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Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2014
Language
English
Description
A major debut from an award-winning writer-- an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.
Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his...
Author
Publisher
SJP LIT, a Zendo Imprint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1916, during the early days of the Great Migration, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post-Civil War South for the "Promised Land" of Vauxhall, New Jersey. But the North possesses its own challenges and bigotries that will shape the fates of the women and their families over the next seventy years. Told through the voices of nine family members--their perspectives at once harmonious and contradictory--Coleman...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
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1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidre's fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show. 1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader,...
Author
Series
Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 2
Language
English
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"From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy, his African Game of Thrones. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened...
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 5
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World, the almost timeless landscape that seems to stretch from the wreckage of civility that defined Roland's youth to the crimson chaos that seems the future's only promise.
Author
Publisher
Olive Collins
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year after their arrival, Goldie blames herself for her sister's...
189) Les Miserables
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Jean Valjean is a young man accused of stealing. He escapes prison and spends the rest of his life miserable and being chased by one man: a policeman named Valert.
190) The forgotten legion
Author
Series
Forgotten Legion trilogy volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Born into first-century slavery under an abusive owner, twins Romulus and Fabiola are respectively sold into gladiator school and prostitution at the age of thirteen, a situation that separates them from their beloved mother.
Author
Series
Courtney novels volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The next generaton of Courteys are out to stake their claim in Southern Africa. The other Europenas, crazed by greed, jealousy, and lust are determined to destroy utterly all members of the Courtney clan. This quest for vengenace results in a desperate chase that is one of the most extraordinary in modern literature.
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