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Deb Caletti
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Discovery Miles 3 870
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Each step in Annabelle’s 2,700-mile cross-country run brings her closer
to facing a trauma from her past in National Book Award finalist Deb
Caletti’s novel about the heart, all the ways it breaks, and its
journey to healing. Because sometimes against our will, against all
odds, we go forward.
Then…
Annabelle’s life wasn’t perfect, but it was full—full of friends,
family, love. And a boy…whose attention Annabelle found flattering and
unsettling all at once.
Until that attention intensified.
Now…
Annabelle is running. Running from the pain and the tragedy from the
past year. With only Grandpa Ed and the journal she fills with words
she can’t speak out loud, Annabelle runs from Seattle to Washington, DC
and toward a destination she doesn’t understand but is determined to
reach. With every beat of her heart, every stride of her feet,
Annabelle steps closer to healing—and the strength she discovers within
herself to let love and hope back into her life.
Annabelle’s journey is the ultimate testament to the human heart, and
how it goes on after being broken.
"People ask me all the time what having Vince MacKenzie for a
father was like. What they mean is, was he always crazy?"
High school junior Jordan MacKenzie's life was pretty typical:
fractured family, new boyfriend, dead-end job. She'd been living
with her father (the predictable optometrist) since her mother (the
hippie holdover) had become too embarrassing to be around. Jordan
felt that she finally had as normal a life as she could. Then came
Gayle D'Angelo.
Jordan knew her father was dating Gayle and that Gayle was
married. Jordan knew it was wrong and that her father was becoming
someone she didn't recognize anymore, but what could she do about
it? And how could she -- how could anyone -- have possibly guessed
that this illicit love affair would implode in such a violent and
disturbing way?
Four starred reviews! A "quietly triumphant" (Horn Book Magazine)
and atmospheric YA story of romance, mystery, and power about a
young woman discovering her strength in lush, sultry Venice-from
the Printz Honor-winning author of A Heart in a Body in the World.
When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice
with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it's a dream come
true. Writing is her passion, she loves Bruni's books, and going to
that romantic and magical sinking city gives her the chance to
solve a long-time family mystery about a Venetian poet deep in
their lineage, Isabella Di Angelo, who just might be the real
author of a very famous poem. Bruni's villa on the eerie island of
La Calamita is extravagant-lush beyond belief, and the other
students are both inspiring and intimidating. Venice itself is
beautiful, charming, and seductive, but so is Luca Bruni. As his
behavior becomes increasingly unnerving, and as Charlotte begins to
unearth the long-lost work of Isabella with the help of sweet,
smart Italian Dante, other things begin to rise, too-secrets about
the past...and secrets about the present. As the events of the
summer build to a shattering climax, Charlotte will be forced to
confront some dark truths about the history of powerful men-and
about the determination of creative girls.
Scarlet spends most of her time worrying about other people. Some
are her friends, others are practically strangers, and then there
are the ones no else even notices. Trying to fix their lives comes
naturally to her. And pushing her own needs to the side is part of
the deal. So when her older sister comes home unexpectedly married
and pregnant, Scarlet has a new person to worry about. But all of
her good intentions are shattered when the unthinkable happens: she
falls for her sister's husband. For the first time in a long time,
Scarlet's not fixing a problem, she's at the center of one. And
ignoring her feelings doesn't seem to be an option...
After Quinn gets dumped, she starts to wonder if there really are
no good men. It doesn't help when she discovers that her selfish,
womanizing father has stolen more from the women in his life than
their hearts. Quinn joins forces with the stepsister she's never
met and sets out to right her father's wrongs.
Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest
came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage.
The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises
at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel
Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in
rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the
plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in
her landlady mother's absence. The quirky tenants-a hilarious mix
of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by-rely on Alexis all
the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis
save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate
dad's dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet
crow, Habib, truly knows. Provoking interesting questions about the
creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty,
suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected. A
Seattle7Writers project for literacy, this novel was written by
Kathleen Alcala, Matthew Amster-Burton, Kit Bakke, Erica
Bauermeister, Sean Beaudoin, Dave Boling, Deb Caletti, Carol
Cassella, William Dietrich, Robert Dugoni, Kevin Emerson, Karen
Finneyfrock, Clyde Ford, Jamie Ford, Elizabeth George, Mary
Guterson, Maria Dahvana Headley, Teri Hein, Stephanie Kallos, Erik
Larson, David Lasky, Stacey Levine, Frances McCue, Jarret
Middleton, Peter Mountford, Kevin O'Brien, Julia Quinn, Nancy
Rawles, Suzanne Selfors, Jennie Shortridge, Ed Skoog, Garth Stein,
Greg Stump, Indu Sundaresan, Craig Welch and Susan Wiggs. Foreword
by Nancy Pearl. Introduction by Garth Stein."
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