Author: Elinor Lipman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439122040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug's bed is covered with sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. Unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted, Harriet has fled Manhattan for Isabel's loudly elegant Cape Cod retreat, where she will ghostwrite The Isabel Krug Story, based on the sexy blond's scandalous tabloid past. Unusually "talented" in the man department ("I give lessons"), Isabel revamps and inspires Harriet as they gear up to tell all, including the tangled history Isabel shares with her odd lodger, Costas. Life according to Isabel is a nonstop soap opera extravaganza, an experience to be swallowed whole -- and the attitude is catching....
Author: Elinor Lipman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671881610
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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When author Harriet Mahoney accepts the task of ghostwriting a starlet's autobiography she begins an inner journey of discovery which enables her to begin a new life.
Author: Salley Mavor
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618737405
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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An illustrated collection of sixty-four traditional nursery rhymes.
Author: Kimberly Willis Holt
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805063615
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679763880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY “A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth.”—John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal “What she’s done with these oral histories is stow memory in amber.”—Lynell George, Los Angeles Times WINNER: The Mark Lynton History Prize • The Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize • The Hurston-Wright Award for Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Debut • Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize FINALIST: The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Dayton Literary Peace Prize ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • USA Today • Publishers Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • Salon • Newsday • The Daily Beast ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker • The Washington Post • The Economist •Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Entertainment Weekly • Philadelphia Inquirer • The Guardian • The Seattle Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Christian Science Monitor In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life, from World War I to 1970. Wilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecropper’s wife, who in 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of making it in California. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World. The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is a modern classic.
Author: Joanne Meier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781622431519
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The book offers a fun way for new readers to master the sound of short i. The book tells a simple, entertaining story that highlights the sound of short i. Controlled vocabulary, engaging text and colorful illustrations help young readers begin a lifelong love of reading.
Author: Margaret Ashmun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Author: Lisa Silverthorne
Publisher: Elusive Blue Fiction
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Magical sea glass A century-old abandoned inn Two drowned lovers. Murdered, says the bride’s ghost. A heartbroken charter boat captain and a haunted boating accident survivor become unwilling partners when they investigate an abandoned, hundred-year-old inn and two ghostly lovers—forever separated. Before a curse unleashes retribution and a deadly storm throughout the Pacific Northwest archipelago…and they lose each other in the maelstrom.
Author: Isabel Paterson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Author: M.V. Byrne
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
ISBN: 1496728327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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“Fans of Garrison Keillor’s tales of Lake Wobegon will be enchanted.” —Publishers Weekly The only thing widow Isabel Puddles loves as much as her hometown of Gull Harbor on the shores of Lake Michigan is cozying up to a good mystery—but she never expected to be caught in the middle of one . . . To the tourists and summer residents, Kentwater County is a picturesque community of small-town charm, fruitful farmland, and gorgeous freshwater beaches. To middle-aged widow Isabel Puddles, it’s where she enjoys breakfast every morning at a local café with her childhood best friend and spends her evenings cozying up with a good book and her devoted Jack Terrier, Jackpot. In between, Isabel makes ends meet through a variety of trades—preserving pickles, baking pies, working the counter at her cousin’s hardware shop, and occasionally helping “fix-up” the hair of corpses at the local funeral parlor. When Isabel discovers a two-inch nail embedded in the skull of Earl Jonasson, it seems the octogenarian may not have died of a stroke. His son is quickly arrested when his alibi doesn’t check out. But Isabel has known Earl Jr. since they were kids and can’t believe he’d murder his own father, regardless of his financial difficulties. As gossip about Earl Sr.’s land and insurance policy money starts to spread around the county, Isabel finds herself conducting her own investigation to clear her friend’s name. But real detective work isn’t like what she sees on TV, and she’s meeting dangerous suspects who don’t like Isabel poking around in their business . . .
