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English
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Ruth Saunders leaves her Massachusetts home and heads west with her seventy-year-old grandmother to pursue her dream of becoming a screenwriter, and when after six years she finally gets the call, for her sitcom, her dreams of Hollywood happiness are threatened by demanding actors, number-crunching executives, an unrequited crush on her boss, and her grandmother's impending nuptials.
3) Doll bones
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Language
English
Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
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Language
English
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A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Two leading spiritual masters share their wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity, sharing personal stories and teachings about the science of profound happiness and the daily practices that anchor their emotional and spiritual lives.
6) Mean streak
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Language
English
Description
Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of "instant divorce," Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the...
7) Seaview Inn
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Language
English
Description
Single mother, business executive, and breast cancer survivor Hannah Matthews, struggling to cope with her ornery grandmother and her daughter's unexpected pregnancy, finds her life further complicated by an old flame's return.
9) The giver
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (4 hour, 48 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A holiday collection of short fiction shares vignettes that capture the eccentric lives of the inhabitants of a small Southern town, from an efficiency expert who gets Christmas down to forty-five minutes flat, to a woman who claims John James Audubon is living in her attic.
17) A day's read
Author
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
18 sound discs (30 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (x, 278 p. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
"Join three literary scholars and award-winning professors as they introduce you to dozens of short masterpieces that you can finish-- and engage with-- in a day or less with A day's read. Professor Arnold Weinstein of Brown University and Professor Grant L. Voth of Monterey Peninsula College-- two of our most popular literature professors-- are joined by award-winning Professor Emily Allen of Purdue University. Together, all three offer you their...
Author
Publisher
P-E-A-C-E.net
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (51 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captivating stories from around the world transport the listener to other dimensions of time and place. Traditional tales, rich with poignancy and humor. Includes stories awarded the Aesop Prize, Storytelling World & Skipping Stones Honor awards.
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