Madeline L’Engle, adapted and illus. by Hope Larson. FSG/Ferguson, $19.99 (392p) ISBN 978-0-374-38615-3
L’Engle’s Newbery Medal–winning 1962 novel of good, evil, and quantum physics gets a stellar (no pun intended) graphic novel treatment from Eisner-winner Larson (Mercury). Larson’s loose, modern drawing style focuses on the characters, largely...
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Illus. by Michelle Jing Chan. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-374-39083-9
Personal characteristics that are sometimes seen as vulnerabilities prove valuable in moments of adversity, hints this work inspired by a memorable line from Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time: “ ‘Stay angry, little Meg,’ Mrs. Whatsit whispered. ‘
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author Laurel Leaf Library $5.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-440-20814-3
The characters from A House Like a Lotus return in what PW called ``a rich and heady brew . . . fine fantasy, firmly rooted in reality.'' Ages 10-up. (Dec.)
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-18989-1
Red hair acts as a red flag in this haunting domestic drama, signaling an end to secrecy in the far-flung Xanthakos family. When flame-haired college student Raffi Xanthakos demands to know if professor Camilla Dickinson is really her grandmother,...
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $21 (351p) ISBN 978-0-374-12025-2
``Marrying was a habit with me, a bad habit,'' David Wheaton declares from his deathbed in this disappointing novel by the Newbery Award-winning CK author of A Wrinkle in Time . As the 87-year-old actor's boat plies the waters of the Pacific...
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author . WaterBrook/Shaw $13.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-87788-079-0
"That was a strange thought: God, who is all power, gave away power!" Thus L'Engle encapsulates what she calls the "mystery" of God's incarnation in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. In what is part spiritual autobiography and
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-30027-2
For this time-slip novel, L'Engle again reaches into her bag of weird and wonderful knowledge, blending snippets of tantalizing information from a variety of disciplines--history, natural history, physics and Christian metaphysics, to name a few--int
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-37783-0
Vicky Austin, the poetry-writing heroine of four of the Newbery Medalist's previous novels, finds herself caught in a web of political intrigue in this exotic, multilayered thriller. The high school junior is overjoyed when given the opportunity to...
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-28020-8
Since her debut with The Small Rain in 1945, L'Engle has continued to write critically acclaimed books for adults and young readers, including a Newbery Medal-winner, A Wrinkle in Time. But this story of her marriage surpasses her best work so far....
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $16.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-374-33870-1
Written in the late '40s but not taken on by L'Engle's agent, this posthumously published novel is more artifact than timeless story. As such, it will primarily interest readers who want to know more about the author of the...
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author, Carole F. Chase, With HarperOne $18 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-065280-7
This excellent resource for daily meditation has the distinct advantage of being composed of excerpts chosen from one of the most graceful and profound writers working today. Compiler Chase, with the author's assistance, has chosen superbly from L'En
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author, Roxie Munro, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $15.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-58717-040-9
HReaders raised on L'Engle's thoughtful novels (A Wrinkle in Time) will discover a new side of the writer in this impish, tongue-in-cheek memoir. Ostensibly the L'Engle family poodle's account of the arrival of a new baby (whom she thinks an odd...
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author, Maggi-Meg Reed, Read by , read by Maggi-Meg Reed. Macmillian Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0464-6
Written by the late L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time
) in the 1940s and never before published, this romantic coming-of-age story will immediately draw in listeners. Twenty-year-old Liz Gerard has wanted to be an actress for as long as she can...
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author, Leif Enger, Foreword by Shaw Books $14.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-87788-631-0
According to these latest musings from L'Engle, rock hopper penguins, family values, holy days and actresses have something in common. Each can become an icon or an idol. A trip to the Antarctic and an opportunity to observe playful penguins in...
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author, Maria Rooney, Author, Maria Rooney, Photographer Shaw Books $19.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-87788-561-0
L'Engle, a noted author of children's books (A Wrinkle in Time) and of her own memoirs (The Summer of the Great-Grandmother), collaborates with her adopted daughter, Rooney, on this homage to the relationship between mothers and daughters. Rooney...
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Madeleine L’Engle, read by Hope Davis. Listening Library, unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $25 ISBN 978-0-307-91657-0
Hope Davis narrates this engaging new audio production of L’Engle’s classic novel. When the troubled and underachieving Meg Murry’s physicist father goes missing, Meg—along with her younger brother, Charles, and friend Calvin—warps across the...
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Madeleine L'Engle, Author, Giotto Di Bondone, Illustrator, Giotto, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $24.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-671-68690-1
Illustrated with frescoes by Giotto from the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, this lavishly produced picture book about the life of Christ is an interesting combination of coffee-table art book and genial sermon. Expanding upon religious views introduced...
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Madeleine L’Engle. Grand Central, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5387-1782-0
While L’Engle (1918–2007) is best known for her 1963 Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time, her work stretched across genres, as seen with this illuminating collection of mostly previously unpublished material. Organized chronologically by her...
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