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Edith Wharton's A Son at the Front (1923) is a stirring rumination of family, art, and the shortcomings of possession. The story, which is set on the eve of the First World War reflects the author's own experience living in France when the "Great War" broke out. The delineation of Wartime Paris is one of great power and evocation, yet it is the immensely personal father-son relationship that is at the heart of this tragic novel.
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2) Perfect fit
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Serendipity's finest volume 1
Wheeler large print hardcover
Serendipity novel volume 01
Serendipity finest volume 01
Wheeler large print hardcover
Serendipity novel volume 01
Serendipity finest volume 01
Language
English
Description
When Michael Marsden returns to Serendipity to take over his adopted father's job as police chief, he finds his desire to move on waning after he reconnects with Cara Hartley, a policewoman with whom he had a one night stand.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
900L
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English
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Eleven-year-old asthmatic Reuben Land chronicles the Land family's odyssey in search of Reuben's older brother, Davy, who has escaped from jail before he can stand trial for the killing of two marauders who came to their Minnesota farm to harm the family.
4) Sons
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1660L
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English
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The second volume of a trilogy, which began with The good earth, tells the story of Wang Lung's three sons who after the death of their father are in great haste to divide the many fields he had spent his lifetime accumulating.
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English
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ABaron Elmstone's self-imposed isolation is shattered when be becomes guardian to two orphaned children. Forced to take a wife to provide them with a mother, their carer, Minerva Grant, seems the perfect choice for a convenient Yet her sunny personality, so opposite to his own reclusive disposition, and the emotions she's awakening are proving most inconvenient!
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"The epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the Vietnam War and pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the United States government. From the Cambodian jungle, to a flophouse in Queens, to a commune in New Mexico, Vollie's path traces a secret history of life on the margins of America, culminating with an inevitable and terrible reckoning. With intense feeling, uncommon erudition, and bracing style, Scibona offers at once...
7) Disguise
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English
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Hugo Hamilton, the internationally acclaimed author of 'The Speckled People' and 'Sailor in the Wardrobe', turns his hand back to fiction with a compelling drama tracing Berlin's central historical importance throughout the twentieth century.
1945. At the end of the second world war in Berlin, a young mother loses her two-year-old boy in the bombings. She flees to the south, where her father finds a young foundling of the same age among the refugee...
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