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5) Broken Irish
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Language
English
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Description
In Boston, six very different people deal with corruption and redemption while watching their neighborhood go through the changes that are needed in order to make it grow.
6) Oliver Twist
Author
Language
English
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Description
In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he runs away and is captured by a gang of thieves, and is finally reunited with his long lost family.
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats-White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It's all the more impressive,...
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English
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Criminologist Alistair Sinclair and Detective Simon Ziele investigate the murder of Judge Hugo Jackson, looking into whether the motive was related to the fact that Jackson was presiding over the trial of Al Drayson, an anarchist who set off a bomb at a Carnegie family wedding and killed people nearby the event.
15) Swimming
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Language
English
Description
Lila Wheeler returns to her childhood home in New Hampshire to investigate the crime of passion involving her older brothers, Aaron and Jack, and Aaron's mysterious girlfriend, Suzanne, that took place there ten years earlier.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Collects Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, spanning from 1947 through 1963, in which the literary theorists and political activist discusses her early career, intellectual life in New York City, inspirations, and self-awareness.
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