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Overview: When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson's long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising...
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Henry Holt and Company
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[2014]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Many girls in elementary and middle school fall in love with the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. What they don't always realize is that Wilder's books are autobiographical. This narrative biography describes more of the details of the young Laura's real life as a young pioneer homesteading with her family on many adventurous journeys. This biography, complete with charming illustrations, points out the differences between the fictional...
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Svevo Bandini, an Italian immigrant, and his wife Maria and son Arturo struggle to survive another Colorado winter
Wait Until Spring, Bandini tells the story of a winter in the childhood of Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in small-town Colorado during the Great Depression. With its powerful and evocative account of tragic love affairs, grinding poverty and adolescence in turmoil, the first novel from the Bandini quartet is...
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Xlibris Corp
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[2002]
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English
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Hanushka, Quest for Freedom is a true story that takes place during the time of Nazi and the Communist regimes in Poland. (Hanushka is a diminutive form of my formal name Halina.) The struggle for survival from an early age made me strong, determined, and even defiant when necessary. When I was a foreign language teacher at Reno high school, my students were always fascinated by my stories about the war. From these experiences, I know that young readers...
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Scribner Paperback Fiction
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1997.
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English
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First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway's most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often uneasy relationship between men and women, sport and sportsmanship. In "Banal Story," Hemingway offers a lasting tribute to the famed matador Maera. "In Another Country" tells of an Italian major recovering...
11) The pilots
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[2003]
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English
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A novel told through a collection of vignettes follows the adventures of boyhood friends who take different military paths, a combat-weary flight surgeon, a captain with a troubled past, and a woman who affects all of them.
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University of Nevada Press
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[2017]
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English
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"Desert Mementos capture the similarities in the respective desert landscapes of both Iraq and Nevada. But it is not just a study in contrasting landscapes. Desert Mementos explores the similarities and differences in human needs from the perspectives of vastly different cultures and in vastly different environments."--Provided by publisher.
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