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"In 1779 Calum MacDonald set sail in exile from the Highlands of Scotland with his wife and twelve children, along with the dog who would not be left behind and swam after the departing boat. After a catastrophic crossing he landed in the New World at Cape Breton, by which time he had become a widower and a grandfather." "Two hundred years later, another MacDonald tells the story of coming of age in that same bleak Cape Breton landscape. Alexander...
45) The good Negress
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Rejoining her family in 1963 Detroit in order to help prepare for a new baby, Denise Palms witnesses her two older brothers' painful entrance into the adult world and questions her own heritage in the light of a tutor's relentless instruction
46) Grange House
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
A Victorian young woman faces the social restrictions of marriage and yearns for something more as she spends her summer at a resort in Maine.
Author
Series
Cold Sassy series volume 2
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
An unforgettable story of a Georgia town at the turn of the century. This is a portrait of a grown-up Will Tweedy and of the feisty young schoolteacher who captures his heart.
54) Living at night
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Description
Daily life in a home for the old and disabled. The protagonist of this debut novel is a young Latina lesbian who works the overnight shift in a New England institution. She describes her helpless charges, their struggle to retain some dignity, and her own mixed feelings towards them.
55) Less than zero
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The price of fame is exposed in this account of Los Angeles' world of youth, privilege, and alienation-- a world governed by sex, drugs, and music. Graphic portrayal of the deadened lives of beautiful, burned-out teens, with their ostentatious parties, cocaine vials, needle tracks, prostitution and pornography, as well as the dazed indifference to it all.
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Appears on list
Description
t is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves George Best, Geronimo, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He hates zoos, kissing, and the boys from the Corporation houses. He can't stand his little brother Sinbad. He wants to be a missionary like Father Damien, and he coerces the McCarthy twins and Willy Hancock into playing lepers. He never picks the scabs off his knees before they're ready. Kevin is his best friend. Their names are all over Barrytown,...
58) Shop girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Working as a salesgirl at the Beverly Hills Neiman Marcus, Mirabelle, a beautiful aspiring artist, embarks on a love affair with Ray Porter, a wealthy, lonely businessman she meets at the store.
59) Disobedience
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"...a warmly humorous, poignant novel about a young man, his mother's e-mail, and the often surprising path of infidelity." --- Book jacket.