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1) 1984
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75th ANNIVERSARY 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 Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 4
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English
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Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision: the Red October is heading west. The Americans want it. The Russians want it back. And the most incredible chase in history is on.
3) The body
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In 1960, Gordie LaChance and three of his rambunctious friends venture into the Maine woods and find out about life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. The Body is the basis of the classic film Stand By Me, and one of four novellas in the bestselling book Different Seasons.
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Jack Sawyer series volume 1
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English
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This collaboration between bestselling authors Stephen King and Peter Straub is a fantasy thriller about a young boy's quest to save his mother's life.
5) Apt pupil
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English
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Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher: Mr. Dussander. Todd knows all about Dussander's darl past. The torture. The death. The decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn't want to turn him in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to learn the real meaning of power—and the seductive lure of evil.
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George Smiley novels volume 1
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English
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The first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carré's masterful creation George Smiley.
"Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards."
"Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards."
George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy—which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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New York Times bestseller: A "powerful" Southern drama about the destructive repercussions of keeping an unspeakable family secret (The Atlanta Journal).
Tom Wingo has lost his job, and is on the verge of losing his marriage, when he learns that his twin sister, Savannah, has attempted suicide again. At the behest of Savannah's psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Lowenstein, Tom reluctantly leaves his home in South Carolina to...
Tom Wingo has lost his job, and is on the verge of losing his marriage, when he learns that his twin sister, Savannah, has attempted suicide again. At the behest of Savannah's psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Lowenstein, Tom reluctantly leaves his home in South Carolina to...
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Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
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Unabridged
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English
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In 1947, Andy Dufresne, an established banker, is wrongly imprisoned at Shawshank prison in Maine for the murder of his wife and her secret lover. Andy faces many hardships within the prison walls, but manages to have a great friendship with a man named Red. Red, who narrates this Stephen King novella, details the injustice Dufresne experiences as well as the corruption that pervades the prison.
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"The Great Gatsby" is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, "The Great Gatsby" explores themes...
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The story of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, who, along with two companions, sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
11) The runaway jury
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to them.
They are at the center of a multimillion-dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now the jury must make a decision in the most explosive civil trial of the century, a precedent-setting...
They are at the center of a multimillion-dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now the jury must make a decision in the most explosive civil trial of the century, a precedent-setting...
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
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680L
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English
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In this magnificent novel, the National Book Award-winning author of "All the Pretty Horses" fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where ranch hands John Grady Cole and Billy Parham become ensnared in events resonating with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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In a critically acclaimed memoir, a correspondent for The New York Times recounts growing up in the Alabama hill country, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from the poverty and ignorance of life.
14) The brethren
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. The third for a career-ending drunken joyride.
Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse...
Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse...
15) The partner
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English
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Patrick Lanigan, a young law partner who faked his death and fled the country with millions of dollars stolen from his law firm, is found in Brazil after a four-year chase, but investigators are about to learn that the hunt is really just beginning.
16) The testament
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions—a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives.
Because Troy Phelan’s new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a...
Because Troy Phelan’s new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a...
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Dark Tower volume 2
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English
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As Roland, the last gunslinger, pursues his quest for The Dark Tower, he is mysteriously drawn through a door that brings him into 1980s America.
18) Wizard and Glass
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Dark Tower volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 40
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English
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Fourth in the Epic Dark Tower Series...
Wizard and Glass
In 1978, Stephen King introduced the world to the last gunslinger, Roland of Gilead. Nothing has been the same since. More than twenty years later, the quest for the Dark Tower continues to take readers on a wildly epic ride. Through parallel worlds and across time, Roland must brave desolate wastelands and endless deserts, drifting into the unimaginable and the familiar....
Wizard and Glass
In 1978, Stephen King introduced the world to the last gunslinger, Roland of Gilead. Nothing has been the same since. More than twenty years later, the quest for the Dark Tower continues to take readers on a wildly epic ride. Through parallel worlds and across time, Roland must brave desolate wastelands and endless deserts, drifting into the unimaginable and the familiar....
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Michael Osbourne novels volume 2
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English
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Retired CIA officer Michael Osbourne, lured back to the Agency after his father-in-law, ex-Senator Douglas Cannon, is nominated to be the American ambassador to London, discovers a plot to disrupt the peace of Northern Ireland that involves the assassination of Cannon.
20) The waste lands
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Dark Tower volume 3
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English
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Presents the third in the Stephen King series in which the last gunslinger, Roland of Gilead, traverses the poisonous waste lands and the ravaged city of Lud, along with three newcomers to Mid-World, in search of the entity known as the Dark Tower.