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Author
Series
Library of America volume 39
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
This collection contains all of Flannery O'Connor's novels and short story collections, as well as nine other stories, eight of her most important essays, and a selection of 259 letters, twenty-one published here for the first time.
6) Leo
Publisher
Distributed by First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
For a class assignment, a troubled young boy named Leo, begins to write to Stephen, a convicted felon in prison. Through their letters, Stephen has a lifeline to the outside world and Leo finds fatherly strength and guidance as he struggles with his mother's tragic past. When he is released from prison, Stephen sets out on a journey to help the boy and perhaps in the process, he can redeem himself. On his way, some co-workers help him, while others...
7) Dear Santa
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Shopaholic Crystal's wealthy parents threaten to cut her off. With no job or romantic prospects, what's a party girl to do? Fate intervenes when she finds seven year-old Olivia's letter to Santa asking for a new wife for her widowed dad Derek. Crystal tracks them down and vows to win over father and daughter before the fast-approaching holiday deadline. Only Derek's jealous and calculating girlfriend stands between her and her newfound happiness.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
12) Loving Eleanor
Author
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok is assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of 1932 Democratic candidate FDR, the women become deeply, intimately involved.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A critical sensation in France, Santiago Amigorena re-imagines his Jewish grandfather--a Polish immigrant in Argentina in the 1930s--and the tragic events that defined his life as he fails to rescue his mother and siblings from a Warsaw ghetto in this novel about identity, guilt, and the unshakable power of love"--
In Buenos Aires, the afternoon of September 13, 1940 was rainy and the war in Europe so remote that one might still have thought it...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His redheaded grief counselor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday mass, and the library learn how to fly? Bartholomew thinks he?s found a clue when he discovers a ?Free Tibet? letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother?s...
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When 'Average Joe' signs into a political chatroom and starts to discuss current events with a savvy citizen, neither knows the other's true identity. Soon, the entire country discovers that the nation's hottest new political mind belongs to an ordinary middle school student. 'Average Joe' turns out to be the President of the United States.