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Pub. Date
1987
Description
This is an autobiographical novel by California writer, Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909). It tells the story of Paul Clitheroe's unsuccessful bout of writing, acting and love in turn-of-the-century San Francisco and his eventual escape into the arms of three naked South Sea Islanders. First published in San Francisco in 1903, this book has long been out of print. Gay Sunshine Press is pleased to present this re-issue of what may be termed the first...
123) STAT: 2,Double team
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Eleven-year-old Amar'e Stoudemire starts competing in basketball tournaments with his two best friends, Deuce and Mike, and they are winning. After a few big wins, Amar'e starts getting attention from some of the older, more elite players in Lake Wales. Amar'e wants to elevate his game and the only way to do that is to move on.
126) Senderos fronterizos
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.
127) The fall of the year
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A priest's adopted son narrates a colorful tale of small-town Vermont life in this autobiographical novel from the author of A Stranger in the Kingdom.
Set in the beautiful mountains of Kingdom County, The Fall of the Year is Howard Frank Mosher's brilliant autobiographical novel about love in all its forms, from friendship to the most passionate romance, in a place where family, community, vocation, and the natural world still matter profoundly.
Here...
Author
Description
When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Crafts, a young slave on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, runs away in a bid for her freedom up North. Pursued by slave hunters, imprisoned by a mysterious and cruel captor, held by sympathetic strangers, and forced to serve a demanding new mistress, she finally makes her way to freedom in New Jersey. An unprecedented historical and literary event, this tale written in...
133) Star
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention--they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells "action"; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions. Being a star,...
135) Unquiet: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Presents a genre-bending novel about time, memory, and the author's extraordinary childhood as the daughter of a genius filmmaker and his muse.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Set in 1991, just as Star Trek: The Next Generation has rocketed the cast to global fame, the young and impressionable actor Brent Spiner receives a mysterious package and a series of disturbing letters, that take him on a terrifying and bizarre journey that enlists Paramount Security, the LAPD, and even the FBI in putting a stop to the danger that has his life and career hanging in the balance. Featuring a cast of characters from Patrick Stewart...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"With an uncanny eye for detail, Knausgaard breaks down his own life story to its elementary particles, reliving memories, reopening wounds, and examining with candor the turbulence and the epiphanies that emerge from his own experience of fatherhood, the fallout in the wake of his father's death, and his visceral connection to music, art, and literature. Karl Ove's dilemmas strike nerves that give us raw glimpses of our particular moment in history...