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21) Daisy Miller
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Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
22) Dune
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
"Science fiction's supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. Paul's noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called "the spice." After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and...
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The professor and the poet who've come to Patriarch's Ponds for a stroll on a hot and stagnant Moscow afternoon are dismayed to encounter a quite extraordinary stranger, surely a deranged foreigner. As this quixotic character recalls a centuries-old story of destiny, his infamy becomes a matter of gruesome revelation for the doomed professor and his poor companion. And what will become of the Master's suppressed masterpiece? Something his lover, Margarita,...
27) On the road
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Language
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.
29) Cannery Row
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California.
31) Of human bondage
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English
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The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a tortured and masochistic affair.
32) The razor's edge
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
33) Utopia
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Language
English
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Description
In this political work written in 1516, Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an imaginary island. Book I ofUtopia, a dialogue, presents a perceptive analysis of contemporary social, economic, and moral ills in England. Book II is a narrative describing a country run according to the ideals of the English humanists, where poverty, crime, injustice, and other ills do not exist. Locating his island in the New World, More bestowed it with
...36) The red pony
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The classic story of a boy's journey to manhood under the joys and hardships of ranch life, focused around the life and death of his red pony.
38) The long valley
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of short stories, including "The Murder," "The Chrysanthemums," "Flight," and "The Red Pony.".
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