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From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments • This brilliant collection of connected short stories strings together several decades of moments in the life of one woman—as an ambitious girl in the 1930s, as a young professional coming of age in the uncertain ‘50s and ‘60s, and as half of a couple growing old together.
In a series of vividly evoked settings that span
2) Agnes Grey
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English
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Written when women-and workers generally-had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governess's life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"From "the most captivating voice to come out of the West since Annie Proulx" (Vogue), the furious, hilarious, soul-rending story of one woman's reckoning with marriage, work, sex, and motherhood. Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and seethe funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as much now. c) Not so much now. d) Not at all. Leaving behind her husband, Theo, and their young daughter, Claire, a writer, gets on...
4) The bell jar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful young woman.
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Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
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English
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When her thirteen-year-old daughter Callie begins receiving suicidal notes from Robyn, the girl she supposedly bullied, Rebecca is determined to save the unbalanced Robyn, but in doing so, unknowingly places her own daughter's life in great danger.
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English
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One day while nursing her young son, Carolina receives a strange email from her boyfriend Aksel, detailing computer passwords and other instructions in event of his death. She grows worried at first, then irritated - this is so typical of her unsentimental partner. Aksel ends the message: Let's hope for the best! Five months later, he is dead.In her debut novel, Let's Hope for the Best, Carolina Setterwall recounts the intensity of falling in love...
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Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 650L
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English
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When Parker Curry came face-to-face with Amy Sheralds transcendent portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery, she didnt just see the First Lady of the United States. She saw a queenone with dynamic self-assurance, regality, beauty, and truth who captured this young girls imagination. When a nearby museum-goer snapped a photo of a mesmerized Parker, it became an internet sensation. Inspired...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
This novel of extraordinary humanity from New York Times bestselling author Vaddey Ratner reveals the endless ways that families can be forged and broken hearts held as a young woman begins an odyssey to discover the truth about her missing father.
Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as "the Old Musician"...
16) Sleep of memory
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive underside of love, the dreams and follies of youth, the vagaries of memory, and the melancholy of loss. Writing from the perspective of an older man, the narrator relives a key period in his life through his relationships with several enigmatic women--Geneviève, Martine, Madeleine, a certain Madame Huberson--in the process unearthing his troubled relationship...
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
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"In this utterly unconventional, autobiographical novel--or is it a memoir? -- Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a New Jersey shoppping mall. The "audience" consists of Mark's mother and some stray Panda Express employees, who ask a handful of questions. The action takes place entirely at the food court, but the territory covered in these pages has no bounds."--Container.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"Willie Nelson, country music's quintessential musician, displays all the wit and warmth of his homespun style of storytelling in an inspiring holiday novel based on his classic Christmas song, "Pretty Paper." More than fifty years ago, Willie Nelson's beloved Christmas song "Pretty Paper" first hit the airwaves. And for all these years, Willie has wondered about the real-life Texas street vendor, selling wrappings and ribbons, who inspired his...
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Series
Holland family saga volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron's only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted...
20) The sunroom
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Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
When I was twelve, I made a naïve, yet desperate pact with God to keep my ailing mother alive. It was the first time I'd ventured something so brazen--making a contract with the Almighty... So begins the story of Becky Owens, a talented and passionate young pianist on the verge of adolescence when she learns the devastating news of her mother's critical illness. As the daughter of a country preacher in Lancaster County, Becky knows well the significance...
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