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1) The jungle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.
2) Empire Falls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Formats
Description
A profound novel about the social condition of man as seen through the multi-generational trials of a great American family.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause....
Author
Publisher
SilverOak
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
347 p. ; c24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As two neighboring towns--Barron, the home to a powerful corporation, and St. Croix, the town that suffers from the corporation's pollution--are locked in a feud, a St. Croix girl is accused of killing the daughter of the corporation's president.
12) The mammy
Author
Series
Agnes Browne novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Brendan O'Carroll cooks up a story as unpretentious and satisfying as a home-cooked meal." (New York Times)
Seven kids, one dead husband called "Redser", and not a chance that she'll be defeated.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (239 pages)
Language
English
Description
An existential saga of working-class life in a British factory town and military service in the torrid jungles of the Far East from award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe Key to the Door turns away from the boisterous pursuits of Arthur Seaton made infamous in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, and focuses instead on the quieter rebellions of his older brother, Brian. Brian's childhood and adolescence in the grimy streets of Nottingham are...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages : genalogical table ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Saint Petersburg, 1812. Russian forces have defeated Napoleon at great cost, and the tsar's empire is once again at peace. Sasha, a captain in the Imperial Army, returns home to Grand Duke Felix, the disgraced second son of the tsar as well as his irrepressibly charming lover. However, their reunion is quickly interrupted by the arrival of Sofia, a mysteirously persuasive figure whose disruptive presence Sasha suspects to be something more than human....
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (239 pages)
Language
English
Description
Alan Sillitoe's bestselling debut novel about debauchery, infidelity . . . and the morning after Arthur Seaton, a ladies' man and factory-worker extraordinaire, has just downed seven gins and eleven pints at his local pub. Thoroughly smashed, he proceeds to tumble down an entire flight of stairs, pass out, and wake up again only to vomit on a middle-aged couple. Luckily Arthur's lover, Brenda-a married woman with two kids-lets Arthur escape to her...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (144 pages)
Language
English
Description
Nine classic short stories portraying the isolation, criminality, morality, and rebellion of the working class from award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe The titular story follows the internal decisions and external oppressions of a seventeen-year-old inmate in a juvenile detention center who is known only by his surname, Smith. The wardens have given the boy a light workload because he shows talent as a runner. But if he wins the national...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--
It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 284 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are.' So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their...
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