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1) Go ask Alice
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"It started when she was served a drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Big Happy Family, LLC
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the year 778 A.D., Charles the Great, King of the Franks, returned from a military expedition into Spain, whither he had been led by opportunities offered through dissensions among the Saracens who then dominated that country. On the 15th of August, while his army was marching through the passes of the Pyrenees, his rear-guard was attacked and annihilated by the Basque inhabitants of the mountains, in the valley of Roncesvaux. About this disaster...
4) The Psalms
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Language
English
Description
The 150 Psalms contain some of the most inspiring lines in the Old Testament: Psalm 23 'The Lord is My Shepherd' and Psalm 121 'I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills'. Yet few know them as a set, and this recording, in Alex Jennings's clear performance, allows us to consider them as a whole. They are not all uplifting and comfortable. Many involve darker sentiments of revenge or punishment; many appear to be by David or about David; others are To...
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The United States themselves are, essentially, the greatest poem, said Walt Whitman. Here are the much-loved examples of the free spirit of America in all its glory.
100 poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman.
Music: American music including Virgil Thompson and Aaron Copland
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The truth only fiction can tell.
This is a novel about aspiration and delusion, set during the presidential election of 2012 and written by an anonymous author who has spent years observing politics and the fraught relationship between public image and self-regard.
The novel includes revealing and insightful portraits of many prominent figures in the political world-some invented and some real.
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. "Spare and unpredictable, minutely observed and utterly...
8) Everyman
Publisher
Players Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Written in Middle English during the Tudor period, "Everyman" is the most famous example of the medieval morality play. Popular in Europe during the 15th and 16th century, morality plays were allegorical dramas in which the protagonists are met with the personifications of personal attributes and tasked with choosing either a good and godly life or evil. "Everyman" is the archetypal morality play, as the main character, Everyman, represents all of...
Author
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Her codename is Kingfisher. Her mission: to seduce and marry a man of wealth and political influence. Now she must protect a terrifying secret. Who owns the most powerful man in the world? October 2016: In America, the election is a few weeks away. Jounrnalist Grace Elliott has just landed a scoop that she believes will make her career. A porn star is willing to talk about her affair with the man some hope and many fear will become the next president...
10) Primary colors
Language
English
Formats
Description
Primary Colors is the riveting story of a governor-from-a-small-state's quest for the presidency, and a jaded Beltway insider's search for a leader to believe in. Spending nearly a year on the New York Times best-seller list, this blockbuster novel has sold well over one million copies. Primary Colors offers a richly detailed look at life on the political stump. As former congressional aide Henry Burton is dazzled and lured into presidential hopeful...
11) Letting Ana go
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Required by her cross-country coach to keep a food diary, an insecure teen finds that writing helps organize her thoughts, especially about issues that she, her best friend, and her mother face related to weight and eating.
12) Jay's journal
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Jay was a sweet, bright high school student who cared about his grades and his friends. He had ambitions. He was happy. And he thought he could handle anything.
He was wrong.
When Jay falls in with a crowd that's dabbling in drugs and the occult, he finds himself in over his head and doing things he never thought possible. Fascinated by the dark arts and in love with a dangerous girl, Jay falls deeper and deeper into a life he no longer recognizes...
13) Breaking Bailey
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sent to a fancy boarding school by her stepmother, a prominent attorney, Rachel keeps a journal chronicling her involvement in a "Science Club" that makes and sells crystal meth.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A dark and edgy first-person cautionary tale about how one girl's seemingly minor choices quickly spiraled into a life as a sex worker in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky . She had a normal life, until one small decision changed everything. Suddenly, there were new possibilities and new experiences.
19) Stillwater
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
20) Boy erased
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jared, the son of a Baptist preacher, is forcibly outed by his parents and forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program.