Author: Gabrielle Halberstam
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330450539
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
When Rifke runs away from home on a train out of Johannesburg, she ends up in the middle of nowhere with no way to return for a month, and must stay with the mysterious and unwelcoming van Niel family on their farm.
The Red Dress
Author: Gabrielle Halberstam
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330450539
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
When Rifke runs away from home on a train out of Johannesburg, she ends up in the middle of nowhere with no way to return for a month, and must stay with the mysterious and unwelcoming van Niel family on their farm.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330450539
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
When Rifke runs away from home on a train out of Johannesburg, she ends up in the middle of nowhere with no way to return for a month, and must stay with the mysterious and unwelcoming van Niel family on their farm.
The Woman in the Red Dress
Author: Minrose Gwin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252027321
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Graceful and impassioned, The Woman in the Red Dress offers important new approaches to narratives about father-daughter incest as well as stories that contaminate the myth of home as a safe space and map a geography of sexual violence, victimization, and survival. Gwin situates her analysis of fiction such as Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina, and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres within contemporary debates concerning survivor discourse, theories of domestic space, and issues of race and class. She also explores books - such as Hulme's The Bone People - that enter a murky and liminal queer space in which gender itself travels and the most claustrophic physical and social spaces can unexpectedly unhinge and open.".
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252027321
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Graceful and impassioned, The Woman in the Red Dress offers important new approaches to narratives about father-daughter incest as well as stories that contaminate the myth of home as a safe space and map a geography of sexual violence, victimization, and survival. Gwin situates her analysis of fiction such as Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina, and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres within contemporary debates concerning survivor discourse, theories of domestic space, and issues of race and class. She also explores books - such as Hulme's The Bone People - that enter a murky and liminal queer space in which gender itself travels and the most claustrophic physical and social spaces can unexpectedly unhinge and open.".
I Am a Red Dress
Author: Anna Camilleri
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 9781551521633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A collection of essays about identity: gender, culture, class, and sexuality.
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 9781551521633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A collection of essays about identity: gender, culture, class, and sexuality.
The Boy in the Red Dress
Author: Kristin Lambert
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593113691
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp of truth, lies, and troubled pasts. New Year's Eve, 1929. Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town. The new year is just around the corner, and all of New Orleans is out to celebrate, but even wealthy partiers' diamond earrings can't outshine the real star of the night: the boy in the red dress. Marion is the club's star performer and his fans are legion--if mostly underground. When a young socialite wielding a photograph of Marion starts asking questions, Millie wonders if she's just another fan. But then her body is found crumpled in the courtyard, dead from an apparent fall off the club's balcony, and all signs point to Marion as the murderer. Millie knows he's innocent, but local detectives aren't so easily convinced. As she chases clues that lead to cemeteries and dead ends, Millie's attention is divided between the wry and beautiful Olive, a waitress at the Cloak & Dagger, and Bennie, the charming bootlegger who's offered to help her solve the case. The clock is ticking for the fugitive Marion, but the truth of who the killer is might be closer than Millie thinks.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593113691
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp of truth, lies, and troubled pasts. New Year's Eve, 1929. Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town. The new year is just around the corner, and all of New Orleans is out to celebrate, but even wealthy partiers' diamond earrings can't outshine the real star of the night: the boy in the red dress. Marion is the club's star performer and his fans are legion--if mostly underground. When a young socialite wielding a photograph of Marion starts asking questions, Millie wonders if she's just another fan. But then her body is found crumpled in the courtyard, dead from an apparent fall off the club's balcony, and all signs point to Marion as the murderer. Millie knows he's innocent, but local detectives aren't so easily convinced. As she chases clues that lead to cemeteries and dead ends, Millie's attention is divided between the wry and beautiful Olive, a waitress at the Cloak & Dagger, and Bennie, the charming bootlegger who's offered to help her solve the case. The clock is ticking for the fugitive Marion, but the truth of who the killer is might be closer than Millie thinks.
