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141) The Metamorphosis
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
The Metamorphosis is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often, cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a travelling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect.
"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous...
142) Jo's Boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfiled school. Sequel to "Little Men."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Further Chronicles of Avonlea" is a collection of short stories by L. M. Montgomery that serves as a sequel to" Chronicles of Avonlea", and a companion book to the Anne of Green Gables series. The stories all relate to the fictional sea-sprayed Canadian village of Avonlea, and while Anne Shirley appears in a few, mostly concern other characters from the series, including Diana Barry, and members of the Meredith and Blair families. Published in 1920,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, a heartfelt coming-of-age story that Karen Joy Fowler calls "a timeless classic book you will read and reread." Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda,...
146) The Japanese lover
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest...
Author
Language
English
Description
National Book Award Finalist?Fiction In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas,...
148) Kidnapped
Author
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped was published in 1886 amid one of the most productive periods of Robert Louis Stevenson's career. Although it was immediately met with popular success and critical acclaim, the novel was derided for decades as a story for children before being recognized as a major work of English literature.
Set in the aftermath of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, and full of a rich blend of English and Scots, Kidnapped is a powerful work with strong Scottish...
150) Mrs. Dalloway
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway, occupied with the last-minute details of party preparation, finds her thoughts on a very different route through the past.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Starving herself to fend off adulthood in a radical post-apocalypse community where a few chosen men scavenge for detritus and women are little more than breeders, a teen leader investigates a shocking mystery before risking her life to organize a girl uprising.
152) Fire in the sky
Author
Series
Seekers volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Despite their misgivings about the many dangers that lie ahead, the bears venture out onto the Everlasting Ice and learn of their final destination with the help of a mystical bear spirit.
153) Southernmost
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When an evangelical preacher in Tennessee offers shelter to two gay men after a catastrophic flood, he's met with resistance by his wife and congregation, and eventually loses custody of his son. He decides to kidnap his son and flee to Key West, where he suspects his estranged gay brother is living"--
154) 1984: a novel
Author
Series
A Signet Classic volume CW 942
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
155) Fireside
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs
Visiting Willow Lake is a life-changing experience - tune in for an irresistible tale of new dreams and finding love where you least expect it.
Baseball hopeful Bo Crutcher is about to get his shot at the majors. That is, until life throws him a curveball. When AJ, the son he's never met, lands on his doorstep, Bo's life becomes forever changed. He quickly learns that he'll need all the help...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large Print edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
513 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to come to terms with the worshipped older brother who disappeared seven years earlier, fifteen-year-old Rocky is seduced by a wealthy older girl in the wake of a mysterious double murder that forces the town to confront past misdeeds.
157) The summer hideaway
Author
Series
Lakeshore Chronicles volume 7
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Claire Turner is a nurse with a terrible secret in her past. George Bellamy is a sick old man trying to make up for past mistakes. George's grandson Ross is a man back from a war and wanting a future. When George's illness draws Claire and Ross together, will they dare to risk everything for love?
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An anonymous letter from a Very Disappointed Reader sends a novelist back to the lake where she spent her childhood summers in order to prove that what she wrote happened the way she'd remembered. But the truth turns out to be far more complicated, showing that sometimes the story we think we're telling is another story altogether"--
159) Over my dead body
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In London, the Metropolitan Police have set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit - a cold case squad - to catch the criminals nobody else can. Four victims. Four cases. All killers poised to strike again. In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner, convicted of forgery and theft, was pronounced dead two months ago. So why is his unscrupulous lawyer still representing a dead client? And who is the mysterious man his widow is planning to marry? On...
160) Moonlight mile
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro revisit the case that troubled them the most when the missing girl they found twelve years earlier--only to see her returned to a neglectful mother and a broken home--goes missing again.