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1) Come with me
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Frightened by news of angry people around the world, a young girl gets her parents' help in learning to be compassionate and brave a little at a time.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
" A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, a young woman finds her mother’s body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens and sets on a journey through language, archives, artificial intelligence, and TV for a way back into herself. She begins to translate an old manuscript about a group of female medical students―living through a drought and at the edge of the war―as they create a new way of existence to help the people around them. In the process, the translator’s...
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