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ordered by best selling| Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America | |||
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| Brief In the title essay of this extraordinary keepsake of childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman pays fierce tribute to a complex mother who "used to dream me home safely by sitting up and waiting for me to stumble in." The young writer Bich Minh Nguyen remembers arriving in Michigan from Vietnam in 19...Read More |
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| Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge: (Reissue) | |||
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Author(s) : Susan Shreve | ||
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| Brief Tommy Wilhelm and his gang of bullies have never let fifth-grader Joshua forget that he was held back in the third grade. Now Tommy has started picking on a dorky new kid and Joshua must choose between sticking up for the nerd and saving his own neck.From the Trade Paperback edition....Read More |
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| The Lovely Shoes | |||
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Author(s) : Susan Shreve | ||
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| Brief Can the right pair of shoes make *anyone* feel beautiful?Franny is constantly embarrassed by two things in her life. One is her right foot, which curls in from a birth defect, so she has to wear ugly, heavy orthopedic shoes. And the other is her mother Margaret: beautiful, extravagant, flamboyant -...Read More |
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| You Are the Love of My Life: A Novel | |||
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Author(s) : Susan Richards Shreve | ||
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| Brief It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone’s lips. Lucy Painter is achildren's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York andthe married father of her children to live in a tightly knit Washingtonneighborhood in the house where she grew up andwhere she discovered her father’s...Read More |
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| The Colour of Lies | |||
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Author(s) : John Cummings | ||
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| Brief Would it hurt more to tell and wish you hadn’t or not and wish you had?A suicide causes Simon McFadden’s life to unravel, his certainties challenged by the lies of those closest to him. He has to confront the imperfections of the society he trusted and class divisions he thought died years ago. ...Read More |
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| Under the Watsons' Porch | |||
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Author(s) : Susan Shreve | ||
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| Brief Twelve-year-old Ellie Tremont is b-o-r-e-d, bored, and she wishes something, anything, would happen. So when 14-year-old Tommy Bowers moves in next door, with his lanky swagger and his troubled past, Ellie knows her summer is about to get interesting. When Tommy suggests they start a camp for the ki...Read More |
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| A Student of Living Things | |||
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Author(s) : Susan Shreve | ||
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| Brief The Frayn family of Washington, D.C., is coping pretty well with twenty-first century realities of life—snipers, bomb threats, natural disasters, etc. Then, in the moment it takes Claire Frayn to dig for her umbrella, her politically outspoken brother Steven is shot down right next to her on the l...Read More |
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| Trout and Me | |||
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Author(s) : Susan Shreve | ||
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| Brief When a new troublemaker, Trout, arrives at school, Ben is soon diagnosed with ADD–just like Trout.Ever since first grade, Ben’s been in trouble, even though he’s really not a bad kid. He just can’t seem to stop doing things that get him sent to the principal’s office. His par...Read More |
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| Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race | |||
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Author(s) : Marita Golden, Susan Shreve | ||
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| Brief Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing and friendship. Eudora Welty contributes a bittersweet story of a one-hundred-year-old...Read More |
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| The Flunking of Joshua T. Bates | |||
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Author(s) : Susan Shreve | ||
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| Brief In this Knopf Paperback reissue, Joshua is devastated to learn that he must repeat third grade. But he manages to survive the taunts of former classmates, learn something important about himself, and make it through the year with the help of a sympathetic teacher in this "funny, touching, and...Read More |
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