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4662) A journal
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Presents excerpts from the diary of Beatrix Potter, which she kept from the age of sixteen until her marriage in 1913, with drawings, photos, and a narrative about how she came to write "The Tales of Peter Rabbit."
4663) Love at the shore
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Successful and driven single mom Jenna Thompson writes teen novels, and she has only five weeks to deliver the next one to her publisher. So, this year₂s annual beach vacation with her kids Nick & Ally will be a working vacation for Jenna. Upon arrival, the family soon meets their new next-door neighbor, confident, devil-may-care surfer Lucas McKinnon, with whom they will be sharing walls and a patio for the next month
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Fifty-five years after the publication of "To kill a mockingbird", Harper Lee has published another novel. "Go set a watchman" was written before Lee's beloved masterpiece, as director Mary McDonagh Murphy explains in this update of her 2011 documentary Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird. Her new up date of her film, sifts through the facts and speculation surrounding Lee and both her novels and include's interviews with Lee's sister and...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith is lauded as one of the most influential and celebrated modern writers. However, there has never been a clear picture of the woman behind the books. The relationship between Highsmith's lesbianism, her fraught personality - by parts self-destructive and malicious - and her fiction, has been largely avoided by biographers....
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Thomas Christensen illuminates the extravagant age of the early 17th century by focusing on a single riotous year. Woven with color images and artwork from the period, "1616" tells the surprising tales of the men and women who set the world on its tumultuous course toward modernity.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the fourth season the girls are tentatively edging toward maturity as they take on new personas in new worlds. As the season begins, Hannah leaves New York to attend the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop in the hopes of becoming a more serious writer, while confronting uncertainty in her relationship with Adam. Meanwhile, back in New York, Marnie pursues a music career while balancing her professional and romantic relationship with Desi; Shoshanna...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women's movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it. Forty years after their first groundbreaking work of feminist literary theory, The Madwoman in the Attic, award-winning collaborators Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar map the literary history of feminism's second wave. In Still Mad, they offer lively readings of major works by such writers as Sylvia Plath, Lorraine...
4675) A wordful child
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The author describes how her love of words and her personal experiences evolved into a career as a writer.
Series
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
"Sex, satire, feminism and beond--these are some of the themes examined here in provocative essays by experts in science fiction, both men and women. Writing especially for this volume, they explore the special "feminine" approach to SF that has created an impressive body of work, including the prize-winning novels of recent years by such writers as Joan D. Vinge and Suzy McKee Charnas."--Publisher's description.
4679) Laura Ingalls Wilder
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the well-known author of "The Little House on the Prairie, " describing the pioneer experiences that provided the basis for much of her writing.
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