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  Time Quintet: Book 1

  A Wrinkle in Time

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  Rediscover one of the most beloved children's books of all time: A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle. Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door. She claims to have been blown off course, and goes on to tell them that there is such a thing as a "tesseract," which is like a wrinkle in... (more)
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  Time Quintet: Book 3

  A Swiftly Tilting Planet

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry, whom readers first met in A Wrinkle in Time, has a little task he must accomplish. In 24 hours, a mad dictator will destroy the universe by declaring nuclear war--unless Charles Wallace can go back in time to change one of the many Might-Have-Beens in history. In an intricately layered and suspenseful journey through time, this extraordinary young man psychically enters four... (more)
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  Time Quintet: Book 2

  A Wind in the Door

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  A Wind In The Door is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small  brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of A Wrinkle In  Time . The seed from which the story grows is the rather ordinary situation of Charles Wallace's difficulty in adapting to school. He is  extremely bright, so much so that he gets punched around a lot for being "different." He is also  strangely,... (more)
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  Time Quintet: Book 4

  Many Waters

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment. Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns,... (more)
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  The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  This journal offers a loving and poignant portrait of L'Engle's mother in old age that is more about living than dying.
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  The Austin Family Chronicles: Book 5

  Troubling a Star

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  Political intrigue and duplicity are waiting for Vicky Austen as she travels to the Antarctic to visit her friend, Adam, who is stationed there as a marine biologist. By the Newbery Medalist for A Wrinkle in Time. Reprint. VY. K.
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  Time Quintet: Book 5

  An Acceptable Time

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  Polly's visit to her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious stangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
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  O'Keefe Family

  The Arm of the Starfish

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  A marine biology student reporting to his summer job on an island off Portugal finds himself at the center of a power struggle between his boss and another group of Americans.
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  Camilla

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  Life had always been easy for fifteen-year-old Camilla Dickinson.  But now her parents, whom she had always loved and trusted, are behaving like strangers to each other and vying for her allegiance.  Camilla is torn between her love for them and her disapproval of their actions. Then she meets Frank, her best friend's brother, who helps her to feel that she is not alone.  Can Camilla learn to accept her parents... (more)
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  Vigneras: Book 1

  The Small Rain

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  Madeleine L'Engle's classic young adult books include A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Planet and Certain Women. The Small Rain, an adult novel, focuses on Katherine Forrester, the daughter of distinguished musical artists, whose career as a concert pianist evolves through loves and losses. Katherine is a child growing up in a refined, yet bohemian, artistic ambience — theatrical as well as musical ... Her adolescence... (more)
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  The Austin Family Chronicles: Book 4

  A Ring of Endless Light

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  The cycle of life and death becomes a difficult burden for Vicky Austin as she watches her grandfather dying, but the opportunity for joy and renewal open up as she assists her friend Adam with his dolphins. Newbery Honor Book. Reprint. AB.
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  A Live Coal In The Sea

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  Madeleine L'Engle's first adult novel in four years -- now in paperback! With 23,000 copies sold since May 1996, this "haunting domestic drama" (Publishers Weekly) examines the powers of faith and mercy in one family's confrontation with a legacy of evil. Best known for A Wrinkle in Time -- the children's classic that has sold more than 2 million copies since 1962 -- Madeleine L'Engle is as adept at exploring... (more)
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  Vigneras: Book 2

  A Severed Wasp

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  Katherine Forrester Vigneras, in a continuation of her story from The Small Rain, returns to New York City from Europe to retire. Now in her seventies, she encounters an old friend from her Greenwich Village days who, it turns out, is the former Bishop of New York. He asks Katherine to give a benefit concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. This leads to new demands on her resources--human, artistic,... (more)
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  Writing Women's Lives

  An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers

  by Susan Cahill

  Representing fifty distinguished American women writers, this collection of autobiographical narratives reflects the diverse intersections of race, class, religion, and sexual identity as they have been experienced in every region of the United States over the course of the twentieth century. The selections showcase the common experiences of women writers as children, daughters, wives, lovers, mothers, artists,... (more)
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  Crosswicks Journal

  Two-Part Invention

  The Story of a Marriage

  by Madeleine L'Engle

  The story of a marriage of true minds and spirits--a brilliant writer's tribute to lasting love. "A vivid and touching chronicle."-- Chicago Tribune
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  Madeleine L'Engle, Suncatcher: Spiritual Vision of a Storyteller

  by Carole F. Chase

  For half a century, Madeleine L'Engle has been cherished by young and old for her classic young adult books, such as A Wrinkle in Time , A Ring of Endless Light , and A Swiftly Tilting Planet and for her 50-plus adult fiction, fantasy, poetry, and spiritual titles. Now in Celebration of L'Engle's 80th birthday, the original Madeleine L'Engle, Suncatcher has been completely updated. In the only... (more)