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1) The heir
Author
Series
Selection novel volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story ... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself - if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
America Singer is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? Class can be harder to spot than racial or ethnic differences, yet in many ways it's the most important predictor of what kind of financial and educational opportunities someone will have in life. But class is a hard subject...
8) Flatland
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1962 John Hubley came to Harvard University as the first teacher of animation in the new Visual Arts Center. It was his idea to make a film based on Edwin Abbott's famous novel about life in a two-dimensional world, Flatland.
9) Howards End
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Margaret and Helen Schlegel are sisters from a well-educated European family. A series of events brings them into a relationship with the very English Wilcox family. Both families also come into contact with Leonard Bast and his wife, a couple near the lowest tier of the rigid class system. Leonard's desire for cultural and intellectual status attracts the attention of Helen. Margaret must reconcile her independent spirit with her desire for companionship...
10) The one
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As her Selection approaches its finish, America must decide where her heart truly lies--and Prince Maxon must pick one winner to wear the crown"--
Publisher
Worth Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of White Trash tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Nancy Isenberg's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of White Trash includes: Historical context Chapter-by-chapter overviews Profiles of the main characters Detailed timeline of events Important...
12) The Elite
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is one of only six girls still competing in the Selection--but before she can fight to win Prince Maxon and the Illean crown, she must decide where her own heart truly lies"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Oliver began work as a school librarian she felt qualified for the job. What she learned was that librarians are expected to serve as mediators and mental-health-crisis-support professionals, customer service reps and administrators of overdose treatment, fierce loyalists to institutionalized mythology and enforced silence, and arms of state surveillance. Here she highlights the national problems that have existed in library since they were founded:...
15) The kite runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by millions of readers the world over.“A vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people [of Afghanistan] have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence—forces that continue to threaten them even today." –New York Times Book Review The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Set against the backdrop of early 19th-century England, the novel opens with the Bennet family, a respectable yet financially modest clan residing in the rural town of Longbourn. The Bennets consist of the witty and sharp-minded Mr. Bennet, his good-natured but sometimes frivolous wife Mrs. Bennet, and their five daughters-Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia. The crux of the story unfolds with the arrival of the eligible and wealthy bachelor Mr....
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books. It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem...
18) Proxy
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Privileged Syd and and his proxy, Knox, are thrown together to overthrow the system"--
19) Phantom
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Flicker Alley, in partnership with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation is proud to present, Phantom, which marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. In this beautifully reconstructed and restored edition from an amazingly detailed, original 1922 negative, Alfred Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) plays Lorenz Lubota, a man obsessed with his own desires to achieve fame and wealth,...
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