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1) A Christmas carol

Author

Dickens, Charles

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5

Lexile measure

900L

Language

English

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Book, Audio, Audiobook Cassette, Audiobook CD, Book + CD-ROM, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print, Manuscript, Playaway, Pop-Up Book

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"Ebenezer Scrooge is a bitter and selfish old man, and worst of all...he hates Christmas! But this Christmas Eve there's a surprise in store for Scrooge when four spooky ghosts pay him an unexpected visit. As they journey between the past, present and future, Scrooge is shown how his mean and nasty behaviour has affected everyone around him... But is it enough to help Scrooge change his ways, just in time for Christmas Day? Or is he destined to stay...

2) The picture of Dorian Gray

Author

Wilde, Oscar

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14

Lexile measure

920L

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Kindle, Large Print

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Artist Basil Hallward is greatly impressed by Dorian Gray's physical beauty when he paints his portrait. Basil becomes strongly infatuated with Dorian, believing that his beauty is responsible for a new mode in Basil's art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new kind of hedonism, Lord Henry suggests that the only thing worth pursuing in life is beauty, and the fulfilment of the senses. Dorian...

3) The silent patient

Author

Michaelides, Alex

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11

Language

English

Appears on list

NYT - Paperback Trade Fiction

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Promising to be the debut novel of the season, The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband--and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...

4) Gathering blue

Author

Lowry, Lois

Series

Giver quartet volume 2
Giver ; bk. 02
Laurel-leaf books

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7

Lexile measure

680L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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Lamed and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

5) A portrait of the artist as a young man

Author

Joyce, James

Series

Oxford world's classics
100 greatest books ever written
Everyman's library volume 9
Penguin drop caps
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 16

Lexile measure

1120L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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The classic novel follows Stephen Dedalus from his days as a student at the Clongowes Wood School, to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, to his college years during which he challenges the conventions of his upbringing.

6) Ulysses /by James Joyce

Author

Joyce, James

Series

Methuen Drama modern classics
Oxford world's classics
Greatest books of the twentieth century
Modern library G-52
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 46

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

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Serialized first in the Little Review in 1918 and published first in Paris in 1922, although its censorship for obscenity in America and England were not lifted until the mid-1930sIn terms of its story it defies abridgement or explanation except that it all takes place on one day, 16 June 1904, or Bloomsday, which was the anniversary of Joyces first walk with his beloved Nora Barnacle. It (very) loosely follows the episodes of Ulysses from the Odyssey...

7) Of human bondage

Author

Maugham, W. Somerset

Series

Everyman's library volume 369
Barnes and Noble classics
Modern Library classics
Armchair traveller
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Lexile measure

910L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, Book + DVD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

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"Of Human Bondage" is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly...

8) Confess

Author

Hoover, Colleen

Series

Thorndike Press large print romance

Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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Auburn Reed has her entire life mapped out. Her goals are in sight and there's no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn't expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry. For once, Auburn takes a risk and puts her heart in control, only to discover Owen is keeping major secrets from coming out. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important...

9) The tattooist of Auschwitz

Author

Morris, Heather

Series

Tattooist of Auschwitz volume 01

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9

Lexile measure

HL 760L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print, Playaway

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"The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved. Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies' man. He is also a Jew. On the first transport from Slovakia to Auschwitz in 1942, Lale immediately stands out to his fellow prisoners. In the camp, he is looked up to, looked out for, and put to work in the privileged position of Tätowierer- the tattooist - to mark his fellow prisoners, forever. One of them is a young...

10) Forgiving Paris

Author

Kingsbury, Karen

Series

Baxter family series. Standalone novels volume 10
Wheeler large print hardcover

Language

English

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"More than two decades ago, Ashley Baxter Blake made her most grievous mistake in Paris. Now, a forgotten voice brings new information about that terrible time, causing Ashley to see that experience in a new light. Can she finally lay down yesterday's pain and move on? In Paris, Alice Michel is having dinner with her son Gabe and his new friend, Jessie Taylor, an Indiana girl who is studying abroad for the semester. Alice's life is so good now, totally...

11) The masterpiece

Author

Rivers, Francine

Series

Recorded Books inspirational
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want--money, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Roman's past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace doesn't know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious...

12) The brethren

Author

Lewis, Beverly

Series

Annie's people volume 3
Recorded Books inspirational
Thorndike Press large print Christian fiction

Language

English

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Annie Zook, the daughter of an Amish preacher, finds herself caught between her world and the outside world while living with her shunned friend Esther and longing for her forbidden art and her relationship with Ben Martin.

13) The goldfinch

Author

Tartt, Donna

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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"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...

14) Stars of fortune

Author

Roberts, Nora

Series

Guardians trilogy (Nora Roberts) volume 1
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Thorndike Press large print core

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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"Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by dreams and nightmares that she turns into extraordinary paintings. Her visions lead her to the Greek island of Corfu, where five others have been lured to seek the fire star. Sasha recognizes them, because she has drawn them: a loner. All on a quest. All with secrets. Sasha is the one who holds them together -- the seer. And in the magician, Bran Killian, she sees a man of immense power and compassion....