Melanie Sumner
Melanie
Sumner is the award-winning author of The Ghost of Milagro Creek, The
School of Beauty and Charm, and Polite
Society. Her short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, the
New York Times, Seventeen, and many other magazines and anthologies. She is the
recipient of a NEA Fellowship in fiction, a PEN
America grant, a Whiting Award, and was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 1995. She is currently an assistant professor of English at Kennesaw
State University, Georgia.
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How to Write a Novel
- By: Melanie Sumner
- Narrator: Katie Schorr
- Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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Aristotle “Aris” Thibodeau is twelve-and-a-half years old and destined for greatness. Ever since her father’s death, however, she’s been stuck in the small town of Kanuga, Georgia, where she has to manage her mother... Read more
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The School of Beauty and Charm
- By: Melanie Sumner
- Narrator: Melanie Sumner
- Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 25, 2011
- Language: English
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Winner of a Whiting Award, author Melanie Sumner captivates listeners with her darkly humorous tale about the Peppers family. After the accidental death of her older brother, teenager Louise can’t get her life back on track. When she runs away... Read more
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Battle
Battle: The Story of the Bulge, John Toland’s first work of military history, recounts the saga of beleaguered American troops as they resisted Hitler’s deadly counteroffensive in World War II’s Battle of the Bulge–and turned it into an Allied victory. It is a gripping work, painstakingly researched and imbued with such vivid detail that listeners will feel as though they themselves ...
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Heartbreak Cove
Welcome to a place where love is in the air, fate is in the stars, and home is just a heartbeat away. Sheriff Andie Shepard may be new to Sanctuary Island but, like everyone else who comes here, she’s already fallen under its healing spell. Andie is determined to leave her mistakes behind her and make this scenic haven her home. But she just might have to change her plans-as well as open her ...
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Pigeon Religion: Holy Spirit, Is That You?
Have you ever seen God move tangibly in a powerful worship service? Have you also been unmoved or unaffected by a lively sermon or worship experience? How can you discern when the Holy Spirit is authentically moving, or when a counterfeit spirit is producing manipulation? If the dove is the symbol of the authentic Holy Spirit, then the pigeon is a symbol of the counterfeit spirit. Unfortunately ...
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Murder Most Sweet
Tall, curly-haired Teddie St. John–superb baker, bohemian bon vivant, mystery writer–is out walking her American Eskimo dog, Gracie, when her four-legged friend finds her missing silk scarf. The only problem? The scarf’s tied tightly around the neck of a beautiful blonde woman, Kristi, the fiancee of a touring British author. Before you can say “Wisconsin kringle,” Teddie becomes a ...
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National Geographic Kids Chapters: Best Friends Forever
This is the first in a line of four books within the “National Geographic Kids Chapters” series that explore unexpected animal bonds. In this book you’ll meet four unlikely pairings, including Billy and Lilly. Billy the boxer adopted Lilly the goat when she was abandoned by her mother. Billy and Lilly are rarely apart since Billy has taken on the role of Lilly’s protector, caretaker, and ...
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Ernest Hemingway on Writing
An assemblage of reflections on the nature of writing and the writer from one the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing–that it takes off “whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or talk about it.” Despite this belief, ...
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Chain Gang All Stars
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR • Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black • “One of the most exciting young writers in America.” —George Saunders, best-selling author of Liberation Day ...
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Odysseus Abroad
It is 1985. Twenty-two-year-old Ananda has been in London for two years, practicing at being a poet. He’s homesick, thinks of himself as an outsider, and yet he can’t help feeling that there’s something romantic, even poetic, in his isolation. His uncle, Radhesh, a magnificent failure who lives in genteel impoverishment and celibacy, has been in London for nearly three decades. Odysseus ...
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The Art and Science of Results
What is the Missing Secret to Achieving Your Goals?In this fascinating, mind stretching, and empowering new book, bestselling author Dr. Joe Vitale, one of the stars of the hit movie The Secret, provides the surprising answers for achieving your goals faster than ever-even the biggest goals you can imagine!Let Dr. Vitale lead you on a journey to clear your mind of blocks and beliefs, and achieve ...
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The Homecoming
When Clay-Boy’s father fails to return home on Christmas Eve, Clay-Boy takes to the snowy Virginia hills in search of him, leaving his worried family to keep watch at the homestead. Along the way, he meets an irate deer, a threatening county sheriff, a congregation of African-American churchgoers, and two elderly women who happen to be bootleggers. The story of Clay-Boy’s search for his ...
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