Ava Dellaira

It all started when the literature teacher gave the assignment to write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain. After the first letter, she cannot stop. She writes to Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison, Heath Ledger, and other famous people. She never hands in a single one. She uses this correspondence to communicate her feelings, fears, problems, and, most importantly the issues surrounding her sister's death. This unforgettable novel is told completely in letter form.

Cartas de Amor a Los Muertos

It begins as an assignment for English class: write a letter to a dead person - any dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain - he died young, and so did Laurel's sister May - so maybe he'll understand a bit of what Laurel is going through. Soon Laurel is writing letters to lots of dead people - Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, River Phoenix, Amelia Earhart ... it's like she can't stop. And she'd certainly never dream of handing them in to her teacher.

Love Letters to the Dead

The gorgeous, warm-hearted new novel from Ava Dellaira, the author of the critically acclaimed LOVE LETTERS TO THE DEAD. Because the missing pieces always matter . . . Marilyn is in search of freedom. She grew up as a child actor, her mother's meal ticket out of mediocrity. But it's been a long time since she booked a job, and she and her mother have no choice but to move in with her volatile uncle. Marilyn is counting down the days until she can escape to college, and the promise of her own future. That is, until she falls in love with James, the boy downstairs, who shows her that her life is worth living in the present. At 17, Marilyn is about to learn that everything can change in an instant. Angie is in search of answers. She is mixed race and has never met her father, but she knows she looks and thinks a lot like him. Though Angie grew up with her devoted mother, Marilyn, she's always felt the absence of the man she never knew. But after discovering that her mother has been lying to her, Angie sets off on a road trip to Los Angeles, in search of an unknown uncle - and maybe even her dad. At 17, she hopes to finally find out the truth about where she came from so she can discover who she truly is. Told from the perspective of these two young women, Marilyn's in the late 90s, and Angie's today, IN SEARCH OF US is a sweeping inter-generational story about mothers and daughters, love and loss, holding on and letting go.

In Search Of Us

Tudo começou com um projeto para a aula de inglês: escrever uma carta para alguém que já morreu. Logo o caderno de Laurel está repleto de cartas a pessoas como Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin e Heath Ledger. Ela escreve sobre seu primeiro ano no Ensino Médio e os problemas de sua família, despedaçada depois da morte de sua irmã. Prestes a começar o ensino médio, Laurel decide mudar de escola para não ter que encarar as pessoas comentando sobre a morte de sua irmã mais velha, May. A rotina no novo colégio não está fácil, e, para completar, a professora de inglês passa uma tarefa nada usual: escrever uma carta para alguém que já morreu. Laurel começa a escrever em seu caderno várias mensagens para Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Elizabeth Bishop... sem nunca entregá-las à professora. Nessas cartas, ela analisa a história de cada uma dessas personalidades e tenta desvendar os mistérios que envolvem suas mortes. Ao mesmo tempo, conta sua própria vida, como as amizades no novo colégio e seu primeiro amor: um garoto misterioso chamado Sky. Mas Laurel não pode escapar de seu passado. Só quando ela escrever a verdade sobre o que se passou com ela e com a irmã é que poderá aceitar o que aconteceu e perdoar May e a si mesma. E só quando enxergar a irmã como realmente era - encantadora e incrível, mas imperfeita como qualquer um - é que poderá seguir em frente e descobrir seu próprio caminho.

Cartas de amor aos mortos

Postacı Kapıyı Çalmayacak

Liefdesbrieven aan de sterren / druk 1

Bizi Ariyorum

Tout a commencé par une lettre... Une simple rédaction demandée par un prof : écrire à un disparu. Laurel a choisi Kurt Cobain, parce que sa grande soeur May l'adorait. Et qu'il est mort jeune, comme May. Si elle ne rend jamais son devoir, très vite le carnet de Laurel se remplit de lettres à Amy Winehouse, Heath Ledger... A ces confidents inattendus, elle raconte sa première année de lycée, sa famille décomposée, ses nouveaux amis, son premier amour. Mais avant d'écrire à la seule disparue qui lui tient vraiment à coeur, Laurel devra se confronter au secret qui la tourmente et faire face à ce qui s'est vraiment passé la nuit où May est décédée.

Love letters to the dead

Auf der Suche nach dem Kolibri

Noi siamo grandi come la vita

When Marilyn was just 17, she fell in love with James, Angie's father. The only thing Marilyn can tell her daughter without bursting into tears is that he died before she was born. At 17, Angie finds a photograph that makes her need to know what really happened to her dad. She decides to follow the only clue she has: her uncle's name. She is not sure how the search for her identity will actually end.

Quienes Soliamos Ser

en roman

Kærlighedsbreve til de døde

Em seu novo romance arrebatador, a autora de Cartas de amor aos mortos apresenta uma mãe e uma filha que precisam compreender o passado para poder seguir em frente. Quando tinha dezessete anos, Marilyn viveu um amor intenso, mas acabou seguindo seu próprio caminho e criando uma filha sozinha. Angie, por sua vez, é mestiça e sempre quis saber mais sobre a família do pai e sua ascendência negra, mas tudo o que sua mãe contou foi que ele morreu num acidente de carro antes de ela nascer. Quando Angie descobre indícios de que seu pai pode estar vivo, ela viaja para Los Angeles atrás de seu paradeiro, acompanhada de seu ex-namorado, Sam. Em sua busca, Angie vai descobrir mais sobre sua mãe, sobre o que aconteceu com seu pai e, principalmente, sobre si mesma.

Aos dezessete anos

Includes- (6) copies of IN SEARCH OF (9780374305314)- (3) copies of LOVE LETTERS TO THE DEAD (9781250062963)

Ava Dellaira 9-Copy Mixed Floor Display

Collection includes two annotated typescripts and six galley proofs of Ava Dellaira's young adult novel, Love Letters to the Dead. The first typescript includes editorial notes from Joy Peskin and the second typescript includes annotiations from the author. The galley proofs contain editorial annotations.

Ava Dellaira Typescript and Galley Proofs of Love Letters to the Dead

Download the first five chapters of LOVE LETTERS TO THE DEAD by Ava Dellaira. It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more-though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. This luminous debut novel has garnered exhuberant pre-publication praise from Laurie Halse Anderson, Jay Asher, Gayle Forman, and Lauren Myracle, and foreign rights have sold to six countries.

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