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Everyman's library volume 150
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In a satire of the Russian revolution, the animals establish a totalitarian regime
3) Cat's cradle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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An apocalyptic tale of the planet Earth's ultimate fate and satirical commentary on modern man and his madness
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Everyman's library volume 200
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English
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Reluctantly heading for America in search of opportunity, a penniless young man goes west, rides a riverboat, and is overtaken by bad company, while the battle for his grandfather's gold in London reveals new depths of family treachery
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Everyman's library volume 160
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 61
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English
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When a river man and his daughter troll the Thames searching for drowned men whose pockets they will rifle before turning the body over to the authorities, they find the corpse of a man who was returning from abroad to claim a large fortune
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English
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When a bizarre phenomenon causes the cataclysmic disappearances of numerous people all over the world, Kevin Garvey, the new mayor of a once-comfortable suburban community, struggles to help his neighbors heal while enduring the fanatical religious conversions of his wife and son.
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Discworld volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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While Archchancellor Ridcully, at the request of benevolent tyrant Lord Ventinari, attempts to assemble a capable football team from the unathletic rabble at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University, handsome yet lazy Trev falls for dim yet pretty kitchen maid Juliet
10) Pygmy
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English
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Pygmy--a young adult from a totalitarian state, disguised as an exchange student--plans a terrorist attack and depicts U.S. Midwestern life through the eyes of a hateful, indoctrinated killer, in this satire of American xenophobia
11) Damned
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English
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“As gleefully, vividly, hilariously obscene as you'd expect. . . . Irreverent and hugely entertaining." —NPR
From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark and brilliant satire about adolescence, Hell, and the Devil.
Madison is the thirteen-year-old daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire. Abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, she dies over the holiday, presumably
12) A dirty job
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Charlie Asher, a neurotic and anxious hypochondriac who hates change, confronts the challenges of being a widower and a single parent when his wife dies of a freak medical condition on the day his new daughter, Sophie, is born.
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Everyman's library volume 289
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English
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When a young German visits a tubercular cousin at a sanitorium he learns that he too is diseased and stays for seven years, until he is released to join World War I
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English
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Alive and well in the twenty-first century in spite of the need to hold jobs to support themselves, the twelve Greek gods of Olympus work as dog walkers, TV psychics, and sex operators before a pair of humans is swept up in a battle of wills between Aphrodite and Apollo
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Discworld volume 32
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English
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A prisoner-turned-postal worker tackles a new assignment in a different branch of the government through which he is directed to oversee the printing of a city's first paper currency, a job with unexpected challenges
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