Madeleine L'Engle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
The story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
The beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in this memoir, the first of her Crosswicks Journals.
Every so often I need OUT. . . . My special place is a small brook in a green glade, a circle of quiet from which there is no visible sign of human beings. . . . I sit there, dangling my legs and looking through the foliage at the sky reflected in the water, and things...
Every so often I need OUT. . . . My special place is a small brook in a green glade, a circle of quiet from which there is no visible sign of human beings. . . . I sit there, dangling my legs and looking through the foliage at the sky reflected in the water, and things...
5) Many waters
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 4
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
An award-winning author explores the meaning of family in a novel that draws parallels between the lives of a modern man and an ancient biblical king.
As he struggles with cancer, legendary screen actor David Wheaton contemplates the one role that always eluded him: King David. Comparing his own life to that of the biblical ruler, David recalls his own numerous wives and children, forcing his daughter Emma to confront the memories of...
As he struggles with cancer, legendary screen actor David Wheaton contemplates the one role that always eluded him: King David. Comparing his own life to that of the biblical ruler, David recalls his own numerous wives and children, forcing his daughter Emma to confront the memories of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family's deepest secrets are exposed in this "haunting domestic drama" from the award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time (Publishers Weekly).
When her teenage granddaughter comes to her with a troubling question, Camilla Dickinson must confront the painful history she's long kept hidden. Forced to relive her past, she relates a complex saga involving her beautiful, adulterous mother, her troubled son, and the difficult...
When her teenage granddaughter comes to her with a troubling question, Camilla Dickinson must confront the painful history she's long kept hidden. Forced to relive her past, she relates a complex saga involving her beautiful, adulterous mother, her troubled son, and the difficult...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Past and present collide in this heartfelt novel of love and loss from the National Book Award–winning author of A Wrinkle in Time.
After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in the hopes of finding guidance from her mentor: her mother-in-law, Violet. Instead, she finds solace in the letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a seventeenth-century nun.
...
After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in the hopes of finding guidance from her mentor: her mother-in-law, Violet. Instead, she finds solace in the letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a seventeenth-century nun.
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Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lonely woman is torn between the bonds of family and the potential of new love in this moving novel from the author of A Wrinkle in Time.
Caught somewhere between love, hate, and indifference, Emily Bowen's marriage is hanging on by a thread. After being let go from his job, her husband pulled away from her, and the distance continues to grow during their family's sabbatical in Switzerland.
With their relationship...
Caught somewhere between love, hate, and indifference, Emily Bowen's marriage is hanging on by a thread. After being let go from his job, her husband pulled away from her, and the distance continues to grow during their family's sabbatical in Switzerland.
With their relationship...
10) Ilsa: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Long out of print, the second novel by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time looks at the darker side of love in a Southern town.
From the moment Henry Porcher first sees Ilsa Brandes, he worships her. Despite controversy surrounding the young girl, Henry is drawn to her, a fascination that turns into a lifelong infatuation.
As the years pass, Ilsa's memory never leaves him, not until the day he returns to their...
From the moment Henry Porcher first sees Ilsa Brandes, he worships her. Despite controversy surrounding the young girl, Henry is drawn to her, a fascination that turns into a lifelong infatuation.
As the years pass, Ilsa's memory never leaves him, not until the day he returns to their...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the National Book Award–winning author of A Wrinkle in Time, an atmospheric novel of a young British bride in the American South after the Civil War.
When nineteen-year-old Stella marries Theron Renier, she has no idea what kind of clan she's joined. Soon after their arrival at Illyria, the Reniers' rambling beachside home, Theron is sent on a diplomatic mission, leaving Stella alone with his family.
As...
When nineteen-year-old Stella marries Theron Renier, she has no idea what kind of clan she's joined. Soon after their arrival at Illyria, the Reniers' rambling beachside home, Theron is sent on a diplomatic mission, leaving Stella alone with his family.
As...
12) Meet the Austins
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The warm, happy life of the Austin family is disturbed by a spoiled, sullen girl who has been orphaned by the sudden death of her father.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 5
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
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