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61) Red River
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families--three generations of African-American men--and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond"--Provided by publisher.
63) Downton Abbey
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The beloved characters of Downton Abbey take to the big screen, and it turns out that they've got a major event to prepare for. After all, it's not every day that royalty makes an appearance. Of course, it's not long before tensions are running high. The property isn't even close to ready when it becomes clear that Carson the butler will need to come out of retirement to help run this sinking ship before it's too late.
67) A touch of sin
Publisher
Kino Lorber Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Inspired by four shocking and true events, the film focuses on four characters who are driven to violent ends. An angry miner, enraged by widespread corruption, decides to take justice into his own hands. A rootless migrant discovers the infinite possibilities of owning a firearm. A young receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young factory worker goes from one discouraging job to the next, only to face increasingly degrading...
68) Cuba crossing
Publisher
Miracle Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.
69) The exiles
Author
Language
English
Description
Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
71) Mudwoman
Author
Language
English
Description
M.R. Neukirchen--the first female president of a lauded Ivy League institution--struggles to hold onto her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons.
72) Echoes
Author
Language
English
Description
In a small seaside Irish town in the late 1950s, two very different children are growing up, shouting their hearts desires into the echo cave, praying that their destiny will lead them far from Castlebay, a place empty and gloomy in winter but bustling with visitors in the gaudy days of summer. One of the children is Clare, shopkeeper Tom O'Brien's younger daughter. She wins a scholarship to University College, Dublin, and seems set for academic glory....
75) The hunters
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Colonel Michael Parson and his friend Sophia Gold fly relief supplies into Somalia despite the threats of an al-Shabaab leader to attack all aid missions.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
This story traces the early course of a young marriage in a luminous style. Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert are incandescent young lovers and they pursue their respective destinies furiously, leading ultimately to oblivion.
Author
Series
American diaries volume 19
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Zellie is unhappy working for Mrs. Gird. A happy turn of events lead her to employment and a new life with Miss O'Brien.
80) Adjustment Day
Author
Language
English
Description
Politicians have brought the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males. Working-class men dream of burying the elites. Professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. Into this dyspeptic time, a blue-black book is launched carrying such wisdom as: Imagine there's no God; there is no Heaven or Hell; there is only your son and his son and his son and the world...