Lorna Raver
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English
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This is the tale of the Astor family as it rises and falls. While the family squabbles with each other over Brooke Astor's vast wealth, journalist Meryl Gordon reveals the secrets of this seemingly coming-to-an-end epic. Gordon infiltrates the Astor family and its elite social circles that will cut through the lies and greed, exposing the motives of those vying for the Astor fortune.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue,...
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"Edith Wharton’s acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman. A Penguin Vitae Edition Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a suitable match from a good family, when May’s cousin, the beautiful and exotic Countess Ellen Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The...
4) Someday
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Every day volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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When A discovers there are others who wake up in a different person's body every day, A gains new understanding of the extremes where love and loneliness can lead. Told from multiple perspectives.