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1996

Format:	Book
Author:	Sparks, Nicholas, author.
Title:	The notebook / Nicholas Sparks.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Warner Books, [1996]
Copyright Date	©1996
Description:	214 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:	In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories, until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once more. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all.
Audience	850L Lexile
Notes:	Accelerated Reader Middle Grade 5.5 8.0 West Rusk Jr. High. Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.5 8.0 34771. Reading Counts RC High School 6.3 13 Quiz: 36863 Guided reading level: NR. Accelerated Reader UG 5.5 8 34771
Subjects:	Oral reading -- Fiction. Older people -- Fiction. North Carolina -- Fiction. North Carolina -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre:	Romance fiction. Fiction. Romance fiction.
Web Site:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description
LCCN:	96033815
ISBN:	0446520802 9780446520805 0446676098 9780446676090
Other Number:	34321554
System Availability:	26
Current Holds:	0
Control Number:	134600

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Nicholas Sparks is the author of twenty-four books, all of which have been New York Times bestsellers. His books have been published across more than fifty languages with over 150 million copies sold worldwide, and eleven have been adapted into films. He is also the founder of the Nicholas Sparks Foundation, a nonprofit committed to improving cultural and international understanding through global education experiences. He lives in North Carolina.

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