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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these...
4) The slip
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Professor Philip Sharpe is having a bad day when he appears on a live televised debate. But things will only get worse when, flustered on air, he makes some wildly inappropriate remarks. The "slip" goes viral and Philip's life and marriage go into a tailspin. His life unravelling, Philip hatches a scheme he hopes will put it all back together."-- Provided by publisher.
5) Rhino ranch
Author
Series
Last picture show volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning home to Thalia, Texas, to recover from a heart attack, Duane Moore is charmed by K.K. Slater, a billionairess who intends to open a nature reserve for the endangered black rhinoceros, but Homer Carmichael complicates Duane's romantic intentions.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Language
English
Description
Five interconnected stories trace the experiences of soldiers whose relationships are shaped by war, from a World War II prisoner who endures his incarceration by imagining a cricket match to a man in a Victorian poorhouse who shamefully remembers the son he gave away.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Language
English
Description
Despite the marks left by tragedy, a year later three women seem safe. As the anniversary of the Chicago explosion dominates the media, however, memories of that terrifying morning become dangerous triggers. All these women are guarding secrets--how far will they go to keep them?
8) Toad
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Description
Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of goldfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who sells her cleaning supplies once a month. She broods over her deepest regrets: her blighted romances with self-important men, her lifelong struggle to feel at home in her body, and her wayward early twenties,...
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