The Year of Secret Assignments
The Year of Secret Assignments

Author: Jaclyn Moriarty

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2010-02-01

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0545232112

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In this epistolary novel, three Aussie private school girls enter a pen pal program that leads to friendship, love, mischief, mystery, and revenge. The Ashbury-Brookfield pen pal program is designed to bring together the two rival schools in a spirit of harmony and “the Joy of the Envelope.” But when Cassie, Lydia, and Emily send their first letters to Matthew, Charlie, and Sebastian, things don’t go quite as planned. What starts out as a simple letter exchange soon leads to secret missions, false alarms, lock picking, mistaken identities, and an all-out war between the schools—not to mention some really excellent kissing. Praise for The Year of Secret Assignments “Who can resist Moriarty’s biting humor?” —Kirkus Reviews “This energetic novel reveals the author’s keen understanding of teen dynamics and invites audience members to read between the lines to discover what makes each character tick. Containing elements of mystery, espionage, romance and revenge, Moriarty’s story will likely satisfy hearty appetites for suspense and fun.” —Publishers Weekly

Essays One
Essays One

Author: Lydia Davis

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0374719241

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A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her “a magician of self-consciousness,” while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, “Davis's signal gift is to make us feel alive.” Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis’s gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One, Davis has, for the first time, gathered a selection of essays, commentaries, and lectures composed over the past five decades. In this first of two volumes, her subjects range from her earliest influences to her favorite short stories, from John Ashbery’s translation of Rimbaud to Alan Cote’s painting, and from the Shepherd’s Psalm to early tourist photographs. On display is the development and range of one of the sharpest, most capacious minds writing today.

Pages
Pages

Author: Lydia King

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 1796045918

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Cassie is a young girl who was just looking to make a little money for her senior year in high school. She was surprised to learn that she could possibly get a job at the Main Cleveland Public Library in downtown Cleveland ,from a family member. She was thrilled to land a job at the library. She thought it would be a dream job; only to discover the lying, cheating, prejudice, hate filled atmosphere that dwell inside . She will have to learn to maneuver through this poisonous, twisted environment and learn to deal with a in your face life situations in the real world.

After the Strawberry
After the Strawberry

Author: Kathryn Pope

Publisher: Seedpod Publishing

Published: 2009-03-29

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 0615288693

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"Lydia Poole eats only one cup of Cheerios per day and lets her weight drop below ninety pounds. When Lydia's sister introduces Jesse, a new friend and filmmaker, Lydia agrees to be the subject of his documentary. With the camera running, Lydia shifts from the viewfinder's object to the eye behind the camera. In doing so, she discovers how she wants to see her world."--

Sacred Octopus Notebook
Sacred Octopus Notebook

Author: Lydia Hess

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-02-18

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781985672970

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Celebrate our sacred oceans through the Sacred Octopus Notebook -130 warm, sandy-colored pages. This inspirational Journal/Notebook is filled with hand drawn lines, dots and dashes, embellished with 17 iconic sea creatures, corals and plants that are colorable. Each icon is accompanied with a motivational word of inspiration. Every spread has a blank page for you to create your own sketches and artwork. This sea-life notebook is perfect for nature journaling, writing stories, as a personal diary or daily organizer. Lydia Hess is the author of 5 Sacred Coloring Books for the Soul. Her Sacred Notebooks make great gifts for teachers, teens or college students.

Lydia Pinkham
Lydia Pinkham

Author: Sammy R. Danna

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 0810889099

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Lydia Pinkham was one of the 19th century’s most remarkable businesswomen, her influence spreading beyond the late 1800s and her native New England. A champion of equal rights for women and blacks at a time when such causes lacked widespread support, Pinkham was ahead of her time on other issues. Chief among them was the well-being of women struggling with serious health issues related to their menstrual cycles and other so-called “women weaknesses.” But as the teetotaling Pinkham and her namesake company soared to entrepreneurial heights by selling her patient relief in the guise of an alcohol-laced potion known as the Vegetable Compound, generations that followed have been left to wonder: Was she worthy of her female customers’ trust or just an opportunist? In Lydia Pinkham: The Face That Launched a Thousand Ads, historian Sammy R. Danna offers the latest book-length biography that explores all sides of the Lydia Pinkham phenomena. Danna illustrates how remarkable an American historical figure she was, who with associates masterfully used and reinvented the marketing tools of her day, while battling the misogyny of the medical establishment. But Danna also asks whether she was just a grandmotherly version of the pitchmen who roamed from town to town with their snake oil elixirs. Students and scholars in the fields of women’s studies, American culture, and the histories of medicine, advertising, and business will see Lydia Pinkham in a new light.

Can't and Won't
Can't and Won't

Author: Lydia Davis

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0374711437

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A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called "the best prose stylist in America" Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extracted from Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout Can't and Won't, Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and sly humor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patterns of daily life.

Damazo
Damazo

Author: Brittany Bassinger

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2022-05-31

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1647500133

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Ryder Murphy has lived a boring life in his twenty-one years, but all of that quickly changes in a single night. Finding out that he has the ability to shift, the rain pulls him into a world behind the falls where he learns all about cascaders and their realm. A secret realm that lives parallel to that of humans, a realm that can only be accessed by crossing a plane hidden within the many waterfalls of the human world. It is a beautiful and mystical place where Shepherds rule, the Accord is the law and Damazos are wanted. Discovering the truth about his mother’s death, Ryder wants to help the resistance that has formed in the realm to take down the man on top, Alistair Martis. With ill intentions, Martis is on a quest for twelve ancient crystals that are hidden throughout the human world and are the key to unlocking the torrent; a transcendent and powerful portal that can take you to any time and any place that you desire.

A Children's Bible: A Novel
A Children's Bible: A Novel

Author: Lydia Millet

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2020-05-12

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1324005041

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Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, BBC, and many others National Bestseller "A blistering little classic." —Ron Charles, Washington Post A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside. Lydia Millet’s prophetic and heartbreaking story of generational divide offers a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.

Beginnings
Beginnings

Author: Bernadette Marie

Publisher: 5 Prince Publishing LLC

Published: 2018-07-04

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1631122215

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Nichole Lewis' children are the most important people in her life, and are the reason she's relocated to Georgia to start a life away from the chaos that had surrounded her. Meeting Ben Walker, and giving in to the attraction for the man, only made her decision to stay more appealing. However, when the past she'd escaped finds her and her children, it might be time to run again, with or without Ben.