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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0140366768 (0-14-036676-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Intended at first as a simple story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley-a sequel to Tom Sawyer-the book grew and matured under Twain's hand into a work of immeasurable richness and complexity. More than a century after its publication, the critical debate over the symbolic significance of Huck's and Jim's voyage is still fresh, and it remains a major work that can be enjoyed at many levels: as an incomparable adventure story and as a classic of American humor. @declineofwesternsiv Seems like soon as a fella comes into a bit o' money, everyone comes out of the woodworks after'n it. These ladies wants to sivilize me? More like reverse gold-dig my fame and fortune. @FencinTom: Get me outta here! From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0142437174 (0-14-243717-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0140350071 (0-14-035007-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0140390464 (0-14-039046-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0142500984 (0-14-250098-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0140366768 (0-14-036676-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0142437174 (0-14-243717-4)
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Aimeeby Mary Beth MillerISBN 0142400254 (0-14-240025-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aimee'Book summary:[via]Aimee's dead, and everyone believes that her best friend helped her commit suicide. After Aimee dies, after the trial, after the move to the new town, she's completely alone-paralyzed by he loneliness, guilt and anger at everyone's suppression of the truth. Isolated, she writes in her journal, and gradually lets readers into her world. A world where parents don't listen, therapists don't help, and best friends betray you. In the end, she realizes that while she never could have saved Aimee, she might be able to save herself.
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Anna Kareninaby Leo TolstoyISBN 0140267433 (0-14-026743-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina" is the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Tolstoy's masterful novel is one of the greatest works of world literature...it is a novel of social realism that perfectly bares the Russian soul, set against the fascinating panorama of life in nineteenth-century Russia.
With a full-cast and stirring music, this compelling story of one woman's fate is brought to life in this powerful BBC production. [via]More editions of Anna Karenina:
- Anna Karenina: ISBN 0140440410 (0-14-044041-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Anna Karenina: ISBN 019251007X (0-19-251007-X)
Softcover, Oxford University Press - Anna Karenina: ISBN 0192100351 (0-19-210035-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Anna Karenina: ISBN 0140267433 (0-14-026743-3)
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- Anna Karenina: ISBN 0140440410 (0-14-044041-0)
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Anna Kareninaby Richard Pevear, Leo Tolstoy, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0142000272 (0-14-200027-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:"Anna Karenina" tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness. While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This award-winning team's authoritative edition also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this "Anna Karenina" will be the definitive text for generations to come.
"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English, and their superb rendering allows us, as perhaps never before, to grasp the palpability of Tolstoy's 'characters, acts, situations.'" (James Wood, "The New Yorker") [via]More editions of Anna Karenina:
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Anna Karenina: Oprah #5by Leo TolstoyISBN 0143035002 (0-14-303500-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina: Oprah #5'Book summary:[via]The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written, soon to be a film adapted by Tom Stoppard and starring Kiera Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, and Emily Watson
Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as flawless, Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.
While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This authoritative edition, which received the PEN Translation Prize and was an Oprah Book Club" selection, also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina will be the definitive text for fans of the film and generations to come.More editions of Anna Karenina: Oprah #5:
Armageddon Summerby Jane Yolen, Bruce CovilleISBN 0152022686 (0-15-202268-6)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Behind Youby Jacqueline WoodsonISBN 0142403903 (0-14-240390-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Book of Couponsby Susie Morgenstern, Gill Rosner, Serge BlochISBN 0142501158 (0-14-250115-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Book of Coupons'Book summary:It is the first day of school and the kids of Marie Curie School are getting a new teacher. Everyone arrives hoping for an athletic and handsome specimen, but instead, they find a fat, wrinkly, and incredibly old one. At first, the class is very disappointed. But then each student receives a strange gift-a book of very special coupons-and it becomes obvious that Monsieur Noël is not the kind of teacher you meet everyday. The school year is bound to be anything but ordinary.
Illustrated by Serge Bloch
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Boyby Roald DahlISBN 0141303050 (0-14-130305-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boy'Book summary:In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Roald Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpected as are his world-famous, best-selling books. Packed with anecdotes -- some funny, some painful, all interesting -- this is a book that's sure to please. [via]
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Buried Onionsby Gary SotoISBN 0152062653 (0-15-206265-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buried Onions'Book summary:Eddie can always smell onions in the air--the sharp bitter odor of hopelessness and anger that haunts the poor side of Fresno. "I had a theory about those vapors, which were not released by the sun's heat but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry. Tears leapt from our eyelashes and stained our faces." Eddie tries to escape from the poverty and gang society that surrounds him by taking vocational classes and staying away from his old "cholos," (gang friends). But when his cousin is killed, his aunt urges him to seek out and punish the murderer. To avoid the pressure building in his neighborhood, Eddie takes a landscaping job in an affluent suburb. But this too goes awry when his boss's truck is stolen while in his care. In the end, with his money gone and a dangerous gang member stalking him, Eddie's only choice is to join the military and hope that they can give him a better future than the one Fresno seems to offer.
