Peter Charles Melman
Peter Charles Melman
was raised in Louisiana, where he earned his doctorate in creative writing from
the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He currently teaches English at
Hunter College High School in New York and lives in Brooklyn.
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Landsman
- By: Peter Charles Melman
- Narrator: Daniel Oreskes
- Length: 11 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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In the summer of 1853, in Lafayette City, Louisiana, eleven-year-old Elias Abrams loses his mother to yellow fever. Grief-stricken and alone, he becomes embroiled in the street life of New Orleans. After Elias is falsely accused of a crime, and in... Read more
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One-Eyed Cat
Ned Wallis knows he’s forbidden to touch the rifle in the attic. But he can’t resist sneaking it out of the house, just once. Before he realizes it, Ned takes a shot at a dark shadow. When Ned returns home, he’s sure he sees a face looking down at him from the attic window. Who has seen and heard him? Ned’s feelings of guilt and fear only get worse when one day, while helping an elderly ...
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The Kiss and The Duel and Other Stories
Here are the most unforgettable stories of a master writer who saw all of life and rejected none of it.
In The Kiss, a lonely, love-starved soldier keeps a secret rendezvous for another man and becomes enamored with a woman he is never to see again. The Duel describes the collisions between men and women in hopeless relationships, and how two men are driven to settle the score in a clandestine ...
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Ralph Breaks the Internet
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Frozen 2
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Join Elsa and Anna and their friends Kristoff, Sven, and Olaf, the lovable snowman, as they embark on a perilous journey to follow a mysterious voice and save Arendelle! Relive all the magic of their epic adventure with this deluxe junior novel movie retelling, which contains additional story details.
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Operation Wandering Soul
Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amid the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award. Tired and overworked, surgical resident Richard Kraft finds his protective shell shattered when, along with his physiotherapist, he begins to view the children’s ward of the hospital. ...
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Healing Together
Sex is such an intimate topic historically wrapped in shame and when someone shares they were sexually abused, we may not know how to respond.
With recent #MeToo and #ChurchToo movements, we are learning just how many men, women, boys, and girls have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a trusted person, often family members or leaders in the church. Sexual abuse is rampant in modern society and ...
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Nice Girls
“Darkly delicious . . . Nice Girls is about the girlhood we never really leave behind, and what happens when we dare to confront our past demons. A pulsating mystery with a narrator you won’t soon forget.” — Laura Dave, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Last Thing He Told Me
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The Odds of You and Me
In the vein of Meg Donohue and Sarah Jio, Cecilia Galante’s second novel delivers the powerful story of one young woman who’s faced with an impossible choice–one that could have her making the biggest mistake of her life.
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This Side of Paradise
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