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1. How beautiful we were: a novel

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Author:
Mbue, Imbolo
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the...

2. Here one moment: a novel

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Author:
Moriarty, Liane
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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"A woman stands up on a plane, and predicts when everyone will die. Everyone laughs it off until it starts to come true"--

3. Where the crawdads sing

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Author:
Owens, Delia
Series:
Reese's book club
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Points: 16
Lexile measure:
880L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...

4. The princess bride

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MGM DVD
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Blu-ray, DVD
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Heartbroken over the death of her beloved Westley, beautiful Buttercup finally succumbs to the advances of the wicked Prince Humperdinck. Yet, when she's suddenly kidnapped by a motley band of deviants, what gallant hero comes to the rescue? None other than Westley-- alive, well and as wonderful as ever. But before these two can live happily ever after, they must first overcome formidable odds. Will these star-crossed lovers ever fulfill their destiny?...

5. Black Beauty

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Author:
Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878
Series:
Everyman's library children's classics
Illustrated children's library
Dorling Kindersley classics
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IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Points: 11
Lexile measure:
860L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytelling ability makes it very easy for the reader to accept the premise that...

6. The great Gatsby

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Author:
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
Series:
100 greatest books of all time
Audio editions
Scribner classics
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Points: 8
Lexile measure:
1010L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is widely hailed as one of the most important American novels of the twentieth-century. Fitzgerald's third novel and his most significant work, it is the tale of the reclusive millionaire Jay Gatsby and his tragic obsession with the lovely and elusive Daisy Buchanan. The novel brilliantly captures the Roaring Twenties, often called the Jazz Age, one of America's most transformative...

7. Educated: a memoir

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Author:
Westover, Tara
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Points: 19
Lexile measure:
870L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....

8. Little women

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
NoveList Series:
Little Women series
Series:
Little Women
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Points: 33
Lexile measure:
1300L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

9. Great expectations

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Series:
Project Gutenberg volume 1400
First Avenue classics
Riverside literature volume no. 9
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Points: 3
Lexile measure:
1150L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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"Great Expectations" is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.

10. Pride and prejudice

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Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Series:
Modern Library college editions volume T87
Universal library
Scholastic classics
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Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Points: 27
Lexile measure:
1090L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Of all Jane Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of the Bennet family and of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove 'rather too light and bright, and sparkling', delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who...

11. The picture of Dorian Gray and other stories

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Author:
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Series:
World's classics
First Avenue Classics
Vintage classics
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IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Points: 14
Lexile measure:
920L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations,...

12. We were liars

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Author:
Lockhart, E.
NoveList Series:
We were liars volume 1.
Series:
We were liars volume 1
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Points: 7
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 600L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during "summer 15," marking their fifteenth year on Beechwood-- the summer that Cady and Gat fall in love. Cady became involved in a mysterious accident, in which she sustained a blow to the head, and now suffers from debilitating migraines and memory loss. When she returns to Beechwood during summer 17...

13. The Iliad

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Author:
Homer
Series:
Penguin classics deluxe edition
Loeb classical library volume 170, 171
100 greatest books of all time
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Lexile measure:
1330L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Homer's Iliad describes the final year of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between an alliance of Greek cities and the city of Troy in Anatolia. The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability"...

14. Never let me go

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Author:
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Points: 15
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.8 stars
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"From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love. As a child, Kathy--now thirty-one years old--lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for...

15. The catcher in the rye

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Author:
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010
Series:
Popular reading collection
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Points: 11
Lexile measure:
790L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City. "The hero-narrator of 'The Catcher in the Rye' is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at...

16. Anne of Green Gables

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Author:
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942
NoveList Series:
Anne of Green Gables volume 1.
Series:
Anne of Green Gables volume 1
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Points: 17
Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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"Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from...

17. Wuthering Heights

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Author:
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
Series:
First Avenue Classics
100 greatest books of all time
Rainbow classics
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IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Points: 23
Lexile measure:
870L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
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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.

18. Between the world and me

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Author:
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Series:
Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Points: 7
Lexile measure:
1090L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men--bodies exploited through slavery and segregation,...

19. The secret garden

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Author:
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
Series:
Perma-Bound classics
First Avenue classics
Scholastic classics
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IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Points: 13
Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. What secrets lie behind the doors at Misselthwaite manor? Recently arrived at her uncle's estate, orphaned Mary Lennox is spoiled, sickly, and certain she won't enjoy living there. Then she discovers the arched doorway into an overgrown garden, shut up since the death of her aunt ten years earlier. Mary soon...

20. The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

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Author:
Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print nonfiction
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Points: 18
Lexile measure:
1140L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...

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