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1) East of Eden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Description
Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Sierva Marâia, the only child of a decaying noble family, is bitten by a rabid dog on her twelfth birthday, she is believed to be possessed and is sent to a convent where Father Cayetano Delaura oversees her exorcism.
8) Two lives
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Shanti Behari Seth, brought up in India, was sent by his family in the 1930s to Berlin--though he could not speak a word of German--to study medicine and dentistry. Helga Gerda Caro, known to everyone as "Henny" was also born in 1908, in Berlin, to a Jewish family--cultured, patriotic, and intensely German. When the family decided to take Shanti as a lodger, Henny's first reaction was, "Don't take the black man!" But a friendship flowered, and when...
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