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How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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A wonderful new novel from one of America's bestselling authors. Exploring the tensions between a local culture and a changing national political agenda; family arguments and love: an instant classic. Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the...
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English
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Raised in poverty in rural Colorado, Clara Coleman realizes her dreams of becoming a successful teacher and a mother and spends her time reaching out for order and justice. However, things change when new people--ignorant of the hunger, pain, and struggle of the past--move in and threaten to take away all that she had accomplished.
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Weaving a deeply personal and moving story with a historical moment of critical and complex importance, Birdcage Walk is an unsettling and brilliantly tense drama of public and private violence, resistance and terror from one of our greatest storytellers
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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Anatoly Sukhanov showed talent early, and his daring, brilliant art captured the hand of beautiful Nina Malinin, daughter of a famed Russian artist. But then he opted for prestige and comfort, hiding his controversial paintings and becoming critic rather than creator as editor ofArt of the World, Russia's leading art magazine, which condemns whole schools of Western art. Suddenly in 1985, at the age of 56, Sukhanov's life unravels and he loses everything...
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Paint family novels volume 1
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English
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Follows the fortunes of Ebenezer Paint and his descendants -- rough and tough individuals who are caught up in Civil War river battles, epic cattle drives through drought and blizzards, the horrors of Wounded Knee, the desperation of the dust bowl, and the prosperity of the roaring 1920s.
8) EarthShift
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Publisher
Crystal Mountain Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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Through Julie Armstrong and her family, we learn of the dramatic planetary and social changes that occur before, during and after the Shift of the Ages. We live with them as Julie uses her mystical abilities to guide her loved ones through their physical and emotional fears so that they may learn to trust a Higher Source.
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Three sisters are born into a modest Catholic family in Aix-en-Provence. Sabine, the eldest, dreams of an artist's life in Paris; Helene, the youngest, grew up between her uncle and her aunt, bourgeois from Neuilly-sur-Seine, and her parents, simple people; Mariette, the youngest, learns the secrets and silences of a dazzling and crazy world. In 1970, French society is moving; women have emancipated themselves whilst men have lost their bearings,...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"Juliette and Warner fought hard to take down the Reestablishment once and for all. Life in the aftermath isn't easy, as they and their friends at the Sanctuary work with their limited resources to stabilize the world. Warner has his sights set on more than just politics. Since he proposed to Juliette two weeks ago, he's been eager to finally marry her, the person he loves more than anything and has endured so much to be with. But with so much chaos...
13) Gaia codex
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Publisher
Metamuse Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Both an ancient, "found" wisdom text and a sumptuous, epic novel, Gaia Codex reveals the hidden histories of a world long forgotten, the secret wisdom of an ancient lineage of women, the Priestesses of Astera. Set in a near future of impending societal and environmental collapse, the novel is a tale of hope and remembrance, as well as an inspired vision of humanity's origins and of the potential we hold for conscious evolution
16) Empty
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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When, just ten years in the future, oil supplies run out and global warming leads to devastating storms, senior high school classmates Tom, Niki, Gwen, Hector, and Brock realize that the world as they know it is ending and lead the way to a more environmentally-friendly society.
17) Walkaway
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Hubert, Seth, and their ultra-rich heiress friend Natalie are getting a little old to hang out at the "Communist parties," techno-raveups in abandoned industrial spaces, full of insta-printed drugs and toys. And Natalie was finished, years ago, with her overcontrolling zillionaire dad. And now that anyone can manufacture food, clothing, shelter with equipment comparable to a computer printer, there seems to be little reason to to stick with the world...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"It's October 1990. Jacob Putnam is young and full of ideas. He's arrived a year too late to witness Czechoslovakia's revolution, but he still hopes to find its spirit, somehow. He discovers a country at a crossroads between communism and capitalism, and a picturesque city overflowing with a vibrant, searching sense of possibility. As the men and women Jacob meets begin to fall in love with one another, no one turns out to be quite the same as the...
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Series
The Pemberley chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The Women of Pemberley follows the lives of five women, some from the beloved works of Jane Austen, some new, into post industrial revolution England, at the start of the Victorian Age. The central themes of love, friendship, marriage, and a sense of social obligation remain as do the great political and social issues of the age.
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Publisher
Crystal Mountain Press
Pub. Date
2010, 2009
Language
English
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They survived the EarthShift, and all but one ascended to the fifth dimension. Since then, Julie and Dave Armstrong's family has worked hard on their own growth and the spirituality of those left behind in the third dimension; the struggling souls who must shed their fears and negativity in order to transition. The vibrations of the next consciousness shift are building as the family prepares for its most crucial role. Their mission--and they have...