Madeleine L'Engle
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English
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Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
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A Wind in the Door is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of A Wrinkle in Time. The seed from which the story grows is the rather ordinary situation of Charles Wallace's having difficulty in adapting to school. He is extremely bright, so much so that he gets punched around a lot for being "different." He is also strangely, seriously ill (mitochondritis -- the...
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English
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In this volume, fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg, grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by "kything", goes with him in spirit. Charles Wallace must face the ultimate...
5) Many waters
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English
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The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.
8) Camilla
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Camilla gains new maturity through her relationship with her best friend's brother and the growing realization that her parents are fallible individuals.
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Square Fish
Pub. Date
[1963]
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English
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"As if simply being fourteen-years-old weren't bad enough -- what with the usual teenage angst and uncertainty, Vicky Austin's always comforting and reliable home life is changing completely. Her brother John is going off to college in the fall. Maggy, an orphan taken in by the Austins two years ago, has gone to live with her legal guardian. And the rest of Vicky's family is moving from their quiet house in the country to the heart of New York City....
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English
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In this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as the prime tasks of an artist: to listen, to remain aware, and to respond to creation through one's own art.
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Square Fish
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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"The Austins are trying to settle into their new life in New York City, but their once close-knit family is pulling away from each other. Their father spends long hours alone in his study working on the research project that brought the family to the city. John is away at college. Rob is making friends with people in the neighborhood: newspaper vendors, dog walkers, even the local rabbi. Suzy is blossoming into a vivacious young woman. And Vicky has...
12) The other dog
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SeaStar Books
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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The family poodle protests at first when the master and mistress bring home a new "dog" to share the household.
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Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Seven-year-old Vicky Austin recounts the events of the twenty-four days before Christmas, as she prepares for her role as an angel in the Christmas Pageant and prays that her mother will not be in the hospital for Christmas having a new baby.
14) The joys of love
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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After graduating from college in 1941, Elizabeth Jerrold pursues her dream of becoming a stage actress, landing a position as an apprentice in a summer theater company where she hones her acting skills and falls in love with an aspiring director.
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O'Keefe family volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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A marine biology student reporting to his summer job on an island off Portugal finds himself at the center of a power struggle between his boss and another group of Americans.
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ÉDitions Les Malins
Pub. Date
2017
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Français
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Meg Murry est folle et son frère, Charles Wallace, est un idiot. Du moins, c'est ce que tout le monde raconte. Les gens disent aussi que leur père a quitté leur mère, une brillante scientifique, et qu'il ne reviendra jamais. Meg et Charles sont pourtant convaincus que quelque chose de mystérieux se cache derrière la disparition de leur père. Avec leur nouvel ami Calvin, ils décident de partir à sa recherche. Ils sont loin de se douter que,...
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Crosswicks journal volume 2
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
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This journal offers a loving and poignant portrait of L'Engle's mother in old age that is more about living than dying.
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Charles Wallace Murry is old enough to start school, but his sister, Meg, and their friend Calvin know he isn't cut out for school on Earth--Meg worries that he'll be more misunderstood than ever. Luckily, with the help of the three celestial creatures Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which, there is another place where Charles Wallace can get his education: Intergalactic P.S. 3, a public school in a completely different galaxy. The three children travel...
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