Author: Lady Barker (Mary Anne)
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A collection of children's stories.
The White Rat, and Some Other Stories
Author: Lady Barker (Mary Anne)
Publisher:
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A collection of children's stories.
Publisher:
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A collection of children's stories.
White Rat
Author: Gayl Jones
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807012947
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The acclaimed author’s first collection of stories, reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of her second and latest, Butter “Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable . . . and as a Black woman writer, her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humor, and incisiveness, is unmatched.”—Imani Perry Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century and was recently a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. This collection of short fiction was her third book, originally edited and published by Toni Morrison in 1977, and is reissued now alongside her second collection, Butter, in paperback for the first time. The collection contains 12 provocative tales that explore the emotional and mental terrain of a diverse cast of characters, from the innocent to the insane. In each, Jones displays her unflinching ability to dive into the most treacherous of psyches and circumstances: the title story examines the identity and relationship conundrums of a Black man who can pass for white, earning him the name “White Rat” as an infant; “The Women” follows a girl whose mother brings a line of female lovers to live in their home; “Jevata” details 18-year-old Freddy’s relationship with the 50-year-old title character; “The Coke Factory” tracks the thoughts of a mentally-handicapped adolescent abandoned by his mother; and “Asylum” focuses on a woman having a nervous breakdown, trying to protect her dignity and her private parts as she enters an institution. In uncompromising prose, and dialect that veers from northern, educated tongues to down-home southern colloquialisms, Jones illuminates lives that society ignores, moving them to center stage.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807012947
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The acclaimed author’s first collection of stories, reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of her second and latest, Butter “Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable . . . and as a Black woman writer, her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humor, and incisiveness, is unmatched.”—Imani Perry Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century and was recently a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. This collection of short fiction was her third book, originally edited and published by Toni Morrison in 1977, and is reissued now alongside her second collection, Butter, in paperback for the first time. The collection contains 12 provocative tales that explore the emotional and mental terrain of a diverse cast of characters, from the innocent to the insane. In each, Jones displays her unflinching ability to dive into the most treacherous of psyches and circumstances: the title story examines the identity and relationship conundrums of a Black man who can pass for white, earning him the name “White Rat” as an infant; “The Women” follows a girl whose mother brings a line of female lovers to live in their home; “Jevata” details 18-year-old Freddy’s relationship with the 50-year-old title character; “The Coke Factory” tracks the thoughts of a mentally-handicapped adolescent abandoned by his mother; and “Asylum” focuses on a woman having a nervous breakdown, trying to protect her dignity and her private parts as she enters an institution. In uncompromising prose, and dialect that veers from northern, educated tongues to down-home southern colloquialisms, Jones illuminates lives that society ignores, moving them to center stage.
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
Author: Lynne Jonell
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466824662
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Emmy was a good girl. At least she tried very hard to be good. She did her homework without being told. She ate all her vegetables, even the slimy ones. And she never talked back to her nanny, Miss Barmy, although it was almost impossible to keep quiet, some days. She really was a little too good. Which is why she liked to sit by the Rat. The Rat was not good at all . . . Hilarious, inventive, and irresistably rodent-friendly, Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat is a fantastic first novel from acclaimed picture book author Lynne Jonell.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466824662
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Emmy was a good girl. At least she tried very hard to be good. She did her homework without being told. She ate all her vegetables, even the slimy ones. And she never talked back to her nanny, Miss Barmy, although it was almost impossible to keep quiet, some days. She really was a little too good. Which is why she liked to sit by the Rat. The Rat was not good at all . . . Hilarious, inventive, and irresistably rodent-friendly, Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat is a fantastic first novel from acclaimed picture book author Lynne Jonell.
The Heroes
Author: Charles Kingsley
Publisher:
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Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Young People's Books
Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The academy
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Book Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Sunday School Journal
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Category : Religious education
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
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Category : Religious education
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Bookseller
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1580
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1580
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1576
Book Description