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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"Scandal has derailed Journalist Kitty Logan's career, a setback that is soon compounded by an even more devastating loss. Constance, the woman who taught Kitty everything she knew, is dying. At her mentor's bedside, Kitty asks her, "What is the one story you always wanted to write?" The answer lies in a single sheet of paper buried in Constance's office--a list of 100 names--with no notes or explanation. But before Kitty can talk to her friend, it...
13) The name jar
Author
Language
English
Description
After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In The sweetest sound, Alan Berliner (the filmmaker from New York) is tired of being mistaken for people who might share his name and decideds to rid himself of the dreaded same name syndrome. His solution: invite all the Alan Berliners in the world over to his house for dinner. In the end Berliner leaves us with a greater sense of the power and magic embedded in a name, and how all of our identities are inescapably shaped by what we call ourselves....
16) Thunder Boy Jr
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An exuberant work of popular history: the story of how streets got their names and houses their numbers, and why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or enforce power. When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won't get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created...
18) My name
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When his name is mispronounced, leading to laughter in the classroom, an Indian American boy is reminded by his parents how special he is and how his unique name reflects that.
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Series
Franny K. Stein, mad scientist volume 4
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 4
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume Bk. 4
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 4
Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume Bk. 4
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When Franny's principal announces her full name at a ceremony, everyone bursts out laughing. So she decides to go back in time and change her name. However, Franny ends up having to face her evil self in a fourth-dimensional battle of the minds. Full color.
When her embarrassing middle name is revealed at school, mad scientist Franny K. Stein experiments with time in order to return to the past and give herself a more dignified name.
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