Cheri by Jo Ann BeardRequirements: .ePUB reader, 0.2 MbOverview: Cheri has been living with cancer for many years. Now, she is dying. As she navigates the final weeks of her life, and takes charge of the manner of her death, she is flooded with childhood memories, and returns to the present with a renewed appreciation […]
Festival Days by Jo Ann BeardRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.2 MBOverview: When “The Fourth State of Matter,” her now famous piece about a workplace massacre at the University of Iowa was published in The New Yorker, Jo Ann Beard immediately became one of the most influential writers in America, forging a path for a new generation […]
Festival Days by Jo Ann BeardRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.2 MBOverview: When “The Fourth State of Matter,” her now famous piece about a workplace massacre at the University of Iowa was published in The New Yorker, Jo Ann Beard immediately became one of the most influential writers in America, forging a path for a new generation […]
In Zanesville: A Novel by Jo Ann Beard (Author, Narrator)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 249 MBOverview: The 14-year-old narrator of In Zanesville is a late bloomer. She flies under the radar – a sidekick, a marching-band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose eureka moment is the discovery that “fudge” can’t be said with an […]
The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann BeardRequirements: .epub reader 454 KBOverview: In thirteen personal narratives — so evocative and emotionally resonant that the New Yorker showcased one in their fiction issue — a compelling new writer summons up a lifetime of romantic awakening and disillusion.Growing up in a tightly knit clan of mothers, […]