There is no tidy closure--certainly no happy ending--to this bleak novel. But that is exactly what gives Buried Onions its strong, acidic flavor. Teens with a low tolerance for any type of pretense will appreciate Gary Soto's honesty in not trying to force a fairy-tale ending. In spare but always striking prose, Soto has written an unrelentingly grim story that teens will savor because it rings true. (Ages 13 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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Chicks With Sticks (It's a Purl Thing)by Elizabeth LenhardISBN 0142406953 (0-14-240695-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eaterby Thomas De Quincey, Barry MilliganISBN 0140439013 (0-14-043901-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater'Book summary:Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions, he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, and paved the way for later generations of literary drug-takers from Baudelaire to Burroughs. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. [via]
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Each Little Bird That Singsby Debbie WilesISBN 0152056572 (0-15-205657-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Each Little Bird That Sings'Book summary:Death is a way of life for the Snowberger family, since they run a funeral parlor out of their Mississippi home with the motto "We live to serve." Still, when 94-year-old Great-great-aunt Florentine Snowberger dies in the vegetable garden, no one can truly be prepared, even though she'd been bidding "good night and good-bye" to the family every night since she turned 90. Florentine's death is hard on 10-year-old Comfort, since the two were so close, even co-writing the Fantastic (and Fun) Funeral Food for Family and Friends. It's no surprise, then, when the annoyingly overwrought emotional displays of her young cousin Peach Shuggars and the sudden iciness of her alleged best friend Declaration Johnson send Comfort over the edge. Thank goodness for her shaggy "feel-good" dog Dismay who can eradicate all bad feelings with a single slobbery lick.
When a dangerous flash flood comes to Snapfinger on the day of Florentine's funeral, Comfort learns again that life is full of surprises, good and bad, and that, ultimately, it's just good to be alive. This warm, witty novel, told in Comfort's voice (and a mix of letters, recipes, articles, and helpful hints), celebrates the joys of family, of prune bread, of freshly sharpened pencils, and of "each little bird that sings." The fairly constant philosophizing about life and death, the unusual character names (Tidings, Comfort, Joy), and the narrator's oft-precocious voice may fray a nerve or two, but readers will find more than enough humor and good old-fashioned storytelling here to make up for it. (Ages 8 to 12) --Karin Snelson [via]
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Emmaby Jane Austen, Fiona J. StaffordISBN 0141439580 (0-14-143958-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma'Book summary:Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense--but Emma is lovable precisely because she is so imperfect. Austen only completed six novels in her lifetime, of which five feature young women whose chances for making a good marriage depend greatly on financial issues, and whose prospects if they fail are rather grim. Emma is the exception: "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her." One may be tempted to wonder what Austen could possibly find to say about so fortunate a character. The answer is, quite a lot.
For Emma, raised to think well of herself, has such a high opinion of her own worth that it blinds her to the opinions of others. The story revolves around a comedy of errors: Emma befriends Harriet Smith, a young woman of unknown parentage, and attempts to remake her in her own image. Ignoring the gaping difference in their respective fortunes and stations in life, Emma convinces herself and her friend that Harriet should look as high as Emma herself might for a husband--and she zeroes in on an ambitious vicar as the perfect match. At the same time, she reads too much into a flirtation with Frank Churchill, the newly arrived son of family friends, and thoughtlessly starts a rumor about poor but beautiful Jane Fairfax, the beloved niece of two genteelly impoverished elderly ladies in the village. As Emma's fantastically misguided schemes threaten to surge out of control, the voice of reason is provided by Mr. Knightly, the Woodhouse's longtime friend and neighbor. Though Austen herself described Emma as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," she endowed her creation with enough charm to see her through her most egregious behavior, and the saving grace of being able to learn from her mistakes. By the end of the novel Harriet, Frank, and Jane are all properly accounted for, Emma is wiser (though certainly not sadder), and the reader has had the satisfaction of enjoying Jane Austen at the height of her powers. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Emma: ISBN 0192802372 (0-19-280237-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Emma: ISBN 0140430105 (0-14-043010-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Emma: ISBN 0140434151 (0-14-043415-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Emma: ISBN 0192100300 (0-19-210030-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Emma: ISBN 0192553445 (0-19-255344-5)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Emma: ISBN 0141439580 (0-14-143958-0)
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- Emma: ISBN 0192802372 (0-19-280237-2)
Emmaby David Lodge, Jane Austen, James KinsleyISBN 0192815040 (0-19-281504-0)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Empress of the Worldby Sara RyanISBN 0142500593 (0-14-250059-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Frightful's Mountainby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0141312351 (0-14-131235-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Full Circleby Cate TiernanISBN 0142301825 (0-14-230182-5)
Softcover, Puffin
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishingby Melissa BankISBN 0140293248 (0-14-029324-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing'Book summary:Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that's saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she's trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank's heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine": "I'd been a rising star at H----- until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane."
