The Water Is Wide

The Water Is Wide
Author: Pat Conroy
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2002-03-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0553381571

A “miraculous” (Newsweek) human drama, based on a true story, from the renowned author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw Island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens their very existence unless, somehow, they can learn a new way. But they will learn nothing without someone to teach them, and their school has no teacher—until one man gives a year of his life to the island and its people. Praise for The Water Is Wide “Miraculous . . . an experience of joy.”—Newsweek “A powerfully moving book . . . You will laugh, you will weep, you will be proud and you will rail . . . and you will learn to love the man.”—Charleston News and Courier “A hell of a good story.”—The New York Times “Few novelists write as well, and none as beautifully.”—Lexington Herald-Leader “[Pat] Conroy cuts through his experiences with a sharp edge of irony. . . . He brings emotion, writing talent and anger to his story.”—Baltimore Sun

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062368680

Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

The Story Behind Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

The Story Behind Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Author: Bryon Giddens-White
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781403482082

Provides a background for Harper Lee's famous novel by looking at relevant biographical details about her life and providing historical details that place the story in context, with a literary analysis of the novel.

I Kill the Mockingbird

I Kill the Mockingbird
Author: Paul Acampora
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-05-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1596437421

Best friends Lucy, Elena, and Michael are excited to see "To Kill A Mockingbird" on their summer reading list. But not everyone in their class shares the same enthusiasm. So they hatch a plot to get the entire town talking about Harper Lee's classic novel.

Harper Lee Collection E-book Bundle

Harper Lee Collection E-book Bundle
Author: Harper Lee
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062441787

From celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee, her bestselling novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman available together in this convenient e-book bundle. Set in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, and featuring characters that have become indelible in American culture, Harper Lee’s beloved classic of Southern literature, To Kill a Mockingbird and its follow-up, Go Set a Watchman, offer a haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s and 1950s that resonates today. Enduring in vision, Harper Lee’s timeless novels illuminate the complexities of human nature and the depths of the human heart with humor, unwavering honesty, and a tender, nostalgic beauty, and will be celebrated by generations to come.

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird
Author: Lisa McCarty
Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publ
Total Pages: 51
Release: 2006-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1599051249

Reproducible Reading Study Guides that give students the background and support they need to understand and enjoy literature. With these reading guides, your students will practice reading comprehension skills, sharpen their vocabulary and learn to identify literary elements.

The General Councils

The General Councils
Author: Christopher M. Bellitto
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809140190

A succinct, up-to-date and chronological history of the 21 general councils, along with their major tasks, achievements and failures and their impact on their times.

To Kill a Mockingbird, the Screenplay

To Kill a Mockingbird, the Screenplay
Author: Horton Foote
Publisher:
Total Pages: 137
Release: 1997
Genre: Depressions
ISBN: 9780395783825

The screenplay by Horton Foote; based on the Harper Lee's award-winning novel is adapted for the movies.

Why to Kill a Mockingbird Matters

Why to Kill a Mockingbird Matters
Author: Tom Santopietro
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2018-06-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1250163765

Tom Santopietro, an author well-known for his writing about American popular culture, delves into the heart of the beloved classic and shows readers why To Kill a Mockingbird matters more today than ever before. With 40 million copies sold, To Kill a Mockingbird’s poignant but clear eyed examination of human nature has cemented its status as a global classic. Tom Santopietro's new book, Why To Kill a Mockingbird Matters, takes a 360 degree look at the Mockingbird phenomenon both on page and screen. Santopietro traces the writing of To Kill a Mockingbird, the impact of the Pulitzer Prize, and investigates the claims that Lee’s book is actually racist. Here for the first time is the full behind the scenes story regarding the creation of the 1962 film, one which entered the American consciousness in a way that few other films ever have. From the earliest casting sessions to the Oscars and the 50th Anniversary screening at the White House, Santopietro examines exactly what makes the movie and Gregory Peck’s unforgettable performance as Atticus Finch so captivating. As Americans yearn for an end to divisiveness, there is no better time to look at the significance of Harper Lee's book, the film, and all that came after.

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Author: Bebe Moore Campbell
Publisher: One World
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1995-06-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345401123

"ABSORBING...COMPELLING...HIGHLY SATISFYING." --San Francisco Chronicle "TRULY ENGAGING...Campbell has a storyteller's ear for dialogue and the visual sense of painting a picture and a place....There's a steam that keeps the story moving as the characters, and later their children, wrestle through racial, personal and cultural crisis." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "REMARKABLE...POWERFUL." --Time "YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE is rich, lush fiction set in rural Mississippi beginning in the mid-'50s. It is also a haunting reality flowing through Anywhere, U.S.A., in the '90s....There's love, rage and hatred, winning and losing, honor, abuse; in other words, humanity....Campbell now deserves recognition as the best of storytellers. Her writing sings." --The Indianapolis News "EXTRAORDINDARY." --The Seattle Times "A COMPELLING NARRATIVE...Campbell is a master when it comes to telling a story." --Entertainment Weekly YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE won the NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Work of Fiction