Jane Alexander
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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A woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story that will upend completely the world she thought she knew - and throw her into a love more powerful than she ever imagined could be possible. Two extraordinary love stories are entwined here, full of hope and pain and emotions that never die down....
2) Off season
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A grieving widow takes a solitary road trip to her late husband's favorite getaway on pristine coastal Maine, where she remembers their many happy years of family life, reevaluates the time before they met, and considers her future.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In Wild Things, Wild Places, Jane Alexander movingly, with a clear eye and a knowing, keen grasp of the issues and on what is being done in conservation and the worlds of science to help the planet's most endangered species to stay alive and thrive, writes of her steady and fervent immersion into the worlds of wildlife conservation, of her coming to know the scientists throughout the world--to her, the prophets in the wilderness--who are steeped in...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman....
10) Brubaker
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Based on the true story of a reform warden who risks his life to replace brutality and corruption with humanity and integrity in a state prison farm.
11) Warm springs
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The inspiring true story about Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, who seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
"****...'Warm Springs' can proudly take its place with the best of HBO's biographies."--USA Today.
"Rich, inspiring and surprising."--Us Weekly.
12) Gigantic
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Brian is a mattress salesman who gets swept up into a romance with Happy when she falls asleep on one of the beds in his store. To win her over, he must compete with her father, an art-collecting loudmouth with a bad back and deep pockets.
13) City heat
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
City Heat : In the 1930s, a private investigator teams up with his old partner to fight the mob, but they can't stand each other
Pink Cadillac: Jump bail and skip tracer Tommy Nowak will track you down before the ink on your fake I.D. is dry. Like a Canadian Mountie, he always gets his man, but will he get his woman?
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in with Lionel Sweeney. Sweeney is an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century. Diane's strange, new world unlocks her deepest secrets, awakens her remarkable artistic genius, and launches her path to becoming the artist she is meant to be.
15) Three Christs
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"In 1959, psychiatrist Dr. Alan Stone arrives at a mental hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan armed with the radical belief that schizophrenic patients should be treated not with confinement and elctroshock but with empathy and understanding. As his first study, he takes on the particularly challenging case of three men: Joseph, Leon, and Clyde - each of whom believes they are Jesus Christ. Hoping that by getting them together in the same room to confront...