Bank's first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire. In "The Floating House," Jane and her boyfriend, Jamie, visit his ex-girlfriend in St. Croix, and right from the start she can't stop mimicking her beautiful competitor, in a notably idiotic fashion. "I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive," she realizes--one of several thousand of Bank's ruefully funny phrases. But even as Jane clowns around, desperately trying to keep up appearances, she is so hyperaware it hurts. Again and again, the author explores the dichotomy between life as it happens and the rehearsed anecdote, the preferred outcome. In The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, even suburban quiet has "nothing to do with peace." Bank's much-anticipated debut merits all its buzz and, more to the point, transcends it. --Kerry Fried [via]
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A Handful of Timeby Kit PearsonISBN 014032268X (0-14-032268-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Handful of Time'Book summary:How miserable can a 12-year-old's summer vacation get? For starters, Patricia's domineering, emotionally distant mother sends her to her cousins' far-off cottage for the summer. Patricia has never met her cousins before, and her shyness and lack of cottage savvy only increase her awkwardness. Her cousins, led by the insufferable Kelly, tease her constantly before shunning her altogether. Then something amazing happens. During a hot and lonely afternoon, Patricia uncovers an old watch hidden beneath the floorboards. Upon winding it, she is stunned to find herself 35 summers in the past, eavesdropping on another 12-year-old--her own mother. Patricia and her watch become "ghosts from the future" in a mirror world where the inhabitants of the present are held up to their earlier selves, at once both familiar and strange.
The complexity of Patricia's adventure is spun through a series of events that seem almost matter-of-fact on the surface, while barely containing time's shimmering elasticity. The dialogue is beautifully nuanced, and the characters are described in small, telling phrases: Patricia's mother, Ruth, for instance, paddles the canoe "with a bored efficiency." A Handful of Time has the depth and sophistication of an adult novel yet always stays true to the fleeting world of childhood. Honoured as Book of the Year for Children by the Canadian Library Association, it is highly recommended. (Ages 10 to 14) --Martha Johnson [via]
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Hatchetby Gary PaulsenISBN 014032724X (0-14-032724-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hatchet'Book summary:Stranded in the Canadian wilderness with only the clothes on his back and a hatchet, Brian Robeson must put his bitter thoughts of his parents' divorce behind and deal with trying to stay alive. "Plausible, taut, this survival story is spellbinding."--Kirkus Reviews. [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0140281630 (0-14-028163-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' is widely regarded as one of the most significant works of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story was the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now'. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. [via]
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Heart of Darkness and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192801724 (0-19-280172-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and Other Tales'Book summary:The finest of all Conrad's tales, Heart of Darkness is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer's agent, the renowned and formidable Mr. Kurtz. What he sees on his journey, and his eventual encounter with Kurtz, horrify and perplex him, and call into question the very bases of civilization and human nature. Endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted for film, radio, and television, the story shows Conrad at his most intense and sophisticated. The other three tales in this volume depict corruption and obsession, and question racial assumptions. Set in the exotic surroundings of Africa, Malaysia, and the east, they variously appraise the glamour, folly, and rapacity of imperial adventure. This revised edition uses the English first edition texts and has a new chronology and bibliography. [via]
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Hope Was Hereby Joan BauerISBN 0142404241 (0-14-240424-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Hundred Dressesby Eleanor Estes, Louis SlobodkinISBN 0152052607 (0-15-205260-7)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hundred Dresses'Book summary:Wanda Petronski lives way up in shabby Boggins Heights, and she doesn't have any friends. Every day she wears a faded blue dress, which wouldn't be too much of a problem if she didn't tell her schoolmates that she had a hundred dresses at home--all silk, all colors, and velvet, too. This lie--albeit understandable in light of her dress-obsessed circle--precipitates peals of laughter from her peers, and she never hears the end of it. One day, after Wanda has been absent from school for a few days, the teacher receives a note from Wanda's father, a Polish immigrant: "Dear teacher: My Wanda will not come to your school any more. Jake also. Now we move away to big city. No more holler Polack. No more ask why funny name. Plenty of funny names in the big city. Yours truly, Jan Petronski."
