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Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
English
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Toby Lester opens up a surprising window onto the artist and philosopher himself and the tumultuous intellectual and cultural transformations he bridged. With sparkling prose, Lester captures the brief but momentous time in the history of western thought when the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance, art and science and philosophy converged as one, and all seemed to hold out the promise that a single human mind, if properly harnessed, could grasp...
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English
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Former head of the Bonnano crime family, Bill Bonnano, and former undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone (aka Donnie Brasco) have collaborated with David Fisher on a riveting thriller about organized crime. Set in New York City in the mid-1980s, The Good Guys finds the Russian Mafia, the Italian Mafia and the Feds racing against each other to track down a mysterious professor of Russian languages from Columbia University. Rumors circulate that the professor...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Legendary author Ray Bradbury unfolds the story of humankind's conquest and colonization of Mars. In a bid to save themselves from Earth's imminent destruction, humans send several explorations to the Red Planet. Although secretive, the Martians are inviting at first. However, disease carried to Mars by the human colonists soon sparks an intergalactic war.
4) Star Island
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Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 6
Language
English
Description
Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherry's "undercover stunt double", portraying Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. But, one night, Ann-as-Cherry is mistakenly kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by an obsessed paparazzo named Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers (über-stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped-and-tucked...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather...