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Author |
: Demetria Martinez |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 105 |
Release |
: 2012-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780806187877 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0806187875 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Block Captain's Daughter by : Demetria Martinez
Guadalupe Anaya, a waitress, is pregnant. She is also the newly elected block captain of Sunflower Street, in charge of raising awareness of safety in her southeast Albuquerque neighborhood. Her campaign platform: God helps those who help themselves. While she waits for the baby, Lupe writes letters to her unborn child, whom she names Destiny. It is Lupe’s dream that her daughter will be a writer, pushing a pen instead of a broom. In this highly imaginative work of fiction by the acclaimed author of Mother Tongue, Demetria Martínez weaves a portrait of six unforgettable characters, whose lives intertwine through their activism as they seek to create a better world and find meaning in their own lives. At the center of this circle of friends is Lupe, and her heartfelt letters to Destiny punctuate the narrative. Until she crossed the border alone and without papers, Lupe worked in a maquiladora in Mexico. Rescued by strangers, she has made a family for herself among the kindhearted friends, swept up in various causes, who will be her daughter’s godparents. Deftly alternating between first-person and second-person narratives, conscious states and dream states, The Block Captain’s Daughter is full of delightful surprises, even as it deals with universal themes of desire and risk, death and birth, and the powerful ties that bind us all together.
Author |
: Ann M. Lewis |
Publisher |
: Wisconsin Historical Society |
Total Pages |
: 106 |
Release |
: 2015-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780870207303 |
ISBN-13 |
: 087020730X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ship Captain's Daughter by : Ann M. Lewis
Ship Captain's Daughter is a daughter's memoir that recounts the family side of Great Lakes shipping and the changing tides the family endured throughout the years that her father sailed the inland seas.
Author |
: Tricia Levenseller |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2017-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250095961 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250095964 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Daughter of the Pirate King by : Tricia Levenseller
A 17-year-old pirate captain INTENTIONALLY allows herself to get captured by enemy pirates in this thrilling YA adventure from debut author Tricia Levenseller.
Author |
: K. D. Castner |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2016-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781481436656 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1481436651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Daughters of Ruin by : K. D. Castner
As a war begins, four princesses of enemy kingdoms who were raised as sisters must decide where their loyalties lie: to their kingdoms, or to each other.
Author |
: Eve Bunting |
Publisher |
: Sleeping Bear Press |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2011-07-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781410307897 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1410307891 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pirate Captain's Daughter by : Eve Bunting
"I always knew my father was a pirate and I always knew I wanted to be one, too." At age fifteen, Catherine's life is about to change. Her mother has just died and Catherine can't stand the thought of being sent to live with her aunt in Boston. She longs for a life of adventure. After she discovers her father's secret life as captain of the pirate ship Reprisal, her only thoughts are to join him on the high seas. Catherine imagines a life of sailing the blue waters of the Caribbean, the wind whipping at her back. She's heard tales of bloodshed and brutality but her father's ship would never be like that. Catherine convinces her father to let her join him, disguised as a boy. But once the Reprisal sets sail, she finds life aboard a pirate ship is not for the faint of heart. If her secret is uncovered, punishment will be swift and brutal.
Author |
: Lydia Maria Child |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 1866 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044024572562 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Freedmen's Book by : Lydia Maria Child
Author |
: Harold Bloom |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 545 |
Release |
: 2021-12-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781984898432 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1984898434 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bright Book of Life by : Harold Bloom
America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction. In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was regarded as America's most daringly original and controversial literary critic—gives us his only book devoted entirely to the art of the novel. With his hallmark percipience, remarkable scholarship, and extraordinary devotion to sublimity, Bloom offers meditations on forty-eight essential works spanning the Western canon, from Don Quixote to Book of Numbers; from Wuthering Heights to Absalom, Absalom!; from Les Misérables to Blood Meridian; from Vanity Fair to Invisible Man. Here are trenchant appreciations of fiction by, among many others, Austen, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Le Guin, and Sebald. Whether you have already read these books, plan to, or simply care about the importance and power of fiction, Harold Bloom is your unparalleled guide to understanding literature with new intimacy.
Author |
: Dav Pilkey |
Publisher |
: Scholastic UK |
Total Pages |
: 123 |
Release |
: 2013-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781407144115 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1407144111 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Adventures of Captain Underpants by : Dav Pilkey
George and Harold have created the greatest superhero in the history of their school — and now they're about to bring him to life! MEET CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS! HIS TRUE IDENTITY IS SO SECRET, EVEN HE DOESN'T KNOW WHO HE IS! FIGHTING FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE AND ALL THINGS PRE-SHRUNK AND COTTONY!
Author |
: Jostein Gaarder |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 735 |
Release |
: 2007-03-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466804272 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466804270 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sophie's World by : Jostein Gaarder
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Author |
: Bernard Lefkowitz |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 571 |
Release |
: 2023-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520918030 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520918037 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Guys by : Bernard Lefkowitz
It was a crime that captured national attention. In the idyllic suburb of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, four of the town's most popular high school athletes were accused of raping a retarded young woman while nine of their teammates watched. Everyone was riveted by the question: What went wrong in this seemingly flawless American town? In search of the answer, Bernard Lefkowitz takes the reader behind Glen Ridge's manicured facade into the shadowy basement that was the scene of the rape, into the mansions on "Millionaire's Row," into the All-American high school, and finally into the courtroom where justice itself was on trial. Lefkowitz's sweeping narrative, informed by more than 200 interviews and six years of research, recreates a murky adolescent world that parents didn't—or wouldn't—see: a high school dominated by a band of predatory athletes; a teenage culture where girls were frequently abused and humiliated at sybaritic and destructive parties, and a town that continued to embrace its celebrity athletes—despite the havoc they created—as "our guys." But that was not only true of Glen Ridge; Lefkowitz found that the unqualified adulation the athletes received in their town was echoed in communities throughout the nation. Glen Ridge was not an aberration. The clash of cultures and values that divided Glen Ridge, Lefkowitz writes, still divides the country. Parents, teachers, and anyone concerned with how children are raised, how their characters are formed, how boys and girls learn to treat each other, will want to read this important book.