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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray for the Commander...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...
5) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Pride and Prejudice, one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters prejudice, upward mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity. Misconceptions and hasty judgements...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.
12) Mon oncle
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Français
Description
A comedy in which the vague and clumsy M. Hulot, in contrast to his more wealthy sister and brother-in-law, is constantly at odds with the modern world.
13) Hopscotch
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
One of the CIA's top international operatives is suddenly relegated to a desk job in an agency power play. Unwilling to go quietly, and with the aid of a chic Viennese widow, he puts himself back in the game by writing a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA now wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate--because he's having too much fun!
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2002, ©1957
Language
Russian
Description
When Veronica's lover, Boris, goes to war, she moves in with Boris' family. His cousin seduces her and out of guilt she marrys him. Unhappy in her marriage and still in love with Boris she leaves her husband to wait for Boris to return. Later she learns Boris has been killed in the war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The first volume in Churchill's epic history of English-speaking peoples. The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today. These people also share a common heritage. For his four-volume work, Sir Winston Churchill took as his subject these great elements in world history. Volume 1 commences in 55 BC, when Julius Caesar famously "turned his gaze upon Britain" and concludes...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"The first volume in a history of World War II as only Winston Churchill could tell it. Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, and remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction." -- Container
17) Alone
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The second volume in a history of World War II as only Winston Churchill could tell it. At once breath-taking and historical, Churchill's account of the early days of World War II is laced with harrowing honesty. "After the first forty days we were alone," writes Churchill.
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
During the period of this volume, from 1688 to 1815, three revolutions profoundly influenced mankind and all occurred within the space of a 100 years and all led to war between the British and the French: the English Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1775 and the French Revolution of 1789.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Grand Alliance recounts the momentous events of 1941 surrounding America's entry into the War and Hitler's march on Russia the continuing onslaught on British civilians during the Blitz, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the alliance between Britain and America that shaped the outcome of the War.
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