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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism -- but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
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 him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening, her husband, Gabriel, returns home late from work, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander,...
5) Ulysses
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Language
English
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Description
James Joyce pays homage to Homer's Odyssey, drawing on many of the Greek poet's themes with this eighteen-part novel. Set in 1922 Ireland, when the city of Dublin was rife with social unrest and radical nationalism, Ulysses chronicles a day in the life of Leopold Bloom as he navigates the city on his usual routine. However, his disdain for violence, indifference for Irish independence, and his embitterment for his adulterous wife leave Bloom in a...
7) Pet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.
8) Inheritance
Author
Series
Lost bride trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about--and that her newly discovered uncle, Collin Poole, has left her almost everything he owned, including a majestic Victorian house on the Maine coast, which the will stipulates she must live in it for at least three years. Her engagement recently broken, she sets off to find out why the boys were separated at birth-and why it was all kept secret...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A comic named Jillian and an artist named Dylan are attacked in Arizona by a mad doctor wielding a mysterious injection and are forced to run from his enemies, taking along Dylan's autistic brother, Shep, whereupon they develop incredible traits: psychic sight, extreme altruism, and the ability to teleport.
11) Luster
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage."--
12) The collector
Author
Language
English
Description
Witnessing an apparent murder-suicide during a job, professional house-sitter Lila Emerson is recruited by the alleged perpetrator's brother, talented artist Ashton Archer, to help uncover what really happened.
13) Of human bondage
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Language
English
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Description
Philip Carey, a handicapped orphan, is brought up by a self-indulgent Victorian clergyman. Shedding his religious faith as a young man, he begins to study art in Paris, but finally returns to London to qualify as a doctor.
14) The family Fang
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist's work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents' madcap pieces. But now that they are grown up, the chaos of their childhood has made it difficult to cope with life outside the fishbowl of their...
15) Distant shores
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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Description
Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a future together. But after the children leave home, they quietly drift apart. When Jack accepts a wonderful new job offer, Elizabeth puts her needs aside to follow him across the country. Until the sudden death of her father changes everything. Grieving and alone, she retreats to an isolated beach house where she packs away the last remnants...
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The first book in the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly...
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly...
18) Bitter
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Language
English
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Description
"After a childhood in foster care, Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus on her painting surrounded by other creative teens. But outside this haven, the streets are filled with protests against the deep injustices that grip the city of Lucille. Bitter's instinct is to stay safe within the walls of Eucalyptus but her friends aren't willing to settle for a world that's so far away from what...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"By turns suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking first novel weaves a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman. Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather's long-ago decision to make her immortal like...
20) Confess: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
At age twenty-one, Auburn Reed has already lost everything important to her. In her fight to rebuild her shattered life, she has her goals in sight and there is no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn't expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry. For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is keeping a major...
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