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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"In the title story, "Funny Once," a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with their more responsible friends. In "The Village," a woman visits her father at a nursing home, recalling his equanimity at her teenage misdeeds and gaining a new understanding of his own past indiscretions. In another, when a troubled girl in the neighborhood goes missing, a mother worries increasingly about her teenage son's relationship with a bad-news...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of Claire of the Sea Light and Brother, I'm Dying, a long-awaited return to fiction: a gorgeous collection of stories about community, family and love; about the forces that pull us together or drive us apart--a book rich with vividly imagined characters, hard-won wisdom, and humanity. In these eight stories by widely acclaimed, prizewinning author Danticat--some of which have appeared in The New Yorker--a romance unexpectedly...
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Language
English
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Description
An intimate, sparkling collection of stories by a debut writer about girls behaving badly and families on the brink of collapse. In these lucid, sharply observant stories, Mandeliene Smith traces the lives of men and women in moments of crisis: a woman whose husband has just died, a social worker struggling to escape his own past, a girl caught in a standoff between her mother's boyfriend and the police. A lively and insightful collection, Rutting...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Three short stories inspired by real-life heroines: A young woman displays strength and courage in the face of apparently unsurmountable odds; a special baby boy helps two people in pain embrace a hopeful future; and a exploration of the importance of creating balance in our lives, taking time for enjoyment and chasing our dreams.
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Language
English
Description
"In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group...
Series
Comics Squad volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 260L
Language
English
Description
An anthology of comics by well-known graphic novelists on the theme of detention.
9) White time
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Presents ten short stories, both dark and hopeful, that journey into the past, the future, and altered versions of the present.
Author
Pub. Date
2007 :.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In three separate stories, children help adults solve problems related to food, first by saving a restaurant from being shut down, second by untangling a mess in a spaghetti factory, and finally by selling donuts to raise funds for a stolen car.
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