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New Releases—August 1, 2023
NYT - Audio Fiction
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Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman.
This new edition includes a comprehensive...
This new edition includes a comprehensive...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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2023 National Book Award Fiction Longlist
2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists - Fiction
Most Anticipated Fall Releases—Fiction
2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists - Fiction
Most Anticipated Fall Releases—Fiction
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"Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would...
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English
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When their long-imprisoned con-artist father reaches the end of his life, Arthur and his twin sister become the owners of an undiscovered play by William Shakespeare that their father wants published, a final request that represents either a great literary gift or their father's last great heist.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Narrative was divorced from philosophy in 375 BCE when Plato warned that it triggered passions and irrationality, and ever since it has been considered as rhetoric-it enhanced communication rather than thinking. Today, AI researchers define all types of intelligent thought-deduction, invention, problem-solving-as forms of logic. Logic is the source of mathematics, analytic philosophy, and other branches of truth-seeking; causal thinking is the source...
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Publisher
The Small-Tooth-Dog Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Anchored with decades of experience yet written with the intimacy of a casual discussion over coffee, "From Audience to Zeal" is an extensive guide through the ABCs of storytelling for almost any situation. Join Laura Packer for a conversational and studied approach to the many tools, techniques, and reflections for being an impactful communicator and storyteller.
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Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At the first annual meeting of WOOF--Words of Our Friends--assorted dogs preserve their heritage by sharing tales of canines throughout history, including Abu, who ruled all of Egypt except for one pesky cat, and Zippy, who simply must find the squeaky toy.
15) Poisoned prose
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Series
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English
Description
When storyteller Violetta Devereaux is murdered at a storytellers' retreat after announcing that she will die in Oyster Bay, the Bayside Book Writers, who organized the retreat, try to discover who was responsible for her death.
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Publisher
Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An old storyteller travels the streets of Damascus with a wonder chest full of images to delight children, but as time passes, the images fade and are replaced by glossy advertisements, changing the stories.
18) Three up a tree
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Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sam and Spider build a tree house and go there with Lolly to trade stories.
19) Toys in space
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A group of toys, left out at night for the first time, begins to be afraid but the WonderDoll distracts them by weaving a story of lost toys, space travel, and a strange alien.
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