Christopher Burns
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First published in 1806, this record of Colonel John Hutchinson (1615-1664) by his widow, Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681), was intended to justify his action in 1649, as one of 59 commissioners on the high court, in signing the death warrant of Charles I. John Hutchinson went on to serve on the Council of State, before becoming disillusioned with Cromwell; he was later arrested and died in prison. Lucy Hutchinson turned her journal of that period into...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 23
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"A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love. The Time Traveler's Wife is an odd and enchanting...
3) Mirror Lake
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After a decade of aimlessness marked by remaining a professional college student and drifting through relationships, Nathan Carter moves from Boston to rustic Eden, Vermont in search of a more purposeful life. When he meets Wallace Fiske, the town outcast, a strange friendship grows between these two lonely men, and Nathan slowly begins to learn the story of the love and pain that have haunted Wallace's life. Brilliantly intertwining past and present,...
4) Replay
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch."
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Warning! New parents are likely to experience: Scorekeeping-An exceedingly complex, often relentless, tit-for-tat war waged by husbands and wives over the division of parenting responsibilities and domestic chores. The Ten O'Clock Shoulder Tap-Considered by many men to be a form of foreplay. A paw on a wife's shoulder is how some men indicate their desire for sex. The Tap is rarely accompanied by a term of endearment or any other verbal form of communication...