Maddie, a girl who had stood by while Wanda was taunted about her dresses, feels sick inside: "True, she had not enjoyed listening to Peggy ask Wanda how many dresses she had in her closet, but she had said nothing.... She was a coward.... She had helped to make someone so unhappy that she had had to move away from town." Repentant, Maddie and her friend Peggy head up to Boggins Heights to see if the Petronskis are still there. When they discover the house is empty, Maddie despairs: "Nothing would ever seem good to her again, because just when she was about to enjoy something--like going for a hike with Peggy to look for bayberries or sliding down Barley Hill--she'd bump right smack into the thought that she had made Wanda Petronski move away." Ouch. This gentle Newbery Honor Book convincingly captures the deeply felt moral dilemmas of childhood, equally poignant for the teased or the tormentor. Louis Slobodkin, illustrator of the 1944 Caldecott Medalist Many Moons, brings his wispy, evocative, color-washed sketches to Eleanor Estes's time-proven classic about kindness, compassion, and standing up for what's right. (Ages 6 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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- Hundred Dresses: ISBN 0152051708 (0-15-205170-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Hundred Dresses: ISBN 0156423502 (0-15-642350-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Hundred Dresses: ISBN 0152373748 (0-15-237374-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Hundred Dresses: ISBN 0152052607 (0-15-205260-7)
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- Hundred Dresses: ISBN 0152051708 (0-15-205170-8)
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Hushby Jacqueline WoodsonISBN 0142406007 (0-14-240600-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hush'Book summary:Toswiah Green. Evie Thomas. One girl. Two names. Two lives. When her police officer father witnesses two white cops killing a black boy, he makes the heart-wrenching decision to testify against his former friends. Overnight, thanks to the witness protection program, Toswiah becomes Evie, and she and her family leave their idyllic Denver, Colorado, life far behind. Toswiah's previously happy, lighthearted mother abruptly turns to religion, her big sister makes secret plans to escape the family, and her proud father collapses inward to a depressed, almost catatonic state. Adolescent Toswiah--now Evie--copes as best she can, taking up track and field in school, and trying to fathom who she is, and who she is becoming.
Jacqueline Woodson, Coretta Scott King Award-winning author of Miracle's Boys and many other highly acclaimed titles, delves deep into the confused hearts of a family that has lost its identity. Toswiah, as a young teenager, was already on the verge of shaping her identity as a young woman; with these shattering events, it takes every ounce of strength and courage to keep her core intact. (Ages 13 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!by Karen Beaumont, David CatrowISBN 0152024883 (0-15-202488-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!'Book summary:A dab of blue here, a splash of red there, a goopy smear of green . . . everywhere. To the tune of "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More," one creative kid floods his world with color, painting first the walls, then the ceiling, then HIMSELF! Before this feisty artist is through, he'll have painted his head, back, hands, legs, feet, and . . . Oh no--here comes Mama![via]
Karen Beaumont's zippy text and David Catrow's zany illustrations turn an infamous childhood activity into raucous storytime fun, giving a silly twist to the fine art of self-expression.More editions of I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!:
Julie of the Wolvesby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0140308326 (0-14-030832-6)
Hardcover, Puffin Books
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Les Miserablesby Norman Denny, Victor HugoISBN 0140444300 (0-14-044430-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:[via]He was no longer Jean Valjean, but No. 24601
Victor Hugos tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty. A compelling and compassionate view of the victims of early nineteenth-century French society, Les Misérables is a novel on an epic scale, moving inexorably from the eve of the battle of Waterloo to the July Revolution of 1830.
Norman Dennys introduction to his lively English translation discusses Hugos political and artistic aims in writing Les Misérables.
