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21) The Americans
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove Publications
Pub. Date
1980
Description
The definitive volume in Jakes's bestselling series finds the Kent family reaching to finally embrace its legacy, and its future. In the final installment of the Kent Family Chronicles, the remaining Kents seek to fulfill Philip Kent's original American dream. As Gideon Kent's health deteriorates, he fears for the future of his family. Their dynasty, now in ruins, stands as a tarnished symbol of all the Kents have lost in the unstable years of war...
22) The lawless
Author
Publisher
N. Doubleday
Pub. Date
1978
Description
In a flourishing post–Civil War America, the Kent family seizes good fortune again-until all is suddenly threatened by one woman's return The penultimate volume in John Jakes's stirring Kent Family Chronicles finds America booming in its postwar prosperity. With this newly secured peace comes an opportunity for the Kent family to reconcile and to thrive, both personally and financially. Gideon Kent takes up his father's vow to reunite the family,...
23) Wizard and glass
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 4
Description
The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is "splendidly tense...rip-roaring" (Publishers Weekly)—a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe.
In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is "at his most ebullient...sweeping readers up in...swells of passion" (Publishers Weekly) as Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake survive Blaine the Mono's final crash, only to find themselves...
In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is "at his most ebullient...sweeping readers up in...swells of passion" (Publishers Weekly) as Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake survive Blaine the Mono's final crash, only to find themselves...
24) Shark dialogues
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
The saga of a Hawaiian family, beginning in 1834 with the meeting of a shipwrecked Yankee sailor and a runaway Tahitian princess. It traces the family's fortunes all the way to the present, incorporating a great deal of history: whaling, labor unions, earthquakes and the Vietnam War. The author is of mixed Hawaiian and Anglo-American descent.
Author
Series
Foundation volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
26) Vegas rich
Author
Series
Vegas volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
1996
Description
An illiterate prostitute's rise to fame in the 1920s. She is Sally Coleman who sings in a saloon in Las Vegas and who inherits a fortune from a grateful customer. To gain polish she hires a handsome tutor from Boston, whom she marries, and becomes the town's best known entrepreneur.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Finally returned to print in a beautiful paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale of a nineteenth-century immigrant family of confidence artists-a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability. The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from...
30) Les misérables
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 105
Formats
Description
Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.
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