Mary Wore Her Red Dress, and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers
Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780899197012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"In this adaptation of a Texas folk song, the illustrations show the story of Katy Bear's birthday party, while the repetitive verses are a catalog of what the guests wore. . . . The pictures pick up color as the guests arrive and the activities get livelier. To further focus attention on color, the words are printed in boxed insets of the appropriate hue. . . . The music-a simple, singable tune-is printed at the end. The subject and the highly predictable pattern of text have appeal for just-beginning readers as well as for preschool listeners and singers."-Language Arts
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780899197012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
"In this adaptation of a Texas folk song, the illustrations show the story of Katy Bear's birthday party, while the repetitive verses are a catalog of what the guests wore. . . . The pictures pick up color as the guests arrive and the activities get livelier. To further focus attention on color, the words are printed in boxed insets of the appropriate hue. . . . The music-a simple, singable tune-is printed at the end. The subject and the highly predictable pattern of text have appeal for just-beginning readers as well as for preschool listeners and singers."-Language Arts
Devil in the Red Dress
Author: Abigail Rieley
Publisher: Maverick House
ISBN: 1908518448
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Ireland has been gripped by the story of a housewife from County Clare who, when her millionaire partner refused to marry her, googled a hitman and arranged to have him killed. Over the course of almost two months, the story of Lyingeyes and Hire_hitman unfolded in a flurry of emails. The website, hitmanforhire.net might have looked amateurish and carried a disclaimer but it attracted serious interest. One person who was interested was Sharon Collins, the ‘devil in the red dress’. Desperate to get her hands on a share of her partner's fortune, she took drastic action. She turned to Google to solve her problem. A Mexican marriage certificate was obtained but wasn’t enough. On 8 August 2006, she contacted hitmanforhire.net and started to arrange the hit. This is one of the most bizarre stories to ever appear before an Irish court. Filled with intrigue, betrayal, sex, money and would-be murder, it has all the ingredients for a best-selling thriller. This book will prove to its readers that truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction.
Publisher: Maverick House
ISBN: 1908518448
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Ireland has been gripped by the story of a housewife from County Clare who, when her millionaire partner refused to marry her, googled a hitman and arranged to have him killed. Over the course of almost two months, the story of Lyingeyes and Hire_hitman unfolded in a flurry of emails. The website, hitmanforhire.net might have looked amateurish and carried a disclaimer but it attracted serious interest. One person who was interested was Sharon Collins, the ‘devil in the red dress’. Desperate to get her hands on a share of her partner's fortune, she took drastic action. She turned to Google to solve her problem. A Mexican marriage certificate was obtained but wasn’t enough. On 8 August 2006, she contacted hitmanforhire.net and started to arrange the hit. This is one of the most bizarre stories to ever appear before an Irish court. Filled with intrigue, betrayal, sex, money and would-be murder, it has all the ingredients for a best-selling thriller. This book will prove to its readers that truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction.
Danger in a Red Dress
Author: Christina Dodd
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101019581
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Home care nurse Hannah Grey is dedicated to her patient, an aging widow still tainted by the financial scandal her late husband perpetrated. She makes Hannah promise that upon her death, she?ll right the family?s wrongs, and gives Hannah her offshore account?s access codes. But Carrick Manly will do anything to discover where his family?s fortunes lie? including kill his own mother. Fearing for her life, and desperate not to betray the widow, Hannah flees. And when Carrick?s half-brother, Gabriel, tracks her down in Houston, Hannah must trust her own instincts?and her heart?to survive.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101019581
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Home care nurse Hannah Grey is dedicated to her patient, an aging widow still tainted by the financial scandal her late husband perpetrated. She makes Hannah promise that upon her death, she?ll right the family?s wrongs, and gives Hannah her offshore account?s access codes. But Carrick Manly will do anything to discover where his family?s fortunes lie? including kill his own mother. Fearing for her life, and desperate not to betray the widow, Hannah flees. And when Carrick?s half-brother, Gabriel, tracks her down in Houston, Hannah must trust her own instincts?and her heart?to survive.
