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English
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Mark Darrow, having accepted the opportunity to become the head of a local college at the urging of the professor who helped him become a successful trial lawyer, returns to his alma mater where he cannot escape thoughts of a female student who he found dead on the night of his greatest success as a quarterback for the school and for which his friend was sentenced to life in prison, and, when another student is murdered, Mark believes the real killer...
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the Big Ten Conference, reviewing the history of the Big Ten which is composed of football teams from eleven large Midwestern universities, profiling legendary coaches, players, and games, and including photographs, statistics, and a glossary.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Alice Howland, a fifty-year-old cognitive psychology professor at Harvard, starts to experience early-onset Alzheimer's, initially becoming disoriented around town and eventually losing track of rooms in her home before resigning from Harvard and attempting to hold onto the severe change in her life.
5) John Woman
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Language
English
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At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets...
9) Impact
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
CIA agent Wyman Ford is sent to Cambodia to locate the source of some radioactive gemstones--a mission that has links to a young woman's search for a meteorite she saw streak through the sky in Maine, and the murder of a researcher at the National Propulsion Facility who discovered gamma rays originating from Mars.
10) Absolute friends
Author
Language
English
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Ted Mundy, former student radical and Cold War spy for the British, is living a quiet life as co-principal of an English-language school and tour guide in Germany when he is contacted by an old friend and colleague who tries to persuade Ted to accept a too-good-to-be-true offer from a mysterious philanthropist who is putting up $500,000 to turn the school into a vehicle for promoting international peace and understanding in the post-9/11 world.
11) Hell bent
Author
Series
Alex Stern volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to break Darlington out of hell-even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. But Alex is playing with forces far beyond her control, and when faculty members begin to die off, she knows these aren't just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if Alex is going to survive, she'll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university's very walls"--
13) The human stain
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Coleman Silk, a New England professor forced into retirement on false charges of racism, has a fifty-year-old secret that Philip Roth attempts to decipher in this 1990s novel set against the backdrop of Presidential impeachment and professional witchhunts.
14) Angels & demons
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the most powerful underground organization in history, the Illuminati. Upon learning of an unstoppable terrorist act against the Vatican, Langdon travels to Rome and joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra, and together they will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that leads to the Vatican's only chance for survival.
16) Footnote
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
עברית
Description
A father and son have become rivals as professors who have dedicated their lives to Talmudic studies, but when the father is mistakenly recognized for a prestigious award meant for his son, the son must determine whether advancing his own career is more important than his father's.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
While on a tennis vacation in Antigua, a young English couple are charmed by Dima, a Russian money launderer who has set his sights on the couple's fortune, and find themselves in a danger game with the British Secret Service, the Russian mafia, and others who want them dead.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this engrossing, provocative, and intimate memoir, a young journalist reflects on her childhood in the heartland, growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the 1980s and 90s a fascinating, disturbing look at a fringe culture and its true believers. When Claire Hoffman s alcoholic father abandons his family, his desperate wife, Liz, tells five-year-old Claire and her seven-year-old brother, Stacey, that they are going to heaven...
19) 21
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Aspiring doctor and MIT student Ben Campbell finds his education and life in jeopardy when he joins an underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system.
Author
Publisher
IRB
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Get the Summary of Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction:Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz,...
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