable'. It...
17) Home town
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
A disparate group of individuals finds a common cause and a code of values that transforms their small Massachusetts town into a home.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In this classic by the Pulitzer Prize--winning author of The Age of Innocence , a mother's past complicates her daughter's future in 1920s New York. Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a controlling husband, Kate Clephane began an affair with a wealthy man, only to lose her daughter, Anne, and be exiled from New York society. Years later, after their entanglement has ended, Kate meets Chris Fenno in France. Although he is a much younger man, Chris...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Former college football star Charles Croker has been propelled by his oversized ego to the top of Atlanta's corporate world, but he is hit with a startling dose of reality when he finds himself middle-aged with a young, demanding second wife, a 29,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, and an alarming load of debt.
20) My dog Skip
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The story of a dog and his closest companion, the author, during their growing years in a small town in Mississippi
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