Graff: 80 books
by Lisa Graff
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
One of the finest novelists of her generation, National Book Award nominee Lisa Graff returns readers to the world of A Tangle of Knots**, where a camp for Talented kids just might be a recipe for disaster.**
In this magical companion to the National Book Award nominee A Tangle of Knots, it's...
by Lisa Graff
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Kids vs. parents! An epic treehouse sleepover! An awesome group of friends! An exciting new book from National Book Award finalist Lisa Graff.
Winnie's last day of fourth grade ended with a pretty life-changing surprise. That was the day Winnie’s parents got divorced and decided that Winnie...
by Lisa Graff
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
From the author of A Tangle of Knots and Absolutely Almost, a touching story about a boy who won't let one tragic accident define him.
Everyone says that middle school is awful, but Trent knows nothing could be worse than the year he had in fifth grade, when a freak accident on Cedar Lake left...
by Lisa Graff
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A book about life, loss, and the secrets families keep, reminiscent of Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons, by National Book Award nominee Lisa Graff.
CJ's Aunt Nic is a psychic medium who tours the country speaking to spirits from Far Away, passing on messages from the dearly departed. And CJ knows...
by Lisa Graff
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
From the author of the National Book Award nominee A TANGLE OF KNOTS comes an inspiring novel about figuring out who you are and doing what you love.
Albie has never been the smartest kid in his class. He has never been the tallest. Or the best at gym. Or the greatest artist. Or the most musical....
The Wandering Signifier
Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2008
While Jews figure in the work of many modern Latin American writers, the questions of how and to what end they are represented have received remarkably little critical attention. Helping to correct this imbalance, Erin Graff Zivin traces the symbolic presence of Jews and Jewishness in late-nineteenth-...
by Lisa Graff
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
What would you do to win a dare war?
In a humorous and insightful novel about dares, divorce and friendship, Lisa Graff tells the story of fourth-graders Kansas Bloom and Francine Halata, who start out as archenemies, until--in a battle of wits and willpower--they discover that they have...
Not Buying It
Stop Overspending and Start Raising Happier, Healthier, More Successful Kids
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Parents will do just about anything to give their kids happy lives and successful futures. Unfortunately, the drive to give kids the best of everything leads to a financial strategy based in fear and competition, and results in millions of dollars worth of unnecessary purchases. Enough is enough.
In...
Clueless in Academe
How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Gerald Graff argues that our schools and colleges make the intellectual life seem more opaque, narrowly specialized, and beyond normal learning capacities than it is or needs to be. Left clueless in the academic world, many students view the life of the mind as a secret society for which only an elite...
Stepping Left
Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928–1942
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 1997
Stepping Left simultaneously unveils the radical roots of modern dance and recalls the excitement and energy of New York City in the 1930s. Ellen Graff explores the relationship between the modern dance movement and leftist political activism in this period, describing the moment in American dance...
Tracing Our Graff Ancestry
A Concise Family History
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
At noon on Sunday, March 26, 1933, the only son (the last in a family of seven children) was born to Frank H. Sr. and Myrtle A. Graff. A devout Christian mother would instill in her son at a very early age a love for the Christian Bible.
Personne ne parlera de nous lorsque nous serons morts
Une épopée en pays catalan
Language: French
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Une fresque où le destin des personnages se mêle à l'Histoire...
En 1938 le jeune et insouciant Rémo Valdi débarque à Perpignan. C’est un mondain oisif qui pourrait se satisfaire d’être un bellâtre.Il croise le chemin de Maria Juan une aide-soignante anticonformiste qui aspire...
by James Grady, Keir Graff
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
“Thoroughly entertaining . . . from desperate writing students in Missoula to a van of itinerant strippers working the Hi-Line paralleling the Canadian border.” —Publishers Weekly
A Parade Magazine “Books We Love” Pick
The Big Sky State may seem to lack the shadowy urban mazes...
Raven Rock
The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The shocking truth about the government’s secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil—even if the rest of us die—is “a frightening eye-opener” (Kirkus Reviews) that spans the dawn of the nuclear age to today, and "contains everything one could possibly want to know" (The Wall...