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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
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This depicts the men of Alpha Company. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Fos returns to Tennessee from the trenches of war-torn France, falling in love with the beautiful Opal and running a photography studio with his former Army buddy, Flash, who soon gets them all into trouble when his love for trouble crosses paths with the Ku Klux Klan.
4) Closing time
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Language
English
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Description
The characters of Catch-22 are now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, in an uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-three-year-old Luke "Pax" Paxton has been out of the US military for almost a decade, adrift in an America he no longer understands, haunted by a mistake made in an unforgiving moment of combat. When a longtime army friend suggests they travel to Ukraine to help fight against the Russian invasion, Pax agrees, and together they cross an ocean to Lviv, a city of refugees, relief workers, diplomats, reporters, spies, and militia leaders. But Pax...
6) Noel Street
Author
Series
Noel collection volume 3
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1975. Elle Sheen--a single mother who is supporting herself and her six-year-old, African-American son, Dylan, as a waitress at the Noel Street Diner--isn't sure what to make of William Smith when his appearance creates a stir in the small town of Mistletoe, Utah. As their lives unexpectedly entwine, Elle learns that William, a recently returned Vietnam POW, is not only fighting demons from his past, but may also have the answer to her...
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