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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
ix, 693 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In his personal diaries Richard Burton is a man quite different from the one we "know" as acclaimed actor, international film star and jet-set celebrity. From these private pages there emerges a different person--a family man, a father, a husband, a man often troubled and always keenly observing. Understood through his own words, day by day and year by year, Burton becomes a fully rounded human being who, with a wealth of talent and a surprising burden...
42) Love that dog
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
86, [15] p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
43) Greenlights
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--
"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...
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Language
English
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Description
"The star-studded and sidesplitting follow up to The Andy Cohen Diaries The megapopular host of Watch What Happens: Live and executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise is back, better than ever, and telling stories that will keep his publicist up at night. Since the publication of his last book, Andy has toured the country with his sidekick Anderson Cooper, hit the radio waves with his own Sirius station, Radio Andy, appeared on Real Time...
Author
Language
English
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Description
These eloquent meditations, philosophical musings, and whimsical doodles offer us the clearest window into the soul of this American literary legend.
Few have cared more about American wilderness than the irascible Cactus Ed. Author of eco-classics, such as, The Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey reveals, all his rough-hewn edges and passionate, beliefs in this witty, outspoken, maddening, and sometimes, brilliant selection of...
Author
Series
Filo y contrafilo volume 43
Publisher
Ediciones Lea
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
Spanish translation of summary: El diario de una niña judía en su adolescencia temprana describe tanto las alegrías y sufrimientos de la vida cotidiana, así como pensamientos típicos adolescentes, a lo largo de dos...
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 23
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Junie B.'s journal entries start with Room One's stomach virus excitement, the first-grade Columbus Day play, and getting the part of the Pinta, the fastest ship.
48) Renia's diary
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's last days during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English, with a foreword from American Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt. Renia Spiegel was a young girl from an upper-middle class Jewish family living on an estate in Stawki, Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. In the summer of 1939, Renia and her sister Elizabeth (née Ariana) were visiting their grandparents...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece comes the powerful story of two women, centuries apart, who are joined through a tattered journal as they contend with God, husbands, and even themselves.
Sierra Madrid's life has just been turned upside down when she discovers the handcrafted quilt and journal of her ancestor Mary Kathryn McMurray, a young woman who was uprooted from her...
Sierra Madrid's life has just been turned upside down when she discovers the handcrafted quilt and journal of her ancestor Mary Kathryn McMurray, a young woman who was uprooted from her...
51) The ugly truth
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
52) The guest room
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tess has a bad habit. She can't stop snooping through her guests' belongings . . . When Tess is forced to rent out her late sister's old room to pay the bills, the urge to rummage through her guests' belongings overtakes her every thought. Teasing herself with forbidden glimpses into the lives of strangers is a momentary thrill, but it's the closest she's felt to anyone since the mysterious death of her sister, Rosie. After her newest lodger, Arran,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
THE DEFINITIVE EDITION • Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the Diary’s first publication with a new introduction by Nobel Prize–winner Nadia Murad
“The single most compelling...
Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the Diary’s first publication with a new introduction by Nobel Prize–winner Nadia Murad
“The single most compelling...
Author
Publisher
TOKYOPOP Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This faithful recreation of Marcy's journal chronicles her adventures in Amphibia. Packed to the brim with new character insights, world-building lore, and untold stories, this book will be a must-own for any Amphibia fan.
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Having recently discovered she is the sole heir to the throne of a tiny European principality, fourteen-year-old Manhattan resident Mia writes in her journal about her attempts to cope with this news, as well as with more typical teenage concerns.
Author
Language
English
Description
This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1884 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated...
Author
Series
Princess Diaries (Adult) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Mia Thermopolis knows just what to do in a crisis: Rule.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, a section of the diary of Princess Mia Thermopolis of Genovia fell into the hands of Meg Cabot, the Princess's royal biographer.
As reported in media outlets such as Entertainment Weekly, The Mary Sue, Refinery 29, Bustle, and more, from March until June of 2020, sixteen entries of the princess's diary were leaked onto Ms. Cabot's
...60) The journal of Sean Sullivan: a Transcontinental Railroad worker : Nebraska and points west, 1867
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Rairoad.
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