Reena And Other Stories

Author : Paule Marshall
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9780935312249
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reena and Other Stories written by Paule Marshall and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1983 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Â Â Â This collection of Paule Marshall's short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. For the first time these stories, long out of print or difficult to obtain, appear together in a single volume. Introducing the volume is Marshall's much acclaimed autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen" from the New York Times Book Review's series called "The Making of a Writer." This collection included newly written autobiographical headnotes to each story and "Merle," a novella excerpted from Marshall's 1969 novel, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People , and extensively reshaped and rewritten for this collection. It stands as an independent story about one of the most memorable women in contemporary fiction.

Author : Rebecca Godfrey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439184119
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Bridge written by Rebecca Godfrey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Now a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, and Archie Panjabi!* “A swift, harrowing classic perfect for these unnerving times.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home. In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls—and boy—accused of a savage murder. As she follows the investigation and trials, Godfrey reveals the startling truth about the unlikely killers. Laced with lyricism and insight, Under the Bridge is an unforgettable look at a haunting modern tragedy.

Author : Paule Marshall
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486118606
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brown Girl, Brownstones written by Paule Marshall and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this 1953 coming-of-age novel centers on the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. "Passionate, compelling." — Saturday Review. "Remarkable for its courage." — The New Yorker.

Author : Sharon Creech
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1913101266
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moo written by Sharon Creech and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a two children displaced from the city and forced to adapt to a new home and all the challenges that this brings (including a menagerie of animals), from a multi-award-winning author.

Author : Katie Cotugno
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062394797
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Love written by Katie Cotugno and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Sarah Dessen and John Green, this is a breathtaking debut about a couple who fall in love...twice. Before: Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember. But he's never noticed that Reena even exists...until one day, impossibly, he does. Reena and Sawyer fall in messy, complicated love. Then Sawyer disappears without a word, leaving a devastated—and pregnant—Reena behind. After: Almost three years have passed, and there's a new love in Reena's life: her daughter. Reena's gotten used to life without Sawyer, but just as suddenly as he disappeared, he turns up again. Reena wants nothing to do with him, though she'd be lying if she said his being back wasn't stirring something in her. After everything that's happened, can Reena really let herself love Sawyer LeGrande again?

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900449071X
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telling Stories written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), but also with well-known novelists (Achebe, Armah, Atwood, Carey, Rushdie), so that stimulating comparisons are suggested between shorter and longer works by the same authors. In addition, the volume is of interest for the study of aspects of orality (dialect, dance rhythms, circularity and trickster figure for instance) and of the more or less conflictual relationships between the individual (character or implied author) and the community. Furthermore, the marginalized status of women emerges as another major theme, both as regards the past for white women settlers, or the present for urbanized characters, primarily in Africa and India. The reader will also have the rare pleasure of discovering Janice Kulik Keefer's “Fox,” her version of what she calls in her commentary “displaced autobiography’” or “creative non-fiction.” Lastly, an extensive bibliography on the postcolonial short story opens up further possibilities for research.

Author : Sarah Thankam Mathews
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593489144
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All This Could Be Different written by Sarah Thankam Mathews and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper's Bazaar, and more “One of the buzziest, most human novels of the year…breathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful.” —Vogue “Dazzling and wholly original...[written] with such mordant wit, insight, and specificity, it feels like watching a new literary star being born in real time.” —Entertainment Weekly From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself—a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first century America Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She’s moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, grueling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women—soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach. But before long, trouble arrives. Painful secrets rear their heads; jobs go off the rails; evictions loom. Sneha struggles to be truly close and open with anybody, even as her friendships deepen, even as she throws herself headlong into a dizzying romance with Marina. It’s then that Tig begins to draw up a radical solution to their problems, hoping to save them all. A beautiful and capacious novel rendered in singular, unforgettable prose, All This Could Be Different is a wise, tender, and riveting group portrait of young people forging love and community amidst struggle, and a moving story of one immigrant’s journey to make her home in the world.

Author : Dee White
Publisher : EK Books
ISBN 13 : 9781925335491
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reena's Rainbow written by Dee White and published by EK Books. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this story, Reena is deaf, and Dog is homeless, but they are also so much more than that. At first Reena and Dog feel like they don’t belong, but when they form a unique bond of friendship with the children in the park, they discover that everyone is different in their own special ways. Reena’s Rainbow is about friendship, diversity, and acceptance. It sends the message that true friends will always accept your differences and love you just the way you are.

Author : Reena Gupta, Rebecca Cullen
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1955450048
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Career Interrupted written by Reena Gupta, Rebecca Cullen and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with wisdom and insight from interviews with 43 experts including entrepreneurs, talent industry executives, psychologists, and career coaches, Career Interrupted stands out as a highly-personalized self-help book that teaches you how to navigate even the most challenging of career crossroads. In this refreshing guide on what it takes to find fulfillment and balance in your professional and personal life, serial technopreneur and work-life advisor, Reena Gupta, is your personal champion giving you the mindset, tools, and strategies helping you to: ? Identify and change the patterns that are holding you back ? Get clarity on your priorities and zero in on your secret sauce ? Create your own happiness scale ? Find your professional ecosystem ? Flex your social connection muscles ? Reinforce your support network ? Prioritize your body, mind, and soul wellness ? Explore three different career paths ? Choose your path to create a life you totally love By the end of Career Interrupted, rather than playing a passive part in your career, you will be in the driver’s seat making work-life harmony a reality.

Author : Paule Marshall
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0452267110
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Praisesong for the Widow written by Paule Marshall and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1984-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Daughters and Brown Girl, Brownstones comes a “work of exceptional wisdom, maturity, and generosity, one in which the palpable humanity of its characters transcends any considerations of race or sex”(Washington Post Book World). Avey Johnson—a black, middle-aged, middle-class widow given to hats, gloves, and pearls—has long since put behind her the Harlem of her childhood. Then on a cruise to the Caribbean with two friends, inspired by a troubling dream, she senses her life beginning to unravel—and in a panic packs her bag in the middle of the night and abandons her friends at the next port of call. The unexpected and beautiful adventure that follows provides Avey with the links to the culture and history she has so long disavowed. “Astonishingly moving.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review