The Lines

The Lines

Author: Anthony Varallo

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1609386655

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Set in the summer of 1979, when America was running out of gas, The Lines tells the story of a family of four—the mother, the father, the girl, and the boy—in the first months of a marital separation. Through alternating perspectives, we follow the family as they explore new territory, new living arrangements, and new complications. The mother returns to school. The father moves into an apartment. The girl squares off with her mother, while the boy struggles to make sense of the world. The Lines explores the way we are all tied to one another, and how all experience offers the possibility of love and connection as much as loss and change.


The Conch Bearer

The Conch Bearer

Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-03

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0689872429

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The acclaimed short-story author and poet transports readers from the teeming streets of India to the rolling Himalayas, in this lyrical, exotic, and rich middle-grade fantasy.


The Boy and the Magical Shell

The Boy and the Magical Shell

Author: T. L. York

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2017-09-27

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1640279415

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Thirteen-year-old Justin has about had it with his sister and her friend. When he goes to the beach in his little harbor town to blow off some steam, he comes across a shell necklace. The necklace ends up belonging to an underwater world full of mermaids and magic! When a British dolphin mistakes him for a merboy (because of his necklace) and takes him to the mermaid colony, a mergirl, Cora, befriends him and tries to get him back home before he is trapped in this new underwater world forever!


The Magic Shell

The Magic Shell

Author: Jillian Christmas

Publisher: Flamingo Rampant

Published: 2022-01-25

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781999156244

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Pigeon Pea has a lot of questions about their family and ancestors one afternoon. Auntie entrusts them with a magic cowrie shell that whisks Pigeon Pea back in time and across continents to visit with their great-great-great-great-great-great grandmothers and others, including their orisha.


The Diving

The Diving

Author: Helen Walne

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2014-05-05

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 014353128X

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Popular columnist Helen Walne tells of her tortuous relationship with her brother, Richard, who couldn't resist the lure of death. Beautifully told, it is an achingly personal account of the inner turmoil of those who are left behind after a loved one's suicide, and of dealing with grief, fear, isolation and depression. But it also tells of hope, recovery and learning to live without the person who has left them. The Diving demystifies the taboos surrounding a topic that little is spoken, let alone written, about. This moving, sometimes amusing book is the story of letting go of the hand wilfully sliding beneath the surface.