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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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The fascinating story of America's national day of thanks and of the tenacious and inspiring Sarah Josepha Hale, a nineteenth-century woman who made establishing this holiday her life's mission-one brought to fruition by the wise support of Abraham Lincoln.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father's violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author of the landmark volume A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she dares to propose that women are equal to men. Mary refuses to bow to society's conventions and instead supports herself with her pen until an illicit love affair challenges her every belief about romance and marriage. When she gives...
645) Reef Road: a novel
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women--a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother's best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children--collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A book about a family of loud, argumentative, musical, sarcastic, grief-stricken siblings, shepherded into adulthood by a man whose foibles and reticence were matched only by his love for his children and his determination that they would flourish.
649) Cici's journal: 1
Author
Series
Cici's journal volume 2
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An aspiring young writer with a knack for people-watching endeavors to solve a mystery involving a sad elderly neighbor who disappears into the forest every Sunday with huge pots of paint, in a sumptuously rendered graphic novel comprised of journal notes, scrapbook pieces and doodles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When uber-stylist—and uber-bully—Bebe Braddock is murdered, and Jaine’s prints are all over the murder weapon, she, while navigating a cougar-style romance, must clear own name before the color of the next outfit she wears is orange.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, based on her own childhood and later life, are still beloved classics almost a century after she began writing them. Now young readers will see just how similar Laura's true-life story was to her books. Born in 1867 in the "Big Woods" in Wisconsin, Laura experienced both the hardship and the adventure of living on the frontier. Her life and times are captured in engaging text and 80 black-and-white illustrations....
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In The Writer's Crusade, author Tom Roston examines the connection between Vonnegut's life and Slaughterhouse-Five. Did Vonnegut suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Roston probes Vonnegut's work, his personal history, and discarded drafts of the novel, as well as original interviews with the writer's family, friends, scholars, psychologists, and other novelists. The Writer's Crusade is a literary and biographical journey that asks fundamental...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. This stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her strict Rastafarian upbringing ruled by a father whose rigid beliefs, rage and paranoia...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
One Friday afternoon in April, acclaimed author Donald Antrim found himself on the roof of his apartment building, afraid for his life. In this moving memoir, Antrim vividly recounts what led him to the roof and what happened after he came back down: two hospitalizations, weeks of fruitless clinical trials, as well as years of fitful recovery and setback. One Friday in April reframes suicide-whether in thought or action-as an illness in its own right,...
660) The winter sea
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carrie settles into the shadow of Slains Castle in Scotland, creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors, and starts to write about the Jacobite invasion of 1708. When she can no longer tell the difference between today and centuries ago, is she dealing with an ancestral memory-- a memory that might destroy her?
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