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This Present Darkness volume 2
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Sallie Beth Roe, a young loner, a burnout, and a kind of left-over hippie, finds herself caught in the middle of a series of bizarre events that leave her fleeing for her life while trying to recall her dark past.
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English
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Hinds Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard, is a dramatic allegory telling the journey we each must take before having the ability to live on high places. Throughout the story, the emotions and struggles of our nature are personified. It is a story of endurance, persistence, and reliance on God, which has inspired millions of people to become sure-footed in their faith even when facing the rockiest of life's terrain.
Much-Afraid had been in the service...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1982, c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society chronicles their adventures as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace
England's Downs were once an idyllic rural landscape, but plans for development are afoot. Facing the certain destruction of their homes, a band of very special creatures must plan a flight from the intrusion of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated...
9) Thinner
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
When an obese small-town lawyer hits and kills a gypsy's daughter, the man curses him with one word: Thinner.
10) Ship of fools
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
Presents an allegory that describes the passengers on board a ship sailing from Mexico to Germany in 1931.
12) The Decameron
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Language
English
Description
This tale of medieval Italian life details how ten young Florentines retreat to the countryside to escape the plague-infested city and entertain themselves by telling stories.
13) The Sea-wolf
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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This gripping saga of the sea demonstrates Jack London's gift for expressing complex ideas with compelling action. A clash of two opposing views of morality is brought to life in the ruthless Wolf Larsen, a strong believer in the survival of the fittest, and Humphrey Van Weyden, a civilized man who is shocked by the cruelty of Larsen's nature.
14) Prince of peace
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Vietnam: bitterly contested on the American home front and on the battlefields of Southeast Asia. Risking his vows to the priesthood and his status as a Korean War hero, Michael Maguire struggles with God and country in this thrilling novel of faith, truth, and honor, "so rich and vital it leaves you breathless."
15) Treasures
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English
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Three members of the Osborne family come to the brink of despair when they must choose to stand alone and watch their dreams die or work together to salvage what they alone can treasure.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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This 1962 novel is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, and depicts the chaos when McMurphy, a rebellious prison inmate who has faked insanity in order to finish his sentence in the hospital, incites the other patients to disobey the feared Nurse Ratched. An escalating series of incidents leads to a tragic conclusion.
18) The Trial
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English
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"A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his...
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"This convenient single-volume edition contains all three parts of Dante's 14th-century poem; Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso; in an acclaimed translation by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Combining classical and Christian history as well as medieval politics and religion, this trilogy of sublime verse is among Western civilization's most important artistic works and essential reading for students of literature and history. Dante's allegory...
20) Kingdom's hope
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Series
The kingdom (Chuck Black) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Leinad's skill with a sword helps free his people from Lord Fairos's slavery, but he must again take up the fight against the evil of the Dark Knight when the rest of the country turns away from the King and the Code.