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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Menagerie was Williams' first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our preeminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and it is studied and performed in classrooms and theaters around the world. A new introduction by prominent Williams...
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English
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The new novel from the award-winning author of The End of Vandalism is a wry and sophisticated heist drama. Set in the rugged region of the Midwest that gives the novel its title, The Driftless Area is the story of Pierre Hunter, a young bartender with unfailing optimism, a fondness for coin tricks, and an uncanny capacity for finding trouble. When he falls in love, with the mysterious and isolated Stella Rosmarin, Pierre becomes the central player...
6) Forrest Gump
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Series
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English
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"Bein' a idiot is no box of chocolates," but "at least I ain't led no hum-drum life," says Forrest Gump, the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this wonderful comic tale. When the University of Alabama's football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, that's only the beginning! He flunks out--and goes on to be a Vietnam war hero, a world-class Ping-Pong player, a wrestler, and a business tycoon. He compares battle scars with Lyndon Johnson, discovers...
7) Jacob's Room
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English
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Prized for their lyrical qualities, the novels of Virginia Woolf favor the psychological realms inhabited by her characters, where thoughts are so revealed that actions lose much of their importance. Most are also concerned with the structure of narrative, including the present novel, in which Woolf conveys the impression of time present and of time passing in individual experience as well as in the characters' awareness of historic time.
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12) Sons and lovers
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English
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Sons and Lovers is a 1913 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It traces emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers, which exert complex influences on the development of his manhood. The novel was originally published by Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd., London, and Mitchell Kennerley Publishers, New York. While the novel initially received...
13) Cold skin
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005, c2002
Language
English
Description
A young man travels to an Antarctic island in the aftermath of World War I to serve as a weatherman for a year, and soon finds himself allied with Gruner, a slightly mad castaway, in a battle against a humanoid species of amphibians who attack the lighthouse each night, and involved in a strange relationship with an alluring female of the species.
14) Forever odd
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Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
16) Home land
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Lewis Miner, tired of reading the glowing accounts of his high school alumni's successful lives, decides to send the Eastern Valley High newsletter an update on what is going on with those who were not and never will be very high on the social ladder.
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English
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A powerful first novel about life and death, friendship and love, as one young man must navigate the depths of his emotions.
JASON PROSPER grew up in the elite world of Manhattan penthouses, Maine summer estates, old-boy prep schools, and exclusive sailing clubs. A smart, athletic teenager, Jason maintains a healthy, humorous disdain for the trappings of affluence, preferring to spend afternoons sailing with Cal, his best friend and boarding-school...
20) Odd Thomas
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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