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Life As We Knew Itby Susan Beth PfefferISBN 0152058265 (0-15-205826-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Looking for Alaskaby John GreenISBN 0142402516 (0-14-240251-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Looking for Alaska'Book summary:The award-winning, genre-defining debut from #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist New York Times bestseller Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more Francois Rabelais, poet . He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . . After. Nothing is ever the same. [via]
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Lord of the Fliesby William GoldingISBN 0140283331 (0-14-028333-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord of the Flies'Book summary:In the PENGUIN STUDY NOTES series and originally published in 1986 as GOLDING'S LORD OF THE FLIES, a study guide to the novel, aimed at those preparing for the GCSE examination. It includes character studies, summaries of the plot with examinations of the background and major themes, as well as suggesting topics for discussion. [via]
Miracles on Maple Hill: Library Editionby Virginia Sorensen Waugh, Joe Krush, Beth KrushISBN 0152047182 (0-15-204718-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George Orwell, Peter DavisonISBN 0151660344 (0-15-166034-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'Book summary:"Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere."
The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One.
Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston Smith knows this, because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant "correction" of such records. "'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.
Newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime--in 1984, George Orwell created a whole vocabulary of words concerning totalitarian control that have since passed into our common vocabulary. More importantly, he has portrayed a chillingly credible dystopia. In our deeply anxious world, the seeds of unthinking conformity are everywhere in evidence; and Big Brother is always looking for his chance. --Daniel Hintzsche [via]
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On the Far Side of the Mountainby Jean Craighead GeorgeISBN 0140342486 (0-14-034248-6)
Softcover, Puffin
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Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticismby Irving HoweISBN 0155658115 (0-15-565811-5)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism'Book summary:Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. [via]
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The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austenby Jane AustenISBN 0192547046 (0-19-254704-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen'Book summary:"I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of return; it would do her good," remarks one of Jane Austen's characters in Emma.
Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and sparkling ironies of Jane Austen's masterpiece, her comedy of a sentimental education through which Emma discovers a capacity for love and marriage. [via]
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston LerouxISBN 0140368132 (0-14-036813-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phantom Of The Opera'Book summary:The thrilling story of the 'Opera Ghost', legendary for making performers at the Paris Opera House apprehensive when they sit in their dressing-rooms or walk alone in the building's corridors. But it isn't until the triumphant performance the sensual Christine and her startling disappearance that a sense of dread begins to pervade. In an ever increasing pattern of fear and violence, the phantom of the opera begins to strike, but always with the beautiful young singer at the centre of his macabre desires. Filled with the colour and theatrical spectacle of the Paris Opera House and the fascination of love transformed into murderous obsession, this classic work of suspense remains a rivetting journey into the dark regions of the human heart. [via]
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, George Anthony Bull, Anthony GraftonISBN 0140447520 (0-14-044752-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Machiavelli was only one of the many Florentine "prophets of force," he differed from the ruling elite in recognizing the complexity and fluidity of political life. [via]
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Rock Star Superstarby Blake NelsonISBN 0142405744 (0-14-240574-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Room of Ones' Ownby Virginia Woolf, Susan Gubar, Mark HusseyISBN 0156030411 (0-15-603041-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room of Ones' Own'Book summary:Virginia Woolf's landmark inquiry into women's role in society
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister-a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, she takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a fixed income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create. [via]
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranesby Eleanor CoerrISBN 0142404403 (0-14-240440-3)
Softcover, Puffin
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranesby Ronald Himler, Eleanor CoerrISBN 0142401137 (0-14-240113-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nina Baym, Thomas E. ConnollyISBN 0142437263 (0-14-243726-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Letter'Book summary:In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman endures the consequences of her sin of adultery and spends the rest of her life in atonement. [via]
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The Scarlet Letter and Selected Talesby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas E. ConnollyISBN 0140430520 (0-14-043052-0)
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The Schwa Was Hereby Neal ShustermanISBN 0142405779 (0-14-240577-9)
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Secret Life of Beesby Sue Monk KiddISBN 0142001740 (0-14-200174-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secret Life of Bees'Book summary:In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic. --Regina Marler [via]
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lieby David LubarISBN 0142407801 (0-14-240780-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Someone Like Youby Sarah DessenISBN 0142401773 (0-14-240177-3)
Softcover, Speak
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Someone Like You/Keeping the Moon Flip Bookby Sarah DessenISBN 0142301655 (0-14-230165-5)
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The Sorrows of Young Wertherby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 014044503X (0-14-044503-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'Book summary:Be on your guard & and take care not to fall in love![via]
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Although he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion for her and his infatuation torments him to the point of absolute despair. The first great confessional novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther draws both on Goethes own unrequited love for Charlotte Buff and on the death of his friend Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem. The book was an immediate success and a cult rapidly grew up around it, resulting in numerous imitations as well as violent criticism and even suppression for its apparent recommendation of suicide. Goethes sensitive exploration of the mind of a young artist at odds with society and ill-equipped to cope with life is now considered the first great tragic novel of European literature.
