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41) Autumn
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The first entry in a planned four-part autobiographical series presents sensory letters written to the author's unborn daughter that describe his childhood and daily life with his wife and older children in rural Sweden.
Author
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
As a young widow with a small child, Elinore Pruitt left Denver in 1909 and set out for Wyoming, where she hoped to buy a ranch. Determined to prove that a lone woman could survive the hardships of homesteading, she initially worked as a housekeeper and hired hand for a neighbor -- a kind but taciturn Scottish bachelor whom she eventually married.Spring and summers were hard, she concedes, and were taken up with branding, farming, doctoring cattle,...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A revealing collection of personal letters written by the iconic author to his mother details his early childhood milestones, travels to Africa, Royal Air Force service, work in Washington D.C., literary achievements, and rise in Hollywood.
Roald Dahl penned his first letter to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, when he was just nine years old. The origins of a brilliantly funny, subversive, creative mind were evident in boarding school, and as he entered...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 275
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters - more than a hundred published for the first time - to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The love affair between two of the Victorian era's most famous poets is one of passion, tragedy, illness, and ultimately, endurance. Collected here for the first time in print are their 573 love letters, which capture their courtship, their blossoming love, and their forbidden marriage.
Author
Series
Achewood volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Strips from the comic Achewood and comments from the author.
58) Vincent's colors
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Combines van Gogh's paintings with his own words, describing each work of art and introducing young readers to the concept of color.
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had been working on a true mystery that out-twisted his Millennium novels: the assassination on February 28, 1986, of Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister. It was the first time in history that a head of state had been murdered without a clue who had done it, and on a Stockholm street at point-blank range. Internationally known for his fictional far-right villains, Larsson was...
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