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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy,and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...
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"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
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Join corporate executive Jack Donaghy in this behind-the-scenes romp about sketch show TGS, along with its neurotic stars, Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney, hapless NBC page Kenneth Parcell, and the rest of the befuddled crew working to create the 'magic of television.' Brought to you by the folks at GE Kabletown, it's a season of video obituaries, cross-dressing love, page showdowns, Canadian births, and other strange events in 22 blerg-worthy episodes....
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In the lawless West, The Cowboys a notorious brotherhood of killers and thieves reigned over the land with brutal fists and fast guns. Fate had finally caught up with them ... and now the merciless gang has but a single surviving member. When a deputized gunslinger takes up the call to hunt down the last Cowboy, the chase is on and the bullets fly and only one of these hardened men can survive.
Pub. Date
2013
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A collection of 22 uncensored episodes, including fan-favorite 'Into Fat Air, ' where the Griffins rock Mount Everest, plus the comedy jackpot 'Roads to Vegas' and the milestone 200th episode 'Yug Ylimaf, ' in which Brian and Stewie develop a curious case of reverse aging thanks to a time machine foul-up.
Pub. Date
c2009
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In an age when women were expected to be seen but not heard, Dr Michaela "Mike" Quinn is an independent spirit who forsakes her home in genteel Boston for the rough and tumble life on the Western frontier. With a new family and mountain man Bryon Sully by her side, Quinn finds a new set of challenges, and rewards, in life as a pioneer.
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