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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A must-have new edition of one of the great American novels--and one of America's most popular--featuring a new introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, and a striking new cover that brings the quintessential novel of the Roaring Twenties into the 2020s. Young, handsome, and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby seems to have everything. But at his mansion east of New York City, in West Egg, Long Island, where the party...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kate's stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it's already...
3) The hours
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been...
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A family reunion in the Catskills brings hilarity and nostalgia when two clans convene for the summer at their beloved getaway. In its heyday, the Golden Hotel was the crown jewel of the hotter-than-hot Catskills vacation scene. For more than sixty years, the Goldman and Weingold families-best friends and business partners-have presided over this glamorous resort, which served as a second home for well-heeled guests and celebrities. But the Catskills...
Author
Series
Wicked city novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Moving into the building that once hid a speakeasy, Ella Hawthorne uncovers the Jazz Age story of a scandalous love triangle involving redheaded flapper Gin Kelly, a rugged Prohibition agent, and a wealthy debonair Princetonian.
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English
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"After the devastating loss of her husband in Iraq, Morgan Dane returns to Scarlet Falls, seeking the comfort of her hometown. Now, surrounded by family, she's finally found peace and a promising career opportunity--until her bbysitter is killed and her neighbor asks her to defend his son, Nick, who stands accused of the murder. Tessa was the ultimate girl next door, and the community is outraged by her death. But Morgan has known Nick for years and...
7) Exquisite
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Series
Publisher
BookShots/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Pursuing a life in New York after establishing herself as an artist, Siobhan forges a deep bond with billionaire Derick Miller only to see the roller-coaster dynamics of their relationship forcing them apart.
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nick Russo has worked his way from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood to a reporting job at one of the city's biggest newspapers. But the late 1950s are a hostile time for gay men, and Nick knows that he can't let anyone into his life. He just never counted on meeting someone as impossible to say no to as Andy. Andy Fleming's newspaper-tycoon father wants him to take over the family business. Andy, though, has no intention of running the paper. He's barely...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In this book, Ford introduces a diverse group of men in a small, upstate New York town, struggling with dreams and desires, coping through friendship, and searching for the things they want--or the things they think they want. Mike is the bartender at a meeting place for the small but thriving community of gay men in Cold Falls. As witness to the men who come here looking for what they need--sex, direction, friendship, spiritual fulfillment, and love--he...
10) Shy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Crossing Press
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Shy is the story of Harry Van. It's 1974, summertime, Long island. Three demanding people are about enter Harry's life and change it for good. "Gunther Fielder" is not his name; he's on the run, from his wealthy Manhattan society life, from a misguided engagement, from a terrible crime. Paula Theale is the best friend Harry Van has ever made, and they've known each other three weeks. Together they're ready to follow their favorite rock star's command....
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"Cameron Barnes, formerly of New York City, lives in a small town in upstate New York. After having nearly succumbed to AIDS, he's recently regained a measure of his health but his long-term lover has moved away, and Cameron faces the daunting prospect of learning how to live with the idea of a future in mind again. As a tentative step, he hires two local young men, brothers Jesse and Kyle Vanderhof, to do some renovation work on his property." "With...
14) Third man out
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
"Despite the fact that he was not fond of Queer Nation activist John Rutka, notorious for his self-righteous "outing" of Albany's closeted gays, gay private eye Don Strachey agrees to help out when Rutka is shot and his house is firebombed" -- Goodreads.com.
15) Bound in flesh
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Vampires Jean-Luc Courbet and Claude Halloran travel the world, quenching their thirst, satisfying their desires, and creating a depraved empire, until one of their creations, ex-cop Mike O'Donald, who becomes a new type of vampire trained in the secrets of Tantric sex magic, turns against them
16) A jade in Aries
Author
Series
Mitchell Tobin mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Mystery with recipes volume 14
Language
English
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"Susie Katz, the crazy cat lady of Longely, New York, hires the Simmons sisters to cater a cat wedding. Chaos erupts when a wedding gift is unwrapped and mice jump out of the box. Three hours later, the cats have been caught, but their owner has been murdered and the Simmons sisters try to sniff out the killer"--
19) Horse crazy
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
"This story, if it is one, deserves the closure of a suicide, perhaps even the magisterial finality of what is usually called a novel, but the remnants of that faraway time offer nothing more than a taste of damp ashes, a feeling of indeterminacy, and the obdurate inconclusiveness of passing time." So writes the unnamed narrator of Horse Crazy, looking back on a season of madness and desire. The first novel from the brilliant, protean Gary Indiana,...