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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Evaluating his life on the eve of his death, atypical canine Enzo considers the sacrifices his master, Denny Swift, has made in his pursuit of becoming a professional race car driver, and the dog's own efforts to preserve the Swift family.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast...
Author
Publisher
Drag City
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Riding a gush of critical acclaim for his work on the films Kids (screenwriter) and Gummo (director), Korine, at the ripe age of 23, attempts to make a novel by using a little bit of everything, but botches the job. What we get, in fact, is more an MTV-style collage of lists, story fragments, indecipherable handwritten notes, crude drawings, photos, dialogue, bad jokes, wordplay and pop culture references to music, movies, drugs and deathall resolutely...
Author
Language
English
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It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly, out of nowhere, she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer with whom she just happens to be in love. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L. A., and Doc knows that "love" is one of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy" - except that this one usually leads to trouble.
Author
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
For more than two thousand years, Old London Bridge evolved through many fragile wooden forms until it became the first bridge built of stone since the Roman invaders. With over two hundred houses and shops built directly upon the bridge, it was a wonder of the world until it was dismantled in 1832. In this stunningly original novel, Old London Bridge is as much a living, breathing character as its architect, the priest Peter de Colechurch, who...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This biography of the 20th century pioneering experimental novelist of works such as Blood and Guts in High School and Empire of the Senses draws on exclusive interviews as well as private journals, correspondence and early drafts of her novels."--
"The first full-scale authorized biography of the pioneering experimental novelist Kathy Acker, one of the most original and controversial figures in 20th-century American literature. Kathy Acker (1947–1997)...
12) The unfortunates
Author
Publisher
New Directions Pub
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A sportswriter, sent to a Midlands town on a weekly assignment, finds himself confronted by ghosts from the past when he disembarks at the railway station. Memories of one of his best, most trusted friends, a tragically young victim of cancer, begin to flood through his mind as he attempts to go about the routine business of reporting a soccer match. --From publisher description.
15) Pure colour
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal―to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis...
16) Pink
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The director of the motion picture, Good Will Hunting, offers an unconventional debut novel, complete with footnotes, varying typefaces, line drawings, and a flip-book cartoon, about the encounter of a TV producer with another dimension. Reprint.
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Con película de FOX 2000, protagonizada por Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried y Kevin Costner. Una historia de amor, tragedia, redención, peligro y con el mejor narrador: Enzo, cuya alma de perro longevo tiene mucho que enseñarnos sobre el ser humano. «Vivo con Danny, y he aprendido tanto de él... he aprendido los principios para ser un buen piloto de carreras. Equilibrio, anticipación, paciencia. Éstas son lecciones muy importantes, tanto...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Lila Jerome has never been very lucky in love, and has always been more interested in studying architecture and, more recently, supporting the war bond effort on the home front. But in the fall of 1943, a chance spark with a boarder in her apartment sets Lila on a course that shakes up all of her ideas about romance."--
20) The blind owl
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but with the turning of each page basic facts become obscure and the reader soon realizes this book is much more than a love story. Although the Blind Owl has been compared to the works of the Kafka, Rilke and Poe, this work defies categorization....
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