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121) The Endearment
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents one of her most beloved, enduring stories . . . Hoping to escape the shame of her street urchin's life in Boston, Anna Reardon plotted a desperate scheme-to become Karl Lindstrom's mail-order bride in the beautiful, dangerous frontier of Minnesota. A kind and gentle man, Karl forgave Anna for her deceptions. But there was still one burning secret she had to hide from him, knowing its revelation...
122) Deacon King Kong
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
123) How Do You Live?
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The first English translation of the classic Japanese novel that has sold over 2 million copies-a childhood favorite of anime master Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle), with an introduction by Neil Gaiman.
First published in 1937, Genzaburō Yoshino's How Do You Live? has long been acknowledged in Japan as a crossover classic for young readers. Academy Award–winning animator Hayao Miyazaki has called...
124) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, GILEAD is a
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Hazel Sinnett is a medical student in 19th century Scotland who, after being kicked out because of her gender, works with new attractive acquaintance Jack Currer to procure dead bodies to study, but they soon discover secrets buried in the heart of Edinburgh society.