Russell, Karen
Summary: Presents ten short stories set in the Florida Everglades and starring children who must survive against incredible odds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
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Summary: Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the smamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wresting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Summary: This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2011
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Summary: Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the smamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wresting. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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Summary: From the author of the instant New York Times best seller Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best. In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013
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Russell, Karen
Summary: A collection of stories features a pair of centuries-old vampires whose relationship is tested by a sudden fear of flying, a dejected teen who communicates with the universe and a massage therapist who heals a tattooed veteran by manipulating the images on his body.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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Summary: In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. In "The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979," a dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left in a seagull's nest. "Proving Up" and "The Graveless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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Summary: From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves ("How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell's . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire"-- Los Angeles Times Book Review ) comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Russell, Karen
Summary: "For the first time in paperback, a haunting novella from the uncannily imaginative author of the national bestsellers Swamplandia! and Orange World: the story of a deadly insomnia epidemic and the lengths one woman will go to to fight it. Trish Edgewater is the Slumber Corps' top recruiter. On the phone, at a specially organized Sleep Drive, even in a supermarket parking lot: Trish can get...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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Summary: Six short stories with subjects ranging from a dejected teenager who discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull's nest to two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove who try helplessly to slake their thirst for blood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC Fiction Russell 2013Summary: Anthony Doerr and series editor, Heidi Pitlor, select twenty stories that represent the best examples of the form published in 2018.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BESSummary: Presents a collection of short stories, essays, and poems from throughout the year, culled from small presses and literary journals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc. 2023
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Summary: When Kari Baxter is assigned an essay about what she wants to be when she grows up, her mind goes blank. She doesn't want to grow up; she wants everything to stay just like it is. But Kari comes to realize that while making time stand still isn't possible, she can enjoy every moment with her best family ever. Meanwhile, Ashley Baxter feels the same way. She is worried her siblings are growing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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Summary: School science camp is a few weeks away, but Ashley and Kari Baxter have very different feelings about going. With the help of their siblings, Kari and Ashley prepare for wild experiments and the challenges of the great outdoors, and together they learn what it means to plan for an experience they won't forget. In the process, all five Baxter Children learn how to make new friends and that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Brooke is the perfect older sister. For that reason, Kari and Ashley work hard to make their parents just as proud of them as they are of Brooke. Each girl has her own talents. And they are always there for each other. But when the news comes that Dr. Baxter is moving the family and the Baxters need to leave the only home and friends they've ever known, no one is happy. Saying goodbye is hard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Summer is over, and Dad begins his important position at an Indiana hospital. Like it or not, Bloomington is the Baxter family's new home. As school starts, everyone finds reasons to be excited about the move. Everyone, that is, except Ashley. Ashley desperately misses the home and friends she left behind. As she realizes her siblings have their struggles, too, she can't help but wonder if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "When Dr. Baxter tells the family that they will be moving from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Bloomington, Indiana, the five Baxter children, ages six to thirteen, are sure that their lives and home will never be the same. But they find that being together with the ones you love is the most important part of home"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KINRogers, Kirsteen.
Summary: Defines key terms and concepts dealing with numbers and number facts, calculations, shape and space, measurements, and data.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne 2010
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Summary: For Ashley, moving to Bloomington, Indiana, is especially hard but with time, prayer, a few surprises, and especially the love of her family, she finally feels at home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2020