Author: Olivia Snowe Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1623701376 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 115
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Caleb Woolf has designs on the basket of food that Cassie Cloak takes to her grandmother every Sunday, so they set a trap to teach him a lesson.
Author: Olivia Snowe Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1434262782 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 129
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Caleb Woolf has designs on the basket of food that Cassie Cloak takes to her grandmother every Sunday, so they set a trap to teach him a lesson.
Author: Olivia Snowe Publisher: Capstone Classroom ISBN: 1434291510 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 129
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For fourteen years Dandelion has lived in a house with the witch she thinks is her mother, but when she shows signs of growing up the witch locks her in a tower in the woods--where a boy named Arthur hears her singing.
Author: Olivia Snowe Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1434291456 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 129
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In this modern version of Beauty and the Beast, unhappy fifteen-year-old Carlo has been living in the basement of his family's mansion ever since his father died--until beautiful fifteen-year-old Belle shows up to pay for the rose her father picked in the garden.
Author: Olivia Snowe Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1434291464 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 129
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Hansen and Gracie are orphaned twins, but their ability to hear each other even when they are not together has made them strange, and prevented them from being adopted--so when the evil officials from the orphanage abandon them in the woods they set out to find a home of their own.
Author: N Quentin Woolf Publisher: Serpent's Tail ISBN: 1847659470 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 449
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John Knox falls passionately and irrevocably in love with Rachel McAllistair the first time they meet. He interviews her for his radio show, and afterwards, when he tells her how impressive she was, she hits him, square on the jaw. Undeterred, he pursues her, promising to love her and never to leave her. This promise becomes his burden, as her behaviour whirls out of control. She is abusive and cruel. And yet he stays. Even when she does something so awful that his life is changed forever. And that point, on which his life turns, leads him to an unexpected connection with a man who suffered a terrible injury in the first world war. The Death of the Poet is a daringly honest, transfixing story about being in thrall to someone, being a victim and a protector, and how early promise can turn into an utterly unrecognisable life. An exploration of violence and what it means to be a man in the modern world, it's controversial, devastating, and, in a complicated way, romantic too.
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson Publisher: Scholastic UK ISBN: 1407148710 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 240
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A beautifully written and riveting look at anorexia from acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson. Cassie and Lia are best friends, and united in their quest to be thin. But when Cassie is found dead in a motel room, Lia must question whether she continues to lose weight, or choose life instead.
Author: Hermione Lee Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691188602 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 152
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What choices must a biographer make when stitching the pieces of a life into one coherent whole? How do we best create an accurate likeness of a private life from the few articles that linger after death? How do we choose what gets left out? This intriguing and witty collection of essays by an internationally acclaimed biographer looks at how biography deals with myths and legends, what goes missing and what can't be proved in the story of a life. Virginia Woolf's Nose presents a variety of case-studies, in which literary biographers are faced with gaps and absences, unprovable stories and ambiguities surrounding their subjects. By looking at stories about Percy Bysshe Shelley's shriveled, burnt heart found pressed between the pages of a book, Jane Austen's fainting spell, Samuel Pepys's lobsters, and the varied versions of Virginia Woolf's life and death, preeminent biographer Hermione Lee considers how biographers deal with and often utilize these missing body parts, myths, and contested data to "fill in the gaps" of a life story. In "Shelley's Heart and Pepys's Lobsters," an essay dealing with missing parts and biographical legends, Hermione Lee discusses one of the most complicated and emotionally charged examples of the contested use of biographical sources. "Jane Austen Faints" takes five competing versions of the same dramatic moment in the writer's life to ask how biography deals with the private lives of famous women. "Virginia Woolf's Nose" looks at the way this legendary author's life has been translated through successive transformations, from biography to fiction to film, and suggests there can be no such thing as a definitive version of a life. Finally, "How to End It All" analyzes the changing treatment of deathbed scenes in biography to show how biographical conventions have shifted, and asks why the narrators and readers of life-stories feel the need to give special meaning and emphasis to endings. Virginia Woolf's Nose sheds new light on the way biographers bring their subjects to life as physical beings, and offers captivating new insights into the drama of "life-writing". Virginia Woolf's Nose is a witty, eloquent, and funny text by a renowned biographer whose sensitivity to the art of telling a story about a human life is unparalleled--and in creating it, Lee articulates and redefines the parameters of her craft.
Author: Olivia Snowe
Author: Olivia Snowe
Author: Olivia Snowe
Author: Olivia Snowe
Author: Olivia Snowe
Author: N Quentin Woolf
Author: Olivia Snowe
Author: Olivia Snowe
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson
Author: Hermione Lee