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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a future together. But after the children leave home, they quietly drift apart. When Jack accepts a wonderful new job offer, Elizabeth puts her needs aside to follow him across the country. Until the sudden death of her father changes everything. Grieving and alone, she retreats to an isolated beach house where she packs away the last remnants...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
El libro que inspiró la película
“Una primera novela dolorosamente hermosa que es a la vez la historia de un misterioso asesinato, de una iniciación a la vida y una celebración de la naturaleza ... Owens explora las marismas desoladas de la costa de Carolina del Norte a través de los ojos de una niña abandonada. Y en su aislamiento, esa niña nos abre los ojos a las secretas maravillas...
“Una primera novela dolorosamente hermosa que es a la vez la historia de un misterioso asesinato, de una iniciación a la vida y una celebración de la naturaleza ... Owens explora las marismas desoladas de la costa de Carolina del Norte a través de los ojos de una niña abandonada. Y en su aislamiento, esa niña nos abre los ojos a las secretas maravillas...
4) Los adioses
Author
Series
Punto de lectura volume 196/3
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
111 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
A man arrives in a mountain community and refuses to assimilate into life at the sanatorium. His only income and contact with the outside world is through two letters which he recieves every month.
Un hombre llega a una localidad de montana a la que acuden a curarse los tuberculosos. De manera firme se niega a asumir esa vida de sanatorio que impregna de esperanza toda la ciudad... Su unica ocupacion son las dos cartas que recibe con regularidad...
5) Beast
Author
Series
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"What kind of man am I? I wonder what I think about now that I have spend a year here, watching the layers peel off, stripping myself back...
Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man living alone on a west-country. What he has left behind we don't quite know. What he faces is a battle with himself, the elements, and with the animal he begins to see in the margins of his vision. A creature that will become an obsession..."
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a murder, Kya Clark, who has survived alone for years in a marsh near the North Carolina coast, becomes targeted by unthinkable forces.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend,...
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