Author: Anne Tyler
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ISBN: 9781407064758
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Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Back When We Were Grownups Kindle
Author: Anne Tyler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407064758
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407064758
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Back When We Were Grownups
Author: Anne Tyler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143196340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel. The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone else’s? On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation—something she slipped into even before finishing college, when Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family’s crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was the family business. What caught his fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time. Soon this large-spirited older man, a divorcé with three little girls, swept her into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family plus a child of their own, and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms of The Open Arms. Now, some thirty years later, after presiding over a disastrous family picnic, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it—how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been—is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel. As always with Anne Tyler’s novels, once we enter her world it is hard to leave. But in Back When We Were Grownups she so sharpens our perceptions and awakens so many untapped feelings that we come away not only refreshed and delighted, but also infinitely wiser.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143196340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel. The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone else’s? On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation—something she slipped into even before finishing college, when Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family’s crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was the family business. What caught his fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time. Soon this large-spirited older man, a divorcé with three little girls, swept her into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family plus a child of their own, and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms of The Open Arms. Now, some thirty years later, after presiding over a disastrous family picnic, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it—how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been—is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel. As always with Anne Tyler’s novels, once we enter her world it is hard to leave. But in Back When We Were Grownups she so sharpens our perceptions and awakens so many untapped feelings that we come away not only refreshed and delighted, but also infinitely wiser.
Back when We Were Grownups
Author: Anne Tyler
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Category : Widows
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Widows
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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S'more Secrets: Sleepover Stories Told in Darkness: Volume 3: For Grown-Ups
Author: William A. Stricklin
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1645304345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
S'more Secrets: Sleepover Stories Told in Darkness: Volume 3: For Grown-Ups By: William A. Stricklin William A. Stricklin’s three volume series S’more Secrets preserves legendary tales and ghost stories he has told in darkness for over half a century. He has told these stories to children in the Cook Islands who called him Tusitala, to his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and sleepover friends. Throughout his travels worldwide, children have been enthralled by his fanciful spooky tales told in darkness around the campfire while toasting and eating s'mores. His favorite of these stories are right inside.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1645304345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
S'more Secrets: Sleepover Stories Told in Darkness: Volume 3: For Grown-Ups By: William A. Stricklin William A. Stricklin’s three volume series S’more Secrets preserves legendary tales and ghost stories he has told in darkness for over half a century. He has told these stories to children in the Cook Islands who called him Tusitala, to his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and sleepover friends. Throughout his travels worldwide, children have been enthralled by his fanciful spooky tales told in darkness around the campfire while toasting and eating s'mores. His favorite of these stories are right inside.
Messages from Children ... and What They Can Teach Grown-Ups
Author: Kathleen O'Malley DC
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452570779
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
"... and a little child shall lead them" Early one Sunday morning, my daughter was cutting and pasting from a magazine as part of her second-grade homework assignment. She was singing, making up the words as she went along. She really caught my attention as she sang the words, "I'm doing what I was born to do." "What a beautiful song," I said. "So what were you born to do?" She paused for just a brief moment, then looked at me with a grin and said, "To be a kid." How do we stop fighting for our survival and get back to thriving? How do we return to that sense of knowing that all of our needs will be met? How do we restore that inborn trust, natural wonder, sense of joy and peace? How do we step unto our true path and come to know that for which we were made? According to Dr. Kathleen O'Malley, the answers lie in Messages from Children ... and What They Can Teach Grown-ups. It is a collection of eighty-eight timely and powerful messages for self-healing, personal growth and leading a more meaningful existence. It shows us how to power up our intuitive sense, pay attention to what really matters, and cultivate our creative energies. It serves as a reminder that every person is an expression of divine love and a gift to this world.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1452570779
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
"... and a little child shall lead them" Early one Sunday morning, my daughter was cutting and pasting from a magazine as part of her second-grade homework assignment. She was singing, making up the words as she went along. She really caught my attention as she sang the words, "I'm doing what I was born to do." "What a beautiful song," I said. "So what were you born to do?" She paused for just a brief moment, then looked at me with a grin and said, "To be a kid." How do we stop fighting for our survival and get back to thriving? How do we return to that sense of knowing that all of our needs will be met? How do we restore that inborn trust, natural wonder, sense of joy and peace? How do we step unto our true path and come to know that for which we were made? According to Dr. Kathleen O'Malley, the answers lie in Messages from Children ... and What They Can Teach Grown-ups. It is a collection of eighty-eight timely and powerful messages for self-healing, personal growth and leading a more meaningful existence. It shows us how to power up our intuitive sense, pay attention to what really matters, and cultivate our creative energies. It serves as a reminder that every person is an expression of divine love and a gift to this world.
Interior
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1582
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Everygirl's Magazine ...
Author: Rowe Wright
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The Interior
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Issues for Jan 12, 1888-Jan. 1889 include monthly "Magazine supplement".
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Issues for Jan 12, 1888-Jan. 1889 include monthly "Magazine supplement".
In the Country of the Young
Author: Daniel Stern
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480444146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
DIVDIV“An important and rewarding collection.” —Houston Chronicle/divDIV The short stories from In the Country of the Young feature characters struggling to find hope and connection—or just escape—through art, work, and love. The title story, a moving account of an angst-ridden seventeen-year-old nearly overwhelmed by his family’s aspirations for him, is a paean to the brief moment when the promise of youth and selfhood are untarnished by the disenchantments of life. In “Foxx Hunting,” a widower travels to LA to find a porn actress, though the movie he saw her in was shot decades earlier. “Lunch with Gottlieb” captures a young man of ambition hunting for the legendary advertising genius Gottlieb, lost in the jungles of business lunch./divDIV Garnering comparisons to the work of Bernard Malamud and Saul Bellow, the stories of In the Country of the Young are written with the rare empathy and skill of a short fiction master./div/div
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480444146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
DIVDIV“An important and rewarding collection.” —Houston Chronicle/divDIV The short stories from In the Country of the Young feature characters struggling to find hope and connection—or just escape—through art, work, and love. The title story, a moving account of an angst-ridden seventeen-year-old nearly overwhelmed by his family’s aspirations for him, is a paean to the brief moment when the promise of youth and selfhood are untarnished by the disenchantments of life. In “Foxx Hunting,” a widower travels to LA to find a porn actress, though the movie he saw her in was shot decades earlier. “Lunch with Gottlieb” captures a young man of ambition hunting for the legendary advertising genius Gottlieb, lost in the jungles of business lunch./divDIV Garnering comparisons to the work of Bernard Malamud and Saul Bellow, the stories of In the Country of the Young are written with the rare empathy and skill of a short fiction master./div/div
A Braid of Lives
Author: Neil Philip
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395645284
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Weaves the testimony of many Native Americans into a single narrative of childhood and growing up.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395645284
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Weaves the testimony of many Native Americans into a single narrative of childhood and growing up.