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1) The stranger
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
Author
Publisher
Sony Classical
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
None
Description
Original motion picture soundtrack from the movie based on the book of the same name. Music by Mychael Danna. Canadian-born Danna is recognized as one of the pioneers of combining non-Western music with orchestral and electronic elements in his film scores. Life of Pi marks his third collaboration with director Ang Lee.
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Sano Halo's life as told to her daughter, Thea, telling how, at the age of ten, she and her family were driven from their home by Turkish soldiers in a raid that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people;and discussing her marriage at the age of fifteen to a much-older man, and their life together in America.
4) The Iliad
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity's most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation"--
"The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious...
Author
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Beginning naked in the darkness, Brian Brett takes us on a journey through a summer's day that also tells the story of his affectionately named Trauma Farm - exploring the garden, orchards, fields, the mysteries of livestock and poultry, the social intricacies of rural communities - and eventually encounters a magnificent deer in the silver moonlight of a magical pasture." "Both a memoir and a natural history of the small mixed farm, this eighteen-year-long...
9) Esrahaddon
Author
Series
Rise and fall volume 3
Publisher
Riyria Enterprises
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A hero to some. A villain to many. The truth forever buried. The man who became known as Esrahaddon is reported to have destroyed the world's greatest empire—but there are those who believe he saved it. Few individuals are as divisive, but all agree on three facts: He was exiled to the wilderness, hunted by a goblin priestess, and sentenced to death by a god—all before the age of eight. How he managed to survive and why people continued to fear...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"No star burned more ferociously than Judy Garland. And nobody witnessed Garland's fierce talent at closer range than Stevie Phillips. During the Mad Men era, Stevie Philips was a young woman muscling her way into the manscape of Manhattan's glittering office towers. After a stint as a secretary, she began working for Freddie Fields and David Begelman at Music Corporation of America (MCA) under the glare of legendary über-agent Lew Wasserman. When...
11) Agents of empire: knights, corsairs, Jesuits and spies in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Malcolm takes this document as a point of departure to explore the lives of the entire Bruni family, whose members included an archbishop of the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the Battle of Lepanto--at which the Ottomans were turned back in the Eastern Mediterranean--in 1571, and a highly...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
Here is the first anthology to present a full range of multilingual poetries from Latin America, covering over 500 years of a poetic tradition as varied, robust, and vividly imaginative as any in the world. Editors Cecilia Vicuna and Ernesto Livon-Grosman present a fresh and expansive selection of Latin American poetry, from the indigenous responses to the European conquest, through early feminist poetry of the 19th century, the early 20th century...
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