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1) Menagerie
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Menagerie (Rachel Vincent) volume 1
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English
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When Delilah Marlow visits a famous traveling carnival, Metzger's Menagerie, she discovers a fierce, sharp-clawed creature lurking just beneath her human veneer. Captured and put on exhibition, Delilah in her black swan burlesque costume "performs" in town after town. Despite the breathtaking beauty behind the seamy and grotesque reality of the carnival and despite the kindness of the cryptic handler Gallagher, she and her fellow menagerie of mermaids,...
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Dr. Kate Philo and her scientific exploration team make a breathtaking discovery in the Arctic: the body of a man buried deep in the ice. As a scientist in a groundbreaking project run by the egocentric and paranoid Erastus Carthage, Kate has brought small creatures "back to life." Never have the team's methods been attempted on a large life form. Heedless of the consequences, Erastus orders that the frozen man be brought back to the lab in Boston...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Hottentot Venus focuses on Sarah Blaartman, an African tribewoman who, because of her prominent sexual characteristics, was paraded as a freak before audiences in England and Paris. This mesmerizing novel reflects the racism and cruelty of turn-of-the-century Eurocentric culture, but it also reveals Sarah's remarkable strength of spirit.
4) Muted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A tale inspired by true events traces the experiences of a talented singer who wants to escape her all-white community before catching the attention of an R&B star who gives her access to fame and luxury in exchange for unscrupulous sacrifices.
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A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era. At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. Song of the Shank opens in 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that...
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English
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Iris Cooper has been singing ever since she can remember, hitting the high notes like no one else. When she is twelve, her father convinces the owner of a bar in Lake City, Texas, to let her perform, and she stuns the audience. In the ensuing years, never staying anywhere for long, father and daughter move from one dusty town to the next, her passion for music growing every time she takes the mike in another roadhouse. But it is not an easy life for...
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Series
Coventry saga volume 06
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Her father's deathbed confession changed everything for Aspen Kincaid. The mystery of her mother's disappearance was unsolvable, or so she'd believed. Her dad had lied to her all her life. After inheriting a house in New Hampshire-a house Aspen hadn't known her father owned-she travels thousands of miles, desperate to fulfill his dying wish. But some residents of Coventry don't want Jane Kincaid's daughter digging into things they think should remain...
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Series
Coventry saga volume 05
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Grace used to try to save people, but that was before she realized how powerless she is. Now, she avoids emotional ties, working from her secluded cabin, content with her aloneness. When eight-year-old Lily starts hanging around, Grace enjoys her company but carefully keeps her distance-until she discovers the girl is being exploited. Little though she wants to, she must get involved, even if it means risking her own safety to secure Lily's. Andrew...
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