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Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Points: 23
Lexile measure:
870L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
Description:
Virginia Woolf said of Emily Brontë that her writing could : "make the wind blow and the thunder roar," and so it does in Wuthering Heights. Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and the windswept moors that are the setting of their mythic love are as immediately stirring to the reader of today as they have been for every generation of readers since the novel was first published in 1847. With an introduction by Katherine Frank.
Author:
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Points: 25
Lexile measure:
680L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
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NoveList Series:
Homestead series volume 1.
Series:
Homestead volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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NoveList Series:
Seasons of the tallgrass volume 2.
Series:
Seasons of the tallgrass volume 2
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Description:
"When opposites attract, sparks fly—like an electrical malfunction. That's what happens when former rodeo queen, Natalie Adams meets the new pastor in Diamond Falls. Upon the death of her father, Natalie returns to the Flint Hills to raise her two half-siblings and run the family ranch, giving up her dreams for the future. She soon realizes her time in college and as Miss Rodeo Kansas is not enough to break the bonds that held her as a girl....
9. Modern Life
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
French
Description:
Photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon is renowned for his documentation of the French countryside. In Modern Life he casts an affectionate and irreverent eye on a small community of farmers as they are confronted by the problems and challenges the contemporary world brings. Treated with equal suspicion, strangers and women are gradually accepted into the fabric of the farming life so as to sustain a way of life that celebrates the traditions...
10. Galore: a novel
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the town scrambling for answers as its most prominent citizens weigh in on whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon.--From book jacket.
11. Baby-O
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Pub. Date:
[1992]
Edition:
1st ed
Language:
English
Description:
Three generations of a West Indian family gather together on a jitney that takes them and their wares to the local market.
Author:
Pub. Date:
[2010]
Edition:
Unabridged
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Author of the award-winning novel Finn, Jon Clinch has drawn favorable comparisons to such luminaries as William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. With Kings of the Earth, he weaves the compelling tale of a troubled family haunted by dark secrets. On their upstate New York farm, the three aging Proctor brothers-Vernon, Audie, and Creed-eke out a living. When Vernon dies in his sleep, evidence of asphyxiation quickly turns suspicion upon Audie and Creed....
13. The edge of town
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NoveList Series:
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 1.
Series:
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 1
Pub. Date:
2001
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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14. Ride: Season 1
Pub. Date:
[2023]
Language:
English
Description:
Ride is a multigenerational family ensemble following the lives of the McMurrays, part of a rodeo dynasty going back a generation, as they struggle to keep their beloved ranch afloat. After a tragic loss, each character embarks on an empowering journey of transformation and self-discovery while also uncovering a twisted web of secrets, threatening to tear the family and their small Colorado town apart at the seams.
Pub. Date:
[2016]
Language:
English
Description:
Deep in the Alaskan wilderness is a family who, for the last thirty years, has lived in the wild. For the Browns, residing in a one-room cabin and sharing their front yard with some of the world's most dangerous animals is just part of life. Includes all fourteen episodes from one of Discovery's highest-rated shows.
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Description:
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father (Viggo Mortensen) dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he's taught them. Nominated for Best...
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Pub. Date:
2011
Edition:
1a. ed. en Impedimenta
Language:
Spanish
Description:
When Flora Poste returns to Cold Comfort Farm, she is shocked to discover how much the farm has changed, and, in addition to all of the male Starkadder family members having gone, the farm is hosting a dreadful conference for the pretentious International Thinkers Group. Presented in Spanish.
20. English Creek
Author:
NoveList Series:
Montana trilogy (Ivan Doig) volume 1.
Series:
Montana trilogy (Ivan Doig) volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Description:
The portrait of a time and a place -Montana in the 1930's -- is depicted through the McCaskill family's personal struggles.
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