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"Food anthropologist Miriam Quinones-Smith's move from New York to Coral Shores, Miami, puts her academic career on hold to stay at home with her young son. Adding to her funk is an opinionated mother-in-law and a husband rekindling a friendship with his ex. Gracias to her best friend, Alma, she gets a short-term job as a Caribbean cooking expert on a Spanish-language morning TV show. But when the newly minted star attends a Women's Club luncheon,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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This is the story of the savage, tormented foundling Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other. A book of great power and strength, it is filled with the raw beauty of the moors and an uncanny understanding of the terrible truths about men and women. It is an understanding made even more extraordinary by the fact that...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
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1530L
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English
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Pearl S. Buck's timeless masterpiece, the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of a farmer's journey through China in the 1920s. The Good Earth is Buck's classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple's fortunes improve over the years: They are blessed with sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property in the House of Wang, the very house in which O-lan...
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Jane Arleth's mountain vacation is cut short by news that both her parents have been sick back home. Anxious to help but sad to leave a rare chance to relax for the hard times ahead, Jane returns to the city. She soon discovers that there's only one cure for her ailing parents: some much-deserved, cooling time away from the scorching city. So Jane rents a tiny cottage on the beach, hoping for the best. And the summer changes Jane's life forever.
7) Sunrise
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[publisher not identified]
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[1937]
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405 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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English
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Falsely accused of murdering Allen Neece, cowboy Brazos Keene had narrowly escaped a lynch mob. With his name at last cleared, Keene discovered that Neece's twin sisters had lost their ranch and were struggling unsuccessfully to run a restaurant. Brazos made a pledge to track down their brother's killers and get the ranch back. So he became target practice for a band of ruthless rustlers. But Brazos also found himself hopelessly in love with both...
9) Marigold
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[publisher not identified]
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[1942]
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381 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
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1350L
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English
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Hawkeye, the colonial scout, and Chingachkook, the Mohican warrior are brought together by their love of the New World forests and their desire for peace between their races. Set against the exciting days of the French and Indian War, their story--heroically risking their lives to guide two English sisters through hostile territory, battling the evil Le Renard Subtil--is a story of how trust and understanding can develop between people of two cultures....
11) 1984
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell s 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power. The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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840L
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almanzo Wilder arrives to take her to her family for the weekend.
13) The gun tamer
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1955.
Physical Desc
389 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
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English
14) Buffalo Wagons
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago, he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson...
16) Border Guns
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Thomas T. Beeler, Publisher
Pub. Date
1963
Physical Desc
196 p.
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English
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Sheriff Ross Varney was no stranger to tough towns like this. He had known El Paso and many other towns quite well, but in this town, the wildness outdid all the others. He knew beneath the gaiety there moved a strong undercurrent of violence, needing nothing more than a spilled drink or the turn of a card to bring it to the surface. He'd seen these things before---and was still ready for the next card...
17) Bravo Trail
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Thomas T. Beeler, Publisher
Pub. Date
1963
Physical Desc
183 p.
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English
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For ten years Lace Morrow had been running from a crime he had been convicted for --a crime he did not commit----and his closest friend had dogged his trail, a man obsessed in a way Lace could not understand. But suddenly Lace got tired of being hounded. He had run long enough. So he buckled on his guns and rode back to the place where it all began.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
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English
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A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their little house on the prairie. Soon they are...
19) The Oxbow Range
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1964]
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151 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
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English
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Thomas T. Beeler, Publisher
Pub. Date
1964
Physical Desc
178 p.
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English
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Wylie Brooks and Steve Tilton are two friendly Texans who have staked their fortune in a cattle ranch in a Montana. But before long, a series of baffling losses threaten to wipe out their herd and the partners, who had previously thought the Cathedral Butte country was cow heaven, loosen up their guns and go on a hunt for justice that has a blazing outcome.
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