Sue Monk Kidd
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Set in South Carolina during the summer of 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lilys fierce-hearted zstand-in mother,y Rosaleen, insults three racists in town, they escape to Tiburon, South Carolinaa town that holds the secret to her mothers past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily finds refuge in...
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English
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"In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in her furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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"The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
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English
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An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughter. Look out for Ann Kidd Taylor's new novel, The Shark Club, which will be published in June 2017.
Sue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her acclaimed nonfiction. In this intimate dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, offer...
Sue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her acclaimed nonfiction. In this intimate dual memoir, she and her daughter, Ann, offer...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself...
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English
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The bestselling author's inspiring autobiographical account of personal pain, spiritual awakening, and divine grace.
Blending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis, when life seemed to have lost meaning and her longing for a hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting."
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English
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The bestselling author's inspiring account of her spiritual journey into discovering the love of God.
"Beautifully written . . . the message and challenge of the book is profound. . . . This book will awaken your longing and set you off on your own spiritual journey."-Today's Christian Woman
"A joy to read from beginning to end."-Virtue Magazine
Sue Monk Kidd explores the thrilling possibilities of God's everlasting love. God's Joyful Surprise...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide.
Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.
Hetty...
Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.
Hetty...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Español
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Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartirn y pasarn a sus hijas por generaciones.
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English
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In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its publication, a newly reissued edition of the bestselling author's classic work of feminine spiritual discovery, with a new introduction by the author.
"I was amazed to find that I had no idea how to unfold my spiritual life in a feminine way. I was surprised, and, in fact, a little terrified, when I found myself in the middle of a feminist spiritual reawakening."-Sue Monk Kidd
For years, Sue Monk...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Barataria
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Su vida cambia cuando conoce a Jesús, un joven rebelde que se opone pacíficamente a la dominación de Roma, que no hace milagros pero sí ayuda a pobres y prostitutas y que se convierte en líder casi a su pesar. Pero lo que se cuenta aquí no se la historia que ya conocemos sino la de las mujeres en una época en la que la inteligencia, el ingenio y la inquietud, eran propiedad de los hombres. Una reivindicación feminista en una novela en la...