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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." —Washington Post Book World
New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett’s spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across
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A congressional candidate's campaign threatens to unravel when he becomes consumed by an obsession with his dead lover in this masterful novel from bestselling author Scott Spencer Aspiring politician Fielding Pierce and social activist Sarah Williams are madly in love. But while both are passionate liberals, their very different approaches to their beliefs result in a rollercoaster relationship. Nevertheless, when Sarah is killed in a terrorist attack...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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A survivor of terrorism in Lebanon recounts her memories of living in a country terrorized by Islamic fundamentalists; contends that non-Muslim countries are headed toward domination by these groups; and provides suggestions on how to stop them.
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The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 have earned their rightful place among the pantheon of American heroes. Flight 93 provides a riveting narrative based on interviews, oral histories, transcripts, recordings, personal tours of the crash site, and voluminous trial evidence made public only in recent years. There also is plenty of chilling new detail for readers who think they know the story of the flight. Utilizing research...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner! The best-seller that has brought comfort and hope to millions in the wake of 9/11 is now available in softcover! Let's Roll!-the moving, behind-the-scenes story of United Flight 93 hero Todd Beamer and his widow, Lisa-is so much more than a tribute. A message of character, courage, and undeniable faith in the face of horrifying tragedy, it encourages anyone who reads it to live real life right now . . . and to...
13) Hotel Mumbai
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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A true story of humanity and heroism, this film vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi and a waiter who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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A memoir about the close relationship between two brothers describing how his life was changed by the death of his older brother David, a writer, who was killed in the bombing of Pan Am's Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
16) The good life
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English
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Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and Russell Calloway have survived a separation and are thoroughly wonderstruck...
17) Stronger
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Based on real life events, tells the story of a 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing survivor.
18) The covenant
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Jonathan Margulies and daughter Ilana are kidnapped by Hamas leading Jonathan's wife Elise to call her grandmother in Brooklyn; and she enlists the help of three other Auschwitz survivors in a desperate attempt to find the captives before they are killed.
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