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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters. By the author of Pigs in Heaven.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emma Wheaton has interrupted her successful stage career to attend her dying father, David Wheaton. The legendary actor is obsessed with an unfinished play about the Old Testament King David written by Emma's estranged husband. As his family - itself of biblical proportions, because David Wheaton has had nine wives and eleven children - gathers, the stories of both Davids and their women are simultaneously woven together and unraveled. For Emma, being...
8) Raising the dust: the literary housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Phillip Finkelstein
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sam and Ruth are both in the autumn of life during Covid when they fall in love and decide to get married. Their adult children aren't too sure about this new and surprising relationship, so Sam and Ruth fly the coop and drive out West. The real life characters Marv (Sam) and Freada (Ruth) who inspired the first part of this novel then decide to invite the author and his wife to come with them to visit the places, the author originally wrote about....
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