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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility--until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story: one of...
8) Nocilla lab
Author
Series
Nocilla trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In a deserted city near Chernobyl, a man returns to wander the desolate streets. In a bar on a small island south of Sardinia, a writer struggling to complete the Project drifts into reverie"--Page 4 of cover.
12) Transversal
Author
Publisher
Pski's Porch Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Transversal is a tidal pool of dream imagery, a mad dunk in a pool full of genome, a full helping of swine flu with a side of sexy times. Wonder what would happen if every character in The Magnificent Seven was played by Horst Buchholz? Transversal is like that, the wondering, the faces folding into one another, except in book form."--Amazon.com.
13) The nature book
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Part sweeping evocation of Earth's rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet. What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a "literary supercut" that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1958.
Language
English
Description
Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett's famous trilogy; consisting of: 'Molloy, ' 'Malone Dies, ' and 'The Unnamable.'
16) Finnegans wake
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Follows the narrator through various levels of drunken semi-consciousness. Loosely written around the Irish ballad of Tim Finnegan, who, roused by spilled whiskey, came to at his wake.
17) The delivery
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A day in the life of the Delivery Boy, a recently arrived political refugee who must peddle his way to 5-star customer ratings-and, perhaps, freedom."--
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
The last surviving victim of an experiment that implanted the subjects' heads with electrodes that decipher coded messages is the unnamed narrator. Half the chapters are set in Tokyo, where the narrator negotiates underground worlds populated by INKlings, dodges opponents of both sides of a raging high-tech infowar, and engages in an affair with a beautiful librarian with a gargantuan appetite. In alternating chapters he tries to reunite with his...