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1. The city we became

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Author:
Jemisin, N. K.
Series:
Great cities trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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"Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even...

2. A tale of two cities

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Series:
Dover large print classics
Greenwich House classics library
Vintage classics
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Lexile measure:
870L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
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When millions suffer under iron-fisted oppression, when anger and resentment boil into bloody rebellion, when triumph leads to savage vengeance - does one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens interweaves the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution. Lucie struggles desperately to restore the health of a father driven mad by years of...

3. American ramble: a walk of memory and renewal

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Author:
King, Neil, Jr
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English
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A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City, an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground. Neil King Jr.'s desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. By the spring of 2021, events had intervened that gave his desire greater urgency. His neighborhood still reeled from the January 6th insurrection....

4. Barchester Towers

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Author:
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882
Series:
World's classics
Chronicles of Barsetshire volume 2
Everyman's library volume 57
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English
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This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. It opens with the Bishop of Barchester lying on his death bed; soon a battle begins over who will take over power, with key players including the rather incompetent Dr Proudie, his fiendishly unpleasant wife and his slippery curate, Slope. This is a wonderfuly rich novel, in which men and women are too shy to tell each other of their love;...

5. Flight behavior: a novel

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Author:
Kingsolver, Barbara
Language:
English
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4 stars
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Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive...

6. A Study in Scarlet

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Author:
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Series:
Sherlock Holmes Children's Collection volume 1
Lexile measure:
1050L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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In the dimly lit alleys of Victorian London, a dense fog cloaks the city, wrapping its secrets in an enigmatic shroud. The air is thick with anticipation as a mysterious letter arrives at 221B Baker Street, the famed residence of the unparalleled detective, Sherlock Holmes. The sender, a shadowy figure known only as "The Midnight Scribe," beckons Holmes and his ever-loyal companion, Dr. John Watson, into a web of intrigue that will test the limits...

7. The Pickwick papers

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
Everyman's library volume no. 235
Lexile measure:
1160L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Relates the various activities and adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club.

8. Life on the Mississippi

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Library of America paperback classics
Tantor unabridged classics
World's best reading
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Lexile measure:
1090L
Language:
English
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He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and much of his writing was informed by his shipboard adventures on one of the world's great rivers. In this classic of American literature, Twain offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice pilot to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Under the...

9. Great expectations

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Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Series:
Oxford world's classics volume 10
Vintage classics
Barnes and Noble classics
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Lexile measure:
1230L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor-these form a series of events that change the orphan Pip's life forever, as he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting novel depicts Pip's education and development...

10. Romeo and Juliet

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Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Sourcebooks Shakespeare
Plays
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English
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5 stars
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

11. You don't own me

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Author:
Clark, Mary Higgins
Series:
Under suspicion volume 6
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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""Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fifth enthralling mystery in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; You Don't Own Me finds television producer Laurie Moran stopping at nothing to solve the murder of a celebrity doctor--even as she finds herself in grave danger as a mysterious stalker plots his next move. When we last saw Laurie Moran, she had recently become engaged to her show's former...

12. Dracula

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Author:
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
Series:
Oxford world's classics
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Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"A dreary castle, blood-thirsty vampires, open graves at midnight, and other gothic touches fill this hardcover Dover Bookshelf edition of the chilling tale about a young Englishman's confrontation with the evil Count Dracula"-- "By night, Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912) navigated the flourishing world of Victorian theater, yet, in the shadows, he was the brilliant mind behind the chilling vampire masterpiece Dracula, a tale of insatiable hunger...

13. The Carrie diaries

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Author:
Bushnell, Candace
Series:
Carrie Diaries volume 1
Language:
English
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Tells the story of Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw's high school years, her relationships with her peers, and how she became a writer.

14. Columbine

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Author:
Cullen, Dave, 1961-
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 760L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school and to leave 'a lasting impression on the world.' Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence ... Dave Cullen delivers a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold,...

15. New York 2140

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Author:
Robinson, Kim Stanley
Publisher:
Orbit
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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"A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever. Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. Through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of one building Kim...

16. The closer: [my story]

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Author:
Rivera, Mariano, 1969-
Lexile measure:
1010L
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English
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Mariano Rivera tells his story for the first time: the championships, the bosses (including the Boss), the rivalries, the struggles of being a Latino baseball player in the United States, and of maintaining Christian values in professional athletics. The twelve-time All-Star will discuss what it's like to run up to that mound with the game, or the season squarely on his shoulders.

17. City of dreams: the 400-year epic history of immigrant New York

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Author:
Anbinder, Tyler
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English
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City of Dreams is peopled with memorable characters both beloved and unfamiliar, whose lives unfold in rich detail: the young man from the Caribbean who passed through New York on his way to becoming a Founding Father; the ten-year-old Angelo Siciliano, from Calabria, who transformed into Charles Atlas, bodybuilder; Dominican-born Oscar de la Renta, whose couture designs have dressed first ladies from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama. Tyler Anbinder’s...

18. Mrs. Dalloway

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Author:
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Series:
Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
Harvest book
Everyman's library volume 157
Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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""Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." It's one of the most famous opening lines in literature, that of Virginia Woolf's beloved masterpiece of time, memory, and the city. In the wake of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell- shock and on the brink of madness....

19. The Game of Life and How to Play It

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Author:
Shinn, Florence Scovel
Language:
English
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The Game of Life and How to Play It is a short work of metaphysics by American artist, illustrator, and New Thought teacher Florence Scovel Shinn. Published in 1925, this book explores the foundations of Shinn's philosophy - that what one puts out into the world is what one receives back. Shinn began her career as an artist and illustrator, drawing for Harper's magazine and several popular novels. After her marriage to artist Everett Shinn ended in...

20. A Princess of Mars

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Author:
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950
Series:
Mars novels
First Avenue Classics
Barsoom - John Carter volume 1
Lexile measure:
1390L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Soon after the American Civil War, Confederate soldier John Carter joins the gold rush in Arizona. After striking a vein of gold, Carter runs into trouble with the natives of the area. In attempts to evade their pursuit, Carter hides in a cave, unaware of its magical properties. Mysteriously, Carter is transported to Mars, which the planet inhabitants call "Barsoom". When Carter discovers that the gravity difference between Mars and Earth has granted...
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