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Life after life

a story of rage and redemption
An autobiographical account of the life of Evans Hopkins that discusses his childhood during the Jim Crow era, his education in segregated primary schools, his love of tennis, his involvement in the civil rights movement and other related topics.
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The second life of Nick Mason

"Nick Mason is out of prison. After five years inside, he has just been given the one thing a man facing 25-to-life never gets, a second chance. But it comes at a terrible price. Nick Mason is out of prison, but he's not free. Whenever his cell phone rings, day or night, he must answer it and follow whatever order he is given. It's the deal he made with Darius Cole, a criminal kingpin serving a double-life term who still runs an empire from his prison cell. Forced to commit increasingly more dangerous crimes, hunted by the relentless detective who put him behind bars, and desperate to go straight and rebuild his life with his daughter and ex-wife, Nick will ultimately have to risk everything--his family, his sanity, and even his life--to finally break free"--.
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American gods

a novel
After his release from prison, Shadow encounters mysterious Mr. Wednesday who offers him a job, and suddenly he is enmeshed in a web of secrets which not only tests Shadow's character but that of America itself.
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American gods

Upon his release from prison, a widower accepts a job as a bodyguard and joins the battle between the gods of yore and the neoteric gods of present-day America.
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American Gods

Shadow and Wednesday leave the House on the Rock and continue their journey across the country where they set up aliases, meet new gods, and prepare for war.
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She rides shotgun

A young girl is unexpectedly reunited with her father who is fresh out of jail, only to have him take her from school into a world of robbery, violence, and death threats.
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Great expectations

a Kaplan vocabulary-building for young readers
After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentleman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving. Selected words in text highlighted and defined for vocabulary building.
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Great expectations

Presents the unabridged version of Charles Dickens's novel in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, learns that a mysterious benefactor has ensured that he will be educated and raised as a gentleman.

Victor Hugo's Les Mis?rables

a graphic novel
2018
In this graphic novel adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic, the ex-convict Jean Valjean strives to build a new life in nineteenth century Paris and protect his adopted daughter, Cosette, but he is pursued by the fanatical police inspector Javert who does not believe in redemption--until it is too late for both of them.

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