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1) The Scarlet Letter

Author

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14

Lexile measure

1420L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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Hester Prynne is the adulteress, forced by the Puritan community to wear a scarlet letter A on the breast of her gown. Arthur Dimmesdale, the minister and the secret father of her child, Pearl, struggles with the agony of conscience and his own weakness. Roger Chillingworth, Hester's husband, revenges himself on Dimmesdale by calculating assaults on the frail mental state of the conscience-stricken cleric. The result is an American tragedy of stark...

2) Wuthering heights

Author

Brontë, Emily

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23

Lexile measure

880L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print, Playaway

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"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...

3) Dracula

Author

Stoker, Bram

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25

Lexile measure

GN 430L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, CD + Book, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print, Manuscript, Playaway

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"A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation, language, and culture to become one of the most popular novels ever written. It is a quintessential tale of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying characters ever born in literature: Count Dracula, a tragic, night-dwelling specter who feeds upon the blood of the living, and whose diabolical passions prey upon the innocent, the helpless, and the beautiful. But...

4) The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Author

Reid, Taylor Jenkins

Language

English

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"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?"--Amazon.com.

5) All your perfects: a novel

Author

Hoover, Colleen

Series

Thorndike Press large print women's fiction

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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Quinn meets her future husband, Graham, in front of her soon-to-be-ex-fiance's apartment, where Graham is about to confront him for having an affair with his girlfriend. A few years later, they are happily married but struggling to conceive. The “then and now” format-with alternating chapters moving back and forth in time-allows a hopeful romance to blossom within a dark but relatable dilemma. Back then, Quinn's bad breakup leads her to the love...

6) Their eyes were watching God: a novel

Author

Hurston, Zora Neale

Series

SparkNotes

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10

Lexile measure

890L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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Story of the fiercely independent Janie Crawford and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose.

7) Romeo and Juliet

Author

Shakespeare, William

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

AD 570L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio, Audiobook CD, Book + CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway, Playaway Bookpack

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Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare's plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history. It concerns the fate of two very young lovers who would do anything to be together. The Montagues and the Capulets of Verona, Italy, are in the midst of a long-standing feud when Romeo Montague drops in on a masquerade party at the Capulets'. While there he meets and woos the daughter of the house, Juliet. She likewise...

8) House rules : a novel

Author

Picoult, Jodi

Series

WSP readers club

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27

Lexile measure

880L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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"Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, though he is brilliant in many ways. But he has a special focus on one subject - forensic analysis. A police scanner in his room clues him in to crime scenes, and he's always showing up and telling the cops what to do. And he's usually right. But when Jacob's small hometown is rocked by a terrible murder, law enforcement comes...

9) Magic hour: a novel

Author

Hannah, Kristin

Series

Brilliance Audio on compact disc

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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Dr. Julia Cates child psychiatrists whose career was ruined and confidence shattered is called back to her hometown by her sister Ellie, a police chief, when a six year old girl emerges from the heart of the Olympic National Forest. The child is locked in a world of unimaginable fear and isolation. The media descend on Julia and once again her competence is challenged, but nothing is more important to her than saving the child.

10) Local woman missing

Author

Kubica, Mary

Series

Thorndike Press large print core

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

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"Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no...