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1) Unless
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"Nothing short of astonishing." - New Yorker
"A thing of beauty-lucidly written, artfully ordered, riddled with riddles and undergirded with dark layers of philosophical meditations." - Los Angeles Times
The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, Unless, is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proving Shields's mastery of extraordinary fiction about ordinary life.
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"A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the doctors of his incredible fantastical voyage, adrift on the ocean, landing on unknown shores, flying on the back of a huge white bird. Identified...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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It's 1955 when thirteen-year-old Lyric moves with her father and her older sister, Summer, from a small Virginia town to the big industrial city of Flint, Michigan. Summer has always been a little odd, but shortly after the move, she starts talking to imaginary people and having frightening episod.
5) Black ice
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Deep beneath the Antarctic ice cap, scientist Lauren Burgess has discovered a secret that could change the face of human knowledge. Then a desperate mayday call comes in. Two explorers, one of them the legendary Julian Fitzgerald, are stranded out on the ice and a rescue is their only hope. Lauren puts the ground breaking scientific work on hold as she leads a dangerous rescue mission into the frozen void. But after returning to the base, the pressure...
6) Kit's law
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Fourteen-year-old Kit Pitman has always lead a sheltered life in a small town on the outer banks of Newfoundland, where her mentally-challenged mother and strict grandmother hide the truth about Kit's illegitimate birth, but when Kit's grandmother dies unexpectedly, she and her mother are thrust into the harsh realities of life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Leni is not surprised when her mom wakes her in the middle of the night and tells her to pack up her things. Nor is she surprised when they end up in a filthy motel. But when she makes a friend who wants to know more about her life, she realizes she wants a different life, one that's less messed up.
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"Ben wakes up in a hospital with a hole in his head he can't explain. What he can remember he'd rather forget. Like how he'd spent nights as a limo driver for the wealthy and debauched... how he and his wife, Maggie, drifted apart in the wake of an unspeakable tragedy... how his little brother, Cola, got in over his head with loan sharks circling. Maggie is alone. Again. With bills to pay and Ben in a psych ward, she must return to work. But who would...
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The lives of three people--Francine, a child who hears her mother's murder while hiding in her room; Harriet, an aging beauty who seeks out handymen to ease her boredom; and Teddy, a young man who had been ignored by his parents since birth--converge with harrowing results.
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