Madeleine L'Engle
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Series
Time quintet volume 1
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Description
Young Meg Murry, her brother Charles, and their friend Calvin, embark on a journey through space and time, assisted by three eccentric women, when they set out to find Meg's father, a physicist who disappeared while experimenting with time travel.
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Series
Time quintet volume 2
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With Meg Murry's help, the dragons her six-year-old brother saw in the vegetable garden play an important part in his struggle between life and death.
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Series
Time quintet volume 3
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry and the unicorn Gaudior must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe. Includes an interview with the author.
4) Many waters
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 4
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
357 p. : 20 cm.
Description
The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xii, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"This powerful collection of short stories traces an emotional arc inspired by Madeleine L'Engle's early life and career, from her lonely childhood in New York to her life as a mother in small-town Connecticut. In a selection of eighteen stories discovered by one of L'Engle's granddaughters, we see how L'Engle's personal experiences and abiding faith informed the creation of her many cherished works. Some of these stories have never been published;...
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 5
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007, c1989
Physical Desc
373 p. : geneal. table ; 20 cm.
Description
Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
When Charles Wallace is old enough to start school Meg and Calvin seek help from Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which to find him a school where he will fit in, but before he can start they will all have to pass an unusual exam.
Author
Series
Crosswicks journals volume 2
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
245 pages : portraits ; 21 cm
Description
The author, Madeleine L'Engle, realizes that her elderly mother will no longer be able to live alone and is dying.
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Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1045 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
This second volume gathers the final four Kairos novels, in which Meg and Calvin's daughter Polly takes center stage. In The Arm of the Starfish, Polly disappears, and Calvin's research assistant is implicated in her kidnapping. In Dragons in the Waters, Polly and her brother Charles are on a steamer bound for Venezuela when they help solve a murder connected to a stolen portrait of Simon Bolivar. Polly receives an education in different kinds of...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
384 pages
Description
"The author of over fifty books, including Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle is internationally acclaimed for her literary skills and her ability to translate intangible things of the spirit-- both human and divine--into tangible concepts through story. In Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life, you'll find hundreds of this celebrated author's most insightful, illuminating, and transforming statements about...
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"Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?" is Madeleine L'Engle's spirited defense of the responsibility of children's literature to confront difficult questions, as she did in all her work, particularly her masterpiece A Wrinkle in Time. This eBook contains the text of her famous speech as well as her introduction to the twenty-fifth anniversary of A Wrinkle in Time and a facsimile of a chapter from the original manuscript with Madeleine's notations.
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Excerpt: "Where are you going, Philippa?" Mrs. Jackman asked sharply as Flip turned away from the group of tourists standing about in the cold hall of the Chateau of Chillon "I'm going for a walk," Flip said Her father put his hand on her shoulder. "I'd rather you stayed with us, Flip." She looked up at him, her eyes bright with pleading. "Please, father!" she whispered. Then she turned and ran out of the chateau, away from the dark, prisoning stones,...
Author
Series
O'Keefe family volume 1
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
2016, ©2016
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hrs. 39 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young Adam Eddington becomes entangled in international intrigue involving murder and kidnapping when he takes a summer job in Portugal assisting a noted marine biologist whose scientific findings are fought for by world powers.