Paul Michael Garcia
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Meet the Brunsons of Downers Grove, Illinois. Henry is the once-magical father, whose fear of aging and endangered career lead him to the nightclubs of Chicago's Viagra Triangle. His wife Julie struggles to reclaim her life with a bottle of Zoloft and dreams of her youthful independence. Charlie, the golden-boy son, leaves the lucrative job his father arranged to serve in Afghanistan--and returns angry, damaged and uncertain of his place in the world....
2) The tin drum
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
Description
The autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Willfully stunting his growth at three feet for many years, wielding his tin drum and piercing scream as anarchistic weapons, he provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
A novel about one summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy, Douglas Spaulding: the summer of 1928. The place is Green Town, Illinois, and Doug and his bother Tom wander in and out among their elders, living and dreaming, sometimes aware of things, again just having a wonderful time.
4) Pedro
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Before Pedro Martinez was the eight-time All Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner, and World Series champion, before stadiums full of fans chanted his name, he was just a little kid from the Dominican Republic who sat under a mango tree and dreamed of playing pro ball. Now in Pedro, the charismatic and always colorful pitcher opens up for the first time to tell his remarkable story. In Pedro we relive it all in Technicolor brightness, from his hardscrabble...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald makes anti-bellum Baltimore his setting for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a fantastical tale with some Poe-like overtones about a baby born at age seventy who then lives life in reverse, his hair turning "in the dozen years of his life from white to iron-gray, the network of wrinkles on his face becoming less pronounced." What ramifications that creates for Benjamin's relationship with his father first and then
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