Author: Al DiOrio
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Little Girl Lost
Author: Al DiOrio
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Before We Were Yours
Author: Lisa Wingate
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0425284697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—Over two million copies sold! A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller “Poignant, engrossing.”—People • “Lisa Wingate takes an almost unthinkable chapter in our nation’s history and weaves a tale of enduring power.”—Paula McLain Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility’s cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty. Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family’s long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption. Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country—Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong. Publishers Weekly’s #3 Longest-Running Bestseller of 2017 • Winner of the Southern Book Prize • If All Arkansas Read the Same Book Selection This edition includes a new essay by the author about shantyboat life.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0425284697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—Over two million copies sold! A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller “Poignant, engrossing.”—People • “Lisa Wingate takes an almost unthinkable chapter in our nation’s history and weaves a tale of enduring power.”—Paula McLain Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility’s cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty. Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family’s long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption. Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country—Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong. Publishers Weekly’s #3 Longest-Running Bestseller of 2017 • Winner of the Southern Book Prize • If All Arkansas Read the Same Book Selection This edition includes a new essay by the author about shantyboat life.
The Girl in the Red Boots
Author: Judith Ruskay Rabinor, PhD
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1647420415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Can a mother be both loving and selfish? Caring and thoughtless? Deceitful and devoted? These are the questions that fuel psychologist Dr. Judy Rabinor’s quest to understand her ambivalence toward her mother. While leading a seminar exploring the importance of the mother-daughter relationship, Dr. Judy Rabinor, an eating disorder expert, is blindsided by a memory of a childhood trauma. Realizing how this buried trauma has resonated through her life, she sets off to heal herself. The Girl in the Red Boots weaves together tales from Rabinor’s psychotherapy practice and her life, helping readers understand how painful childhood experiences can linger and leave emotional scars. In the process, Rabinor traces her own journey becoming a wounded healer and ultimately making peace with her mother, and herself. Not a traditional self-help book outlining “steps” to reconcile or forgive one’s mother, The Girl in the Red Boots is a poignant memoir filled with hard-won life lessons, including the fact that it’s never too late to let go of hurts and disappointments and develop compassion for yourself—and even for your mother.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1647420415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Can a mother be both loving and selfish? Caring and thoughtless? Deceitful and devoted? These are the questions that fuel psychologist Dr. Judy Rabinor’s quest to understand her ambivalence toward her mother. While leading a seminar exploring the importance of the mother-daughter relationship, Dr. Judy Rabinor, an eating disorder expert, is blindsided by a memory of a childhood trauma. Realizing how this buried trauma has resonated through her life, she sets off to heal herself. The Girl in the Red Boots weaves together tales from Rabinor’s psychotherapy practice and her life, helping readers understand how painful childhood experiences can linger and leave emotional scars. In the process, Rabinor traces her own journey becoming a wounded healer and ultimately making peace with her mother, and herself. Not a traditional self-help book outlining “steps” to reconcile or forgive one’s mother, The Girl in the Red Boots is a poignant memoir filled with hard-won life lessons, including the fact that it’s never too late to let go of hurts and disappointments and develop compassion for yourself—and even for your mother.
The Book that Made Me
Author: Judith Ridge
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763696714
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763696714
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.
Little Girl Lost
Author: Barbie Probert-Wright
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473517958
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Two sisters. A broken childhood. A heartbreaking journey. The extraordinary true story of surviving the unimaginable ... In 1945, seven-year-old Barbie and her sister Eva were trapped, terrified, in wartorn Germany. With their father missing, and hundreds of miles from their mother, news of the approaching army left them confronted with an impossible choice: to face invasion, or to flee on foot. Eva, aged nineteen, was determined to find her mother. For Barbie, twelve years younger, the journey was to be more perilous but, spurred on by her sister's courage and her desperate desire to be reunited with her mother, she joined Eva on a journey no child should ever have to endure. Over three hundred miles across a country ravaged by a terrible war, they encountered unimaginable hardship, extraordinary courage and overwhelming generosity. Against all the odds, they survived. But neither sister came out of the journey unscathed ...
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473517958
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Two sisters. A broken childhood. A heartbreaking journey. The extraordinary true story of surviving the unimaginable ... In 1945, seven-year-old Barbie and her sister Eva were trapped, terrified, in wartorn Germany. With their father missing, and hundreds of miles from their mother, news of the approaching army left them confronted with an impossible choice: to face invasion, or to flee on foot. Eva, aged nineteen, was determined to find her mother. For Barbie, twelve years younger, the journey was to be more perilous but, spurred on by her sister's courage and her desperate desire to be reunited with her mother, she joined Eva on a journey no child should ever have to endure. Over three hundred miles across a country ravaged by a terrible war, they encountered unimaginable hardship, extraordinary courage and overwhelming generosity. Against all the odds, they survived. But neither sister came out of the journey unscathed ...
