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Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant. This, her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories, features characters navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of cultures and generations. In A Temporary Matter, published in The New Yorker,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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NYPD detective Jacob Kanon and Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson traverse Europe in hot pursuit of a serial killer, one who sends a postcard before each murder and was responsible for the slayings of Jacob's daughter and her boyfriend.
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Father Tim and Cynthia arrive in the west of Ireland, intent on researching his Kavanagh ancestry. The charm of their lakeside B&B is broken when Cynthia startles a burglar and sprains her already-injured ankle. Then a cherished and valuable painting is stolen from the lodge owners, and Cynthia's pain pales in comparison to the wound at the center of this bitterly estranged Irish family.
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English
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Stone Barrington is no stranger to schemes and deceptions of all stripes; as an attorney for the premier white-shoe law firm Woodman & Weld, he has seen more than his share. But when he travels to Europe under highly unusual circumstances, Stone finds himself at the center of a mystery that is, even by his standards, most peculiar. While investigating a high-profile murder, he uncovers a puzzling conspiracy involving the European elite and the deadly...
27) Winter garden
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English
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Reunited when their beloved father falls ill, sisters Meredith and Nina find themselves under the shadow of their disapproving mother, whose painful history is hidden behind her rendition of a Russian fairy tale told to the sisters in childhood.
28) The broker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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After being pardoned, a former Washington powerbroker is released from prison and smuggled out of the country, given a new identity, and hidden in a small town in Italy, but old enemies from the past are out to destroy him.
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Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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32 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Describes some of the typical activities of a nineteenth-century Sioux tribe living on the North American plains, including daily tasks such as gathering and hunting food, trading goods, and discussing politics.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
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475 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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This intricately woven tapestry of love and family, war and loss, risk and destiny follows star-crossed lovers Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who, after their first meeting in the Italian Alps, find their destinies inexplicably entwined as they build their lives in America.
32) Homegoing
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Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"A lifetime ago, every year Caroline Shipley looked forward to her wedding anniversary. But then a celebratory trip to Mexico for the occasion with her husband and friends ended in the unsolved kidnapping of her infant daughter, Samantha. Now, fifteen years after that horrific time, divorced and isolated, Caroline is forced to relive the kidnapping by reporters who call every year on the anniversary of Samantha's disappearance. However, this year...
34) Lilac Lane
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Chesapeake Shores volume Book 14
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345 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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When Keira moves to Chesapeake Shores, Maryland, to help her daughter, she finds herself butting heads with Bryan Laramie, the brusque and moody chef at her son-in-law's pub.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
38) Tiger Woods
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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p. cm.
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English
Description
Introduces the champion golfer and describes how he practices his sport and encourages others to play.
40) Angela's ashes
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies.