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English
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With “incantatory prose” that “sweeps over the reader like a dream,” (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.
In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird...
In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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"Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house of his own is the dream that sustains Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair after he marries into the domineering Tulsi family."--WorldCat.
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English
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While renovating an old mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, Declan Fitzgerald begins seeing visions of days from a century past. Local legend has it that the house is haunted but he uncovers the reason for the strange sensations of terror and unbearable grief.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Opportunity knocks for an Iranian immigrant in California when the county offers for sale a seized house at a bargain price. It will serve as a launching pad for his real-estate business. When the county discovers it made an error, the drug-addicted woman who owned the house demands its return, but the Iranian refuses. Unfortunately for him, the woman's lover is a policeman who takes the law into his hands.
8) Bad move
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Series
Zach Walker novels volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Growing up under an assumed identity after accidentally shooting her mother and escaping her abusive father, Liza Barton, still fearful that her past will reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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Catherine, recently divorced, comes to live in her grandmother's house and discovers her diary that tells how she raised her sisters, was sent to a sanitarium for tuberculosis, fell in love and how she had changed when she returned home. It allows the granddaughter to see her own patterns of disappointment and compromise in her life and that of her grandmother.
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Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into Americas housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle classamong them, Donald Trump and his inner circle. Two years before the housing market collapsed in 2008, Donald Trump looked forward to a crash: “I sort of hope that happens because then people like me...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Rapidly losing his self-respect in the wake of a failed marriage and a hated job, New York realtor Dock Bass moves to Pennsylvania when he learns he has inherited a historic house, where he discovers a trove of Civil War memorabilia.
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