Pollen, Samuel
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Max records his efforts to control his anorexia in a therapist-prescribed journal that also chronicles his parents' difficult relationship and his feelings for a new girl at school, Evie.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yellow Jacket 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC POLBeckett, Samuel
Summary: "In 1933, Chatto & Windus agreed to publish Samuel Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks, a collection of ten interrelated stories, which was his first published work of fiction. At his editor's request, Beckett penned an additional story, "Echo's Bones," to serve as the final piece. However, he had already killed off several of the characters--including the protagonist, Belacqua--throughout the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECBrinkley, Jamel
Summary: In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023