Search for Senna

Search for Senna
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Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Total Pages : 208
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0590877437
ISBN-13 : 9780590877435
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Search for Senna by : Katherine Applegate

When David's girlfriend Senna is swallowed up by the Earth, he and his friends follow to save her, only to stumble upon a nightmarish land they could have never imagined. Original.

Everworld

Everworld
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Publisher : Turtleback Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0613250451
ISBN-13 : 9780613250450
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Everworld by : K. A. Applegate

Christopher, David, April, and Jalil find themselves at the single most powerful area in Everworld--Olympus. It seems that the evil alien god, Ka Anor, plans to take Olympus for himself and Zeus isn't having any of it. The kids know it's not their fight, but they ultimately will choose a side.

New People

New People
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 242
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781594487095
ISBN-13 : 159448709X
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis New People by : Danzy Senna

"As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, 'King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom.' Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation on the Jonestown massacre ... Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her--yet she can't stop daydreaming about another man, a poet she barely knows"--Back cover.

Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 198
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781429964944
ISBN-13 : 1429964944
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Where Did You Sleep Last Night? by : Danzy Senna

From the author of the bestselling Caucasia, a sad, revealing memoir of the mixed-race marriage of her parents, and the very different American origins that brought them together and pulled them apart. When Danzy Senna's parents got married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history. They were two brilliant young American writers from wildly divergent backgrounds—a white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man, the son of a struggling single mother and an unknown father. They married in a year that seemed to separate the past from the present; together, these two would snub the histories that divided them and embrace a radical future. When their marriage disintegrated eight years later, it was, as one friend put it, "the ugliest divorce in Boston's history"—a violent, traumatic war that felt all the more heartrending given the hopeful symbolism of their union. Decades later, Senna looks back not only at her parents' divorce but beyond it, to the opposing American histories that her parents had tried so hard to overcome. On her mother's side of the family she finds—in carefully preserved documents—the chronicle of a white America both illustrious and shameful. On her father's she discovers, through fragments and shreds of evidence, a no less remarkable history. As she digs deeper into this unwritten half of the story, she reconstructs a long buried family mystery that illuminates her own childhood. In the process, she begins to understand her difficult father, the power and failure of her parents' union, and, finally, the forces of history. Where Did You Sleep Last Night? is at once a potent statement of personal identity, a challenging look at the murky waters of American ancestry, and an exploration of narratives—the narratives we create and those we forget. Senna has given us an unforgettable testimony to the paradoxes—the pain and the pride—embedded in history, family, and race.

Caucasia

Caucasia
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 433
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101650868
ISBN-13 : 1101650869
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Caucasia by : Danzy Senna

From the author of New People and Colored Television, the extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna’s literary career “Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take … Haunting.” —The New York Times Book Review Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970s Boston. The sisters are so close that they speak their own language, yet Birdie, with her light skin and straight hair, is often mistaken for white, while Cole is dark enough to fit in with the other kids at school. Despite their differences, Cole is Birdie’s confidant, her protector, the mirror by which she understands herself. Then their parents’ marriage collapses. One night Birdie watches her father and his new girlfriend drive away with Cole. Soon Birdie and her mother are on the road as well, drifting across the country in search of a new home. But for Birdie, home will always be Cole. Haunted by the loss of her sister, she sets out a desperate search for the family that left her behind. A modern classic, Caucasia is at once a powerful coming of age story and a groundbreaking work on identity and race in America.

Gateway to the Gods

Gateway to the Gods
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 198
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0590877666
ISBN-13 : 9780590877664
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Gateway to the Gods by : Katherine Applegate

David and his friends meet gods from the ancient Greek myths on Everworld's Mount Olympus.

You Are Free: Stories

You Are Free: Stories
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 242
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101514962
ISBN-13 : 1101514965
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis You Are Free: Stories by : Danzy Senna

From the bestselling author of Caucasia and the forthcoming Colored Television, riveting, unexpected stories about identity under the influence of appearances, attachments, and longing. Each of these eight remarkable stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states: life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender. Tensions arise between a biracial couple when their son is admitted to the private school where they'd applied on a lark. A new mother hosts an old friend, still single, and discovers how each of them pities-and envies- the other. A young woman responds to an adoptee in search of her birth mother, knowing it is not she.

Realm of the Reaper

Realm of the Reaper
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 200
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0590877607
ISBN-13 : 9780590877602
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Realm of the Reaper by : K. A. Applegate

The author of "Animorphs" invites readers to a place where all dreams and nightmares are real. A group of friends journeys to Everworld in search of a friend, but things have turned dangerous because they are about to discover the true opposite of heaven.

The Life of Senna

The Life of Senna
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Publisher : Myrtle
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 0956565662
ISBN-13 : 9780956565662
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis The Life of Senna by : Tom Rubython

This is an illustrated account of Formula One driver Ayrton Senna's life. It examines every detail - from his early days, to his first race and on to his world championships to his pole positions and finally his death and its aftermath.

Ayrton Senna

Ayrton Senna
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 281
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0552137545
ISBN-13 : 9780552137546
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Ayrton Senna by : Christopher Hilton

From his World Championship victory in 1988 to his controversial disputes the following year and finally to his recapture of the title in 1990, Ayrton Senna has regularly made the headlines. Yet many regard him as a shy and introverted personality.