Search Results: Returned 7 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 7
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2020., Riverhead Books Call No: Historical Fic Gilbert Edition: First Riverhead trade paperback edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1940, Vivian Morris is kicked out of Vassar College due to poor freshman-year grades, so her wealthy parents send her to live with Aunt Peg in Manhattan--the same Aunt Peg who owns the flamboyant but crumbling theater called Lily Playhouse. In the Playhouse Vivian meets a cast of charismatic and unconventional characters, including fun-loving showgirls and playboy actors, a lady-killer writer, and a no-nonsense stage manager. Decades later, now eighty-nine, Vivian recalls the events of the years that followed her discoveries of life and love in Manhattan.
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2008., Viking Call No: 813 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov, having been arrested for looting the corpse of a German paratrooper, is given the opportunity to be released from jail if he, along with a soldier imprisoned for desertion, can secure twelve eggs to be used in the colonel's daughter's wedding cake by traversing the dangerous streets of Leningrad.
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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.
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2017., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From the masterful David Almond comes a joyful, wistful story of boyhood, running, and tales of days gone by.
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2017., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: FIC ALM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From the masterful David Almond comes a joyful, wistful story of boyhood, running, and tales of days gone by.
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By Updike, John2002., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Literature FIC UPDIKE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The 78-year-old painter, Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer, and recapitulates, through the story of her own career, the triumphant, poignant saga of postwar American art.
