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Aug 5, 2021 · Laura Kalpakian is the author of thirteen novels and four collections of short fiction. Kalpakian is the winner of an NEA Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, the Anahid Award for an American writer of Armenian descent, the PEN West Award, and the Stand International Short Fiction Competition.
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Sep 5, 2006 · Laura Kalpakian. 3.60. 117 ratings30 reviews. Animated as a family reunion, intimate as a lovers' picnic, American Cookery serves up tradition and innovation in a family novel based on the joy of cooking. The story is complete with twenty-seven recipes from the life and tumultuous times of Eden Douglass. Eden was born in 1920 into a contentious ...
About the Author. Laura Kalpakian has won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, the Anahid Award for an American writer of Armenian descent, the PEN West Award, and the Stand International Short Fiction Competition. She has had residencies at the Virginia Center for the ...
Jan 1, 1995 · Laura Kalpakian, Victor Hugo. 3.26. 325 ratings45 reviews. Millions have shared the unforgettable story of the waif Cosette, adopted daughter of Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. Now the tale of Cosette continues in this sweeping, exhilarating epic that interweaves its own galaxy of characters and narrative with real events and ...
In the novella Lavee Lagair Lamore Lamaird, Ephraim Judd, a family man with a prosperous gold mine living in a remote California desert, engages a Miss Savage to act as governess to his four daughters. Of mysterious origins Miss Savage treats the family with unspoken contempt while she instructs the Judd girls to keep their minds on Higher Things.
Apr 12, 1987 · Laura Kalpakian is the internationally published author of twenty works of fiction, some under names other than her own. She has also published four collections of short fiction. In 2021 first nonfiction books appeared.
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Jan 1, 2002 · In Educating Waverly, local author Laura Kalpakian delivers an incredibly well-written, engaging tale of student Waverly Scott, her cohorts and teachers at the Temple School. Banished to the school on the remote island of Isadora in the Puget Sound, Scott comes of age amidst a cast of eclectic but lovable characters.
