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1) Gilead
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
This new deluxe eBook edition of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan features more than fifty additional pages of exclusive, author-approved annotations throughout the text to enrich your reading experience. You can access the eBook annotations with a simple click or tap on your eReader via the convenient links. Access them as you read the novel or as supplemental material after finishing the entire story. There is also Random House Reader’s...
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English
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“The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians
Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of...
Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of...
4) Tinkers
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English
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On his deathbed, surrounded by his family, George Washington Crosby's thoughts drift back to his childhood and the father who abandoned him when he was twelve.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.
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English
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The global fiction sensation—published in thirty-two countries. "A warm and tender story about life, memories, and the power of love and friendship." —Katarina Bivald, New York Times–bestselling author
Meet Doris, a ninety-six-year-old woman living alone in her Stockholm apartment. She has few visitors, but her weekly Skype calls with Jenny—her American grandniece, and her only relative—give her great joy and remind her...
Meet Doris, a ninety-six-year-old woman living alone in her Stockholm apartment. She has few visitors, but her weekly Skype calls with Jenny—her American grandniece, and her only relative—give her great joy and remind her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a novel that moves back and forth between the Soviet Union during World War II and modern-day America, Marina, an elderly Russian woman, recalls vivid images of her youth during the height of the siege of Leningrad.
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English
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My brother’s tears left a delicate, clean line on his face. I stroked his cheek, whispered, it’s really you …
Dov and Yitzhak live in a small village in the mountains of Hungary, isolated both from the world and from the horrors of the war.
But one day in 1944, everything changes. The Nazis storm the homes of the Jewish villagers and inform them they have one hour. One hour before the train will take them to Auschwitz.
Six decades later,...
13) Ancient light
Author
Series
Alexander Cleave trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
The Booker Prize-winning author of "The Sea" gives readers a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives. For fans of Julian Barnes' "Sense of an Ending" or the novels of Anne Enright or Ian McEwan.
15) Remember me
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
Description
Determined to be no trouble to anyone, homeless septuagenarian Winnie pursues a young girl who has stolen her suitcase and wig, an endeavor that causes her to evaluate the events that culminated in her current status.
16) The rock blaster
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Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thomas Allen Publishers
Language
English
Description
In this engaging new novel, the narrator from David Gilmour's previous novels appears once again as the main protagonist. Like a tourist visiting his own life, the narrator journeys in time and reexamines those critical moments in his life that shaped him into the man he is. It covers his experimental teenage years, lost loves, his marriages, his children, his father's suicide, his love for the Beatles, and many other influences and memories.
18) Belle Cora
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English
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A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant who finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and transforming herself repeatedly to win the love and life she desires.
19) The bungalow
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English
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Description
On the Pacific island of Bora-Bora in 1942, newly-engaged military nurse Anne Calloway is drawn to a soldier named Westry, until they witness a crime and he is redeployed, leaving her to seek the truth about what happened for over seventy years.
Author
Publisher
Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada Books Inc
Language
English
Description
Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, Vera Brittain, and Sarah Waters. A brilliant novel about the women of Royaumont Abbey, a military hospital staffed entirely by women from 1915 to 1919, 30 km north of Paris. A moving and uplifting novel about the small unsung acts of heroism of which love makes us capable.
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