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1) Herland
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"Delightfully humorous account of a feminist utopia in which three male explorers stumble upon an all-female society. Early 20th-century writer's once-unconventional views on male-female behavior, motherhood, individuality, other topics." --
2) Purity
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"A huge-canvased novel about identity, the internet, sexual politics, and love from the author of Freedom and The Corrections"--
"Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose...
3) Mother Land
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"To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is the selfish, petty tyrant of Mother Land. She excels at playing her offspring against each other. Her favorite, Angela, died in childbirth; only Angela really understands her, she tells the others. The others include the officious lawyer, Fred; the uproarious professor, Floyd; a pair of inseparable sisters whose devotion...
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In Terms of Endearment, Larry McMurtry created some of his most memorable characters. He now reintroduces us to Aurora Greenway along with her family, friends and lovers, presenting a funny and bittersweet story about growing up and growing old. Since her daughter Emma's death, Aurora has tried her best raising her three grandchildren -- but Tommy is in prison; Teddy has just been released from a mental hospital; and Melanie is pregnant and doesn't...
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"In the seven connected sections of this...novel, different facets of the human comedy are maginified and reduced, reordered and undelrined. We meet seemingly disparate characters: a lonely waitress in exile in a foreign country trying to retrive her left-behind diaries fromher vengeful and senile mother-in-law...a student who gives up the promise of consummation with a long-pursued mistress for an evenign with a group of poets discussing love...a...
6) Insane city
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Astonished by his imminent marriage to a woman he believed out of his league, Seth flies to their destination wedding in Florida only to be swept up in a maelstrom of violence involving rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, and a desperate python.
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Serial killer Dexter Morgan has always lived by a single golden rule: kill only people who deserve it. But the Miami blood-spatter analyst has just become the daddy of an eight-pound curiosity named Lily Anne - and Dex's dark urges seem to have left him. Has he become a normal overprotective father? But then an eighteen-year-old girl is abducted by a bizarre group of vampires or possibly cannibals. Suddenly, Dexter is back in business. (Bestseller)....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
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The early death of a small town councilman reveals deep-rooted conflicts in the seemingly idyllic community of Pagford, which rapidly deteriorates in the face of cultural disputes, generation clashes, and a volatile election.
9) Severance
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2018.
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"Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she's had her fill of uncertainty. She's content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever...
10) Secondhand souls
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"Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone, or something, is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He's trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall "meat puppet" waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival.
12) Shadows
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A.A. Knopf
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1993.
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English
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"In a "neofantastical" novel that both follows and leads the grand tradition of Latin American literature, the highly acclaimed best-selling Argentine author Osvaldo Soriano dazzles us, through humor and illusion, with the hilarity of modern angst and the inventiveness of the disenfranchised." "A brilliant but washed-up computer programmer walks off into the endless pampa - the vast expanse of the provincial Argentine countryside - after the train...
14) Catch-22
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. A microcosm of the 20th-century world as it might look to someone dangerously sane. The novel lives and moves and grows with astonishing power and vitality -- a masterpiece of our time.
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Theatre Communications Group
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2015.
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English
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"Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Written with humor, tenderness, grit and wonderment, Between Riverside and Crazy is an extraordinary new play: a dark comedy about a man trying to maintain control as the world unravels around him"--
16) Nobody's fool
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story.
"Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington Post
Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly...
"Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington Post
Divorced from his own wife and carrying on halfheartedly...
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Chronicle Books
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2006.
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English
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Two childhood friends from Scotland and two illegitimate half-brothers from the American South suffer and enjoy all manner of bizarre experiences which, as it turns out, are somehow interconnected and, surprisingly enough, meaningful. An eclectic cast of characters includes Carl Jung, Fatty Arbuckle, Virgil, Marat, Socrates, and Tony Randall.
Love, greed, hope, revenge, organized religion, and Hollywood are alternately tickled and throttled as Craig...
18) Tourist season
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Take a trip to exotic South Florida with this dark, funny book that established Carl Hiaasen as one of the top mystery writers in the game.
The first sign of trouble is a Shriner's fez washed up on a Miami beach. The next is a suitcase containing the almost-legless body of the local chamber of commerce president found floating in a canal...
The locals are desperate to keep the murders under wraps and the tourist money flowing. But it...
The first sign of trouble is a Shriner's fez washed up on a Miami beach. The next is a suitcase containing the almost-legless body of the local chamber of commerce president found floating in a canal...
The locals are desperate to keep the murders under wraps and the tourist money flowing. But it...
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A family reunion of 99 brothers--the oldest 90, the youngest 20. The event gives rise to the usual conflicting memories, hurt feelings, rivalries and alliances, but with so many emotions at work, little wonder the reunion explodes. Part comedy, part serious study of family relations. By the author of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World.
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Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden. Whether it's a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.
Pietro "Bearclaw" Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness...
Pietro "Bearclaw" Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness...