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2) Train dreams
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This is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century -- an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime.
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2020.
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"1789. Pierre and Catherine Aubert, the Comte and Comtesse de Verais, have fled the palace of Versailles for their château, deep in the French Alps. But as revolution spreads through the country, even hidden away the Auberts will not be safe forever. Soon they must make a terrible decision in order to protect themselves, and their children, from harm... Present day. When Lu's mother dies leaving her heartbroken, the chance to move to a château in...
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2019.
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On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible study. He arrived with a pistol, 88 bullets, and hopes of starting a race war. Dylann Roof's massacre of nine innocents during their closing prayer horrified the nation. Two days later, some relatives of the dead stood at Roof's hearing and said, "I forgive you." That grace offered the country...
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A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to terms with his father's sudden death, and the attack on his harmless best friend Titch, Jacky is forced to face the bullies who still menace a city scarred by conflict. After he himself is attacked, he flees to London...
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1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to...
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2020
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From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events. A book in the tradition of James Baldwin's "A Report from Occupied Territory," Light for the World to See is a rap session on race. A lyrical response to the struggles of Black lives in our world...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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720L
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"In 1910 New York City, four years after her Irish immigrant father dies of tuberculosis, ten-year-old Essie's fear and anxiety continue to grow uncontrollably, so much that when her mother, a brave nurse, remarries and the family moves to North Brother Island, where Essie's new stepfather runs a quarantine hospital for the incurably sick, Essie imagines all manner of horrors, including the ghost of a little girl--which might not be imaginary after...
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"Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening "Proem" (prologue poem)--"I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa"--Hughes spoke directly, intimately, and powerfully of the experiences of African Americans at a time when their...
11) el's story
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Elroy Parker IV grows up on the Silver Oaks Plantation a protected southern gentleman. Forced by tradition to join the Marine Corps, El enlists and goes to Viet Nam. This story reveals El's experiences during the war and the dire effects upon his return to Silver Oaks. Family bias and intrigue, along with El's depression and PTSD, fill this story with profound realism.
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Most Americans think that the war on terror started as a reaction to the September 11 attacks on the United States. In a series of poems and essays, Lies of an Indispensable Nation reveals that the seeds of this tragedy were planted much earlier, during Jimmy Carter's presidency, and that by the end of the 20-year fiasco, on 1 September 2021, there had been eight U.S. presidents involved in the secrets, lies, and manipulations that led to millions...
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Le mot "âme" se dit en grec antique "psyché", ce qui signifie aussi "papillon", symbole par excellence de l'immortalité. Un vieux proverbe dit que lorsque les yeux de l'ignorant voient la mort de la chenille, l'esprit du sage contemple la naissance du papillon. Épictète, l'un des plus grands représentants du stoïcisme, réduit toutes les interrogations philosophiques à une seule et même source : la crainte de la mort. : « As-tu bien dans...
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One of the jets, KLM Flight 4805, was traveling more than 150 miles an hour and was within seconds of lifting off when it crashed into Pan Am Flight 1736 taxiing in its path. The loss of lives was staggering-583 dead. The crash happened after a lengthy series of major and minor human errors. In the intervening years, has aviation advanced to the point that such a disaster can't happen again? In this riveting account, written from the perspective of...
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Poetry dedicated to the victims of genocide and war. An Homer award-winning book. Sona Van's subject is the Armenian genocide, also known as the Great Catastrophe. Her family was driven into exile due to this horrific event. Her poems reflect a personal connection to this history as well as the universality of loss, persecution, and intolerance. Forward written by Award winning actress, Beata Pozniak
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Enrolled in school after her mother's death, Possum resolves to preserve her mother's homeschooling lessons by proving she already knows everything, an unsuccessful endeavor complicated by her teacher's attraction to Possum's father.
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Lament is essential to human thriving. It allows us to cope with significant loss, an inescapable feature of our mortal existence. Lament is the passionate outpouring of deep, sorrow and grief over such loss, which helps us avoid being completely, overcome by the strong emotions that come with it. Lament is cathartic and constructive. It is a necessary step in coming to terms with great loss and moving forward in life. Not to lament is not to live-or...
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What do you know about universal salvation? What is its history? Have mistranslations of the Bible created an eternal hell that does not really exist? What prominent persons in Christian history taught this doctrine and which ones worked to destroy it? Is the teaching of universal salvation truly a heresy, or has it been suppressed by church leaders interested in controlling their people by fear?
Patrick Seamus O'Hara needed answers to these questions....
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[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
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On August 11, 2011 Caroline Found, a 17-year-old all-state volleyball player, was tragically killed in a moped accident on her way to University of Iowa hospital to visit her terminally ill mother. Caroline's death and that of her mother twelve days later shocked her Iowa City community and devastated her family. Equally affected were her Iowa City West volleyball teammates and coach Kathy Bresnahan. "Coach Brez" chronicles the team's 2011 season...
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A heartbreaking but essential perspective on war and survival.-starred, Kirkus Reviews
In this deeply moving nonfiction picture book, award-winning author Caren Stelson brings Sachiko Yasui's story of surviving the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and her message of peace to a young audience.
Sachiko's family home was about...
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