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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A young Muslim American is living the American dream with an education at an Ivy League college, high-paying job, and a romance with a member of the elite New York social circles, until the events of September 11th turns his life upside down and force him to confront his personal allegiances.
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English
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On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever.
Thirty five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it.
THE TURNAROUND takes us on a journey from the rock-and-soul streets of the '70s to the changing neighborhoods of...
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Broken Shore volume 01
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English
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Shaken by a scrape with death, big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted away from the Homicide Squad to a quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and not a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. When a prominent local is attacked and left for dead in his own home, Cashin is thrust into a murder investigation. The evidence points...
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"One of the beautiful Le sisters is dead. Hartford, Connecticut's small Vietnamese community is stunned. Mary Le Vu, wife of a poor grocery-store owner, is gunned down in a drive-by. Her twin sister insists dutiful Mary "wouldn't be caught dead" in that drug-infested zone. The police rule it an unlucky accident. Skeptics hire private eye Rick Van Lam to get to the truth. Amerasian Rick-his father an unknown US soldier-is one of the Bui Doi, children...
5) Grass roots
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English
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After years as chief of staff for a venerable Georgia senator, Will Lee decides to run for the seat himself when a stroke cripples his mentor. Standing in his way are an ambitious governor in the Democratic primary and, possibly, a far-right fundamentalist in the general election. In addition, Will must interrupt his campaign to serve as the defense lawyer in a controversial race-murder trial, while elsewhere, a dedicated ex-cop pursues the head of...
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English
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The marriage of Lemaster Carlyle, president of a small, prestigious New England university, and his wife Julia, dean of the university's divinity school, is put to the test when they discover the murdered body of economics professor Kellen Zant, Julia's former lover, and she refuses to accept the ruling that he was a victim of a random robbery.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Set during the hours leading up to the scheduled execution of a black teen for the alleged rape of a white woman in 1943 Louisiana, a meticulous portrait of race, racism and injustice in the Jim Crow era South traces the experiences of the convicted boy; his father, the District Attorney; the convict truck driver delivering the executioner's chair and a couple grappling with grief and secrets.
11) No crystal stair
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Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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This saga of how segregation and the Civil Rights movement shaped the lives of African Americans is told through the eyes of a woman who is born into the black privileged class. She leaves her sheltered life to marry a member of the first black unit in the Army Air Corps.
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