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"Superb collection by the modern master explores the complexity, anxiety and futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus The Judgment, In the Penal Colony, A Country Doctor and A Report to an Academy"--Publisher description.
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs: A collection of twelve stories that’s “one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability" (The New York Times Book Review).
A volume by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help....
A volume by one of the most exciting writers at work today, the acclaimed author of Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? and Self-Help....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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While working on a project for an after-school club, Julia, a Korean American girl, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but also about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience, and more. Between the chapters are short dialogues between the author and main character about the writing of the book.
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Scary stories for young foxes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness.
The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe. When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who hungers...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.
9) Boss Cupid
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English
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"Gunn, who grew up in England in the '30s and '40s, and has long resided in San Francisco, remains ... famous for his poetic chronicles of gay male lust, love, grief and urban life, and for his ... reader-friendly poems in traditional forms. ... Gunn treats his readers to lovely stanzaic lyric, amiable Ben Jonson-style epistles, cogent blank-verse essays and taut quatrains; he offers up, too, ... descriptions of aging hustlers, versatile bartenders,...
10) Unbearable
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Tracy Cooper-Posey
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Tally Grey Connors' final story. Carson Connors heads out on one last, minor hunt before retiring forever to raise his daughter, Riley, but as Tally goes into labor, tragedy strikes. The hunt for the last two surviving gargoyles-the strongest and smartest of the Stonebrood clan-warps life and love, straining even Nick and Damian's four century long relationship, in ways that no one could possibly anticipate. Unbearable is an emotion-charged part of...
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"Is it possible to identify a starting point in history from which everything else unfolds--a single moment that can explain the present and reveal the essence of our identities? According to Massimo Montanari, this is just a myth: by themselves, origins explain very little and historical phenomena can only be understood dynamically--by looking at how events and identities develop and change as a result of encounters and combinations that are often...
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Wayne Greenhaw recounts his life and experiences as a journalist covering the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, describing his interviews with Klan members, detectives, victims, civil rights leaders, and politicians, and discussing the history of Governor George C. Wallace.
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English
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"Domingo Martinez lays bare his interior and exterior worlds as he struggles to make sense of the violent and the ugly, along with the beautiful and the loving. Partly a reflection on the culture of machismo and partly an exploration of the author's boyhood spent in his sister's hand-me-down clothes, this book delves into the enduring and complex bond between Martinez and his deeply flawed, but fiercely protective older brother. It features a cast...
14) Sabrina's Clan
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Tracy Cooper-Posey
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Alone and lonely. . .can they find each other? Sabrina Castillo survived the foster system to emerge with a fantastic career. One day, she will meet the man who will help her build a family of her own. Nyanther, a two-thousand year old vampire, resents the loss of his tribe and intends to spend his last breath on destroying the gargoyles. He refuses to let anyone into his life, especially Sabrina, who isn't of his world. Jake Summerfield, reluctant...
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Gale Research Co
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
volumes ; 29 cm.
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English
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Presents literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.
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Plants vs. zombies (Graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2013-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Vol. 1: "Young adventurers Patrice Blazing and Nate Timely fend off a 'fun-dead' neighborhood invasion in Plants vs. Zombies: Lawnmageddon!"--From publisher's web site.
Vol. 2: Crazy Dave helps his niece Patrice and Nate Timely and their plants travel back and forward in time to defeat the evil Dr. Zomboss and his army of zombies.
Vol. 3: Racing to beat Zomboss before the zombie leader can recover the parts he needs to rebuild his ominous Sun Vacuum,...
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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637, [639] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
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Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
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Definitive ed.
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6 DVDs (ca. 1038 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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