Prose, Francine

Summary: Francine Prose argues that the diary of Anne Frank is as much a deliberate work of art as it is an historical record, noting its literary merits and thoroughly investigating the diary's unique afterlife as one of the world's most read, and banned, books.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009

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Prose, Francine

Summary: In 1953 at a distinguished New York publishing firm, Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate, is tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg--a project that makes him realize that the people around him are not what they seem.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Prose, Francine

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005

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Prose, Francine

Summary: A young girl faces the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend. Over one haunted summer, Nico must face that life-changing moment when children realize...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2008

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Prose, Francine

Summary: "The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children's musical. Mister Monkey--a screwball children's musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee--is the kind of family favorite that survives far...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016

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Prose, Francine

Summary: While working for an idealistic college professor, twenty-six-year old Lula, an Albanian trying to make a better life for herself in America, finds her life taking a complicated turn when her Albanian "brothers" return, in a novel set in the aftermath of 9/11.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011

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Prose, Francine

Summary: The first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close relationship she developed with activist Anthony Russo, one of the men who leaked the Pentagon Papers--and the year when our country changed.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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Prose, Francine

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2000

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Prose, Francine

Summary: Celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers the author admires above all others, from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Prose, Francine

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1981

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Prose, Francine

Summary: How do women treat one another in the absence of men to treat them badly? Martha, the protagonist, finds out when after a bust-up with her boyfriend she joins devotees of a matriarchal goddess in a New Age boot camp in the Arizona desert. A satire on New Age religion and knee-jerk feminism.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1995

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Prose, Francine

Summary: The author explores the ancient island of Sicily, considering the various cultural legacies--Greek, Roman, Arab, and Norman--that have shaped the island's colorful culture and history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2003

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Frank, Anne

Summary: The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl and one of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, Frank's triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time. This edition reprints the Definitive edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010

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Summary: A cynical college professor takes a keen interest in a talented young writing student. When lines are crossed, it becomes unclear who is the victim and who is the victimizer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2018

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Ernaux, Annie

Summary: "A daughter must come to terms with her formative years as she writes an unflinching portrait of her father, a cafe owner whose life has become very alien to her."--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2012

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