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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship.
Author
Language
English
Description
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms...
6) Targeted
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the court where he is accused of reckless endangerment from his last assignment is attacked by violent operatives, Bobby Lee Swagger must rely on his instincts, shooting skills and the help of a mysterious rogue sniper on the outside, to save the very people who accused him.
Author
Series
Frank Bascombe novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank Bascombe details and confronts his own morality and that of his son, just diagnosed with ALS, on a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore.
11) Marguerite
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A young live-in nurse forges an unlikely connection with her once-powerful elderly charge before the influential people of their village begin targeting the relationship with gossip and a scheme to get the nurse fired.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When faced with a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, Jules a seventy-four-year-old maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widow, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust must confront his complex past and find a way forward.
Author
Series
Sheldon Horowitz novels volume 1
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a murder in Olso, elderly former Marine sniper and watch repairman, Sheldon Horrowitz , flees to safety with the newly orphaned son of the victim and becomes haunted by memories of his own son who died in Vietnam.
Author
Series
Secret diary of Hendrik Groen volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The journal of an octogenarian who is far from reaching the end of his life traces a year in his care home in Amsterdam, revealing the ups and downs of his misadventures with the anarchic "Old-But-Not-Dead Club" and a longtime crush whom he courted to devastating effect.
Author
Series
Five people you meet in Heaven volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this enchanting sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Annie - the little girl Eddie saved on Ruby Pier--and the five people she meets in heaven, where she is reunited with Eddie in a surprising and unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect.
Author
Publisher
Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a ten-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies. Together, they race against the limited time each has left, ticking off wishes one by one. Along the way, Murray remembers what it's like to be young, and Jason fights for the oppotunity to grow old. But when...
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