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Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Put a literary spin on your amigurumi with over 20 cute-as-a-button crochet projects inspired by classic literature—the perfect gift for book lovers and crafters of all skill levels.
Learn how to make adorable crochet dolls of your favorite literary characters, including Anne of Green Gables, Elizabeth Bennet, and Sherlock Holmes!
Literature lovers can decorate bookshelves, proclaim a love of reading,...
Learn how to make adorable crochet dolls of your favorite literary characters, including Anne of Green Gables, Elizabeth Bennet, and Sherlock Holmes!
Literature lovers can decorate bookshelves, proclaim a love of reading,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Travel to the tranquil seaside village of Avonlea in this charming collection of tales from acclaimed author L. M. Montgomery. From lighthearted stories about pampered pets and love triangles to more serious accounts of tragic loss, this varied volume is sure to please readers who fell in love with Chronicles of Avonlea or Montgomery's masterpiece, Anne of Green Gables.
44) The blue castle
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Valancy Stirling, an inhibited twenty-nine-year-old spinster whose daydreams of the blue castle console her, undergoes a total personality change when a doctor tells her she has no more than one year to live. Oppressed by family and small-town prejudice, her apparently imminent death gives her the courage to assert herself and seek love.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time, there was a girl named Maud who adored stories. When she was fourteen years old, Maud wrote in her journal, "I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them." Not only did Maud grow up to own lots of books, she wrote twenty-four of them herself as L. M. Montgomery, the world-renowned author of Anne of Green Gables. For many years, not a great deal was known about Maud's personal life. Her childhood was spent...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Get swept into another era in this classic from author L. M. Montgomery. Originally penned with younger audiences in mind, Chronicles of Avonlea is a comfort read that will captivate readers of all ages. This collection of heartwarming short stories capturing the vicissitudes of life in a sleepy seaside town will draw you in again and again.
48) The golden road
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Introduced in The Story Girl, Sara Stanley is L.M. Montgomery's most enchanting heroine since Anne of Green Gables. Sara was born with a fertile imagination and a strong sense of fun--and she gets her chance to put her talents to good use when she spends the winter with the King family in the old-fashioned town of Carlisle. On a blustery November day the King children and Sara, the Story Girl, come up with a great idea that will help them endure the...
49) Sheets
Author
Series
Sheets volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen-year-old in charge of the family laundry business, her daily routine features unforgiving customers, unbearable P.E. classes, and the fastidious Mr. Saubertuck who is committed to destroying everything she's worked for"--
Author
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long obsession with pop culture as a lens to explore family, grief, the power of female rage, Asian fetish, and what it's cost her to resist the trap of being a "good Chinese girl." For most of Jen Sookfong Lee's life, pop culture was an escape from family tragedy and a means of fitting in with the larger culture around her. Anne of Green Gables assured her that, despite losing her father at the age of...
Author
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Finalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada
A TODAY Show Recommended Read
This beautifully intimate memoir-in-pieces uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as a revelatory lens to explore family, identity, belonging, grief, and the power of female rage.
For most of Jen Sookfong Lee's life, pop culture was an escape from...
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada
A TODAY Show Recommended Read
This beautifully intimate memoir-in-pieces uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as a revelatory lens to explore family, identity, belonging, grief, and the power of female rage.
For most of Jen Sookfong Lee's life, pop culture was an escape from...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new collection of essays from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. Short Description / Web 'About this Book' From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of nonfiction-funny, erudite, intimate, impassioned, and always startlingly prescient-which grapples with such wide-ranging topics as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How do we...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"As a young bookworm reading in her grandfather's butcher shop, Cara Nicoletti saw how books and food bring people to life. Now a butcher, cook, and talented writer, she serves up stories and recipes inspired by beloved books and the food that gives their characters depth and personality. From the breakfast sausage in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods to chocolate cupcakes with peppermint buttercream from Jonathan Franzen's The...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This treasure trove for book lovers explores fifteen classic novels with memorable maternal figures, and examines how our cultural notions of motherhood have been shaped by literature. Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had childrenof her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? Where did these expectations come from-and, more importantly, are they serving the mothers whose lives they shape? Carrie's...
Author
Language
English
Description
A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables ... before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak, and unimaginable greatness. Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down. Her beloved...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In this whimsical and magical picture book, Anne's boundless imagination takes flight! She imagines being all the things she loves so dearly. If I Couldn't Be Anne, Anne with an e, what would I be . . . Anne wonders what it would be like to be the wind dancing round the treetops. A tightrope walker, breathless and brave. A princess in a palace made of apple blossoms. A magical frost fairy or a plain little wood elf. . . . But even as Anne's imagination...
58) Anne of Avonlea
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2006], c1975
Language
English
Description
Anne's life at Green Gables takes unexpected turns with the arrival of two new orphans and the realization of her dream to go to college. Through marriage proposals from suitors and the sale of her first story, Anne holds on to her memories of Avonlea and discovers life and love on her own terms.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The sweet and funny second book in a new early-reader series, starring the spirited and outspoken Anne Shirley as she makes friends and settles into life at Green Gables -- with a few hijinks along the way, of course! Anne is nervous and excited to meet Diana, a neighbor girl who she just knows will be a kindred spirit. She's even more excited when she learns that she's invited to her very first picnic! Until Marilla's precious brooch goes missing...
Publisher
Distributed by Workman Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An anthology of essays, stories, and expressions of gratitude by dozens of famous authors describes the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite bookstores and booksellers have provided throughout their careers.
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