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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1994, Reviving Ophelia was published, and it shone a much-needed spotlight on the problems faced by adolescent girls. The book became iconic and helped to reframe the national conversation about what author Mary Pipher called "a girl-poisoning culture" surrounding adolescents. Fast forward to today, and adolescent girls and the parents, teachers, and counselors who care about them find themselves confronting many of the same challenges Pipher...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a divison of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of The Year of Magical Thinking comes a legendary editor's unflinching love song about his radiant wife, Margaret, and her battle with cancer. It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while she was riding. Such a mild slip was easy to ignore, but when other troubling symptoms accumulated, she confided to her husband, 'Michael, I think something serious is wrong...
424) Mare of Easttown
Publisher
Warner Brothers Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As life crumbles around her, the sole detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates the murder of a teen....Detective Mare Sheehan, a worn-down, brutally honets, beer-swilling local basketball legend...must cope with the loss of her son while dealing with her nosy mother, rebellious teenage daughter and grandson at home, and an ex-husband who lives a stone's throw away with his new fiancée. Just as the case of a missing young girl has grown...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner.
"How did Jon Scieszka get so funny, anyway? Growing up as one of six brothers was a good start, but that was just the beginning. Throw in Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting...
427) Secrets of Cavendon
Author
Series
Cavendon chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For years things have run smoothly at Cavendon Hall, with very few quarrels, dramas, or upsets among the Inghams and the Swanns. But since the end of World War II, things have changed. The Secrets of Cavendon picks up in the summer of 1949, with the new generation of the estate at the forefront of the scandal and intrigue. With romance, betrayal, heartbreak, and possible murder threatening to tear them apart, the Inghams and Swanns will have to find...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After inheriting 400 novels of pornography written by his father in the 1970s and ‘80s, critically acclaimed author Chris Offutt sets out to make sense of a complicated father-son relationship in this carefully observed, beautifully written memoir. “Clearing Dad’s office felt like prospecting within his brain. As I sorted, like an archaeologist, backward through time, I saw a remarkable mind at work, a life lived on its own terms.”...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A poet with nonverbal autism and her mother recount their shared 25-year struggle with unsuccessful therapies before an astonishing breakthrough led to a communication awakening and remarkable insights into the neurological science of the autism experience.
431) Tell me who I am
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. Imagine waking up one day to discover that you have forgotten everything about your life. Your only link with the past, your only hope for the future, is your identical twin. Now imagine, years later, discovering that your twin had not told you the whole truth about your childhood, your family, and the forces that had shaped you. Why the secrets? Why the silences? You have no choice but to begin again. This has...
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