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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen is one of the most influential and best-loved novelists in English literature. Austens genius was her cast of charactersso timeless and real that readers today recognize them in their own families and neighborhoods. Her books universal themeslove and hate, hope and disappointment, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibilitystill tug at heartstrings today in cultures spanning the globe. Austen wrote about daily life in England as she knew...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After the death of her siblings, Charlotte has few people she can trust, and feels more alone than ever. While visiting London, Charlotte goes on a tour of Bedlam, where she is sure she recognizes a struggling Mr. Slade, her long-missing ex-lover, strapped to one of the stretchers. Of course, she starts digging, and soon finds herself trying to reveal a secret that high-powered men would, and do, kill to protect.
4686) Almost brown: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960's London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act, results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a...
4693) Summerland: DVD
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee name Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed." --
4696) This is happy: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The bittersweet memoir of a writer whose child was born just after her partner left her, and how she carried on to make her daughter's life a happy one.
4700) Concentrate: poems
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning poet, writer and visual artist explores the under-told murder of Latasha Harlins, a fifteen-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shop owner for being falsely accused of shoplifting during the 1992 Los Angeles uprising."
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