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Algeria History 20th century Fiction Elementary school teachers Fiction Families Fiction JUVENILE FICTION / Bedtime & Dreams Messud, Claire 1966- Pieds-Noirs Algeria History Fiction Pieds-Noirs France History Fiction Secrecy Fiction Teacher-student relationships Fiction Women artists FictionMESSUD, CLAIRE
Summary: A novel about French colonists in Algeria and their difficult adjustment to France after Algerian independence. It is narrated by a girl whose grandfather buys a hotel on the Riviera and forgetting he is no longer in the colonies goes to jail for shooting at rowdy teenagers by a pool.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HARCO 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MESMessud, Claire
Contents: Simple tale -- Hunters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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Summary: In this collection of 26 personal essays, Claire Messud opens a window on her life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MESSUD, CLAIRE MESMessud, Claire
Summary: Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades (from 1940-2010), starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child's family until his artist mother's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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Summary: Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2017
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Summary: Nora Eldridge, a 37-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who long ago abandoned her ambition to be a successful artist, has become the 'woman upstairs', a reliable friend and tidy neighbor always on the fringe of others' achievements. Then into her classroom walks Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale. When Reza is attacked by schoolyard bullies...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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Summary: From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, a brilliant new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, a thirty-seven-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who long ago abandoned her ambition to be a successful artist, has become the "woman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013
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Summary: Three friends on the verge of their thirties--beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite; Danielle, a quiet TV producer; and Julius, a freelance writer--make their way through New York City, until Marina's idealistic cousin, Bootie, arrives to complicate their lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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Summary: "A glimpse into a beloved novelist's inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature. In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MESSUD, CLAIRE MESMessud, Claire
Summary: Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the Pieds-Noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state--separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This novel is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC MESMesser, Claire.
Summary: "Have you ever had a grumpy day and not known why? Penguin is having a grumpy day like that. No matter what he does, he just can't shake it! Sometimes the only thing left to do is wash the grumpy day away and start over"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2016