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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. His quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment at college leads to a series of relationships, until he is cast out of paradise into the frightening labyrinth of the real world.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 25
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English
Description
After coming to America, building a business and a home for his family, the butcher starts a singing club, consisting of the town locals. The story spans World War I through World War II and beyond 1954, full of memorable characters.
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Sixty-eight-year-old David has a brain tumor that he attributes to Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating the name of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipline, and decides to return something precious he long ago stole from that man.
4) The car
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.
5) Mudbound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat."--from NoveList.
6) Maisie Dobbs
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Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons. In 1929, following an apprenticeship with Blanche, Maisie hangs out her shingle: "M. Dobbs, trade and personal investigations." She soon becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding The Retreat, a reclusive community of...
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"Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with a popular boy named Jonathan. Over the years, Nelson, irrevocably scarred from the Vietnam War, becomes Scoutmaster of Camp Chippewa, while Jonathan marries, divorces, and turns his father's business into a highly profitable...
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It's 1920. Three men are dead, all garroted, all war veterans. When a piece of evidence, kept from the public, suggests a much stronger link between the victims and the unknown, it's up to World War I battered survivor, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge to find the killer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a 'normal' life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"--
For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Back in the town where he grew up, Hayley can attend school and maybe have a normal life, put...
10) Bitterroot
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Set in the rugged Bitterroot valley of Montana -- home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life and xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia -- Bitterroot features Blly Bob Holland, former Texas Ranger and now a Texas-based lawyer, who has come to Big Sky country at the request of an old friend in trouble."--from NoveList.
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Lady Adriana Sutton has long adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been promised by an agreement of courtship and betrothal since childhood. As a young girl, she was wounded by Colton's stubborn refusal to comply with his father's wishes and by his angry departure for a life of adventure and danger in the British army. No longer the plain tomboy Colton had spurned, Lady Adriana has blossomed into a much desired beauty. Yet the only man she desires...
13) Two roads
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
Author
Series
Hope's Crossing volume 6
Language
English
Description
When socialite Genevieve Beaumont faces being disinherited by her father if she does not marry her philandering fianc{acute}e, it becomes more and more difficult to resist her attraction to wounded Afghanistan war veteran Dylan Caine.
15) Lost soldiers
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English
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Once in a great while there comes a novel of such emotional impact and acute insight that it forever changes the way a reader sees a nation or an era. Writing with an unerring sense of suspense and of history experienced firsthand, James Webb takes us on a myth-shattering cultural odyssey deep into the heart of contemporary Vietnam, with a riveting thriller that tells a love story — love for those who perished, for family and friends, and between...
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English
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Howard Kapostash has not spoken in thirty years. The small repertory of gestures and simple sounds that he uses to communicate leads most people to assume he is disturbed, and no one understands that Howard is still the same man he was before a wartime injury. But when he agrees to help an old girlfriend by opening his home to her nine-year-old son, the presence of this nervous, resourceful boy in his life transforms Howard utterly. He is afforded...
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"A visionary and deeply moving novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam's life, from his childhood in the American South and his time in the French trenches during World War I to a newspaper career in Chicago in the Roaring Twenties and the decades that follow, moments...
18) Moonlight road
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English
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With her beloved younger siblings settled and happy, Erin Foley has empty nest syndrome. At age 35. So she's hitting the pause button on her life and holing up in a secluded cabin near Virgin River. Erin is planning on getting to know herself...not the shaggy-haired mountain man that she meets. She doesn't realized the stranger is a doctor, recharging for the summer after leaving the Navy. But maybe it's something in the water--unlikely romances seem...
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Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
In 1931 London, when a controversial artist falls to his death before the opening of an exhibition of his work at a Mayfair gallery and police refuse to investigate, his journalist sister enlists the aid of psychologist Maisie Dobbs to uncover the truth about the case.
20) Home
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English
Description
Written by the author of "Beloved", this novel reveals an apparently defeated man finding his manhood - and, finally, his home.
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