Maile Meloy
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English
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"From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two families go on a tropical vacation--and the children go missing. When Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The ship's comforts and possibilities seem infinite. The children--two eleven-year-olds, an eight-year-old, and a six-year-old--love the nonstop buffet and the independence they have at the Kids' Club....
Author
Series
Apothecary volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Groaup (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Teenagers Janie and Benjamin continue to explore the secrets of the Pharmacopoeia while Benjamin risks everything to find a way to connect with his father.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2009— now adapted into the feature film Certain Women, starring Kristen Stewart— award-winning writer Maile Meloy's short stories explore complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers. Don't miss her new novel, Do Not Become Alarmed.
Meloy's first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both...
Meloy's first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Set in California, Liars and saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present, as they navigate a succession of life-altering events -- through the submerged emotion of the fifties, the recklessness and excess of the sixties and seventies, and the reckonings of the eighties and nineties. In a family driven by jealousy and propriety as much as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
El pulpo vivía feliz en su cueva submarina hasta que un día, un buzo lo captura y lo lleva a vivir a un acuario. Los humanos le dan comida y le ponen pruebas que parecen juguetes. Pero todos los días son iguales, y el pulpo pronto se cansa de la vida cautiva. Y así, al amparo de la oscuridad, emprende un escape audaz.
The octopus lived happily in its underwater cave until one day, a diver captured it and took it to live in an aquarium. Humans...
11) Certain women
Series
Criterion collection volume 893
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
El pulpo vivia feliz en su cueva submarina hasta que un dia, un buzo lo captura y lo lleva a vivir a un acuario. Los humanos le dan comida y le ponen pruebas que parecen juguetes. Pero todos los dias son iguales, y el pulpo pronto se cansa de la vida cautiva. Y asi, al amparo de la oscuridad, emprende un escape audaz. Maile Meloy y Felicita Sala nos traen una historia llena de emocion y sentimiento, sobre la exaltacion de conquistar la libertad con...
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English
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"A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed film--featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed. It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on...