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42) Anna Karenina
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Language
English
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A famous legend surrounding the creation of Anna Karenina tells us that Tolstoy began writing a cautionary tale about adultery and ended up by falling in love with his magnificent heroine. It is rare to find a reader of the book who doesn't experience the same kind of emotional upheaval: Anna Karenina is filled with major and minor characters who exist in their own right and fully embody their mid-nineteenth-century Russian milieu, but it still belongs...
45) John Henry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
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Retells some of the legends of John Henry, an African-American hero who raced against a steam drill to lay railroad tracks on a mountain.
47) Humpty Dumpty
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English
Description
Colorful illustrations accompany the classic nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty." Includes notes on the history of Mother Goose.
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English
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From the author of the beloved classic The Little Prince and a winner of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying. Translated by Lewis Galantière.
49) The idiot
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Language
English
Description
"The Idiot: Illustrated" is a classic novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that delves into the complexities of human nature and societal norms. The story follows Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a young nobleman known for his innocence, honesty, and compassion, who returns to Russia after spending several years in a Swiss sanatorium for treatment of his epilepsy.
As Prince Myshkin navigates the treacherous waters of St. Petersburg society, he encounters...
50) Tattoo of death
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Series
Choose your own adventure volume 159
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The reader must make the right decisions in order to get out of the Red Flowers gang and their evil business of importing illegal aliens into a life of violence and modern-day slavery.
52) Jack and Jill
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English
Description
Colorful illustrations accompany the classic nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill." Includes notes on the history of Mother Goose.
54) Finnegans wake
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English
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Presents an experimental novel depicting a dream of world history, with characters from literature and history appearing and disappearing, written in a dream language that is a comical mixture of all the languages of Europe.
58) The jungle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
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Description
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century. The dismal living and working conditions and sense of hopelessness prevalent among the impoverished workers is compared to the corruption of the rich. Upton aimed to make such "wage slavery" issues center-stage in the minds of the American public. Despite already being serialized, it was rejected as a
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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A look back at the classical traditions studied thus far reveals that although there is no unanimity, there are common dimensions, as well as a consensus about the value of a virtuoso life attained through contemplation and practice.
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