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Language
English
Description
"From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation--and the children go missing. When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. The children--two eleven-year-olds, an eight-year-old, and a six-year-old--love the nonstop buffet and the independence they have at the Kids' Club....
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
219 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On Oprah's Summer Reading List for 2010 Award-winning writer Maile Meloy's return to short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers. Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers. Propelled by a terrific instinct for storytelling, and concerned with the convolutions...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in California, Liars and saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present, as they navigate a succession of life-altering events -- through the submerged emotion of the fifties, the recklessness and excess of the sixties and seventies, and the reckonings of the eighties and nineties. In a family driven by jealousy and propriety as much as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation...
Author
Series
Apothecary volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Groaup (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
412 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Teenagers Janie and Benjamin continue to explore the secrets of the Pharmacopoeia while Benjamin risks everything to find a way to connect with his father.
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Language
Español
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El pulpo vivía feliz en su cueva submarina hasta que un día, un buzo lo captura y lo lleva a vivir a un acuario. Los humanos le dan comida y le ponen pruebas que parecen juguetes. Pero todos los días son iguales, y el pulpo pronto se cansa de la vida cautiva. Y así, al amparo de la oscuridad, emprende un escape audaz.
The octopus lived happily in its underwater cave until one day, a diver captured it and took it to live in an aquarium. Humans...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xi, 204 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed film--featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed. It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on...
12) Certain women
Series
Criterion collection volume 893
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in...
13) Certain Women
Series
Criterion collection volume 893
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray director approved special edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
English
Description
A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in...
14) Falling in love
Series
Publisher
Symphony Space
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (ca. 3 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A narration of short stories previously broadcast on public radio stations.
15) Wartime lives
Publisher
Symphony Space
Pub. Date
p2007
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 sound disc (3 hr.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Selected war time short stories read aloud by an assortment of distinguished actors.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The rhythm, ritual, and pleasure of knitting are celebrated in this new collection for lovers of both knitting and literature. In [this book], two dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting. Lily King remembers the year her family lived in Italy, and a knitted hat that helped her daughter adjust to her new home. Laura Lippman explores how converting to Judaism changed not only Christmas but also her mother's gift...
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of never-before-published short stories by many of our most preeminent authors as well as up-and-coming superstars. Published in partnership with the beloved literary radio program and live show Selected Shorts"--
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Present a collection of unconventional essays by leading writers to challenge how students think about essays using imaginative, rule-breaking, and unconventional examples.
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