Search Results: Returned 12 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 12
-
-
-
c2005., Bethany House Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Lynn Austin presents a tale of family secrets, forgiveness, and reconcilation in the story of three generations of women: Kathleen, her mother, Eleanor, and her grandmother, Fiona. Each woman left home to escape her family's past and to start a new life"--Provided by publisher.
-
-
[2020]., W. W. Norton & Company Call No: DYSTOPIA F MIL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel--her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven--follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack, A Children's Bible is loosely structured around events and characters that often appear in collections of Bible stories intended for young readers. These narrative touchstones are imbedded in a backdrop of environmental and psychological distress as the children reject the parents for their emotional and moral failures--in part as normal teenagers must, and in part for their generation's passivity and denial in the face of cataclysmic change. In A Children's Bible, Millet offers brilliant commentary on the environment and human weakness and a vision of what awaits us on the other side of Revelations"--Provided by the publisher.
-
-
-
2004., Farrar, Straus, Giroux Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1956, toward the end of his life, Reverend John Ames begins a letter to his young son, sharing the story of his life and explaining how his faith influenced his choices and actions.
-
-
2011., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: Realistic FIC Durrow Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Rachel, a light-skinned bi-racial child, is orphaned, she is sent to live with her African American grandmother in a predominantly black community where she is expected to "act black." Having been raised by her mother to think of herself as white, Rachel seeks to discover her own identity.
-
-
-
[2016], Primary, Creston Books Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A young girl named Silence was cast out of her village because she tried to climb the mountain to find her dead parents. She's happy living among the trees, but when she's told by the most ancient tree, Wonderboom, to return to the village that threw her away, she reluctantly agrees to go. Her purpose is to "save Yesterday" by teaching the villagers to honor their ancestors by remembering them.
-
-
1957., Penguin Books Call No: Literature FIC KEROUAC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible of life and his wild flights of poetic fancy.
-
-
1976, c1955., Penguin Books Call No: Adventure FIC Kerouac Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
-
-
-
c2011., Pre-adolescent, Lucent Books Call No: SHAKESPEARE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents in graphic novel format an adaptation of Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. Depicts the tragic consequences of a deadly feud between two rival families in Renaissance Verona.
-
-
-
[2021]., Milkweed Editions Call No: Historical Fic Wilson Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: After her father disappears into the woods outside their home, Rosalie Iron Wing leaves to live with a foster family who also are the descendants of the Dakhóta people. While her father taught her about the land and the history of their people, her foster family teachers her about the iron will of the Dakhóta women. After surviving the death of her husband, a white farmer, Rosalie returns to the family cabin where she grew up and reflects about her people's struggle for survival, comparing it to a cache of her heirloom seeds passed down through generations.
-
-
c2004., Michigan State University Press Call No: NL REALISTIC F GAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
-
-
-
By Rum, Etaf2020., Harper Perennial Call No: Realistic Fic Rum Edition: First Harper Perennial edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1990 Palestine, seventeen-year-old Isra is given in marriage to a man she doesn't know and they move to Brooklyn. There she struggles to earn the approval of her mother-in-law Fareeda and abusive husband Adam, and gives birth to four girls, instead of sons. In 2008 Brooklyn, eighteen-year-old Deya, Isra's daughter, is pushed by her grandmother to choose a suitor but Deya wants to go to college. Fate intervenes and Deya learns shocking secrets that cause her to question her family and her past; what Deya learns changes her future forever.