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The story of a remarkable friendship-told in a remarkable way. A story in which every woman will recognize herself…and her best friend
Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski. Two girls from very different backgrounds become best friends in the turbulent 1960s, but their circumstances and choices-and their mistakes-take them in opposite directions. Lesley stays in their hometown. She marries young, living a life defined by the demands of small children,...
Author
Publisher
The Lilliput Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"Among the possessions seized from Theobald Wolfe Tone upon his arrest in 1798 were two copies of Belmont Castle, the epistolary novel he wrote and published with his friends Richard Jebb and John Radcliffe in 1790. Much more than a mere youthful literary squib, Belmont Castle is an elaborate roman à clef, satirizing the lives of several prominent figures of the Anglo-Irish establishment and redressing a painful love affair from Tone's past. Written...
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Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"I couldn't put Dear Haiti, Love Alaine down!" -- New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory "An enchanting and engrossing novel full of wit and laughter." -- Edwidge Danticat, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory "Remarkable, funny, and whip-smart." -- Ibi Zoboi, author of American Street , National Book Award finalist "Maika and Maritza Moulite have created quite the masterpiece." -- NPR.org "Alaine's sarcastic quips ... are worth the price of...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Samantha's only friends were characters in books, but her real life takes an extraordinary turn when a mysterious "Mr. Knightley" offers her a full journalism scholarship--on the condition that she write to him regularly. Will their long-distance friendship unlock her heart? Sam is, to say the least, bookish. An English major of the highest order, her diet has always been Austen, Dickens, and Shakespeare. The problem is that both her prose and conversation...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Three powerful novels by Alice Walker, beginning with her masterpiece The Color Purple, and following characters as they are drawn into critical confrontations with history The Color Purple is Walker's stunning, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of courage in the face of oppression. Celie grows up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she's badly treated by her family....
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