Jenny Offill
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Pub. Date
2014
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From the acclaimed author of Weather ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE In the beginning, it was easy to imagine their future. They were young and giddy, sure of themselves and of their love for each other. “Dept. of Speculation” was their code name for all the thrilling uncertainties that lay ahead. Then they got married, had a child and navigated the familiar calamities of family life—a colicky baby, a faltering relationship, stalled...
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2014.
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"The wife" once exchanged love letters with her husband, postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes, the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming,...
5) Sparky!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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A child takes a sloth named Sparky as a pet.
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2020
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"Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She's become...
8) Last Things
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Pub. Date
1999
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Eight-year-old Grace's father Jonathan tries to teach her about a rational, reasonable world, but she is drawn more and more into her mother's "strange world of myth and obsession" in a journey that takes her to New Orleans, the Nevada desert, a lighthouse-shaped hotel in California, and finally back to Vermont.--Jacket.