Ra's Spiral Path

Category: general fiction

  • The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

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    By Brady Udall Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Vintage Contemporaries, c2001, 2002 Genre: General fiction ISBN: 9780375719189 Audience: Adult, young adult Number of pages: 423 Setting: Various locations in Arizona, including San Carlos Reservation, Globe, and Fort Apache.  Also set in Richland, UT and Stony Run, PA. Time period: Hard to decipher, but it…

  • Things Fall Apart

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    By Chinua Achebe Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Anchor Books, c1959, 1994 Genre: General fiction, historical fiction ISBN: 9780385474542 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 209 Setting: Umuofia & Mbanta, Africa (now Nigeria) Time period: Not stated – the transitional period between traditional village life and colonization (1890’s) Plot summary: Okonkwo tries to live a…

  • The Night Bookmobile

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    By Audrey Niffenegger Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Abrams, 2010 Genres: General fiction, short stories Format: Graphic novel Series: “The Night Bookmobile is the first installment of a much larger work, The Library, which has its origins in a dream I had as a teenager” (from the first page of “After Words” at the…

  • Speak

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    By Laurie Halse Anderson Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999 Genre: General fiction ISBN: 9780374371524 Audience: Young adult Number of pages: 198 Setting: Syracuse, NY Time period: Late 1990s Plot summary: Melinda Sordino starts her first year of high school as an outcast for calling the cops at an end of…

  • Shadow of the Wind

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    By Carlos Ruiz Zafón; translated by Lucia Graves Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Penguin Books, c2001, 2004, 2005 Genres: General fiction, historical fiction, mystery, romance, suspense ISBN: 9780143034902 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 487 Setting: Barcelona, Spain Time period: 1945-1966 (although some events occur prior to 1945) Plot summary: As a boy, Daniel…

  • Skullcrack

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    By Ben Bo Place: Publisher & Year: Minneapolis: Lerner Sports, 2000 Genres: General fiction, adventure, paranormal ISBN: 9780822533085 Intended audience: Young adult Number of pages: 159 (161 including Editor’s Note) Setting: Mulligan, Ireland (County Sligo) and Storm Island, Florida (near Cape Canaveral) Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: Jonah Ebbers has one good thing in his…

  • Precious: Based on the novel Push

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    By Sapphire Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Vintage Contemporaries, c1996, 1997, 2009 Genres: General fiction, urban lit, street lit ISBN: 9780307474841 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 177 (180 including Reader’s Guide) Setting: Harlem, Manhattan, NYC Time period: 1987 – 1989 Plot summary: Sixteen year old, Precious Jones lives an extremely hard life.  Born…

  • Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction

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    By Luis Alberto Urrea Place: Publisher & Year: El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 2002 Genres: Short stories, general fiction, magical realism ISBN: 9780938317630 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 146 (includes an afterword) Settings: Range from Rosario to the outskirts of the city dump in Tijuana, Mexico and various locations in the US, including the…

  • Little Brother

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    By Cory Doctorow Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Tor, c2008, 2010 Genres: Science fiction, general fiction ISBN: 9780765323118 Intended audience: Young adult Number of pages: 416 – includes 2 afterwards, a bibliography, acknowledgements, and excerpts from For the Win.  The story is 365 pages. Setting: San Francisco, CA and the Bay area Time period:…

  • Water Witches

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    By Chris Bohjalian Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Simon & Schuster, c1995, 1997 Genre: General fiction, eco-fiction Series: Hardscrabble Books –fiction of New England published by University Press of New England ISBN: 9780684826127 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 340 Setting: Central Vermont Time period: mid 1990s Plot summary: Scott Winston works as a…