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Publisher
Graphic Arts Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"25 fantastic read-aloud stories for kids, written and illustrated by members of our local children's literature community. While the stories reflect a diverse range of topics, tones, and sytles, they're unified by one common theme: Oregon. The book is a celebration of our state, our kids, and our families--and the power of books and reading in forming our experiences, paths, and passions."--back cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
""Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores "what it means to be seen, to find someone...
Publisher
Spiritfish Nation Verbal Construction Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prose, poetry, photographs and drawings contributed by S. Buckley, Denise Cacace, Walter Doerfler, Leah Furnas, Gary Lark, Sharon Lovie, John Noland, Dave Polhamus, Estelle Rivers, Susan Risley, Glenn Rogie, Ashly Salmon, Robert "Black Bear" Scott, Gary Sharp, Ed Woodmansee
Series
Oregon literature volume 3
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
A collection of prose writings which present the hopes and expectations of many different Oregonians from varied time periods and cultural backgrounds
6) Book lovers
Author
Language
English
Description
"A by-the-book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. Nora Stephens' life is books--she's read them all--and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"From the legendary music producer, a savant at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book, many years in the making, that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. "I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." -Rick Rubin Many famed music producers, however brilliant, become known for a particular sound which...
9) 1984
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities
In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret...
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty-three stories created by a group of poets, novelists, and playwrights who answered an ad that promised them three months of free food and lodging in which to write their masterpiece. The retreat turns out to be more of a distraction than the "real life" they left behind.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Well-known works including fables, folklore, fiction, drama, and more, by such authors as Aesop, Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and Baldwin, are presented to teach virtues, including compassion, courage, honesty, friendship, and faith
Author
Series
Library of America volume 96
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
15) Square
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his friend Circle asks him to do her portrait after praising him as a sculptor and genius, Square struggles to carve her likeness from a stone block.
Author
Series
Corie Geller volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Just a few years ago, Corie Geller was busting terrorists as an agent for the FBI. But at thirty-five, she traded in her badge for the stability of marriage and motherhood. Now Corie is married to the brilliant and remarkably handsome Judge Josh Geller and is the adoptive mother of his fourteen-year-old daughter. Corie fills her days scouting Arabic fiction for literary agencies and, every Wednesday, she joins a group of fellow Shorehaven freelancers...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A twenty-first-century Highsmith, Virginia Feito conjures the unforgettable Mrs. March, an Upper East Side housewife whose life is shattered by her husband's latest novel. In this astonishing debut, the venerable but gossipy New York literary scene is twisted into a claustrophobic fun house of paranoia, horror, and wickedly dark humor. George March's latest novel is a smash. No one is prouder than Mrs. March, his doting wife. But one morning, the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Magic Mountain is simply one of the greatest novels ever written." - The Guardian
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps - a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World...
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