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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
© 2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"John James Audubon was a famous early American woodsman and artist. Despite his father's objections, Audubon had to follow his own special destiny. This story consists of an imaginary letter in which Audubon explains to his father why he has chosen the unique life he leads. In addition, quotations in script, taken from Audubon's journals, further emphasize the profound world view of this remarkable man."
Author
Series
Library of America volume 255
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Blending gritty toughness and unpredictable violence with wild humor and an uncanny ear for the rhythms of ordinary speech, Elmore Leonard (1925–2013) was the most widely and enthusiastically admired crime novelist of his time. His genius for scene and dialogue led Time magazine to describe him as "a Dickens of Detroit," and Newsweek called him "the best American writer of crime alive, possibly the best we've ever had." Now The Library of America...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 347
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A master storyteller and visionary champion of creative freedom, Ray Bradbury is one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time. In books that look forward to astonishing futures and backward to evanescent realms of memory, he elevated speculative fiction from the pages of the pulps to the vital center of American literary culture. This definitive Library of America edition gathers his novels and story cycles of the 1950s and 1960s for...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 267
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
City primeval : Ride down Woodward Avenue into the Motor City, toward a deadly show-down between dedicated homicide detective Raymond Cruz and a psychopathic murderer, "Oklahoma Wildman" Clement Mansell, who picked the wrong town to kill someone, even if it was only a crooked judge.
LaBrava : Ex-Secret Service agent Joe LaBrava gets involved in a Miami Beach flimflam including among others, a Cuban killer and a once famous actress.
Glitz : A story...
5) Linea Nigra
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
Simultaneously a work of collaboration between mother and child and a diary of worry and joy, Linea Nigra is an intimate exploration of childbearing from the celebrated author of On Lighthouses. Drawing from a wide range of inspirations and traditions, from Louise Bourgeois to Ursula K. Le Guin to the influential indigenous Nahua model Luz Jiménez, Barrera's treatise is as philosophical as it is candid. It is a book that clarifies motherhood, but...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of personal essays.Before he was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of holiday classics such as The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans was a young boy being raised by a suicidal mother and dealing with relentless bullying. He could not fathom what the future held for him. Now, in this intimate and heartfelt...
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