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Author
Publisher
C. Scribner's
Pub. Date
1986
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.
24) The oath
Author
Publisher
Word Pub
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Description
In the 1880s, a fiery preacher is hanged in a mining town by people who reject God in favor of Reason. The people's sins give birth to a dragon which to this day terrorizes the area. The story is recounted by a wildlife biologist who meets the dragon while investigating killer-bears. By the author of This Present Darkness.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2006
Description
This follow-up to the classic black comedy about the film industry.
In The Player, the Hollywood novel that was adapted into the celebrated movie by Robert Altman, film executive Griffin Mill got away with murder. Now Mill is back, down to his last six million dollars, i.e., broke. His second wife wants to leave him. His first wife still loves him. His children hate him. And, believing that the end of the world is happening, he wants to save them...
29) Ulysses
Author
Formats
Description
This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904.
31) The presence
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Description
A small-town lawyer and politician from North Carolina is propelled into the middle of big-time politics in Washington, D.C. There, special interests and the underworld severely test his faith.
32) The sea wolf
Author
Description
Life of a Norwegian sealing schooner and a grim picture of a sailor who is a combination of savage and superman.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The great scholar Heironymus believes that he knows everything there is to know, until a hair which he cannot identify is carried to him on the the wind and he must search the globe to find its source.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 25
Description
Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. Light in August is the story od Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.
36) El astillero
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Larsen, el conocido Larsen de La vida breve, el hombre que "creyó de una manera y ahora sigue creyendo de otra, que no nació para morir sino para ganar e imponerse", regresa a Santa María cinco años después de que el gobernador decidiera expulsarlo, para consumar su venganza. Nada ha cambiado demasiado en esa pequeña ciudad imaginaria, en la que el astillero se levanta con la convicción de un espejismo, y al que Larsen se acerca para, quizás,...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Papa Rabbit does not return home as expected from many seasons of working in the great carrot and lettuce fields of El Norte, his son Pancho sets out on a dangerous trek to find him, guided by a coyote. Includes glossary and author's note about illegal immigration and undocumented workers.
39) Lost & found
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Three stories explore how we lose and find what matters most to us, as a girl finds a bright spot in a dark world, a boy leads a strange, lost being home, and a group of peaceful creatures loses its home to cruel invaders.
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