(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Madeleine L'Engle
Author
Series
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother were in the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. 'Wild nights are my glory,' the unearthly stranger told them. 'I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.' A tesseract...
4) Many waters
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 4
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Description
This powerful collection of short stories from the beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time--curated by one of L'Engle's granddaughters--traces an emotional arc inspired by Madeleine L'Engle's early life and career. From her lonely childhood in New York to her life as a mother in small-town Connecticut, each story illustrates how L'Engle's personal experiences and stormy faith informed the creation of her many cherished works. A child learns, for the first...
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 1
Language
Español
Description
Meg Murray's father was experimenting with the fifth dimension, time, when he disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. Now Meg, her friend Calvin, and her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, must journey through time and space to rescue him.
Author
Series
Austin family chronicles volume 4
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.
After a tumultuous year in New York City, the Austins are spending the summer on the small island where their grandfather lives. He's very sick, and watching his condition deteriorate as the summer passes is almost more than Vicky can bear. To complicate matters, she finds...
Author
Series
Crosswicks journal volume 3
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time contemplates the true meaning of faith in the third installment of her series of memoirs. L'Engle has long captivated and provoked readers by exploring the intersection of science and religion in her work. In this intimate memoir, the award-winning author uncovers how her spiritual convictions inform and enrich the everyday. The Irrational Season follows the liturgical year from one Advent to the next,...
Author
Series
Crosswicks journal volume 1
Pub. Date
1972
Language
English
Description
The beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time takes an introspective look at her life and muses on creativity in this memoir, the first of her Crosswicks Journals. Every so often I need OUT. . . . My special place is a small brook in a green glade, a circle of quiet from which there is no visible sign of human beings. . . . I sit there, dangling my legs and looking through the foliage at the sky reflected in the water, and things slowly come back into...
12) Meet the Austins
Author
Series
Austin family chronicles volume 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"For a family with four kids, two dogs, assorted cats, and a constant stream of family and friends dropping by, life in the Austin family home has always been remarkably steady and contented. When a family friend suddenly dies in a plane crash, the Austins open their home to an orphaned girl, Maggy Hamilton. The Austin children -- Vicky, John, Suzy, and Rob -- do their best to be generous and welcoming to Maggy. Vicky knows she should feel sorry for...
13) The other dog
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
AD 700L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
The family poodle protests at first when the master and mistress bring home a new "dog" to share the household.
Author
Series
Crosswicks journal volume 2
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
245 pages : portraits ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A poignant meditation on the bonds between mothers and daughters-and the inescapable effects of time-from the author of A Wrinkle in Time. In the second memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, Madeleine L'Engle chronicles a season of extremes. Four generations of family have gathered at Crosswicks, her Connecticut farmhouse, to care for L'Engle's ninety-year-old mother. As summer days fade to sleepless nights, her mother's health rapidly declines and...
15) Certain women
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An award-winning author explores the meaning of family in a novel that draws parallels between the lives of a modern man and an ancient biblical king. As he struggles with cancer, legendary screen actor David Wheaton contemplates the one role that always eluded him: King David. Comparing his own life to that of the biblical ruler, David recalls his own numerous wives and children, forcing his daughter Emma to confront the memories of her family's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st HarperCollins paperback edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A family's deepest secrets are exposed in this "haunting domestic drama" from the award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time (Publishers Weekly). When her teenage granddaughter comes to her with a troubling question, Camilla Dickinson must confront the painful history she's long kept hidden. Forced to relive her past, she relates a complex saga involving her beautiful, adulterous mother, her troubled son, and the difficult choices that have affected...