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The cook, the crook, and the real estate tycoon: a novel of contemporary China
By Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Liu Zhenyun. 2015
Liu Yuejin, a worksite cook and a thief, has his pack with money stolen. While searching for it, he discovers…
another bag which contains a USB card detailing corruption of high officials and putting him in danger. Translated from the original 2007 Chinese edition. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2015Five roads taken: a true story told by the kids to Tom Gleason
By Tom Gleason. 2001
Each of John Howard Wilson's five adult children remembers his death and the experience of losing their father. As each…
shares very personal moments, the reader steps inside a family's life and explores the profound bonds between father and childThe Aeneid
By Virgil, Robert Fagles. 2006
Epic Latin poem composed by Virgil during the last ten years of his life, 29 to 19 B.C.E. Beginning with…
the legend of Aeneas, a Trojan hero who founded a settlement in Italy, celebrates the Roman Empire's expansion and the achievements of Emperor Augustus. Verse translation by Robert Fagles. 2006Annie and the Old One
By Miska Miles, Peter Parnall, Patricia Miles Martin. 1985
Annie, a young Navajo girl, is upset thinking her grandmother could die. When her grandmother announces that she will return…
to the earth when the rug on the loom is finished, Annie tries to stop the weaving. For grades 3-6. Newbery Honor. 1971My brother's keeper
By ReShonda Tate Billingsley. 2005
Twelve years after losing her parents, Aja James is tired of worrying about her siblings' problems: Eric's uncontrollable rage and…
Jada's impenetrable silence. Meanwhile Aja's best friend, Roxie, fixes her up with sexy bachelor Charles Clayton. Strong language. 2001Wishing on the midnight star: my Asperger brother
By Nancy Ogaz. 2004
Shy, thirteen-year-old Alex Stone wants to impress his classmate Brianna Santos, avoid the neighborhood bully, and be a normal teenager,…
but he has to watch over Nic, his older, autistic brother. That complicates everything until he realizes how much he loves Nic. For grades 5-8. 2004The Mrs. Dalloway reader
By Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose. 2003
Selection of critical essays exploring the evolution and impact of Virginia Woolf's 1925 classic novel Mrs. Dalloway and the companion…
piece, "Mrs. Dalloway's Party." Includes the two works, Woolf's journal entries and letters regarding the works' creation, and various writers' commentary. Includes editor's introduction. 2003The secret within
By Theresa Martin Golding, Theresa Golding. 2002
Thirteen-year-old Carly lives at the New Jersey shore where she dodges her abusive father by sneaking out at night to…
roam the boardwalk. When a stranger seeks to question her about mysterious packages she delivers for her father, Carly's neighbors suspect him of criminal activities and rally around to help her. For grades 6-9. 2002West of the Jordan: a novel (Bluestreak #19)
By Laila Halaby. 2003
Four Palestine-born female cousins experience individual problems growing up. Mawal stays in the Middle East following a traditional lifestyle. Soraya…
and Khadija, emigrés in California, are torn between cultures. Hala lives in Arizona but falls in love in Jordan. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2003Things remembered
By Georgia Bockoven. 1998
Twenty years ago when her parents were killed, Karla Esterbrook and her sisters went to live with their grandmother, Anna…
Olsen. Karla and Anna have never been close, but now that Anna is dying, Karla has returned to California to put Anna's affairs in orderMadame Bovary: life in a country town (Oxford World's Classics #Vol. 4)
By Gustave Flaubert, Gerard Manley Hopkins. 1999
A young middle-class Frenchwoman, Emma Bovary, is bored with her husband (an inept doctor) and their country existence. Her romantic…
fantasies lead her astray, into adultery and self-destruction. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. Originally published in 1857Lord of the flies: a novel (Literary Companion to American Literature Ser.Literary Companion Series)
By William Golding, Clarice Swisher. 1997
Moby Dick, or The white whale: or The White Whale (Oxford world's classics)
By Herman Melville, Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. Ambrus. 1998
A classic sea adventure. Ishmael recounts the last voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and how the one-legged Captain Ahab…
is obsessed with finding the white whale Moby Dick. A retelling of Herman Melville's novel originally published in 1851. For grades 5-8The best short stories of Theodore Dreiser
By Howard Fast, Theodore Dreiser. 1989
Although Dreiser worked as a newspaperman in St. Louis, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York, he is best remembered for his…
fiction. This collection of his short stories includes "The Shadow," "The Old Neighborhood," and "The Prince Who Was a Thief."Oh, the places you'll go! (Classic Seuss)
By Seuss, Dr Seuss. 1990
"Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!" So begins the inimitable Dr. Seuss…
in this graduation speech for both young and old. Filled with wit, wisdom, and insight, this advice in rhyme humorously deals with coping with the various ups and downs of life, taking charge, and ultimately succeeding against the odds. For readers of all ages. BestsellerIn these hills
By Ralph Beer. 2000
After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered…
his best magazine essays into one collection called "In These Hills". In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac tribute to lives now passed, an often humorous homage to the provincial, and an attempt "to fathom the place where we live... to decipher who we are."Breakfast with Neruda
By Laura Moe. 2016
Michael is just trying to get through his community service after he made the dumb decision to try to blow…
up his friend's car with fireworks--the same friend who stole Michael's girl. Being expelled and losing his best buddy and his girlfriend are the least of his problems: he's living in a car, his mother is a hoarder, and his life seems to be falling apart - until he meets Shelly, that is. UnratedMy mama's waltz: a book for daughters of alcoholic mothers
By Eleanor Agnew. 1999
The authors share their personal accounts along with the memories and experiences of hundreds of women who are the daughters…
of alcoholic mothers. Co-author is Sharon Robideaux, foreword by Dr. Robert J. Ackerman. 1999Happy birthday: a novel
By Danielle Steel. 2011
Three people start out miserable on their landmark birthdays but end up happy. Aging style guru Valerie Wyatt turns sixty…
unattached, Valerie's single daughter April is thirty and pregnant, and quarterback-turned-sportscaster Jack Adams faces fifty alone. Bestseller. 2011Classic western stories: the most beloved stories
By Cooper Edens. 2009
Western adventures of explorers, cowboys, and Indians are commemorated in poems, songs, and stories. Includes folk legends of Pecos Bill…
and Paul Bunyan, and real-life exploits of Lewis and Clark and Daniel Boone. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2009