Whose Little Girl are You?
Author: Bethany Campbell
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553576917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A woman looking for her biological mother puts herself in danger.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553576917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A woman looking for her biological mother puts herself in danger.
A Little Girl After God's Own Heart
Author: Elizabeth George
Publisher: Harvest Kids
ISBN: 9780736915458
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now the principles of Elizabeth George's bestselling A Woman After God's Own Heart (more than 730,000 copies sold) are shared in sweet poetry for little girls. Teaming up once again with popular artist Judy Luenebrink (God's Wisdom for Little Girls) Elizabeth George shares the gift of pursing a heart filled with: love gentleness faithfulness kindness and goodness joy and peace With charming paintings and easy-to-learn rhymes, this is the perfect way to give a little girl the gift of knowing God and His love for her.
Publisher: Harvest Kids
ISBN: 9780736915458
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now the principles of Elizabeth George's bestselling A Woman After God's Own Heart (more than 730,000 copies sold) are shared in sweet poetry for little girls. Teaming up once again with popular artist Judy Luenebrink (God's Wisdom for Little Girls) Elizabeth George shares the gift of pursing a heart filled with: love gentleness faithfulness kindness and goodness joy and peace With charming paintings and easy-to-learn rhymes, this is the perfect way to give a little girl the gift of knowing God and His love for her.
Deenie
Author: Judy Blume
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481410377
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Originally published by Bradbury Press in 1973.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481410377
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Originally published by Bradbury Press in 1973.
The Old Girls' Network
Author: Judy Leigh
Publisher: Boldwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1838895647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
From MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Judy Leigh 'Brimming with warmth, humour and a love of life... a wonderful escapade’ Fiona Gibson It's never too late to change... After a health scare, 77 year-old spinster Barbara goes to convalesce in the sleepy picture-perfect English country village of Winsley Green with her sister Pauline. The sisters are chalk and cheese - Barbara, outspoken and aloof and Pauline, good natured and homely – so it’s not long before the tension starts to rise. When Pauline accidentally knocks down a vagrant called Bisto Mulligan, the ladies find themselves with another houseguest. As he recovers, it becomes apparent that Bisto is not who he first seemed and, as the sisters get to know the kind and courageous man he really is, it’s clear Bisto could change both of their lives. As the spring turns to summer, and the English countryside comes to life, can the three friends make the changes they need to, to embrace fresh starts, new loves, new journeys and new horizons. Or do old habits die too hard? Funny, joyful and with a spring in its step that reminds you to live every day like it’s your last. Bestselling author Judy Leigh has once again written the perfect feel-good novel for all fans of Jennifer Bohnet, Rebecca Raisin and Cathy Hopkins. Praise for Judy Leigh: ‘Brilliantly funny, emotional and uplifting’ Miranda Dickinson 'Lovely . . . a book that assures that life is far from over at seventy' Cathy Hopkins 'Judy’s done it again. Every woman over a certain age should read this wonderful book' Jennifer Bohnet The story’s simply wonderful, the theme of second chances will resonate whatever your age, there’s something for everyone among the characters, and I do defy anyone not to have a tear in their eye at the perfect ending' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 'With brilliant characters and hilarious antics, this is definitely a cosy read you'll not want to miss' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 'A great feel-good and fun story that made me laugh and root for the characters' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review
Publisher: Boldwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1838895647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
From MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Judy Leigh 'Brimming with warmth, humour and a love of life... a wonderful escapade’ Fiona Gibson It's never too late to change... After a health scare, 77 year-old spinster Barbara goes to convalesce in the sleepy picture-perfect English country village of Winsley Green with her sister Pauline. The sisters are chalk and cheese - Barbara, outspoken and aloof and Pauline, good natured and homely – so it’s not long before the tension starts to rise. When Pauline accidentally knocks down a vagrant called Bisto Mulligan, the ladies find themselves with another houseguest. As he recovers, it becomes apparent that Bisto is not who he first seemed and, as the sisters get to know the kind and courageous man he really is, it’s clear Bisto could change both of their lives. As the spring turns to summer, and the English countryside comes to life, can the three friends make the changes they need to, to embrace fresh starts, new loves, new journeys and new horizons. Or do old habits die too hard? Funny, joyful and with a spring in its step that reminds you to live every day like it’s your last. Bestselling author Judy Leigh has once again written the perfect feel-good novel for all fans of Jennifer Bohnet, Rebecca Raisin and Cathy Hopkins. Praise for Judy Leigh: ‘Brilliantly funny, emotional and uplifting’ Miranda Dickinson 'Lovely . . . a book that assures that life is far from over at seventy' Cathy Hopkins 'Judy’s done it again. Every woman over a certain age should read this wonderful book' Jennifer Bohnet The story’s simply wonderful, the theme of second chances will resonate whatever your age, there’s something for everyone among the characters, and I do defy anyone not to have a tear in their eye at the perfect ending' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 'With brilliant characters and hilarious antics, this is definitely a cosy read you'll not want to miss' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review 'A great feel-good and fun story that made me laugh and root for the characters' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reader Review
