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First published in 1930, "Not Without Laughter" is the debut novel by Langston Hughes and a deeply personal, semi-autobiographical tale of an African-American family in rural Kansas. Langston Hughes, born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, spent much of his youth in Lawrence, Kansas and it is here that he set his first novel. "Not Without Laughter" tells the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a young man and focuses on his "awakening...
2) House arrest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Young Timothy is sentenced to house arrest after impulsively stealing a wallet, and he is forced to keep a journal into which he pours all his thoughts, fears, and frustrations.
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Project Gutenberg
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Faust: A Tragedy (German: Faust. Eine Tragödie), or retrospectively Faust. Der Tragödie / erster Teil) is the first part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is considered by many as the greatest work of German literature. It was first published in 1808. The first part of Faust is not divided into acts, but is structured as a sequence of scenes in a variety of settings. After a dedicatory poem and a prelude in the theater,...
5) Solo
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Blink
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
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Fondo de Cultura Económica
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2018
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Español
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Muchos años antes de escribir "El eterno femenino", Rosario Castellanos exploró la condición de la mujer a través de dos piezas dramáticas: "Salomé y Judith". Al trasladar la acción de Salomé a San Cristóbal de las Casas y la de Judith a Tierra Caliente, Chiapas, la autora consiguió sacar a la luz otro de los temas que más le preocuparon a lo largo de su trayectoria: el del esclavismo indígena por parte de los caciques. La novedad de ambos...
8) The Aeneid
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English
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A new edition of Virgil's epic work is presented in modern language and endeavors to retain the original work's humanity, as well as its influential blend of poetry and verse.
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Amanuense
Pub. Date
2018
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Español
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Álbum poético ilustrado con la melancolía de los versos que el gran poeta cubano dedicó a María García Granados. Los comentarios de la obra están a cargo de Carmen Matute, Premio Nacional de Literatura de Guatemala 2015. Aunque muchos textos de Martí se han vuelto emblemáticos, ninguno ostenta un lugar tan destacado y preferencial como "La niña de Guatemala". A pesar de su brevedad y sencillez, este ha permanecido como un cuento en flor,...
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Penguin Books
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2023.
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English
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"In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath. The Wife of Willesden follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road. Wearing fake gold chains, dressed in knock-off designer clothes, and speaking in a...
11) From from: poems
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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A collection of poems reflects the experiences of Asian Americans and the problem of creating an Asian American identity while influenced by Westerners' ideas about Asians.
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