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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense. The Last Time They Met is a singularly ambitious and accomplished work by one of today's most widely celebrated novelists.
Author
Language
Español
Description
Es el verano de 1960 y Camila Henríquez Urena, profesora de español jubilándose de la Universidad de Vassar, está empacando sus últimas pertenencias antes de mudarse de su apartamento en Poughkeepsie, Nueva York para unirse a la revolución de Fidel Castro en Cuba. Camila es hija de Salomé Urena, la famosa poetisa dominicana de finales del siglo diecinueve que instigaba revolución con sus apasionados versos, se casó con un presidente y luchó...
Author
Language
English
Description
Life has always been a banquet for Sappho, one to be savored to the fullest. Following a magnificent destiny, her strange and sensual odyssey has carried her to the far corners of the ancient world, from Delphi to Egypt, to the Land of the Amazons, and the realm of Hades. For Sappho, it was always about love - love that seduced her into a plot to depose a dictator, and love that made her trade an unwanted marriage bed of a despised and drunken husband...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Bianca appears late one night at her brother's house in Santa Ana, she is barely conscious, though not alone. Jubilee, wrapped in a fuzzy pink romper, is buckled into a car seat. Jubilee, who Bianca feeds and clothes and bathes and loves. Jubilee, who Bianca could not leave behind. Jubilee, a doll in her arms. Told in alternating points of view, Jubilee reveals both the haunting power of our lived experiences and the surreal possibility of the...
Author
Series
Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
p. (large print) cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages
Language
English
Description
Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins, share an obsession with words. As adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation begins to push them apart. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
Author
Series
Baroness Pontalba novels volume 4
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
10) Shooting star
Author
Series
Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
395 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
11) Mrs. Poe
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary story about the insular world of writers, centering on a notable female poet and the young woman to whom she reveals her long-guarded secret about a famous manuscript"--
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels's moving, innovative novel about an aging poet laureate who "sells out" by agreeing to collaborate with a Big Tech company's poetry AI"--
16) The box garden
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
213 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A poet's struggle to make something of herself after her creative juices run dry. Although she has a son and a man who loves her, Charleen Forrest is still obsessed by the thought that she is a failure. The novel follows Charleen as she tries to sort herself out. By the author of The Stone Diaries for which she won the Pulitzer Prize.
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