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Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kath and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into their lives at Hallsham, an isolated private school in the English countryside, and a confrontation with the truth about their childhoods.
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Series
Language
English
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"An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. "You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay. . ." The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo...
3) Vagabonds
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth in this spellbinding novel from Hugo Award-winning author Hao Jingfang. This genre-bending novel is set on Earth in the wake of a second civil war...not between two factions in one nation, but...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches--which range over such crucial writers as Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, Edmund Wilson, and Mikhail Lermontov--literary critic James Wood offers a panoramic look at the modern novel. He effortlessly connects his encyclopedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally in-depth analysis of the most important authors writing today, including Cormac McCarthy, Lydia Davis, and Aleksandar...
Author
Publisher
Эксмо
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Кэти никогда не была обычной. В «Хейлшеме», пансионе, где она росла, особенными были все дети. И образование получали особенное. Вот только контактировать с реальным миром не мог никто их них. Наверное, это было к лучшему? Тридцать лет спустя Кэти вспоминает...
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