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1) East of Eden
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900s in Northern California.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
3) The road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, this work is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential, sometimes terrifying power of filial love.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Completed only a few months before the author's death, The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoyevsky's largest, most expansive, most life-embracing work. Filled with human passions ― lust, greed, love, jealousy, sorrow, and humor ― the book is also infused with moral issues and the issue of collective guilt.
As in many of Dostoyevsky's novels, the plot centers on a murder. Three brothers, different in character but bound by their ancestry,...
As in many of Dostoyevsky's novels, the plot centers on a murder. Three brothers, different in character but bound by their ancestry,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
A New York Times Notable Book
A New York Times bestseller, "DeLillo's haunting new novel, Zero K—his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, Underworld" (The New York Times), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life.
Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor...
A New York Times bestseller, "DeLillo's haunting new novel, Zero K—his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, Underworld" (The New York Times), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life.
Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor...
Author
Series
Lightbringer volume 5
Language
English
Description
"In the stunning conclusion to the epic, New York Times bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks, kingdoms clash as Kip must finally escape his family's shadow in order to protect the land and people he loves. As the White King springs his great trap, and the Chromeria itself is threatened by treason and siege, Kip Guile and his companions will scramble to return for one impossible final stand. In the darkest hour, will the Lightbringer come?"--...
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Language
English
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"The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental...
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Special Agent Will Robie gets the call to make his first visit home since he was a teenager, it's because his father, the local judge, has been arrested for murdering a man who came before him in court. The small, remote Mississippi town hasn't changed and its residents remember Robie as a wild sports star and girl magnet. He left a lot of hearts broken, and a lot of people angry. Will and his father, Dan, are estranged, and his mother left years...
13) Tinkers
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
On his deathbed, surrounded by his family, George Washington Crosby's thoughts drift back to his childhood and the father who abandoned him when he was twelve.
15) Conviction
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"--
16) Nobody's fool
Author
Series
Nobody's fool volume 1
Language
English
Description
An unlucky man in a deadbeat town in upstate New York, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles -- a bum knee, terminal underemployment, and a not-too-helpful group of friends -- as he copes with a new problem, his long-estranged son.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that...
20) Sons
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Series
Language
English
Description
Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast nation, leaving destruction and death in their wake, yet also promising emancipation to China's oppressed millions who are groping for a way to survive in a modern age.
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