A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg
Author: Amanda Minnie Douglas
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
"A Little Girl in Old Pittsburgh" by Amanda M. Douglas is a captivating historical novel that transports readers to the bustling streets of early Pittsburgh. Set against the backdrop of one of America's industrial hubs, the story follows the life and adventures of a young protagonist as she navigates the challenges and wonders of her time. The title, "A Little Girl in Old Pittsburgh," hints at a narrative that offers a unique glimpse into the daily life and experiences of a child growing up in the early days of Pittsburgh's history. Through the eyes of the young protagonist, readers are introduced to a world of bustling markets, riverfront industries, and a vibrant tapestry of characters from various walks of life. The narrative skillfully weaves together historical authenticity and engaging storytelling. As the little girl explores her surroundings and interacts with a diverse array of individuals, readers gain insight into the customs, traditions, and aspirations that defined Pittsburgh during its formative years. The author's meticulous attention to detail brings to life the sights, sounds, and challenges of urban industrial living. At its core, "A Little Girl in Old Pittsburgh" delves into the personal growth and development of the young protagonist. Through her relationships and experiences, readers witness her journey of self-discovery and maturation. The novel explores themes of perseverance, friendship, identity, and the pursuit of dreams against the backdrop of Pittsburgh's evolving landscape. The historical setting adds depth and resonance to the narrative, enabling readers to experience the pivotal events and transformations that shaped the trajectory of early Pittsburgh. From encounters with workers and merchants to witnessing key moments in the city's history, the novel provides insight into the significant milestones that marked Pittsburgh's growth. Douglas' writing style is both eloquent and accessible, making the story appealing to readers of various ages. Her storytelling prowess and descriptive prose vividly evoke the setting and characters, immersing readers in the world of early Pittsburgh. In conclusion, "A Little Girl in Old Pittsburgh" is a captivating historical novel that offers a charming journey into the early history of a significant American city. Through the perspective of its young protagonist, the book provides a rich exploration of history, culture, and personal growth. With its engaging narrative and historical depth, the novel invites readers to step back in time and experience the joys and challenges of life in early Pittsburgh.
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
"A Little Girl in Old Pittsburgh" by Amanda M. Douglas is a captivating historical novel that transports readers to the bustling streets of early Pittsburgh. Set against the backdrop of one of America's industrial hubs, the story follows the life and adventures of a young protagonist as she navigates the challenges and wonders of her time. The title, "A Little Girl in Old Pittsburgh," hints at a narrative that offers a unique glimpse into the daily life and experiences of a child growing up in the early days of Pittsburgh's history. Through the eyes of the young protagonist, readers are introduced to a world of bustling markets, riverfront industries, and a vibrant tapestry of characters from various walks of life. The narrative skillfully weaves together historical authenticity and engaging storytelling. As the little girl explores her surroundings and interacts with a diverse array of individuals, readers gain insight into the customs, traditions, and aspirations that defined Pittsburgh during its formative years. The author's meticulous attention to detail brings to life the sights, sounds, and challenges of urban industrial living. At its core, "A Little Girl in Old Pittsburgh" delves into the personal growth and development of the young protagonist. Through her relationships and experiences, readers witness her journey of self-discovery and maturation. The novel explores themes of perseverance, friendship, identity, and the pursuit of dreams against the backdrop of Pittsburgh's evolving landscape. The historical setting adds depth and resonance to the narrative, enabling readers to experience the pivotal events and transformations that shaped the trajectory of early Pittsburgh. From encounters with workers and merchants to witnessing key moments in the city's history, the novel provides insight into the significant milestones that marked Pittsburgh's growth. Douglas' writing style is both eloquent and accessible, making the story appealing to readers of various ages. Her storytelling prowess and descriptive prose vividly evoke the setting and characters, immersing readers in the world of early Pittsburgh. In conclusion, "A Little Girl in Old Pittsburgh" is a captivating historical novel that offers a charming journey into the early history of a significant American city. Through the perspective of its young protagonist, the book provides a rich exploration of history, culture, and personal growth. With its engaging narrative and historical depth, the novel invites readers to step back in time and experience the joys and challenges of life in early Pittsburgh.