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41) The appeal
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"Welcome to Lockwood, proud home of The Fairway Players, who, under the creative control of Martin Hayward, the owner of the local country club, are putting on a production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons." The star, as always: Martin's wife, Helen, the only person in the troupe with any real acting talent. But this is not a production like any other: just as rehearsals get under way, tragedy strikes: Poppy Reswick, Martin and Helen's beloved granddaughter,...
42) The Love Letters
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English
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"Marlena Wenger, a young aunt from the Beachy Amish caring for her infant niece, finds comfort and hope from an Old Order Amish mother and her family who extend friendship to a homeless man, whose few possessions include a collection of love letters"--
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Eat, Pray, Love meets Claude Monet in this epistolary ode to Paris. What started as a whim in a Latin Quarter café blossomed into Janice MacLeod's yearslong endeavor to document and celebrate life in Paris, sending monthly snippets of her paintings and writings to the mailboxes of ardent followers around the world. Now, Dear Paris collects the entirety of the Paris Letters project: 140 illustrated messages discussing everything from macarons to Montmartre.
For...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
"Juliet Young has always written letters to her mother, a world famous photojournalist--even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. When Declan finds a haunting letter left beside a grave, he can't resist the urge to write back. Soon, he is sharing his pain with a perfect stranger. When real life interferes with their secret life of letters, Juliet and Declan discover truths that might tear them apart"--
46) Whisper to me
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Told through letter-writing flashbacks, Cassie is a New Jersey shore teen who over the course of one summer experiences the exhilarating highs of new love, the frightening free-falls of personal demons and family tragedy, and the bumps along the way to forgiveness, acceptance, and self-discovery
47) Goodnight June
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English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter imagines the inspiration for Goodnight Moon Goodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room" might have come to be. June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her great-aunt...
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English
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A poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Nairnby the author who went on to create The Worm Ouroborosand the groundbreaking Zimiamvia fantasy trilogy. Eric Rucker Eddison's first book, originally published privately in hardback during the First World War, is a poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Philip Sidney Fletcher Nairn, whose work was so inspired by his Scottish ancestry, life in the Lake District, and his subsequent travels...
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English
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Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles Bukowski-America's "Ultimate Outsider" Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted Insights into Sheri Martinelli: the protégé of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature...
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English
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In this book, Michael Laitman's fascinating commentary uncovers the wisdom in the Pentateuch (also known as the "Torah") in a manner no other book has done before. Here you discover that each protagonist in the stories of the Torah is really a force within, determining your path in life. Delve into the text to enrich and empower yourself as you become the happy, confident person that you dream of being.
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Español
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"El presente volumen de la Serie Cuadernos de Humanidades celebra los cumpleaños de tres clásicos de la literatura colombiana: 150 años de María por Jorge Isaacs; 50 años de Cien años de Soledad por Gabriel García Márquez; 40 años de Qué viva la música por Andrés Caicedo. Estas tres obras pertenecientes al canon literario colombiano son también referencia literaria mundial. Este volumen comparte los textos presentados en los homenajes...
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English
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In this collection we find two of Cicero's philosophical treatises, "On Friendship" and "On Old Age". In Cicero's treatise on friendship we learn of his belief that true friendship with someone is derived from complete honesty, truth and trust. Cicero placed a high value upon friendship and saw it as a relationship of mutual benefit in which friends do things for each other without expectation of repayment. In a related philosophical writing on the...
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English
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Our fantasies and dreams create our reality. Most parents wish the best for their children and especially strong is the mother and daughter bond. In "Faery Letters" Pamela Erickson, a uniquely talented writer, demonstrates her love and caring for her own daughter through a series of "Faery Letters." This is a book that will be shared between mothers and daughters alike and passed down among generations of woman who will find themselves reflected in...
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Deutsch
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"Schwester Teresa macht sich Sorgen um die Sorgen. Zum Glück. Die meisten Menschen sorgen sich viel zu viel. … Höchste Zeit, sich mit dem leidigen Phänomen des Sorgens mal ein bisschen intensiver zu beschäftigen. Und da ist Schwester Teresa genau die Richtige. Eine fromme Tausendsassa, die mit beiden Beinen auf dem Boden steht und dabei den Blick immer fest in den Himmel gerichtet hält. Vor allem aber schafft sie es auf eindrückliche Weise,...
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Español
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La correspondencia de Emilia Pardo Bazán con Galdós abarca los mejores años creativos de la vida de ambos, entre 1883 y 1915. Se trata de la recopilación de las cartas, conocidas hasta el momento, enviadas por Pardo Bazán a Galdós, ordenadas cronológicamente y acompañadas de una aproximación a la figura de la escritora coruñesa y el relato esencial del amor y la amistad entre ambos autores. Literatura y vida literaria, intrigas académicas,...
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English
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The third book in the bestselling and hilarious series of 'Am I Alone…?' books From bin Laden to Pippa Middleton's bottom, and from riots to Rebekah Wade, Telegraph readers offer their maverick and hilarious take on the year's events, in the letters the paper didn't publish, because they were just too off-the-wall, too outrageous, or too waggish for an august Letters page. The first two volumes of unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph, Am I...
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Español
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Este relato, la penúltima de las Novelas ejemplares de Cervantes es, en un primer plano narrativo, la historia de un soldado, convaleciente de sífilis, conversando con un amigo. La anécdota que narra el alférez Campuzano, enraizada en el tópico del engañador que termina siendo engañado -al que regresaron una y otra vez escritores consagrados y menores de los Siglos de Oro-, posee un andamiaje cómico notable. Un pequeño guiño: cuando Peralta...
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These ten letters, written by one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, offer deep and sincere advice to the young poet. They touch on all aspects of life and are valuable to anyone wishing to be a poet and to those who are not. Written with power, style, and conviction these letters will guide and inspire anyone who reads them.
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