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Pub. Date
2003, c1998
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In his prime, Edward Bloom was an extraordinary man. He could outrun anybody. He never missed a day of school. He saved lives and tamed giants. He was an inspired salesman-a visionary, in fact-and a beneficent real estate magnate who once bought a whole town just to make sure it would never change. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). And he knew more jokes than any man alive. Or at least that's what he's...
62) Black Buck
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"Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. A chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, CEO of Sumwun, NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor. As the only Black person in the company, Darren reimagines...
63) saint maybe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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In 1965, the Bedloe family is living an ideal life in Baltimore. But an accident shatters their peace forever, and seventeen year-old Ian Bedloe is guilt-wracked over the accidental death of his brother. Unable to live under the weight of his self-punishment, he espies a second chance in a stereotypical, and therefore, unlikely, place.
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Pub. Date
[1998?], c1965
Description
Discover the debut novel of James Lee Burke, before the creation of his now-famous Cajun detective, Dave Robicheaux , as he weaves together the struggles of three very different men. Toussaint Boudreaux, a black docker in New Orleans, puts up with his co-workers' racism because he has to, and moonlights as a prize-fighter in the hope of a better life-but the only break he gets lands him in penal servitude. J.P. Winfield, a hick with a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
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Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness.
67) Angel's rest
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
At the start of Davis's beautifully written debut, 11-year-old Charlie York leads an idyllic life in the shadow of Angel's Rest, a mountain in the Virginia Alleghenies "so high the earth's caretakers took breaks on the peaks before they came down to help those in need of God's assistance." Then, one late afternoon in 1967, Charlie's father is killed by a shotgun blast and his mother is arrested for murder. Put in the care of Lacy Albert Coe, an old...
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A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written. Barcelona, 1945-just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child,...
72) The river
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Series
River novels volume 1
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Gabriel Clarke is mysteriously drawn to The River, a ribbon of frothy white water carving its way through steep canyons high in the Colorado Rockies. The rushing waters beckon him to experience freedom and adventure. But the memory of the terrible event he witnessed on The River when he was just five years old holds him back. Chains of fear and resentment imprison Gabriel, keeping him from discovering the treasures of The River and taking hold...
73) A simple plan
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Description
Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreakage of a plane--the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash.
74) Just One Year
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Series
Just one day duet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"After spending an amazing day and night with a nameless girl in Paris, Willem embarks on his own transformative journey to find her once again"--
75) Simon Birch
Description
The smallest kid in town gets into constant trouble and teams up with his best friend who is searching for his real father.
76) The Stranger
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Series
Labyrinths of Echo volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Description
The Stranger will appeal to a broad coalition of delighted readers. Strike a chord with readers of all stripes. Fantasy, horror, philosophy, and dark comedy are all ingredients in this amazing work in which a sharp wit and a bewildering web of clues opens up a Pandora's box of secrets. Max Frei is a twenty-something loser-a big sleeper (during the day, that is-at night he can't catch a wink), a hardened smoker, and an uncomplicated glutton and loafer....
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The education in real life of a 19th Century dilettante. Philip Hamilton interrupts his philosophy studies at Harvard to deliver money for his father to St. Louis, but his snobbish ways get him into trouble. He is robbed and sold for indentured labor on the frontier in wild and dangerous Indian country.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Insight on the process of growing up and living well, in the form of brief letters from the author to his son. Topics include education, sports, wealth, and work; sex, marriage, fatherhood, and infidelity; wanderlust, war, and death; and aging, suffering, and spirituality"--