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Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The Iliad: Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and despair, and honor and glory. The recent major motion picture Helen of Troy starring Brad Pitt proves that this epic is as relevant today as it was twenty five hundred years ago when it was first written. So journey back to the Trojan War with Homer and relive the grandest adventure of all times. The Odyssey:...
2) Dune
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2019.
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...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why...
Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why...
Author
Publisher
C. Scribner's
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the uncompleted final novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Cte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and...
8) A lost lady
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
[1990, c1923]
Language
English
Description
In the eyes of the middle-aged men who visited the house of Captain Daniel Forrester at Sweet Water, Nebraska, whatever Mrs. Forrester chose to do was "lady-like."
Author
Publisher
Westminster Press
Pub. Date
c1957
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Young Elk, a Cheyenne Indian, encountering scorn when he chose not to be a warrior but a horsecatcher, sets out to capture White Stallion from Commanche country to prove his bravery.
Newbery honor book: 1958.
10) Lonesome dove
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2000?], c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 58
Language
English
Description
Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman Lorena, and Blue Duck, an American Indian renegade.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Missing Chums is a thrilling instalment in the iconic Hardy Boys series, written by Franklin W. Dixon. In this gripping mystery, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, along with their close friends Chet Morton and Biff Hooper, find themselves entangled in a perplexing case of disappearance and danger. The story unfolds when the Hardy boys' friends, Jerry Gilroy and Phil Cohen, vanish without a trace during a sailing excursion on Barmet Bay. Concerned...
12) The sea-wolf
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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.
13) Ivanhoe
Author
Series
Publisher
Dodd
Pub. Date
c1941
Language
English
Description
One of Sir Walter Scott's most popular and influential works, "Ivanhoe" is the story of one of the last remaining Saxon noble families. At the beginning of the novel we find its titular character, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who has been disinherited by his father for his allegiance to the Norman king, Richard the Lionheart, and for falling in love with the Lady Rowena, returning from the Third Crusade. Wilfred's father, Cedric, had planned to marry Lady...
18) Anne of Avonlea
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Anne, mischievous and spirited as ever, returns to Avonlea to teach in the village school where she herself was taught.
19) This is my town
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Join Mercer Mayer's classic and beloved character, Little Critter® as he shows young readers around his hometown.
Welcome to Critterville!
Little Critter® shares what he knows about his neighbors and the places to go in Critterville. Who delivers the mail? Where does Little Critter go to see a movie? Who keeps everyone safe? Come explore the town with Little Critter and discover where everyone works and plays!
Little Critter: This Is...
20) Henry and Beezus
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1952
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Henry Huggins, his dog Ribsy, and his friend Beezus, busy themselves with trying to earn enough money for Henry to buy a bicycle.