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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 125
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
"The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel HAWTHORNE (1804 - 1864) The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is considered to be his best work. The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter “A” on her breast. The...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them"--
"For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City's Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented the Workers' Cinema: a theater where gay men cruised for love. While classic war films played, Old Second and his countrymen found...
Author
Publisher
HarperLargePrint
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
A young girl from an impoverished family comes of age in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth century.
"The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic and eccentric...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Brando Skyhorse, winner of the PEN Hemingway Award, returns with his highly anticipated second novel, a literary dystopian tale set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens; a story about family, borders, and identity"--
"Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with a riveting literary dystopian novel set...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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La aclamada autora de Soar en cubano nos entrega la continuacin de su novela, donde le sigue la pista a cuatro generaciones de la familia del Pino a travs de los tumultuosos panoramas contemporneos de Cuba, Estados Unidos, Alemania y Rusia. Celia del Pino, matriarca de una extensa familia cubana, ha visto a sus descendientes migrar a todas partes del mundo, luchando por comprender sus identidades transnacionales y las tensas relaciones entre unos...
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