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Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
A courgeous woman's triumph over despair in a lifelong search for acceptance, love, and understanding. Unfolding against a turbulent backdrop of social, political, and cultural upheaval, it is at once a work of heartfelt intimacy and a rare portrait of twentieth-century China.
4) The Odyssey
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home in a strange world. This vivid new translation - the first by a woman - matches the number of lines in the Greek original, striding at Homer's sprightly pace. Emily Wilson employs elemental, resonant...
Author
Series
Fields of home volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Description
When Susan Hostetler has a falling out with her boyfriend, Thomas Stoll, she leaves her Amish home and moves to Asbury Park, New Jersey, to experiment in Englisha life. There she learns to drive a car, takes her GED test, and dates young and handsome Duane Moran. Back home, her parents are devastated and miss their daughter terribly. But what can they do? Susan has a mind of her own. Just as Susan is enjoying her new life, her plans are interrupted....
6) Duma Key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 31
Formats
Description
After a crane crushes his truck, millionaire Edgar Freemantle launches a new life. His wife asked for a divorce after he stabbed and tried to strangle her one-handed (he lost his arm and for a time his rational brain in the accident). He leaves Minnesota for remote Duma Key, Florida, which is owned by Elizabeth Eastlake, an octogenarian with a tragic past. When Edgar begins to paint, his talent seems to come from outside him, and the paintings have...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
1) When Jesse Crane returned to his roots to serve on the Miccosukee police force, he'd hoped to leave behind the violence of the city and the memories of his murdered wife. But bodies start to pile up in Jesse's corner of the sultry Florida swampland... As he probes these crimes, Jesse is drawn to the beautiful Lorena Fortier, a new hire at the local gator farm and research facility.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Glasgow...
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Description
This is book 2 in The Secrets of Heathersleigh Hall. England stands on the brink of World War I, and the lives of the Rutherfords of Devonshire are in sudden peril. Dismayed by her parents' newfound religious beliefs, 20-year-old Amanda Rutherford has left the family mansion on the shires of Devon and joined the suffragette movement in London. While in the bustling metropolis, she becomes romantically involved with Ramsay Halifax, a charming young...
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
"This long-awaited anthology celebrates the experience of Native American women and is at once an important contribution to our literature and an historical document. From people who value stories and songs from literary traditions...it is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind to collect the poetry, fiction, prayer and memoir from Native American women. It is about the process of writing and speaking that sheds light on what it means to be...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The lady vanishes (1938): While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
I cover the waterfront (1933): An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Algiers (1938): Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.
The scarlet letter (1934): In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear...