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61) The Waves
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The Waves by an English writer, who is considered as one of the most important modernist 20th Century authors and also a pioneer in the use of the stream of consciousness as a narrative device, Virginia Woolf.
It is an experimental novel which is considered a key text of the Modernist literary movement. Interspersed with lyrical descriptions of waves breaking against the shoreline, the novel traces the intertwining lives of six friends from childhood...
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English
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"Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work,...
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English
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"With 50 food and drink recipes, The Unofficial Princess Bride Cookbook is perfect for fans who want to get a taste of the action along with some fun and interesting trivia. There are few movies that can be easily identified by a single word or quote, let alone close to forty. From 'As You Wish' and 'Inconceivable' to 'Have Fun Storming the Castle' and 'My Name is Inigo Montoya,' The Princess Bride left an everlasting mark on pop culture. In celebration...
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
For the magazine's centenary celebration, an anthology of pieces from the early golden age of Vanity Fair. Editor Graydon Carter introduces these fabulous pieces written between 1913 and 1936, when the magazine published a murderers' row of the world's leading literary lights. It features great writers on great topics, including F. Scott Fitzgerald on what a magazine should be, Clarence Darrow on equality, D. H. Lawrence on women, e.e. cummings on...
67) Crimen y castigo
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Español
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"¿Por qué hay que leer Crimen y castigo ?
Pues porque Crimen y castigo es el producto de un genio cuyo mundo gira entre la muerte y la locura, porque Dostoievski era un tío que retornaba vivo de aquellos tenebrosos mundos (sus ataques) directamente para escribir historias que también puedan ser devoradas por la juventud del siglo XXI. Y porque Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoievski ha sido el escritor que ha compuesto los análisis psicológicos más...
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood, and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory"--
"In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate, revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of...
69) Chicken soup for the soul: the joy of less : 101 stories about having more by simplifying our lives
Publisher
Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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English
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The Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and humorist who spent decades ruffling feathers and drawing laughter with his witty opinion columns, poems, and definitions. Toward the end of his career, he decided to compile these satirical definitions into a book,...
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English
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"This book is a guide to the process of artistic self-discovery"--
Find Your Artistic Voice helps artists and creatives identify and nurture their own visual identity. This one-of-a-kind book helps artists navigate the influence of creators they admire, while simultaneously appreciating the value of their personal journey. Features down-to-earth and encouraging advice from Congdon herself, filled with interviews with established artists, illustrators,...
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Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2017, ©1997
Language
Español
Description
Isabel Allende despliega en este libro sus poderes mágicos como cuentista y, con un encanto peculiar, entrelaza las sensuales artes de todo el mundo, leyendas históricas, y momentos memorables de la literatura (incluyendo la literatura erótica), con porciones similares de humor y perspicacia. El lector es el invitado privilegiado a un banquete de hechos fascinantes sobre los podere afrodisíacos de los alimentos y las bebidas que Isabel Allende...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Irreverent and inspiring advice for awakening your creative potential, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic. This beautiful and useful small-format hardcover--teeming with full-color art, sidebars, and contributions from art-world legends and everyday creatives--How to Be an Artist is a book for anyone who's ever yearned to make the arts a part of their life"--
75) Fresh ink
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance"--
76) Literary movements for students: presenting analysis, context, and criticism on literary movements
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Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Entries provide in-depth historical background information on each movement as well as modern critical interpretation of each movement's characteristic styles and themes.
77) Dinosaur tales
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Four short stories and two poems featuring one of the author's great loves: dinosaurs
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A World of Insects showcases classic works on insect behavior, physiology, and ecology published over half a century by Harvard University Press authors Costa, Dethier, Eisner, Goff, Heinrich, Holldobler, Roeder, Ross, Seeley, von Frisch, Waldbauer, Wilson, and Winston
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English
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Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. The work was Forster's first novel, and its success helped launch his lengthy and critically acclaimed career as a writer of literary fiction. Where Angels Fear to Tread, the title is drawn from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1711), is a moving meditation on class, gender, social convention, and the grieving process.
Following the death of her husband, a widow named...
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