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(0)Frances Itani
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
While on her way to the airport to attend Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday, Georgina Danforth Witley drives of the edge of the road plunging into a thickly wooded ravine. Thrown from the car and unable to move, Georgina must rely on her strength, memories, wit and a recitation of the names of the bones in her body to stay alive.
2) Missing
Author
Series
Publisher
Grass Roots Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Missing is based on a true story. Luc Caron lives in northern France during World War I. One day, he sees three airplanes fighting in the sky. Luc watches in horror as a plane flips over and the pilot falls to his death. Luc is the only witness. The Greenwoods own an apple farm in Canada. Their son, a pilot, has
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Series
Deafening novels (Frances Itani) volume 2
Publisher
Black Cat, a paperback original imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The international debut sensation Deafening launched the story of Grania, deaf from the age of five, and her sister Tress, who helped to create their secret language. Tell picks up from the return of the sisters' husbands from the war, and follows Tress's partner Kenan, a young shell-shocked soldier who confines himself indoors, venturing outside only at night to visit the frozen bay where he skated as a boy. Saddened by her altered marriage, Tress...
4) Deafening
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Frances Itani's lauded and award-winning American debut novel has been sold in sixteen countries, was a Canadian best seller for sixteen weeks, reaching #1, and has been awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Award for the Caribbean and Canadian Region. Set on the eve of the Great War, Deafening is a tale of remarkable virtuosity and power. At the age of five, Grania emerges from a bout of scarlet fever profoundly deaf, and is suddenly sealed...