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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Un magnífico retrato de heroicidad en un mundo decadente. Esta es la historia del millonario hecho a sí mismo, Jay Gatsby, a quien sólo le mueve una obsesión: recuperar un amor de juventud. Pero Daisy es hoy una muchacha que forma parte de una sociedad frívola y aburrida de sí misma, una criatura encantadora y también dañina. Un magnífico retrato de heroicidad en un mundo decadente. -- Goodreads
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
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Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained...
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Series
Judith Singer mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestseller: The heroine of Compromising Positions returns in this “hilarious” suburban murder mystery (People).
Where did Courtney Logan go? The former investment banker turned suburban dilettante had not lived in Shorehaven for long, but had begun to establish herself there. Her small business—a video production company dedicated to filming newborns—was taking...
Where did Courtney Logan go? The former investment banker turned suburban dilettante had not lived in Shorehaven for long, but had begun to establish herself there. Her small business—a video production company dedicated to filming newborns—was taking...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
7) Plum Island
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
CELEBRATING THE 20th ANNIVERSARY WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR
Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen — and at least one killer. Tom and Judy Gordon, a young, attractive couple Corey knows, have been found on their patio, each with a bullet in the head. The local police chief, Sylvester Maxwell,...
CELEBRATING THE 20th ANNIVERSARY WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR
Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen — and at least one killer. Tom and Judy Gordon, a young, attractive couple Corey knows, have been found on their patio, each with a bullet in the head. The local police chief, Sylvester Maxwell,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From three-time Bram Stoker-Award-winning novelist Sarah Langan comes a propulsive literary suburban noir set in near-future America during the hottest summer on record. Maple Street has a neighborly cul-de-sac, where a terrible secret tears a rift between two misfit moms who were once best friends. When innocent Shelly Schroeder falls down a sinkhole, it's one mom's word against the other's, in a court of public opinion that can end only in blood....
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 343 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Rosie Myers had watched her husband, Richie, change from a teacher to a tycoon who eventually threw her over for a beautiful, young, and very cerebral VP at his company. So when Richie turns up dead in Rosie's kitchen, everyone--police included--thinks she did it, forcing her to head to New York City to search out the real culprit.
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English
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For six dreadful months, David Corstorphine has tried to come to terms with his young wife's death, while caring for his three motherless children. Try as he may, David is unable to return to work, and his only form of solace comes from working in the garden of his parents' estate in the Scottish countryside.
Dispatched unexpectedly to New York, David's family hopes that the impromptu business trip will help him get back on his feet. But the journey...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ray Barone is a successful sportswriter deals with his fed up wife, an older brother with lifelong jealousy and overbearing parents who happen to live across the street.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ray Barone is a successful sportswriter who deals with his brother and parents, who happen to live across the street from him and his family.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large--twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide--had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, a pearl of 8,000...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a Brooklyn grad student agrees to be godmother to the infant son of her best friend, who is in the grip of postpartum depression, a few days after the baptism the student receives a phone call from the mother saying she's killed her son and husband, and the student investigates to try to clear her friend.
15) Aphrodite
Author
Series
Justin Westwood thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 690 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ray Barone is a successful sportswriter whose oddball family life consists of a fed-up wife, overbearing parents, and an older brother with lifelong jealousy.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs in 3 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 750 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It never stops for successful sports writer Ray Barone, whose oddball family life consists of a fed up wife, overbearing parents, and an older brother with lifelong jealousy.
20) Grey Gardens
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality. They were reintroduced to the world...
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