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Series
Publisher
Dalmatian Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Originally published serially in 1912, "The Lost World" is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of discovery and adventure. The story begins with the narrator, the curious and intrepid reporter Edward Malone, meeting Professor Challenger, a strange and brilliant paleontologist who insists that he has found dinosaurs still alive deep in the Amazon. Malone agrees to accompany Challenger, as well as Challenger's unconvinced colleague Professor Summerlee,...
3) Don Quixote
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The adventures of an eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
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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...
6) 1984
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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A dictatorship called Big Brother rules the people in a collectivist society where Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth. Winston joins the underground where he becomes involved in a forbidden love affair.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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This is a story of moral corruption. A gothic melodrama, it is full of subtle impression and epigram. It touches on many of Wilde's recurring themes, such as the nature and spirit of art, aestheticism and the dangers inherent in it.In the wealthy and vain hedonist Dorian Gray, London painter Basil Hallward has found his muse. Only when the portrait of Dorian begins to age, while the man himself remains untouched by time, do they realize they may have...
9) Passing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A reprint of Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen's 1929 novel in which Irene, an African-American woman with a comfortable life, is disturbed by the return of a childhood friend, Clare, who has passed for white since adolescence and now wants to rejoin the African-American community.
10) Eight Cousins
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy cousins.
11) A lost lady
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Language
English
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"Written from the perspective of a male narrator, Willa Cather's classic novel is an American version of "Madame Bovary". It is a portrait of a talented woman trapped in the conventions and economic restraints of a marriage. It is the story of a woman who defies expectations, and whose personal changes coincide with the transforming American Frontier. In this work, Willa Cather expressed her profoundly modern feminist views in the life of an ordinary...
13) The Inferno
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Series
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The first part of the epic "The Divine Comedy".
14) The ash-tree
Author
Publisher
Rise of Douai
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Sir Matthew Fell witnesses an enigmatic woman perform curious night rituals to a strange Ash Tree, as tragedies befall the local people. What dark powers does the tree invoke?
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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"A deluxe hardcover edition of the queen of science fiction's trailblazing novel about a planet full of genderless beings--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman. A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary's mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose--and change--their gender....
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English
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It is one of the most memorable first lines in all of literature: "When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin." So begins Kafka's famous short story, The Metamorphosis . Kafka considered publishing it with two of the stories included here in a volume to be called Punishments. The Judgment explores an enigmatic power struggle between a father and son, while In the Penal Colony...
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A widowed doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford marries in order to provide a female influence for his daughter, Molly, but it is her stepsister Cynthia who most affects the girl with her exuberance and constantly changing love life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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"Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron devised one wet summer in Switzerland. Its protagonist is a young student of natural philosophy, who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from relics of the dead, with horrific consequences." "Frankenstein confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism: topics such as degeneracy, hereditary...