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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, twoyoung people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 371
Language
English
Description
"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Mormon church may have disavowed the polygamy it became so famous for in the 19th century, but for some Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints, "plural marriage" isn't just ancient history Mormon bishop's wife Linda Wallheim is stunned to learn her son Kenneth has gotten engaged to a young woman from a polygamous family. Naomi Carter may have left the religion she grew up in, but the Carters will still be the Wallheims' in-laws once Kenneth and Naomi...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. In a small rural town outside Seattle, Joanna, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard--setting in motion a gripping journey into the complexities of...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him-the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Essayist Christopher Hitchens ruminates on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men, the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard, the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell, the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad, the enduring relevance of Karl Marx, and how politics justifies itself by culture--and how the latter prompts the former.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Right: An essential resource for anyone interested in our nation's religious heritage and the Founders' intended role for the American judicial system. Hot topics covered include: revisionism, judicial activism, and separation of church and state. A substantial appendix encompasses full texts of the founding documents, biographical sketches of numerous Founders, and extensive reference notes.
From the left: Barton has a Bachelor of Arts...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an American academic in Pakistan is kidnapped by anti-American radicals, the CIA thinks popular young Pakistani professor Changez is involved. But as Changez tells his story about his life in the US to an American foreign correspondent, the truth becomes harder to pin down.
12) Magdala Legacy
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Physical Desc
p462 :
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a miraculously preserved vellum codex, hidden in the heart of a second-century man-made concrete block in central Italy, prompts an investigation by four archaeologists and linguists that could well change all that has ever been written concerning the most ostentatiously ignored, yet maliciously maligned woman in Biblical history. As the discoverers attempt the translation of the ancient Etruscan document, they are forced to flee...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Television
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Uncover the true story of the Fundamentalist Mormon leader who was on the FBI's "10 Most Wanted List" for unlawful flight on charges related to his alleged arrangement of illegal marriages involving underage girls. Based on the book, When men become Gods, by Stephen Singular.
14) The 19th wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
BeckyLyn, who is a member of a fundamentalist sect, is accused of killing her husband. Another one of the wives, Queenie, is desperate to prove her innocence and reaches out to BeckyLyn's excommunicated son Jordan for help in freeing his mother.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Contains all ten episodes from the fifth season of the television series, "Big Love," which depicts the lives of polygamist Bill Henrickson and his Fundamentalist Mormon combined family, which consists of three wives and seven children, as they struggle to keep their personal lives private.
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