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(0)Edoardo Ballerini
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English
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"In 1940, Varian Fry - a Harvard educated American journalist - traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground railroad that led over the Pyrenees, into Spain, and finally...
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Language
English
Description
Since the dawn of recorded history, the Klallam Indians have thrived upon the bounty of the Elwha River. In 1889, on the eve of Washington's statehood, the Olympic Peninsula remains America's last frontier. But not for long. As northwestern expansion reaches its feverish crescendo, the clock is ticking...
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Language
English
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"Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family-fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery, and love."--Jacket flap.
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Language
English
Description
We all live like we're famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don't want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A son must repeatedly come out to his senile father...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who is particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor, to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he is right. Can someone who has committed a truly heinous act...
6) Run
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Evading the mob, Mike and his son Daniel have lived a nomadic life on the fringe of society for 16 years, and have used Daniel's parkour skills as a way to make a living by pulling robberies. Now living in New York, Daniel has made true friends and wants to leave the life of crime behind. Mike plans one last job, but when the scheme doesn't go as expected, Daniel discovers his father's past is darker than he imagined.
7) Dinner rush
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
At New York's hottest restaurant, things are really heating up. Owner and bookie Louis Cropa lost a friend to a mob hit and now his chef's gambling problem has brought the unwelcome mobsters into their restaurant.
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Albino alligator: When a holdup goes terribly wrong, the robbers flee to a local bar, desperately taking everyone inside hostage!
Heroic trio: Three female martial arts experts (each with her own superhero identity) team up to battle a powerful wizard who thinks that if he kidnaps all the babies in China he can eventually dominate the world.
Breach of faith: While investigating the murder of a priest, veteran detective Paul Fein searches for a witness...
