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41) Jubilee: a novel
Author
Publisher
Black Stone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Bianca appears late one night at her brother's house in Santa Ana, she is barely conscious, though not alone. Jubilee, wrapped in a fuzzy pink romper, is buckled into a car seat. Jubilee, who Bianca feeds and clothes and bathes and loves. Jubilee, who Bianca could not leave behind. Jubilee, a doll in her arms. Told in alternating points of view, Jubilee reveals both the haunting power of our lived experiences and the surreal possibility of the...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"When corpses clutching poems begin turning up around Storyton Hall, Jane Steward is on the trail of someone exercising poetic license to kill and is determined to keep her fairytale resort from turning into a southern gothic . . . As Jane eagerly anticipates the wedding of her best friend Eloise Alcott, Storyton Hall is overrun with poets in town to compete for a coveted greeting card contract. They're everywhere, scrawling verses on cocktail napkins...
43) Head games
Author
Series
Publisher
Bleak House Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Set in 1957, Head Games is a quirky, action-packed caper. When Senator Prescott Bush demands the mummified head of Poncho Villa for Yale's Skull & Bones Society's trophy case, a pulp writer named Lassiter winds up holding the bag.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
One of our most accomplished literary artists, John Crowley imagines the novel the haunted Romantic poet Lord Byron never penned ...but very well might have. Saved from destruction, read, and annotated by Byron's own abandoned daughter, Ada, the manuscript is rediscovered in our time -- and almost not recognized. Lord Byron's Novel is the story of a dying daughter's attempt to understand the famous father she longed for -- and the young woman who,...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
At their renowned writing school, every student is simultaneously terrified of and attracted to the charismatic poet and professor Miranda Sturgis, whose high standards for art are both intimidating and inspiring. As two students, Roman and Bernard, strive to win her admiration, the lines between mentorship, friendship, and love are blurred. Roman's first book wins a prestigious prize. Meanwhile, Bernard labors for years over a single poem. Secrets...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Jenny Weston and her mother, Dora, have been receiving strange midnight visits. Bear Falls's own elusive and highly secretive poet, Emily Sutton, has lived her life cloistered away with her sister in a house at the edge of Pewee Swamp. But now, Emily's started leaving scraps of poetry in Dora's Little Library, and Dora makes it her mission to befriend the sheltered woman. Meanwhile Zoe Zola, almost famous author, Little Person, and the Weston's quirky...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Writing poetry helps fifth-grader Harper Lee Morgan cope with her father's absence, being evicted, and having to skip school to care for her brother while their mother works, and things look even brighter after she befriends a mute girl and a kindly disabled woman.
50) The gentleman
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Distraught at the loss of his inspiration, Lionel Savage, a poet from Victorian London, accidentally conjures the Devil and realizes that he has inadvertently sold his rich wife's soul to him, and plots a rescue mission to Hell with an assortment of unlikely companions.
Author
Series
Hellions of High Street volume 3
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After unexpectedly meeting Baron Alec McClellan in Bath, England while on vacation, poet Caro Sloane finds she needs his protection just as much as she craves his affection.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Martha's Vineyard has been home to Victoria Trumbull for most of her ninety-two years. Its magic, history, and picture-perfect calm are part of her very being. But one evening, Victoria hears something that doesn't quite belong: a scream followed by a splash and a sound of a car speeding away. She investigates and discovers a body on the outgoing tide. Victoria concocts a scheme to trap the killer, but she'll need to act quickly—victim number two...
55) Finding Hope
Author
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
To escape her small town, her parents crumbling marriage, and her drug-addicted brother, Hope jumps at the chance to attend the exclusive Ravenhurst Academy. But her problems follow her to school, her online boyfriend asks her to pose for some photos that go viral, and Hope falls into a dark place she is not sure she can find her way out of.
58) Lady's maid
Author
Language
English
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Description
She was Elizabeth Barrett's lady's maid. But "Wilson" was more than that. She was a confidante, friend and conspirator in Elizabeth's forbidden romance with Robert Browning. Wilson stayed with Elizabeth for sixteen years, through every trial and crisis, and when Wilson's affairs took a dramatic turn she expected the same loyalty from Elizabeth.
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Language
English
Description
Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a despised literary hoaxer, carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. But in this dubious manuscript, Sarah recognizes a work of real genius. But whose...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After an incident involving the vandalism of a cottage museum that once belonged to famous poet Rufus Baylor, sixteen-year-old Sarah is sentenced to community service and a poetry appreciation course taught by Baylor himself.