Frank Muller
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Jazz Age and examined the American obsession with love, wealth, material objects, and class. Considered one of the great novels of the 20th century, Fitzgerald s famous work remains relevant for its observations on the pursuit of...
4) Moby Dick
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English
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A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.
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Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Presents a cowboy odyssey for modern times, and features the travels and toils of a 16 year old East Texan boy. The first volume of the author's Border trilogy.
6) The brethren
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, swindlers, and tax evaders, three former judges meet each day to write briefs, handle cases for other inmates, and dispense jailhouse justice. They also spend hours hatching schemes to make money. When one of their schemes goes awry, snaring an innocent on the outside, the Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Hailed by many as the greatest war novel of all time and publicly burned by the Nazis for being "degenerate," Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front, is an elegant statement on a generation of men destroyed by war. Caught up by a romantic sense of patriotism and encouraged to enlist by authority figures who would not risk their lives to do the same, Paul Bäumer and his classmates join the fighting in the trenches of the...
8) The partner
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English
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A young partner in a Biloxi law firm who staged his own death and stole a fortune from the firm's offshore account is found living in Brazil.
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Dark Tower volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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In the second installment of Stephen King's extraordinary Dark Tower series, Roland, the world's last gunslinger, awakes on a beach and is attacked by a vicious lobstrocity. Badly injured, Roland makes his way to a set of three doors acting as portals to different dimensions. As Roland travels between doorways, he brings back companions for his quest to find the Dark Tower.
10) The runaway jury
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In a landmark tobacco trial the jury starts to behave strangely. Are they being manipulated or even controlled?
11) Wizard and glass
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Series
Dark Tower volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 40
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English
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Roland the gunslinger and his crew barely escape one world only to slip into another. It is in this other world that Roland relates to his crew a twisted and entertaining tale of his first quest as a gunslinger and the love of his life, Susan Delgado.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
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In this sequel to "The Talisman", retired homicide detective Jack Sawyer is drawn back to a parallel universe called the Territories, where he must find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1958 Landon Carter is a shallow but well-meaning teenager who spends most of his time hanging out with his friends. When he waits too long to get a date for the homecoming dance, Jamie, the Baptist minister's daughter, is the only one left to ask. Against his best intentions and the taunts of his buddies, Landon finds himself falling for Jamie and learning some central lessons in life.
14) On the road
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English
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Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
15) The rainmaker
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Grisham returns to the courtroom and weaves a riveting tale of legal intrigue and corporate greed.
It's summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life. Now he doesn't have a job or a prayer ... except for one: an insurance dispute...
It's summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life. Now he doesn't have a job or a prayer ... except for one: an insurance dispute...
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George Smiley novels volume 1
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English
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George Smiley had liked Samuel Fennan, and now Fennan was dead from an apparent suicide. But why? Fennan, a Foreign Office man, had been under investigation for alleged Communist Party activities, but Smiley had made it clear that the investigation -- little more than a routine security check -- was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. The very next day, Fennan was found dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and...
17) The talisman
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English
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On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America--and into another realm.
One of the most influential and...
One of the most influential and...
19) The sea-wolf
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas. The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew. It remains one of Jack London's finest achievements.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.
A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm’s plush offices. When it is all over, the man’s blood is splattered on Michael’s face—and...
A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm’s plush offices. When it is all over, the man’s blood is splattered on Michael’s face—and...