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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
An engineer in Vietnam is shaken when he discovers why his company's planes are getting lost, a marriage between a Thai Muslim and an American woman sparks a terrible family fight, and a young woman in 1920s Siam experiences her brother's colonial stance.
5) Guilty wives
Author
Language
English
Description
"No husbands allowed. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend brings pulsating discos,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A simple daytrip turns to terror when Tom Sawyer, Huck Funn and Jim are kidnapped by the crazed inventor of an experimental airship, who flies off with his captives in a midnight storm, leaving the boys trapped miles in the air in mid-Atlantic.
10) Flashpoint
Author
Series
Troubleshooters volume 7
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
11) Home leave
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The members of the Kriegstein family deal with their tumultuous existence as their patriarch, Chris, accepts jobs around the world that bring them across North America, Europe, and Asia, until an unimaginable loss adds a permanence they never experienced before.
15) Shantaram
Author
Language
English
Description
Having escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay, where he works for a drug kingpin, smuggles arms for a crime lord, and forges bonds with fellow exiles.
16) Scarecrow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When a $20,000,000 bounty is placed on his head, Scarecrow Schofield begins an international race for survival during which he unravels a vast conspiracy that reveals why he has been targeted.
17) Daisy Miller
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Daisy is as free as the air, but an innocent abroad. Her life encompasses the tragic difficulties of youth, tradition and love.