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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Cast adrift in the Depression-era West after the last of her relatives pass away, Zorrie survives by working at a radium processing plant before finding love, community and unexpected loss upon returning to her small Indiana hometown.
2) Rainwater
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English
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In the midst of the Great Depression, Ella Barron strenuously works to keep her Texas boardinghouse up and running. Between cooking, cleaning, and caring for her misbehaving child, Ella struggles to get by. However, the enigmatic David Rainwater shows up out-of-the-blue, looking for room and board, Ella happily takes him inches But when Conrad Ellis and his gang of hoods threaten violence, Ella and Rainwater are put to the test.
Author
Series
Cold Sassy series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Young Will Tweedy becomes chaperon, conspirator, and confidant to his renegade grandpa, E. Rucker Blakeslee, and the old man's young new wife, Miss Love Simpson, in a new edition of the classic novel set against the backdrop of Cold Sassy, Georgia, at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 36
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English
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A portrait of India featuring four characters. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.
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English
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Penguin Classics commemorates the 50th anniversary of Steinbeck's Nobel Prize with two stunning new editions of his best-loved worksAt age fifty-eight, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip meanders from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Still evocative and awe-inspiring after fifty years, Travels with Charley in Search of America provides an intimate look...
7) A new song
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Series
Mitford years volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Mitford's longtime Eposcopal priest, Father Tim, fills in at a small church on Whitecap Island. He and his wife, Cynthia, soon find that Whitecap has its own unforgettable characters.
Author
Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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Chronicles the lives of the handful of residents of a dying Nevada mining town, focusing on the comings and goings at the town general store that make the town seem like a more vibrant place than many small cities.--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Named "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around her home, Kimmel's witty memoir takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent post-war period, where people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.
10) Glory be
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
11) In evil hour
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English
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The acclaimed Colombian writer's early novel about the slanders, defamations, infidelities, and torrential rains that afflict a small town and the sacrifice of a boy that brings torment and chaos to an end.
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English
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Three days before Christmas, in the freezing slums of London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps and eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway join together in a search for Charlie, the donkey who belonged to Minnie Maude's Uncle Alf. Gracie is shocked to learn that only the day before, someone brutally murdered Uncle Alf and made off with his rag-and-bones cart and the beloved beast who pulled it.
13) Silverado
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999-]
Language
English
Description
A fast-riding adventure story of four strangers drawn together on the Western frontier.
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail and learn who their real friends are.
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Life as a secretary in New York just got tougher when Viviana Valentine’s boss goes M.I.A in this debut historical mystery, perfect for fans of Susan Elia MacNeal and Frances Brody. New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city’s top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find...
Publisher
Distributed by YA Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Korean
Description
Frugal and hard-working Yeon Woo (Kim So Yeon) makes ends meet working in fisheries in the small town of Sokcho. Her life makes a dramatic turn when Dong Seok (Ryu Si Won), an in-house lawyer for a large home shopping corporation, travels down to her hometown to perform some damage control regarding litigation filed against the company by Sokcho's fishery union. His negotiation with the local union soon turns into a confrontational brawl, and Dong...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An exhilarating journey through the subcultures, occupied squats, and late-night scenes in the anarchic first few years of Berlin after the fall of the Wall. Berlin Calling is a gripping account of the 1989 'peaceful revolution' in East Germany that upended communism and the tumultuous years of artistic ferment, political improvisation, and pirate utopias that followed. It's the story of a newly undivided Berlin when protest and punk rock, bohemia...
17) Love takes wing
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
The next chapter in the Love Series continues, as Dr. Belinda Davis leaves small-town life for the big city.
Author
Series
Publisher
J. Lorimer
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Just when it's Greg, Mike and Becky's turn to step into the spotlight and perform in their town's annual play, The Legend of Cow Valley, they learn that it will be cancelled forever. The gang bands together to save the show and teach the town about the value of tradition and the role that young people have in keeping history fun and alive"--P. [4] of cover.
19) Safe at home
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After the death of his father, Elijah Breeze, a ten-year-old African American boy, moves back to New York City with his mother and attends a summer baseball camp as he tries to make new friends and adapt to urban ways.
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