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41) Thomas Wolfe
Author
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Thomas Wolfe.
42) Most valuable
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
Description
Amar'e's idol, Overtime Tanner plans the biggest streetball tournament every year. But when Overtime gets hurt during a basketball game, he can't make the arrangements in time. Amar'e and his friends help set the tournament up. On top of that, each group of Amar'e's friends wants him to play for their team and he's torn on what to do. Planning a tournament is a lot more work than playing in one. Will Amar'e's hard work pay off?
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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As the child of a German movie producer father who lives in Italy and a beautiful, artistically talented mother who resides in New York, Liliane's life is divided between those two very different worlds. A shy and observant only child with a vivid imagination, Liliane uncovers the stories of family members as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Mary Queen of Scots and an early Mexican adventurer, and pieces together their vivid histories, through both World...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this novel, "Wiola looks back on her youth in a close-knit, agricultural community in 1980s Poland. Her memories are precise, intense, distinctive, sensual: a playfulness and whimsy rise up in the gossip of the village women, rumored visits from the Pope, and the locked room in the dressmaker's house, while political unrest and predatory men cast shadows across this bright portrait"--Amazon.com.
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Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 10
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Jane Eyre, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The author uses grim observation to reveal the stigma that haunted her father's life, as well as the alienation and pain between father and daughter due to class restrictions. This father's biography is also the story of an intellectual's daughter's betrayal -- betrayal of her parents, her upbringing, split between affection and shame, between belonging and alienation.
在通过教师资格考试两个月后父亲去世了,安妮·埃尔诺以此为契机,讲述了一个男人的一生。他出生于世纪之交,不得不早早离开学校,先是当农民,然后在工厂做工,后来成为诺曼底一家小杂货店的店主,直到1967年去世。他自我克制,勤奋工作,谨言慎行,努力维持着一个男人在社会中的位置,却始终无法摆脱对滑落回下层社会的恐惧。...
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English
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Social Justice Reading List by BCALA & ALSC (PreK-Gr. 8)
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
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When Parker Curry came face-to-face with Amy Sherald's transcendent portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery, she didn't just see the First Lady of the United States. She saw a queen--one with dynamic self-assurance, regality, beauty, and truth who captured this young girl's imagination. When a nearby museum-goer snapped a photo of a mesmerized Parker, it became an internet sensation. Inspired by this visit, Parker, and...
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Pub. Date
2009, c1992
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English
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This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of "going home again." It's been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again with a new woman. Soon, though, he is beckoned back to Boston by his former high school girlfriend who was witness to his greatest youthful humiliations,...
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English
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"Homesick and alone, a teenaged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sunless days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"--Amazon.com.
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Holland family saga volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron's only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted...
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Shantaram volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Continues Australian fugitive Lin's search for love and faith in a Bombay that has come under the rule of a new generation of mafia dons and where Lin becomes trapped by his married soulmate and an increasingly violent mission.
59) Mujercitas
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Español
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Presents an adaptation of the classic novel in which Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, and their mother endure the hardships of poverty while the girls' father is away fighting in the Civil War.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The author looks back at his father and his life. The father and daughter are not only Mao’s prisoners, but also prisoners who rescued their relatives and survived. An autobiographical novel by Ms. Qi Jiazhen, the founder of the Qi Family Cultural Foundation of Australia and the founder of the "Promoting China Progress Award". This rare family story is not only a living fossil of the hundreds of millions of self-defeating creatures in the Communist...
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