Reena and Other Stories

Reena and Other Stories
Author: Paule Marshall
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1983
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780935312249

   This collection of Paule Marshall's short works illustrates the growth of a remarkable writer. For the first time these stories, long out of print or difficult to obtain, appear together in a single volume. Introducing the volume is Marshall's much acclaimed autobiographical essay, "From the Poets in the Kitchen" from the New York Times Book Review's series called "The Making of a Writer." This collection included newly written autobiographical headnotes to each story and "Merle," a novella excerpted from Marshall's 1969 novel, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People , and extensively reshaped and rewritten for this collection. It stands as an independent story about one of the most memorable women in contemporary fiction.

Under the Bridge

Under the Bridge
Author: Rebecca Godfrey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1439184119

*Now a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, and Archie Panjabi!* “A swift, harrowing classic perfect for these unnerving times.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home. In this “tour de force of crime reportage” (Kirkus Reviews), acclaimed author Rebecca Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls—and boy—accused of a savage murder. As she follows the investigation and trials, Godfrey reveals the startling truth about the unlikely killers. Laced with lyricism and insight, Under the Bridge is an unforgettable look at a haunting modern tragedy.

Reena Spaulings

Reena Spaulings
Author: Bernadette Corporation
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Reena Spaulings is a collectively-authored novel set in present-day New York."--Bernadette Corporation website.

How to Love

How to Love
Author: Katie Cotugno
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062216376

For fans of Sarah Dessen and John Green, this is a breathtaking debut about a couple who fall in love...twice. Before: Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember. But he's never noticed that Reena even exists...until one day, impossibly, he does. Reena and Sawyer fall in messy, complicated love. Then Sawyer disappears without a word, leaving a devastated—and pregnant—Reena behind. After: Almost three years have passed, and there's a new love in Reena's life: her daughter. Reena's gotten used to life without Sawyer, but just as suddenly as he disappeared, he turns up again. Reena wants nothing to do with him, though she'd be lying if she said his being back wasn't stirring something in her. After everything that's happened, can Reena really let herself love Sawyer LeGrande again?

Praisesong for the Widow

Praisesong for the Widow
Author: Paule Marshall
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1984-04-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0452267110

From the acclaimed author of Daughters and Brown Girl, Brownstones comes a “work of exceptional wisdom, maturity, and generosity, one in which the palpable humanity of its characters transcends any considerations of race or sex”(Washington Post Book World). Avey Johnson—a black, middle-aged, middle-class widow given to hats, gloves, and pearls—has long since put behind her the Harlem of her childhood. Then on a cruise to the Caribbean with two friends, inspired by a troubling dream, she senses her life beginning to unravel—and in a panic packs her bag in the middle of the night and abandons her friends at the next port of call. The unexpected and beautiful adventure that follows provides Avey with the links to the culture and history she has so long disavowed. “Astonishingly moving.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review

Reena's Rainbow

Reena's Rainbow
Author: Dee White
Publisher: EK Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781925335491

In this story, Reena is deaf, and Dog is homeless, but they are also so much more than that. At first Reena and Dog feel like they don’t belong, but when they form a unique bond of friendship with the children in the park, they discover that everyone is different in their own special ways. Reena’s Rainbow is about friendship, diversity, and acceptance. It sends the message that true friends will always accept your differences and love you just the way you are.

Moo

Moo
Author: Sharon Creech
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2021-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1913101266

The story of a two children displaced from the city and forced to adapt to a new home and all the challenges that this brings (including a menagerie of animals), from a multi-award-winning author.

Brown Girl, Brownstones

Brown Girl, Brownstones
Author: Paule Marshall
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0486118606

Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this 1953 coming-of-age novel centers on the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. "Passionate, compelling." — Saturday Review. "Remarkable for its courage." — The New Yorker.

Triangular Road

Triangular Road
Author: Paule Marshall
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1458765520

InTriangular Road, famed novelist Paule Marshall tells the story of her years as a fledgling young writer in the 1960s. A memoir of self-discovery, it also offers an affectionate tribute to the inimitable Langston Hughes, who entered Marshall’s life during a crucial phase and introduced her to the world of European letters during a whirlwind tour of the continent funded by the State Department. In the course of her journeys to Europe, Barbados, and eventually Africa, Marshall comes to comprehend the historical enormity of the African diaspora, an understanding that fortifies her sense of purpose as a writer.In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Paule Marshall offers an indelible portrait of a young black woman coming of age as a novelist in a literary world dominated by white men.