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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714,the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
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Description
Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber, as a word, was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it; especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer. Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan's house,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury--a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful:...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; the other of industrial America, a goading him into a compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
The story of a young couple from Brooklyn who marry young, have little money, and face bitter parental opposition, but are determined to make something of their life together. "In Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law to marry him. Little did they know how difficult their first year of marriage would be, in a...
10) V
Author
Language
English
Description
Follows the orbits of old acquaintances headed for a less than harmonic convergence in Northern California in 1984.
Author
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
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Description
Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke returns from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power. They (the Monkey Wrench Gang) take on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are...
13) Bel canto
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,...
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Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Here, for the first time, is a volume that gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety, a half century of brilliant work from one of America's great poets. As the chief figure among the Beats, Ginsberg changed the course of American poetry, liberating it from closed academic forms with the creation of open, vocal, spontaneous, and energetic postmodern verse. Ginsberg's raw tones and attitudes of spiritual liberation also helped catalyze...
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Publisher
HarperPerennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Mexico on the eve of WWII, the story tells of a man in extremis, an alcoholic consul bursting with regret, longing, resentment and remorse, whose climactic moment rapidly approaches ..."--Editorial review from www.amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Cecile is the spoiled 17-year-old daughter of Raymond, a wealthy Parisian widower vacationing in a villa on the French Riviera. Their pleasure-seeking existence is threatened when Raymond decides to marry Cecile's straitlaced godmother, Anne, who disapproves of the teenager's steamy summer affair.
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness."
In these two classic books, originally published in the 1950s, Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. As a user of mind-altering drugs like mescaline and LSD, he came to believe that they gave users essentially the same experiences that mystics attained through fasting, prayer, and meditation. The books became...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Heaven to Betsy: Betsy Ray is loving every minute of freshman year at Deep Valley High - with new and old friends all around her...not to mention boys! But most intriguing of all is the one she and her best friend, Tacy, dub "the Tall, Dark Stranger".--Cover.
Betsy in spite of herself: Betsy is at the center of every activity as a Deep Valley High sophomore - and suddenly, thanks to her old friend, Tib, she's offered a golden opportunity for glorious...
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