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1) Forever odd
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it. Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He’s just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that’s why he’s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death. But when...
I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it. Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He’s just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that’s why he’s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death. But when...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
3) Odd Thomas
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Meet Odd Thomas, the unassuming young hero of Dean Koontz’s dazzling New York Times bestseller, a gallant sentinel at the crossroads of life and death who offers up his heart in these pages and will forever capture yours.
“The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent...
“The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent...
Author
Series
Return to Red River volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
For as far back as he can remember, the dream of becoming a writer has burned brightly in Thorliff's heart. But when he arrives at college, things are not as he had imagined. Thorliff longs for the familiarity and nurture of his loved ones back home. The distance has created a rift between Thorliff and his childhood sweetheart. The only bright spot in his life is his job at the town newspaper. Will he be forced to leave one dream behind to pursue...
5) Stardust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The story of young Tristran Thorn and his adventures in the land of Faerie. He has fallen in love with beautiful Victoria Forester and in order to win her hand, he must retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to her.
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents Henry Fielding's 1749 comic novel in which Tom Jones, abandoned as an infant, is adopted by Squire Allworthy and amuses himself with amorous escapades until the day he decides to leave home and seek his fortune and real identity. Includes an introduction, a chronology, a glossary, explanatory notes, and an appendix on Fielding's revisions.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
The classic New York Times bestseller.
Lee Reston has a fulfilling life imbued with the love of her three wonderful children. Then a shattering event-the loss of her oldest son, Greg-tears her world apart. In her anguish, she turns to police officer Christopher Lallek, Greg's best friend. Their shared mourning develops into friendship, and then something deeper. But life is never simple. The family that was once the core of her existence becomes...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A coming of age debut novel from accomplished actor, director, and writer Sean Patrick Flanery explores that powerful first taste of love that sets the bar for something that we'll chase, usually unsuccessfully, for the rest of our lives. A young Mickey navigates through the dense Texas humidity of the 70's and out onto the porch every single time his Granddaddy calls him, where he's presented with the heirloom recipe for life, love, and manhood....
10) Threshold
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Our narrator has spent the last two decades travelling, writing and imbibing drugs and literature in equally vast doses. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, his travels to far-flung places have acquired a de facto purpose: to aid the contemporary artist's search for universal truth. From Buddhist serenity to the brink of madness, with one foot in reality and one firmly in the hallucinatory beyond, Threshold explores the club-drug...
11) Summer people
Author
Publisher
ECCO
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Nathan Empson has just accepted the most unusual summer job of his life. In exchange for serving as a "caretaker" for Ellen Broderick, the eccentric matriarch of an exclusive coastal community, he'll earn a generous paycheck and gain access to one of the last bastions of old New England wealth. But not everyone in town is welcoming-or even civil. And while he discovers companionship with a philosophical, ex-punk Episcopalian pastor, and more than...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien. Kullervo, son of Kalervo, is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. "Hapless Kullervo," as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny. Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and tried three times to kill him when he was still...
14) Sons and lovers
Author
Series
Modern library of the world's best books volume 333
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sons and Lovers" by D.H. Lawrence delves into the intricate dynamics of the Morel family, set in a small mining community in early 20th-century England. The novel focuses on Paul Morel and his intense, often suffocating relationship with his mother, Gertrude. Disillusioned with her marriage to Walter, a miner prone to drinking and quarreling, Gertrude channels her affection and ambitions into her sons, particularly Paul. His journey from childhood...
15) Sophie's choice
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 1980 National Book Award, Sophie's Choice is William Styron's classic novel of love, survival, and regret, set in Brooklyn in the wake of the Second World War. The novel centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor; and Sophie, an Auschwitz survivor who is Nathan's lover. Their entanglement in one another's lives will build to a stirring revelation of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark Ride"--
"Twenty-one-year-old Hardy "Hardly" Reed--good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned--is drifting through life. A minimum wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions. Then one day he notices two children, around six or seven, sitting all alone on a bench. Hardly checks if they're...
18) A simple plan
Author
Language
English
Description
Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane–the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan.
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