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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
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1180L
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...
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Jade longs to begin a family with her husband Max. When she discovers that Max has an illegitimate son, her life is turned upside down. She flees to her Iowa childhood home, and questions everything she thought she knew about family, love, and motherhood. Does the future rest on the power of her past-- or in the goodness of God's tender mercies?
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Left alone during the Civil War when her new husband, Dru Talbot, rides off to join the Confederate army, Sara Collier grieves when he dies tragically on the battlefield. But as she struggles to rebuild her life as a widow, she is stunned to discover that Dru is not dead when he returns home a year after the end of the war.
4) Howard's End
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820L
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"E.M. Forster's most admired novel--the one that gave us his famous injunction, 'Only connect'--revolves around the troubled legacy of an English country house named Howards End. The old house holds significance of differing kinds for the characters whose lives are connected by it: the sweetly frail Ruth Wilcox, who longs to leave Howards End to someone who will love it as she does; her snobbish and materialistic husband and sons, who ignore her dying...
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"Maggie, Eliza, and Tricia Sweeney grew up as a happy threesome in the idyllic seaside town of Southport, Connecticut. But their mother's death from cancer fifteen years ago tarnished their golden-hued memories, and the sisters drifted apart. Their one touchstone is their father, Bill Sweeney, an internationally famous literary lion and college professor universally adored by critics, publishers, and book lovers. When Bill dies unexpectedly one June...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in wartorn Kabul, and the losses incurred over the course of thirty years test the limits of their strength and courage.
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Miss Julia series volume 1
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Shortly after the death of her husband, a wealthy Southern widow is visited by an impoverished young woman with a small boy. A mistress? A son? Julia Springer can't believe it, only to discover that the whole town has known for years. But she will rise to the occasion when the boy is kidnaped.
9) Oceans apart
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Connor Evans, an airline pilot, tries to decide whether or not to accept into his family his young son from a previous affair with a stewardess.
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"Dreaming of a bigger house for his wife and three kids, WWII veteran Tom leaves his job with an arts foundation to be a well-paid public relations executive at the United Broadcasting Corporation. But corporate ladder climbing and consumer rewards leave him miserable." Amazon.com
11) Crown Jewel
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When he inherits the estate of his estranged brother, Ricky Lam decides to develop the resort his brother had planned to build on an island off the coast of South Carolina, where Ricky finds new love with his former sister-in-law.
12) Firstborn
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Erika and Steven, committed Christians, feel hopeless when their marriage begins to fall apart after the daughter Erika secretly bore at the age of seventeen and gave up for adoption contacts her seeking a relationship.
13) Family of lies
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Gold digger Vera Lomax schemes against the daughter of one of her rich older husband's mistresses in order to ensure his fortune remains his.
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Grand tour novels volume 1
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As she travels with her new family from England to France, Cora faces the hardships as well as the privileges of the family name. But her journey of self-discovery is only just beginning.
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On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iverton discovers that he wasn't her biological father after all. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, and her fiancé has just revealed a life-changing secret to her. Alone and adrift, Clarissa travels to mystical Lapland, where she believes she'll meet her real father. There, at a hotel made of ice, Clarissa is confronted with the truth about her mother's history, and must...
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The book describes the early life of Clara Walpole, the daughter of a migrant farm worker; her life after she leaves her father; her romance with a rum-runner; and her marriage to a rich man, whom she convinces is the father of her illegitimate baby. The final part of the novel deals with the childhood and adolescence of Swan, the son.
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Tessa knows that her movie career will be ruined if the press finds out that her sister Maggie is really her daughter, so she does everything in her power to make sure no one knows, but when Maggie discovers the truth, Tessa realizes that their relationship is more important than her career, and she vows to reunite with her daughter, no matter what it costs her.
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870L
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The Sound and the Fury, first published in 1929, is perhaps William Faulkner’s greatest book. It was immediately praised for its innovative narrative technique, and comparisons were made with Joyce and Dostoyevsky, but it did not receive popular acclaim until the late forties, shortly before Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner’s...
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