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Series
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Maile falls in love with Englishman John Harbottle, the navigator for Captain James Cook when they arrive in the Sandwich Islands. The two cultures clash after the death of Captain Cook in 1779, and Maile is forced to make an impossible decision: save John or save her people.
2) Tall story
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bernardo, who is eight feet tall and suffers from a condition called Gigantism, leaves the Philippines to live with his mother's family in London, much to the delight of his thirteen-year-old half sister Andi, a passionate basketball player.
3) The race
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Can an honest man become president? In The Race, this timely and provocative novel from bestselling author Richard North Patterson, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics.
Corey Grace—a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio—is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favorite of the party establishment
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
About a young Indian boy who becomes a three-star chef in Paris.
The story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai, who ends up opening a restaurant in a quiet French village thus triggering a culinary war with the fancy haute cuisine place opposite.
Author
Language
English
Description
Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences,...
6) Salt houses
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home...On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A humorous and tender multi-generational novel about immigrants and outsiders, those trying to find their place in American society and with their own families.
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