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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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950L
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English
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With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape...
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"In a delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held this relic dear. Too dear. The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of '69 had dedicated its yearbook, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion,...
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Cannie Shapiro volume 02
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English
Description
No longer famous, journalist Cannie Shapiro writes science fiction under a pen name while raising her teenage daughter, and considers her husband Peter's request to have Cannie's flamboyant sister provide surrogate services so that they can have a second child.
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"It's the early 1960s and Natalie Marx is stunned when her mother inquires about vacation accommodations in Vermont and receives a response that says, 'The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort ... Our guests who feel most comfortable here ... are Gentiles.' ... When Natalie finagles an invitation to join a friend on vacation there, she sets herself upon a path that will inextricably link her adult life to this particular family and their once-restricted...
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"Meiselman has had enough. After a lifetime spent playing by the rules, this lonely thirty-six-year-old man -- 'number two' at the New Niles Public Library in suburban Chicago, in charge of events and programs, and in no control whatsoever over his fantasies about his domineering boss -- is looking to come out on top at last. And no one -- not his newly observant physical therapist wife, not the Holocaust survivor neighbor who regularly disturbs his...
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Grove Press continues the reissue of Bruce Jay Friedman's critically acclaimed fiction with two classic novels by the comedic genius. Friedman's first novel, Stern, tells the story of a young Jewish man who relocates his family from the city to the suburbs, where they are besieged by voracious caterpillars and a bigotry that ranges from the genteel snub to outright confrontation.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Upset when her boyfriend dumps her on Christmas, Jewish publicist Aimee Albert seeks companionship with a nice Jewish man and finds herself falling for Josh Hirsch, who mistakes her for a shiksa and who has a different attitude toward Judaism than she does.
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