Wally Lamb
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection
"Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget." — USA Today
Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut,
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Series
Wishin' and hopin' volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life--Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin' and Hopin'--and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women. I'll Take You There centers on Felix, a film scholar who runs a Monday night movie club in what was once a vaudeville theater. One evening, while setting...
Author
Series
Wishin' and hopin' volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in the fictional town of Three Rivers, Connecticut, Wishin' and Hopin' tells the story of fifth grader Felix Funicello in the months leading up to Christmas 1964"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 83 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
To everyone's surprise, fifty-five years after the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee has published another novel. Go Set a Watchman was written before Lee's beloved masterpiece, as director Mary McDonagh Murphy explains in this update of her 2011 documentary Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird. Murphy's film, Harper Lee: From Mockingbird to Watchman, sifts through the facts and speculation surrounding Lee and both her novels,...
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
vii, 465 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Overweight and sensitive Dolores Price grows from painful childhood, through excruciating adolescence, to lonely adulthood, experiencing the heartache of being a misfit in a confusing world.
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 2003 author Wally Lamb published a collection of essays by the students in his writing workshop at the maximum-security York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only prison for women. Writing, Lamb discovered, was a way for these women to confront painful memories, face their fears and their failures, and begin to imagine better lives. One critic described the book as 'gut-tearing tales ... the unvarnished truth.' In this new volume, twenty...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 378 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tour-de-force performance from Mark Ruffalo leads this family saga, which follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th-century America. The six-episode limited drama series is based on Wally Lamb's New York Times bestseller and award-winning book, I Know This Much Is True.