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Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
"Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the...
62) Mister Pip
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
On a remote tropical island where villages are overrun by rebel fighting, thirteen-year-old Matilda is introduced to the Charles Dickens classic "Great Expectations" by her white school teacher and becomes enthralled with the story's main character, with whom she feels a connection.
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power...
Author
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Loveday Cardew's beloved Lost for Words bookshop, along with the rest of York, has fallen quiet. At the very time when people most need books to widen their horizons, or escape from their fears, or enhance their lives, the doors are closed. Then the firstletter comes. Rosemary and George have been married for fifty years. Now their time is running out. They have decided to set out on their last journey together, without ever leaving the bench at the...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of Amélie and The Little Paris Bookshop, a modern fairytale about a French woman whose life is turned upside down when she meets a reclusive bookseller and his young daughter. Juliette leads a perfectly ordinary life in Paris, working a slow office job, dating a string of not-quite-right men, and fighting off melancholy. The only bright spots in her day are her métro rides across the city and the stories she dreams up about the strangers...
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Essays that show how Smiley draws inspiration from across literary history to invigorate her own writing. Among the authors she examines are Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldor Laxness, and Jessica Mitford"--
"One of California’s leading writers, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, presents her first nonfiction volume on writing...
66) Esrahaddon
Author
Series
Rise and fall volume 3
Publisher
Riyria Enterprises
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A hero to some. A villain to many. The truth forever buried. The man who became known as Esrahaddon is reported to have destroyed the world's greatest empire—but there are those who believe he saved it. Few individuals are as divisive, but all agree on three facts: He was exiled to the wilderness, hunted by a goblin priestess, and sentenced to death by a god—all before the age of eight. How he managed to survive and why people continued to fear...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"People are dying to get their hands on a rare, valuable book in the newest Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot and the Pendulum. Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held for too long between estranged best friends rises to the surface, and a long marriage comes apart with devastating consequences. Joni Ackerman's decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came at a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
''A powerful and emotional coming-of-age novel set amid the turmoil and profound changes of the 1960s by the bestselling author of West with Giraffes. In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It’s also where two girls are going to shake things up. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran’s childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who...
Author
Publisher
Caliber, published by Berkley
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
“Let me say straight out that if all military histories were as thrilling and well written as Robert Gaudis African Kaiser, I might give up reading fiction and literary biography Gaudi writes with the flair of a latter-day Macaulay. He sets his scenes carefully and describes naval and military action like a novelist. " --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post. The incredible true account of World War I in Africa and General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck,...
Author
Publisher
Anchor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives--our own personal libraries--make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless...
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