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1) Anthem
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
AYN RAND'S CLASSIC WORK!
Hailed as one of Russian-American writer Ayn Rand's greatest works, Anthem, a dystopian fiction novella, was a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In it she examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. All decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out.
A...
2) The healing
Author
Series
Kentucky brothers volume 2
Language
English
Description
Can a man burdened by memories of yesterday find hope in the land of tomorrow? Will peace-loving Samuel and Esther fight for their newfound love? How will God manage to untangle these star-crossed lovers before any damage is done?
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
They're calling for the "Storm of the Century," and in western Maine, that means something. So Eric closes his law office early and heads to the grocery store. But when an unkempt and seemingly unstable young woman in line comes up short on cash, a kind of old-school charity takes hold of his heart--twenty bucks and a ride home; that's the least he can do. Trouble is, Danielle doesn't really have a home. She's squatting in a cabin deep in the woods:...
Author
Series
It ends with us volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The newest, highly anticipated novel from beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author, Colleen Hoover. Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most. Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up--she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous...
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Language
English
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Description
After a scandal breaks out involving a famous Irish Nationalist politician, Stephen Dedalus finds his family being torn apart over their differing opinions of the matter. Shaken by all the fighting and animosity, Stephen begins to wonder where he can place his faith. Questioning the Irish and Catholic ideology that he was raised on, Stephen begins to rebel against expectations as he departs for college. While he excels in his studies, Stephen struggles...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Recently retired, Harold Fry lives in a small English village with a wife who seems irritated by everything he does. Little differentiates one day from the next until a letter arrives in the mail from a woman he hasn't heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy, in hospice, is writing to say goodbye. Harold pens a quick reply, but a chance encounter at the corner mailbox convinces him that he must deliver it in person. So Harold sets off on a six-hundred...
Author
Series
Arthur Less novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
9) The journey
Author
Series
Kentucky brothers volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Discover along with Titus Fisher how life can begin anew in Christian County, Kentucky. Moving from Pennsylvania, finding rewarding work, and leaving a broken romance behind is the best decision Titus ever made. But is he ready to consider love again when he meets two women: one who seems perfectly suited for any Amish man and one who challenges long held ideas of the woman's role. Who will Titus choose, and will it be the right choice?" -- Cover...
10) The wedding
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
To save his own marriage, a middle-aged man takes inspiration from his in-law's enduring love.
11) The goldfinch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer"--
Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. He loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, When Maisie and Grant lose their mother and...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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...
14) Find me
Author
Series
Call me by your name novels volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the bestseller "Call Me by Your Name" revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love.
Elio has become a gifted classical pianist in Rome. His father, Samuel, is on a trip from Florence to visit Elio when a chance encounter on the train with a...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In their decades of clinical practice, Dr. Neil Baum and Dr. Scott Miller have treated sexual problems, prostate problems, urinary leakage, pelvic pain, urinary tract infections, and questions about infertility. They have seen countless male patients describe the problem simply as "something's not right down there," either because they are embarrassed about the issues or unaware of them. How's It Hanging? provides an easy-to-read guide to men's health....
16) Forever odd
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it. Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He’s just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that’s why he’s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death. But when...
I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it. Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He’s just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that’s why he’s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death. But when...
17) Heartsong
Author
Series
Green Creek volume 3
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his mother, Robbie Fontaine accepts an offer to join a Maine werewolf pack as the trusted second to Michelle Hughes, the most powerful Alpha, in the third novel of the series following Ravensong.
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Series
Language
English
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This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about until his oldest friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all of this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges...
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
20) Less is lost
Author
Series
Arthur Less novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Arthur Less, after the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis, sets out on a literary adventure across the United States, during which he must finally face his personal demons.
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