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1) Middlesex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
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Language
English
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Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
"In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life...
Author
Series
Beacons of hope volume 2
Language
English
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"In 1865, Caroline has tended the Windmill Point Lighthouse in Michigan since her father's death, but her home and livelihood are threatened when a wounded Civil War veteran arrives to take her place."--
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When her efforts to pursue a professional culinary life end in disappointment, Sam spends a summer working for the family pie shop and begins to learn about and understand the women in her life, her family's history, and her passion for food.
Author
Publisher
Phoenix Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Young-marrieds Saul, a transplanted Baltimore Jew, and Patsy move to Five Oaks from Evanston, Ill. When Saul is hired to teach at the local high school. One of Saul's students, a mildly retarded boy named Gordy, takes to haunting their house, maybe with malicious intent, maybe not. Blamed by some for the boy's death after the boy commits suicide, Saul must struggle against community hostility.
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