Madeleine L'Engle
21) Ilsa: a novel
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English
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"A woman marries into an upper-class southern family." --
22) A severed wasp
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Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
[1982]
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English
Description
A retired musician returns to performing in this "soul-satisfying" novel from the award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time (Norman Lear). Now in her seventies, Katherine Vigneras, née Forrester, has returned to New York City after a successful career touring as a concert pianist in Europe. Much has changed for Katherine: She is widowed and retired, and has lived through the harrowing years of World War II. But when she encounters an old face from...
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Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996.
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English
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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...
24) Certain women
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1992.
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English
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...
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English
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In this classic book, Madeleine L'Engle addresses the questions, What makes art Christian? What does it mean to be a Christian artist? What is the relationship between faith and art? Through L'Engle's beautiful and insightful essay, readers will find themselves called to what the author views as the prime tasks of an artist: to listen, to remain aware, and to respond to creation through one's own art.
26) The love letters
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
Scenes of intense emotional love and enduring truths about the nature of love within or without the bonds of marriage.
27) The joys of love
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English
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After graduating from college in 1941, Elizabeth Jerrold pursues her dream of becoming a stage actress, landing a position as an apprentice in a summer theater company where she hones her acting skills and falls in love with an aspiring director.
28) The other dog
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SeaStar Books
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
Description
The family poodle protests at first when the master and mistress bring home a new "dog" to share the household.
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Publisher
Seabury Press
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
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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,...
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Publisher
Shaw Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Madeleine L'Engle is a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, autobiography, and writings on scripture and the Christian life. Best known for the Newbery Award--winning A Wrinkle in Time and her classic work on faith and art, Walking on Water, L'Engle is the author of over fifty books. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, medals, and honorary degrees, including the National Religious Book Award. She lives in Connecticut and New York City.
