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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated retelling of "Gulliver's Travels" in which the voyages of an eighteenth-century Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Katherine Givens, following the wishes of her friend Annie who has died of ovarian cancer at the age of fifty-six, calls together four other women who have been important in Annie's life, and together they travel across the country sprinking Annie's ashes in designated places, and reevaluating their own lives and choices.
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Language
English
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Description
New Orleans cocktail waitress Caroline Winters, having run away from her home in New York fifteen years earlier following the disappearance of her little sister, Ellie, spots a picture of a woman in a magazine that she believes is Ellie, now grown up, and embarks on a quest to find the woman and heal her family.
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Maxie McNabb, a sixty-something woman who likes wandering the country in her mobile home, agrees to put her plans for a lazy summer in Alaska on hold to help her old friend Karen who is moving from Hawaii back up north, but she arrives in the islands to find Karen has not told her the truth and is soon embroiled in a dangerous mystery.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The "Ibis," embarks on a journey from Calcutta with a diverse crew of sailors--which includes a bankrupt raja, a widowed tribeswoman, a Mulatto American freedman, and a French orphan--to the poppy fields in Ganges, to China's nineteenth-century Opium War.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Award-winning actor and playwright Ron McLarty is well known for his performances like A Walk in the Woods and Travels With Charley. What fewer people realize is that he's also an accomplished author. In this wonderfully quirky novel, available exclusively as an audiobook, McLarty takes listeners on a quest to find hope and redemption with an unlikely hero.
Smithson Ide is 43 years old and weighs 279 pounds when his parents die in an accident. Lost...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
B&B hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn and her closer-than-a-sibling cousin Renie would be crazy to turn down a free, 1930's-themed South Pacific islands cruise aboard the magnificent San Rafael, the pride of the Cruz Cruises fleet. Unfortunately, the fabulous pre-launch party is as far out to sea as the passengers are likely to get, after the body of their VIP host, Magglio Cruz, is discovered stuffed in the piano and the cruise is cancelled. Suddenly...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
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Description
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey.
In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her finest achievements: the story of a woman’s spiritual adventure that becomes...
In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her finest achievements: the story of a woman’s spiritual adventure that becomes...
13) Desperation
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Mary and Peter Jackson, the Carver family, and aging novelist John Marinville are on their way to different destinations, but first they must pass through the town of Desperation, Nevada and for some of them it will be the end of the road.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A retired London bank manager is yanked out of the suburbs by his eccentric aunt for a “cheerfully irreverent” romp across Europe (The Guardian). Now that the dullish Henry Pulling has left his job with an agreeable pension and a firm handshake, he plans to spend more time weeding his dahlias. Then, for the first time in fifty years, he sees his aunt Augusta at his mother’s funeral. Charging into her seventies with florid abandon, not a day...
15) Le divorce
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
California girl Isabel Walker arrives in Paris to visit her stepsister Roxy on the same day Roxy's French husband Charles-Henri leaves her for another woman and it is not long before both sets of parents are also involved in the marital discord, much of which revolves around possession of a valuable wedding gift.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Talents, Incorporated was first published in 1962 at the height of the Cold War. The order of the day was MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) and Murray Leinster, pseudonym for William F. Jenkins, author of Talents, Incorporated, does a better job of presenting the absurdity of governing for defeat than does Wibberley. Wibberley assails the patronizing near Imperialism of the anti-Communist frenzy of the era. Both are hilarious, disconcerting, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Bibi Chen, the leader of a group of twelve American tourists, mysteriously dies while on an art expedition in the Himalayan foothills of China, the remainder of the group discover that the Burma Road is filled with danger and uncertainty.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A fact-based novel which tells the story of Isabella Lucy Bird, an intrepid Victorian woman who fulfills her ambition to travel to the Colorado Territory in 1873 where she falls in love with the mysterious Rocky Mountain Jim, a man who lives to prevent Belle's countryman Lord Dunraven, from buying up Estes Park.
19) The voyage out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miss Rachel Vinrace, aged twenty-four and previously interested only in music, is on a voyage both literal and metaphorical. An ocean cruise with her father leaves her for the summer at her Aunt’s villa in an unnamed South American country, where she meets the English inhabitants of the local town’s hotel. As the season progresses she starts to become entangled in their own lives and passions, and through those burgeoning acquaintances and friendships...
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