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1) Leaving
Author
Language
English
Description
Former college sweethearts reconnect decades later after each has married, raised a family and forged careers and embark on an intense affair that forces them to confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other.
2) Rifqa
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa--she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa's exile from Haifa to his family's current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical...
Author
Publisher
Words Count Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"You are invited on a journey through this collection of poetry from Haiku and Tanka to Free Verse, Non-Rhyming, and Rhyming. Ponder here to observe the visual representation, realize the meaning of words and be inspired by the depth of expression. Allow the experience to Stir your Soul..."--
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On February 6, 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment. Naming itself "The Sisterhood," the group would meet over the next two years to discuss the future of Black literary feminism, how to promote and publicize their work, and the everyday pressures and challenges of being a Black woman writer. This network of individuals, which would also come to include Audre...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1992].
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"I often write about being in the middle ground between two cultures, not fully a part of either. I write with a split voice, often experimenting with language until the parts equal some sort of a whole. I would say a pencil is a buffalo migration under the sky with its stars turning like a jar-lid poked with holes. Writing affects my life, my Real life, while the rest spins through the lone pines. I write from everyday circumstances, old ordinary...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The author traces the significant yet underappreciated historical role that mass-market paperbacks of Jane Austen's books have played in making her the celebrated author she is today. This is a work of bibliography and of literary history. The author has amassed a large collection of rare and forgotten Austen volumes with rich, colorful, and sometimes gaudy covers that are featured, selectively, as figures in the book"--
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"When grumpy ex-footballer Alfie Harding gets badgered into selling his memoirs, he knows he's never going to be able to write them. He hates revealing a single thing about himself, is allergic to most emotions, and can't imagine doing a good job of putting pen to paper. And so in walks curvy, cheery, cute as heck ghostwriter Mabel Willicker, who knows just how to sunshine and sass her way into getting every little detail out of Alfie. They banter...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A searing, vivid memoir that investigates the dynamics of violence, power, desire, and a body pushed to the brink. Quarantined in a southwestern desert city in the midst of her high-risk pregnancy, Margo Steines felt her life narrow around her growing body, compelling her to reckon with the violence entangled in its history. She was a professional dominatrix in New York City, a homestead farmer in a brutal relationship, a welder on a high-rise building...
Publisher
Distributed by VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In this 15 episode sequel to the 1940 serial The Green Hornet, Britt Reid learns that a crime organization has extended its activities into every industry in the city. Disguised as the Green Hornet, each attack brings him closer to the identity of the syndicate mastermind.
17) How sweet it is
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Kate Sweet is famous for creating the perfect happily-ever-after moment for her clients' dream weddings. So how is it that her best friend has roped her into planning a bestselling horror writer's book launch? Drake Matthews is tired of the spotlight, tired of his reputation as the King of Nightmares. He's really a nice guy! More than anything, the next book he wants to write is a romance based on his grandparents. But to get that chance, this event...
19) Roald Dahl
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Presents the life and career of the author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "James and the Giant Peach," and "Matilda."
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.