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Author
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and...
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Series
Language
English
Description
On a deceptively quiet Minneapolis evening, Detective Lucas Davenport is summoned to one of the most heinous homicide scenes he's ever encountered. Two elderly women have been brutally bludgeoned inside their home, with only a few valuable yet common stolen items indicating the killer's sinister motives.
3) The BFG
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
The Big Friendly Giant is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and it's lucky for Sophie that he is. If she had been carried off by any of the other giants, she would have been breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are headed to England to steal some little children, she and the BFG decide they must stop them once and for all.
4) Fox in socks
Author
Lexile measure
AD 420L
Language
English
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Description
The smart Fox uses difficult tongue twisters to get the confused Mr. Knox in trouble with his tongue.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
'Oh, it seems so wonderful that I'm going to live with you and belong to you. I've never belonged to anybody--not really' When a scrawny, freckled girl with bright red hair arrives on Prince Edward Island, Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are taken by surprise; they'd asked the orphanage for a quiet boy to help with the farmwork at Green Gables. But how can you reject a child like an unwanted parcel, especially when she tells you her life so far has been...
Author
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
"The story follows Hetty 'Handful' Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. 'The Invention of Wings' follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Somewhere near Palm Springs, California, Ali Reynolds' husband, Paul Grayson, is killed on the eve of their divorce by a train that hits the car where he's tied up in the trunk Ali, Paul's legal beneficiary, becomes the chief murder suspect. A popular blogger and former Los Angeles TV news anchor who's suing the station where she used to work for wrongful dismissal, Ali initiates her own investigation, enlisting the help of her mother, grown son Chris...
10) Icebound
Author
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
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Description
A secret Arctic experiment turns into a frozen nightmare when a team of scientists, stranded on a drifting iceberg with a massive explosive charge, battle the elements for survival, only to discover that one of them is a murderer.
11) Beyond reach
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the charred body of a woman is found and a detective is charged with homicide, medical examiner/pediatrician Sara Linton joins forces with her husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, to uncover the truth about a case that is poisoning a small town with hatred.
13) 1st to die
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Series
Language
English
Description
Four crime-solving friends face off against a killer in San Francisco in the Women's Murder Club novel that started James Patterson's thrilling series.
Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.
But the...
Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.
But the...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inches
Language
English
Description
In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguable the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Here, Sidney Poitier explores these elements of character and personal values to take his own measure - as a man, as a husband, and father, and as an actor. Poitier...
15) Yellow umbrella
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations, music ; 27 cm + e 1 audio disc (digital : 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
A story, in pictures and music, of children on their way to school on a rainy day.
16) Recess
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (44 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Grammy nominee Justin Roberts releases his ninth recording for families, exploring the joy and freedom of recess, the marvels of the imagination, and the combination of melancholy and wonder as school lets out for the summer.
20) Drop Shot
Author
Series
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
The murder of a young tennis player outside the U.S. Open gets sports agent Myron Bolitar to run afoul of a dirty U.S. senator, a jealous mother, and the Mob.