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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her english professor, Allan Grant, she has no memory of the crime. But at the scene of the homicide, her fingerprints are everywhere -- on the door, on the curtain, and on the knife used to stab him to death. Shocked and bewildered, Laurie is arraigned on a murder charge.
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Kepesh novels volume 3
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English
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A prominent TV culture critic and lecturer, sixty-plus David Kepesh finds his world thrown into erotic turmoil by Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old beauty who ignites in him sexual possessiveness, unreasoning jealousy, and obsessive passion.
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In Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. has organized a bus boycott. In Tuscaloosa, outrage surrounds the entrance of the state university's first black student. But at little Randolph University life remains dreamily the same. At Kapppa House, the sorority sisters talk of who has pinned whom. Even among this privileged group, pretty, popular Maggie Deloach is one of the elite...until she commits a single act of defiance and courage that forever...
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"Daffodil Franklin has plans for a quiet summer before her freshman year at college, and luckily, she's found the job that can give her just that: housesitting a mansion for a wealthy couple. But as the summer progresses and shadows lengthen, Daffodil comes to realize the house is more than it appears. The spacious home seems to close in on her, and as she takes the long road into town, she feels eyes on her the entire way, and something tugging her...
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Jessica Darling novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
Things are looking up for Jessica Darling. She has finally left her New Jersey hometown/hellhole for Columbia University in New York City; she's more into her boyfriend, Marcus Flutie, than ever (so what if he's at a Buddhist college in California?); and she's making new friends who just might qualify as stand-ins for her beloved best friend, Hope.
9) Oral history
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English
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When Jennifer returns to her childhood home of Hoot Owl Holler with a tape recorder, tales of murder and suicide, incest and blood ties, bring to life a vibrant story of a doomed family that still refuses to give up.
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When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding her bicycle through Vermont’s back roads, her life is forever changed. Formerly outgoing, Laurel withdraws into her photography and begins to work at a homeless shelter. There she meets Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of photographs that he won’t let anyone see. When Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel discovers that he was telling the truth: before he was...
12) The bell jar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1050L
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English
Description
Chronicles one young woman's emotional breakdown as she journeys from the glamorous world of Manhattan publishing to the isolation of the asylum.
The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful -- but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia...
13) Circle of grace
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English
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All her adult life, Grace Benedict has been living a lie. Now that deception is about to catch up with her.
15) Ever after
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old Emily meets Justin, a young Army reservist, and their deep love built on the foundation of faith blossoms into plans for marriage, while Emily's parents must learn to set aside their opposing views on the war in Iraq.
16) Delta Belles
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English
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"The year is 1965 and the Spring Fling Talent Show is in the works at the Mississippi College for Women, a proper Southern institution. As a joke, Delta Ballou puts the names of her three best friends on the list of performers. Rising to the challenge, they agree to sing and even convince Delta to join them. Rae Dawn DuChamp plays the piano and weaves harmonies in a smoky contralto. Lacy Cantrell masters the basic guitar chords, and her twin sister,...
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Soon to be a major motion picture directed by George C. Wolfe, produced by Denise Di Novi and starring Hilary Swank, Josh Duhamel and Emmy Rossum.
Bec is adrift. It's the summer before her junior year in college. She's sleeping with a married professor, losing interest in her classes, and equivocating about her career. She takes a job caring for Kate, a thirty-six-year-old woman who has been immobilized by ALS.
As it turns out, before the disease...
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English
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"American Ella Durran has had the same plan for her life since she was thirteen: Study at Oxford. At 24, she's finally made it to England on a Rhodes Scholarship when she's offered an unbelievable position in a rising political star's presidential campaign. With the promise that she'll work remotely and return to DC at the end of her Oxford year, she's free to enjoy her Once in a Lifetime Experience. That is, until a smart-mouthed local who is too...
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English
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Elle Wheaton's priorities: friends, career, and kick-ass shoes. Then there's the muscular wall of stubbornness that's security expert Archer Hunt-who comes before everything else. No point in telling Mr. “Feels-Free Zone” that, though. Elle will just see other men until she gets over Archer... which should only take a lifetime... Archer's wanted the best for Elle ever since he sacrificed his law-enforcement career to save her. Their chemistry...
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Tales of London volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Catherine Rayborn is thrilled with her first taste of independence when she begins Girton College in Cambridge in 1880. Amid all the excitement, however, comes the painful realization of the vast difference between true love and shallow infatuation.
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