Epistolary Fiction | Overton High

61) The perks of being a wallflower

Author

Chbosky, Stephen

Series

Thorndike Press large print striving reader collection

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A coming of age novel about Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. He deals with the usual teen problems, but also with the suicide of his best friend. A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. It's a story of what it's like...

62) Last Tang standing

Author

Ho, Lauren

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"At thirty-three, Andrea Tang is living the dream: She has a successful career as a lawyer, a posh condo, and a clutch of fun-loving friends who are always in the know about Singapore's hottest clubs and restaurants. All she has to do is make partner at her law firm and she will have achieved everything she's worked for. And if she's about to become the lone unmarried member of her generation in the Tang clan--a disappointment her meddling Chinese-Malaysian...

63) I capture the castle

Author

Smith, Dodie

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Cassandra and her family live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has "captured the castle"--and the heart of the...

64) The turn of the key

Author

Ware, Ruth

Series

Thorndike Press large print core

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by...

65) This is how you lose the time war

Author

El-Mohtar, Amal

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"Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future...

66) clara callan

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67) The sympathizer

Author

Nguyen, Viet Thanh

Series

Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice

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It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong....

68) Possession : a romance

Author

Byatt, A.S

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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. “Gorgeously written … A tour de force.” —The New York Times Book Review

Winner of England’s Booker Prize and a literary sensation, Possession traces...

69) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Author

Barrows, Annie

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In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.

70) 84, Charing Cross Road

Author

Hanff, Helene

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A journal depicting the relationship between a sassy New York writer, Helene Hanff and the people of a prim, stodgily English bookshop.

71) Pretty little liars

Author

Shepard, Sara

Series

Pretty little liars volume 1

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When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.

72) Dracula

Author

Stoker , Bram

Series

Mackin classics

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Overview: The punctured throat, the coffin lid slowly opening, the unholy shriek as the stake pierces the heart-these are just a few of the chilling images Bram Stoker unleashed upon the world with his 1897 masterpiece, Dracula. Inspired by the folk legend of nosferatu, the undead, Stoker created a timeless tale of gothic horror and romance that has enthralled and terrified readers ever since. A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended...

73) 13 little blue envelopes

Author

Johnson, Maureen

Series

Little blue envelopes volume 1

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When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.

74) I wanna iguana

Author

Orloff, Karen Kaufman

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Alex and his mother write notes back and forth in which Alex tries to persuade her to let him have a baby iguana for a pet.

75) Unusual chickens for the exceptional poultry farmer

Author

Jones, Kelly

Series

Unusual chickens volume 1

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Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her family's move to her Great Uncle Jim's farm, where she begins taking care of some unusual chickens with help from neighbors and friends.

76) Yours truly, Goldilocks

Author

Ada, Alma Flor

Series

Hidden Forest series volume 2

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Presents the correspondence of Goldilocks, the three pigs, Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit, and Little Red Riding Hood as they plan to attend a housewarming party for the pigs and avoid the evil wolves in the forest.

77) P.S. Be eleven

Author

Williams-Garcia, Rita

Series

Gaither sisters volume 2

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The Gaither sisters return to Brooklyn, where they adapt to new feelings of independence while managing changes large and small, from Pa's new girlfriend to a very different Uncle Darnell's return from Vietnam.

78) Stink and the incredible super-galactic jawbreaker

Author

McDonald, Megan

Series

Stink Moody volume 2

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Seven-year-old Stink Moody discovers that he can get free samples by writing letters to candy companies and plans a surprise for his best friend's birthday.

79) To Night Owl from Dogfish

Author

Sloan, Holly Goldberg

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Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, two girls, age eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up. Told entirely through letters, emails and text messages.

80) Dear Mrs. LaRue: letters from obedience school

Author

Teague, Mark

Series

Dear Mrs. LaRue volume 1

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Gertrude LaRue receives typewritten and paw-written letters from her dog Ike, entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy and come back home.