This edition includes notes and an introduction by Michael Hulse who explores the origins of the novel in the authors life and examines its impact on European culture.
@SourKraut Met a new girl today! Need to avoid being trapped in the friend zone this time.
She is engaged to some dweeb named Albert. What kind of a name is Al?
Truly, I am so sad. I am overcome with despair. I feel nothing but sorrow.
Have I noted how upset I am? I am very upset. #pain #angst #suffering #sexdep
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Sweep Super Specialby Cate TiernanISBN 0142501190 (0-14-250119-0)
Softcover, Speak
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sweep Super Special'Book summary:Morgan's saga continues in this double-length, stand alone SWEEP book. Moira's Story will shoot readers forward through time, where we will meet Morgan's daughter-raised as a blood witch-and follow her adventures as the progeny of one of the most powerful blood witches the Seven Great Clans have ever known. [via]
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Twenty and Tenby Claire Huchet Bishop, William Pene DuboisISBN 0140310762 (0-14-031076-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty and Ten'Book summary:Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II. [via]
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0141439831 (0-14-143983-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the social ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of English society in the early 1800s, battles-military and domestic-are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honorable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin, devoted to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to William Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure. [via]
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Vanity Fairby John Carey, William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0140437533 (0-14-043753-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vanity Fair'Book summary:This is Thackeray's rich and gloriously chaotic sketch of English society during the Napoleonic wars. At the centre of this picture is the scheming and disreputable Becky Sharp, one of Thackeray's greatest creations. The style here is fast-paced and comic, but the character of Dobbin and his unrequited love for Amelia bring depth and pathos to the novel. Dobbin, the unheroic hero, is Thackeray's realistic answer to the hero-worship of high romanticism. The novel stands as a landmark in the development of European Realism. [via]
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What Happened To Lani Garverby Carol Plum-UcciISBN 0152050884 (0-15-205088-4)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Happened To Lani Garver'Book summary:The folks on Hackett Island, near Philadelphia, are not too friendly to newcomers. Anyone the slightest bit different is eyed with suspicion, as Claire found out when she missed a year of junior high due to leukemia. Now she works hard at fitting in, following treacherous but popular Macy's lead, hiding her passion for the guitar, and never talking about her fear that her illness will return. Or her nightmares. Or her eating disorder. The boys of Hackett Island's "in" crowd are members of the "fish frat"--hunky sons of the local fishermen--and their horseplay even among themselves is brutal and edge-of-danger.
And then Lani Garver shows up at school, a tall, thin, strangely androgynous person. "No. Not a girl. Sorry," he says pleasantly when Macy questions him about his gender with vicious curiosity. But Claire, much to Macy's disgust, is drawn to Lani, and his wisdom and kindness begins to heal her. He takes her to Philadelphia to meet his artistic friends, talks sense to her about her eating disorder and her blind devotion to Macy, finds her a therapist. Who is this Lani Garver? He resists "boxes" like "gay." Even his age is a mystery to Claire. Strangest of all, could he be a "floating angel," as his friends at the hospital seem to believe? Meanwhile, the fish frat are closing in for the kill, and when their harassment turns lethal, Lani shows a terrible side of himself Claire has never seen.
Carol Plum-Ucci raises tantalizing questions around a fascinating character in this gut-clenching story that transcends the clichés of the gay-bashing novel. (Ages 14 and older) --Patty Campbell [via]
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La Vida Secreta De Las Abejas / The Secret Life of Beesby Sue Monk Kidd, LAURA PAREDESISBN 0143035797 (0-14-303579-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Vida Secreta De Las Abejas / The Secret Life of Bees'Book summary:[via]Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Cuando Rosaleen, la bravía madre postiza negra de Lily, insulta a tres de las personas más racistas del pueblo, Lily decide que ambas deben ser libres. Ellas escapan a Tiburón, Carolina del Sur, un pueblo que guarda el secreto del pasado de su madre. Alojadas por un excéntrico trío de hermanas negras apicultoras, Lily es introducida al fascinante mundo de las abejas y la miel, y a la Virgen Negra. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartirán y pasarán a sus hijas por generaciones.
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