Karen Day
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Language
English
Description
"During their senior year of college, Clare Michaels takes a spring break trip to Florida with Lee and two other girls. They're hoping for a few stories to share back at school-- but a string of bad choices leads to a horrific encounter. Lee offers herself up so that Clare can escape. Now Clare is trying to make amends for her momentary selfishness by taking care of Lee. As years pass and circumstances change, contact between Clare and Lee ebbs and...
3) Tall tales
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Meg Summers and her family move to a new state every few years as her alcoholic father tries to get a fresh start, but when they land in Indiana and Meg finally makes a real friend and begins to talk about her family's problems, they all find the strength to try to change their destiny.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Rising seventh-grader Lucy plans on a perfect summer at the Maine lake where her family has owned a cottage for decades, but family of a classmate she dislikes has bought a home there and her widowed father is bringing a girlfriend to visit.
Author
Language
English
Description
The first ever overview of women's contributions to the dawn of cinema looking at a variety of roles from writers and directors to film editors and critics.
Why have women such as Alice Guy-Blache, the creator of narrative cinema, been written out of film history? Why have so many women working behind the scenes in film been rendered invisible and silent for so long?
Silent Women, pioneers of cinema explores the incredible contribution of women...