Ali Ahn
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Best-selling author Alan Brennert blends history and fiction to showcase Hawaii's dynamic past in this captivating novel. Set in the 1920s and 1930s, Honolulu explores the stark contrast between the image of the glamorous Hawaiian paradise portrayed to the mainland and the harsh reality of life on the island. With characters as vivid and richly descriptive as the history of Hawaii itself, this novel is sure to enthrall listeners.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Best-selling author Sandra Dallas has won rave reviews for this tale set during the Civil War. When Alice Bullock's husband joins the Union Army, the young quilting enthusiast is left to deal with an Iowa farm and an imposing mother-in-law. And then her life turns upside down when she's accused of murder.
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From Joseph Boyden, author of "Three Day Road" comes an astonishingly powerful novel of contemporary aboriginal life. When beautiful Suzanne Bird disappears, her sister Annie, a loner and hunter, is compelled to search for her, leaving behind their uncle Will, a man haunted by loss. While Annie travels from Toronto to New York from modeling studios to A-list parties, Will encounters dire troubles at home. Both eventually come to painful discoveries...
4) The orenda
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A visceral portrait of life at a crossroads, "The Orenda" opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow Falls, a spirited girl with a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. Christophe, a charismatic Jesuit missionary, has found his calling among the Huron, and devotes himself to learning and understanding their customs and language in order to lead them to...
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San Angeles volume 2
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English
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Kris Ballard has hid amongst the underground resistance - but now, right as her training with the anti-corporate movement is nearing its end, their compound is destroyed. Kris and the other trainees are recalled to the dangerous metropolis of San Angeles. But their transport is shot down and Ian Miller, the man she loves, is captured. With the help of a retired operative with PTSD, and the mysterious man who fled the scene when Kris's parents were...
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Growing up on Kadena Air Base with her no-nonsense sergeant mother, Luz suffers suicidal thoughts after her sister's death and investigates the story of her Okinawan grandmother, who also confronted her mortality after the World War II deaths of family members.