Frank Muller
Author
Series
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
Author
Language
English
Description
A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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
Author
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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Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Wizard and glass
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
12) On the road
Author
Language
English
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Description
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
Author
Series
George Smiley novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
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...
15) The sea-wolf
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
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There is no terror so consistent, so elusive, as that which haunts a spy in a strange country. The world into which Avery had been launched had contributed to a state of constant anxiety. He moved through the crowd like a hunted man in search of rest and food.
Author
Series
Hannibal Lecter novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
FBI trainee Clarise Starling is assigned to interview a brilliant, imprisoned psychopathic killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. She needs him to bring in a psychotic serial killer.
Author
Series
George Smiley novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A veteran spy wants to "come in from the cold" to retirement. He undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends defection and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The quarry is a lethally dangerous terrorist; his hunter, Kurtz. Patiently, in the face of energetic resistance from his Israeli superiors, the hunter brings together his own small but deadly army and sets his trap. Onto this terrifyingly real stage walks Charlie, a young, bright, and not-too-successful actress. Her role? The bait.
20) Gold Coast
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1995
Language
English
Description
Gorgeous widow Karen DiCilia finds out what it really means to be married to the mob when she reads her Mafia husband's will. He left her millions in stocks and bonds, a Florida Gold Coast mansion, and priceless antiques. Of course, he also left orders that she'll lose everything the minute she sleeps with another man. But Karen's husband didn't count on a sexy dolphin trainer from Detroit with a scam to get Karen and her money--unless, of course,...