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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe- and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest...
22) My hero
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English
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Would-be romance writer Bailey York was a woman who'd already failed twice at love. As far as she was concerned, men were wonderful to read, and to write, about, but that was as close as she wanted to get. Which was probably why she had such difficulty creating a hero. She needed a real-life model, she finally decided. And she found one. Parker Davidson was everything a hero should be. Compellingly attractive. Forceful and determined, yet capable...
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Publisher
Red Wheel Weiser
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
"W.B. Yeats--Twentieth Century Magus is a comprehensive study of his magical practices and beliefs. Yeats moved through many different phases of spiritual development, believing that his life was an intellectual, spiritual, and artistic quest--a quest greatly influenced by Celtic lore, Theosophy, Golden Dawn ceremonial magic, Swedenborg's metaphysics, the works of Jacob Boehme, and Neo-Platonism. For Yeats, writing poetry was an act of divine possession,...
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Publisher
Scribe Publications Pty Limited
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (712 pages)
Language
English
Description
A global publishing event of the rarest kind, this biography has been written with the full cooperation of J. M. Coetzee, who granted the author interviews, and put him in touch with family, friends, and colleagues who could talk about events in Coetzee's life. For the first time, Coetzee allowed complete access to his private papers and documents, including the manuscripts of his 16 novels. Author J. C. Kannemeyer made a study of the enormous body...
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Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 pages)
Language
English
Description
The first biography to be aimed at the general reader as much as at students and historians, No Ordinary Man is a fascinating study of the life and work of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), the writer known as the "Spanish Shakespeare" and author of the timeless classic Don Quixote. A renaissance man in all senses of the term, Cervantes was, in his time, an adventurer, spy, soldier, hostage, and creator of the first European novel. This biography is...
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Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (476 pages)
Language
English
Description
This volume examines the life and work of New Zealand author Maurice Duggan. His life was turbulent and difficult as he suffered from a "black Irish" personality, the lifelong trauma of an amputated leg, and battles with alcoholism, relationships and employment. This biography looks at the complexity of his life and offers a picture of literary life in New Zealand, and especially Auckland, in the 1950's and 1960's.--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher
Robert Hale
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (272 pages)
Language
English
Description
This book offers an intimate and intriguing account of Jane Austen's relations, from 1704, when her great-grandmother was left a widow with six children to support, through to 1870, and the destinies of her many nephews and nieces. Drawing extensively on letters and memoirs written by the Austen family over a period of 150 years, this book traces the development of the family from vigorous Georgian opportunism to respectable Victorian gentility.--Provided...
Publisher
BookCaps
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
For over 100 years, L. Frank Baum's classic fantasy series "The Wizard of Oz" has inspired films, books, and even fan clubs. Despite the success of the series, not a lot has been written about the author: L. Frank Baum. This biography looks at both the life and times of L. Frank Baum; it gives insight into what inspired him to write his classic novel, and provides a glimpse into his regular life. LifeCaps is an imprint of BookCaps* Study Guides. With...
30) The wanderer
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Publisher
Perfect Edge
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"An obscure writer disappears, a typescript is found. Is it fiction, perhaps the author's last novel, or something far stranger?"--
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Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 online resource (290 p.)
Language
English
Description
"Lewis Nordan is famous for his special vision of the Mississippi Delta. His characters, for whom the closest-though hopelessly inadequate-description might be "eccentrics," share the stage with swamp elves and midgets living in the backyard. His fiction is unlike anybody else's and is as dark, hilarious, and affecting as any ever written. It's also writing that lays bare the agony of adolescence and plows, as the Cleveland Plain Dealer once put it,...
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Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (228 pages)
Language
English
Description
William Donaldson reveals all in a frank and often scurrilous memoir where past and present collide in a hilarious vision of his extraordinary life. The author charts his course from his public school childhood, through production of the celebrated 1960s satire Beyond the Fringe, a riotous lifestyle in the company of pop stars, actors, models, and sundry celebs--sometimes in a brothel in which he lived for a time in Chelsea--literary success and on...
Publisher
BookCaps
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
You know their works, but do you know their lives? Do you know what inspired them to write some of the greatest literature the world has ever known? This book contains profiles of eight different female writers. Included are biographies on: Edith WhartonKate ChopinLouisa May AlcottMary Roberts RinehartJane AustenBronte SistersL.M. MontgomeryElizabeth GaskellEach profile may also be purchased separately. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (320 p.)
Language
English
Description
"For a decade--from 1973 to 1982--John Gardner was one of America's most famous writers and certainly its most flamboyantly opinionated. His 1973 novel, The Sunlight Dialogues, was on the New York Times bestseller list for fourteen weeks. Once in the limelight, he picked public fights with his peers, John Barth, Joseph Heller, and Norman Mailer among them, and wrote five more bestsellers. Gardner's personal life was as chaotic as his writing life...
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Publisher
Alma Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (300 pages)
Language
English
Description
The first memoir by an influential poet, novelist, and critic, full of literary anecdotesA prolific author of novels, poetry collections, plays, biographies, and translations, Elaine Feinstein shares the story of her journey from a Jewish childhood in Leicester into the undergraduate world of post-war Cambridge, the excitement of friendships in the literary world, and the tensions of a poet's writing life inside a long and sometimes painful marriage....
36) The Real Life Inspiration Behind Oscar Wilde's Work: A Play-by-Play Look At Wilde's Inspirations
Publisher
BookCaps
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Fiction often imitates real-life. That was certainly the case for Oscar Wilde. This book is part biography, part critical study. It examines all of Wilde's published and unpublished work to see what was happening in her life that she might have used as inspiration for her fiction. HistoryCaps is an imprint of BookCaps Study Guides. With each book, a brief period of history is recapped. We publish a wide array of topics (from baseball and music to...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (282 pages)
Language
English
Description
The legacy of a master of horror lives on in this fully authorized biography James Herbert was an enduringly popular author whose books sell in the hundreds of thousands across the world and are made into films. He broke away from the cut-and-thrust populist horror novels of the 1970s and 1980s to create more thought-provoking works, featuring the scientific reasoning behind the manifestations of the ghosts and spirits in which he truly believed....
38) Absurd Ambition
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Publisher
Auckland University Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (212 pages)
Language
English
Description
Eric McCormick was, from about 1940 until his death in 1995, one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers and scholars. He pioneered the appreciation and study of the painter Francis Hodgkins, and he wrote several biographies. The autobiographical fragments collected here have been edited to make a coherent volume, tracing his origins in Taihape, to school and university in Wellington, to schoolteaching in Nelson, to Cambridge and through his wartime...
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Publisher
Peter Owen Publishers
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 pages)
Language
English
Description
In 1896 Marie Nordlinger arrived in Paris to study painting. Her cousin, Reynaldo Hahn, was becoming known as a composer and his friend Marcel Proust was an aspiring novelist. P.F. Prestwich recounts the relationship between these young people.--Provided by the publisher.
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