Colette and the Silver Samovar

Colette and the Silver Samovar PDF Author: Nancy Belgue
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554693217
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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Colette's family is torn apart by events and attitudes she cannot control, but she is determined to find a way to mend the rifts that threaten to destroy the people she loves.

Colette and the Silver Samovar

Colette and the Silver Samovar PDF Author: Nancy Belgue
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1554693217
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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Colette's family is torn apart by events and attitudes she cannot control, but she is determined to find a way to mend the rifts that threaten to destroy the people she loves.

August

August PDF Author: Gerard Woodward
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393332711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award, "August" is the life of a family through 15 summer trips to Wales. This unforgettable first novel revels in nostalgia for post-war England.

The Publishers Weekly

The Publishers Weekly PDF Author:
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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The Astrov Inheritance

The Astrov Inheritance PDF Author: Constance Heaven
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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The Astrov Legacy

The Astrov Legacy PDF Author: Constance Heaven
Publisher: Coward McCann
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Sophie Weston goes to Russia to visit her sister Rilla and falls in love with Prince Leonid, the Astrov heir, to the opposition of his family. She finds her love for the Prince brings back memories of a violent past that promises to destroy two families. Together, then Leonid and she battle the enmity of both families and uncover the mystery that stands between them.

Casey Little, Yo-Yo Queen

Casey Little, Yo-Yo Queen PDF Author: Nancy Belgue
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1551433575
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Casey will have to do a lot of pet-sitting to earn the money she needs to buy Lightning, a beloved horse. Her hopes of buying Lightning are dashed when she learns that his owner has found a buyer and must sell the horse immediately. Across the street from Casey's house a mystery unfolds as a seldom-seen woman who seems to be able to read minds prepares to host a carnival and a yo-yo contest that boasts a $1500 prize. Casey's yo-yo is buried in her closet. She has a great talent and a greater case of stage fright.

The Scream of the Hawk

The Scream of the Hawk PDF Author: Nancy Belgue
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1551432579
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Lissa is unhappy with her mother's move to Ontario and now she has to look after a strange boy who keeps a hawk in a cage down by the lake.

Joy of Cooking

Joy of Cooking PDF Author: Irma S. Rombauer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0026045702
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 896

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An illustrated cooking book with hundreds of recipes.

The Mark of the Beast

The Mark of the Beast PDF Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486143244
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Seventeen of the author's best tales, compiled for the first time in one volume, range from comic ghost stories ("Haunted Subalterns") to grim tales of psychological terror ("The Wandering Jew").

Fierce Attachments

Fierce Attachments PDF Author: Vivian Gornick
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466819006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the prinicpal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. These women with their opposing models of femininity continue, well into adulthood, to affect Gornick's struggle to find herself in love and in work. As Gornick walks with her aged mother through the streets of New York, arguing and remembering the past, each wins the reader's admiration: the caustic and clear-thinking daughter, for her courage and tenacity in really talking to her mother about the most basic issues of their lives, and the still powerful and intuitively-wise old woman, who again and again proves herself her daughter's mother. Unsparing, deeply courageous, Fierce Attachments is one of the most remarkable documents of family feeling that has been written, a classic that helped start the memoir boom and remains one of the most moving examples of the genre.