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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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She grew up in a world where women were supposed to be quiet. But Malala Yousafzai refused to be silent. She defied the Taliban's rules, spoke out for education for every girl, and was almost killed for her beliefs. This powerful true story of how one brave girl named Malala changed the world proves that one person really can make a difference.
82) Thirty girls
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her center after a series of failed relationships. In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves their stories, giving...
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Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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The country may be struggling through the Great Depression, but the ladies of Darling, Alabama, are determined to keep their chins up. Their garden club -- The Darling Dahlias -- has a clubhouse, a garden, a flag, and a weekly column in The Darling Dispatch written by their own Miss Elizabeth Lacy. Unlike their snooty rivals -- Sisters of the Spade -- they welcome members from across the social spectrum. What better way to know everything there is...
84) Stoker
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a teenaged girl's father dies, her uncle whom she never knew existed comes to move in with her, and she soon discovers his ulterior motives.
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Language
English
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Eager to escape life on her family's farm, Alice Barrow moves to Lowell in 1832 and throws herself into the hard work demanded of "the mill girls." In spite of the long hours, she discovers a vibrant new life and a true friend -- a saucy, strong-willed girl name Lovey Cornell. But conditions at the factory become increasingly dangerous, and Alice finds the courage to represent the workers and their grievances. Although mill owner, Hiram Fiske, pays...
86) Strega
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With toiletries, hairbands, and notebooks in her bag, and at her mother's instruction, a nineteen-year-old girl leaves her parents' home and the seaside town she grew up in. Out the train window, Rafa sees the lit-up mountains and perfect trees-and the Olympic Hotel waiting for her perched above the small village of Strega. There, she and eight other girls receive the stiff black uniforms of seasonal workers and move into their shared dorm. But while...
Author
Publisher
Harper/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage to a domineering man who limits her world to their small restaurant and grocery store. Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her home office...
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Series
Lost Lords volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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He's a bastard and a gambler and society's favorite reprobate. But to Lady Kiri Lawford he's a hero -- braver than the smugglers whom he rescues her from, more honorable than any lord she's ever met, and far more attractive than any man has a right to be. How can she not fall in love? But Damian Mackenzie has secrets that leave no room in his life for courting high-born young ladies -- especially not the sister of one of his oldest friends. Yet when...
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Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Book circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa. We first meet Sasha...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1980
Physical Desc
x, 277 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.
91) City of girls
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Language
English
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"[A] unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance....
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Series
Sevenwaters fantasies volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Physical Desc
596 p. : ill., map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The old magic is fading, the ways of humankind are banishing the Old Ones, and Ireland is threatened with the loss of its mystical roots, and it is up to Fianne, the daughter of Niamh, to solve the riddles of power and to battle the evil of her grandmother, the wicked sorceress Oonagh
93) Jane Eyre
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Language
English
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Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage are elements in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally...
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Series
Reeve LeClaire volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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In many ways, Reeve LeClaire looks like a typical twenty-two year old girl. She's finally landed her own apartment, she waitresses to pay the bills, and she wishes she wasn't so nervous around new people. She thinks of herself as agile, not skittish. As serious, not grim. But Reeve is anything but normal. Ten years ago, she was kidnapped and held captive. After a lucky escape, she's spent the last six years trying to rebuild her life, a recovery thanks...
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 21
Language
English
Description
Where there is life there is devotion. Where there is death there is obsession. Patty Bigelow thought she'd finally figured life out. Then her wayward sister Leila abandons her child, Tanya, on her doorstep. The aunt and troubled niece slowly learn to live together, with the help of Dr Alex Delaware's counselling. Now, fifteen years later, Tanya is back in Alex's office, a self-possessed Harvard student, about to enter graduate school in clinical...
96) Middlemarch
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Language
English
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Follows the lives of Dorothea Brooke, a nineteenth-century crusader who is prevented from being with the man she loves, and the idealistic Dr. Lydgate, who succumbs to materialism.
98) The ghost bride
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
"One evening, my father asked me if I would like to become a ghost bride..." Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound. Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt family, has few prospects. But fate intervenes when she receives an unusual proposal from the wealthy and powerful Lim family. They want her to become a...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
Français
Description
Set in 1760 France, Marianne arrives at an isolated seaside estate to secretly paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has recently left the convent and is about to enter a chattel marriage.
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Language
English
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Winona Farmington once dreamed of graduating from college, moving to New York City, and pursuing a career in publishing. Then real life got in the way when she left college and returned to her small Michigan hometown to care for her sick mother. Years later, stuck in a dead-end job and an unsatisfying relationship, Winnie has concluded that dreams were meant for others. She consoles herself with binge-watching the British television series that she...
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