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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Susy Clemens wants the world to know that her papa, Mark Twain, is more than just a humorist and sets out to write a comprehensive biography of the American icon.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of Franny Mason her father, Sam, brings the family back to a familiar vacation destination, Lake Gormlaith, in an attempt reconnect with his wife and rescue his son--Franny's twin brother--from a destructive path, but unexpected events bring about surprising changes.
Author
Publisher
Cedar Grove Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A 2018 Bram Stoker Award Finalist Thought-provoking, powerful, and revealing, this anthology is composed of 28 dark stories and 14 poems written by African-American women writers. The tales of what scares, threatens, and shocks them will enlighten and entertain readers. The works delve into demons and shape-shifters from "How to Speak to the Bogeyman" and "Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight" to far future offerings such...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When beautiful, reckless, seventeen-year-old Zelda Sayre meets Lieutenant Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald at a country club dance, he isn't rich or settled; no one knows his people; and he wants, of all things, to be a writer in New York. After Scott sells his first novel, Zelda defies her parents to marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick's Cathedral. It is the Jazz Age, and for Zelda and Scott the future will be grander and stranger than they could...
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Against the rules of Gilded Age society, Edith Wharton falls in love with a dashing, younger journalist, Morton Fullerton, and their scandalous affair threatens everything in her life, especially her ties to Anna Bahlmann, her governess turned literary secretary, and the one person most deeply involved in her writing.
Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Rare jewels of Victorian fiction highlight the fantastic contributions made by women writers in the early development of science fiction A selection of early science fiction short stories by women are collected here, along with an introduction exploring the contributions women made in the early development of the field-in particular the different perspectives they cast on the wonders or fears that technological and scientific advances may bring. The...
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Four stories of sisterhoodthe bonds, the wars, the frustrations, the loveseasoned with hot Latin spice! Those "Wild Orihuela Girls," Dori and her sister Sela, intend to live up to their reputationand more!in order to give their snooty sister-in-law-to-be exactly what she deserves on her wedding day ... Till Death Do Us Part by Mary Castillo Anita Suarez is only seeking comfort after losing her dream job and carefree lifestyle, but finds that her old-fashioned...
10) Youngblood Hawke
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A writer finds wealth, fame, and sorrow in midcentury Manhattan in "a tremendous novel . . . full of wisdom and pain" by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author (Los Angeles Times).
Arthur Youngblood Hawke, an ex-Navy man, moves from hardscrabble rural Kentucky to New York, hoping to make his mark on the literary world. His first novel becomes an instant hit, and he is toasted by critics and swept along on a tide of celebrity.
But as...
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