Red Dress in Black and White
Author: Elliot Ackerman
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525521828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
From the widely acclaimed author of Waiting for Eden: a stirring, timely new novel that unfolds over the course of a single day in Istanbul: the story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey--to leave without her husband. Catherine has been married for many years to Murat, an influential Turkish real estate developer, and they have a young son together, William. But when she decides to leave her marriage and return home to the United States with William and her photographer lover, Murat determines to take a stand. He enlists the help of an American diplomat to prevent his wife and child from leaving the country--but, by inviting this scrutiny into their private lives, Murat becomes only further enmeshed in a web of deception and corruption. As the hidden architecture of these relationships is gradually exposed, we learn the true nature of a cast of struggling artists, wealthy businessmen, expats, spies, a child pulled in different directions by his parents, and, ultimately, a society in crisis. Riveting and unforgettably perceptive, Red Dress in Black and White is a novel of personal and political intrigue that casts light into the shadowy corners of a nation on the brink.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525521828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
From the widely acclaimed author of Waiting for Eden: a stirring, timely new novel that unfolds over the course of a single day in Istanbul: the story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey--to leave without her husband. Catherine has been married for many years to Murat, an influential Turkish real estate developer, and they have a young son together, William. But when she decides to leave her marriage and return home to the United States with William and her photographer lover, Murat determines to take a stand. He enlists the help of an American diplomat to prevent his wife and child from leaving the country--but, by inviting this scrutiny into their private lives, Murat becomes only further enmeshed in a web of deception and corruption. As the hidden architecture of these relationships is gradually exposed, we learn the true nature of a cast of struggling artists, wealthy businessmen, expats, spies, a child pulled in different directions by his parents, and, ultimately, a society in crisis. Riveting and unforgettably perceptive, Red Dress in Black and White is a novel of personal and political intrigue that casts light into the shadowy corners of a nation on the brink.
I Wish I Had a Red Dress
Author: Pearl Cleage
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0380804883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Since Joyce Mitchell was widowed five years ago, she's kept herself occupied by running the Sewing Circus, an all-girl group she founded to provide badly needed services to young women at risk, many of whom are single mothers. But some nights, home alone, she has to admit that something is missing. And soon she may not even have the Sewing Circus to fill up her life, as the state legislature has decided not to fund the group. Feeling defeated and pessimistic, Joyce reluctantly agrees to dinner at the home of her best friend, Sister, and finds not only a perfect meal but a tall, dark stranger named Nate Anderson. His unexpected presence touches a chord in Joyce that she thought her heart had forgotten how to play. Suddenly, Joyce feels ready to grab a sexy red dress and the life that goes with it . . . if she can keep her girls safe from the forces—useless boyfriends and government agencies—alike against them.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0380804883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Since Joyce Mitchell was widowed five years ago, she's kept herself occupied by running the Sewing Circus, an all-girl group she founded to provide badly needed services to young women at risk, many of whom are single mothers. But some nights, home alone, she has to admit that something is missing. And soon she may not even have the Sewing Circus to fill up her life, as the state legislature has decided not to fund the group. Feeling defeated and pessimistic, Joyce reluctantly agrees to dinner at the home of her best friend, Sister, and finds not only a perfect meal but a tall, dark stranger named Nate Anderson. His unexpected presence touches a chord in Joyce that she thought her heart had forgotten how to play. Suddenly, Joyce feels ready to grab a sexy red dress and the life that goes with it . . . if she can keep her girls safe from the forces—useless boyfriends and government agencies—alike against them.
The Girl in the Red Dress
Author: Elaine Chong
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9780244578312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
When Lenora Oakley wakes up in a hospital bed, she remembers falling down the stairs. She remembers the fleeting glance of a red dress. But did she trip or was she pushed? Only Lenora knows and she won't tell because she's frightened that no one will believe her. 'The Girl in the Red Dress' is a contemporary ghost story with a chilling twist.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9780244578312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
When Lenora Oakley wakes up in a hospital bed, she remembers falling down the stairs. She remembers the fleeting glance of a red dress. But did she trip or was she pushed? Only Lenora knows and she won't tell because she's frightened that no one will believe her. 'The Girl in the Red Dress' is a contemporary ghost story with a chilling twist.