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NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
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NYT Notable Fiction 2023
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1530L
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English
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The story of Wang Lung, the family he founded, the gods he implored, and, above all, the earth that sustained him, the land that he made to prosper against the ravages of nature and the savage attacks of bandit tribes.
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English
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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The Sacketts were fierce fighting men from the hills of Tennessee. The Talons were French, but a life of piracy brought them to American. Milo was half Talon, half Sackett, riding a vengeance trail against a man who had betrayed his kin. And when he found him, Milo Talon would do no less than any Sackett or Talon before him.
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House of Falconer volume 3
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English
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"James Falconer -- a tycoon and a self-made man -- seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her thrall, but years have passed and bitterness has...