epistolary fiction

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epistolary fiction

Frankenstein

the original 1818 text
2021
Young scientist Victor Frankenstein, grief-stricken over the death of his mother, sets out in a series of laboratory experiments testing the ability to create life from non-living matter. Soon, his experiments progress further until he creates a humanoid creature eight feet tall. But as Frankenstein soon discovers, a successful experiment does not always equal a positive outcome.

Always, Clementine

2024
"Clementine is different from other mice: she can calculate the speed of light and she dreams in Latin. The scientists say she's a genius and put her through test after test. Clementine is proud of being a good lab mouse, but she's lonely. Her only snatches of friendship occur during her late-night visits with a chimpanzee named Rosie. When a compassionate lab technician frees Clementine, the mouse discovers an outside world full of wonders: Brussels sprouts, games of speed chess, television fame, and a chance for a real home. But for Clementine, it's not enough to be free when she knows that Rosie and the other mice are not. This tender, lively adventure story, narrated in letters from a mouse to a chimpanzee, shows us that goodness is something we have to define for ourselves--and that courage and wisdom aren't proportionate to size"--Provided by publisher.

Yours from the tower

2024
"In 1896, three best friends--Tirzah, Sophia and Polly--who are leading very different lives after boarding school--share their dreams, hopes, frustrations and romances through a series of letters as they search for happiness and love near the dawn of the Edwardian era"--Provided by publisher.
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P.S. I miss you

2023
"Evie is heartbroken when her strict Catholic parents send her pregnant older sister, Cilla, away to stay with a distant great-aunt. All Evie wants is for her sister to come back. Forbidden from speaking to Cilla, Evie secretly sends her letters. Evie writes about her family, torn apart and hurting. She writes about her life, lonely without Cilla. And she writes about the new girl in school, June, who becomes her friend, and then maybe more than a friend. . . . Evie could really use some advice from her big sister. She sends letter after letter. But Cilla isn't writing back"--Provided by publisher.
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Dear Mr. G

2023
"A child forms a friendship with an elderly neighbor in a series of letters"--Provided by publisher.

The Wright sister

a novel
2020
Presents a fictionalized collection of letters written by Katharine Wright to her reclusive brother Orville Wright.

Love, Jacaranda

2021
"[A] romance about a teen whisked off by an anonymous benefactor to a prestigious boarding school for the arts in Michigan. Sixteen-year-old Jacaranda Abbott has spent years moving between foster homes due to her mother's imprisonment for attempted murder of an abusive boyfriend. When a video of Jacaranda singing at the Miami Publix supermarket at which she works goes viral, it changes the course of her life. The admission essay she writes to Midwestern Arts Academy sets up the details of this story, giving way to a long series of confessional, heartfelt, and unanswered emails directed to Mr. Smith, as she dubs the mystery man responsible for the fairy-tale scenario now playing out"--Kirkus Reviews.

Is this your class pet?

2022
Arfy the letter writing dog helps Hidey, a pet turtle on the loose, get back to her classroom.

Cover story

a novel
Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, and encourages her to drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter. But as Lora is drawn into Cat's glamorous lifestyle, Cat's perfect exterior cracks, exposing an illicit, shady world.

Someone is missing!

2022
"Through a series of letters, snobby cat Simon and good-natured dog Baxter team up--sort of--to find Andy's missing school pet Louie, the leopard gecko"--OCLC.

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