Author: Veronica Picone
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781492304425
Category : Abandoned children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Spanning half a century and crossing the globe to New York, Colombia, Italy and Las Vegas, Tesoro traces the challenges Veronica Picone faces as a daughter excluded by her family for thirty years. Just seventeen when she is ordered to leave home, Picone is thrust into the social and political upheaval of 1960's New York with no place to belong. Through her eyes we experience the world of a woman who moves through decades forging a life and career, living within miles of the family that won't have her. When Alzheimer's erases her mother's grudge, their delicate reunion begins, unearthing a shocking secret kept from Picone since birth. Working against time, she chooses to become her mother's caretaker and rebuild connections with her fractured family."--
Tesoro
Author: Veronica Picone
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781492304425
Category : Abandoned children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Spanning half a century and crossing the globe to New York, Colombia, Italy and Las Vegas, Tesoro traces the challenges Veronica Picone faces as a daughter excluded by her family for thirty years. Just seventeen when she is ordered to leave home, Picone is thrust into the social and political upheaval of 1960's New York with no place to belong. Through her eyes we experience the world of a woman who moves through decades forging a life and career, living within miles of the family that won't have her. When Alzheimer's erases her mother's grudge, their delicate reunion begins, unearthing a shocking secret kept from Picone since birth. Working against time, she chooses to become her mother's caretaker and rebuild connections with her fractured family."--
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781492304425
Category : Abandoned children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Spanning half a century and crossing the globe to New York, Colombia, Italy and Las Vegas, Tesoro traces the challenges Veronica Picone faces as a daughter excluded by her family for thirty years. Just seventeen when she is ordered to leave home, Picone is thrust into the social and political upheaval of 1960's New York with no place to belong. Through her eyes we experience the world of a woman who moves through decades forging a life and career, living within miles of the family that won't have her. When Alzheimer's erases her mother's grudge, their delicate reunion begins, unearthing a shocking secret kept from Picone since birth. Working against time, she chooses to become her mother's caretaker and rebuild connections with her fractured family."--
Daughter from the Dark
Author: Marina Dyachenko
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062916238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra—a "dark Harry Potter on steroids with a hefty dose of metaphysics" (award-winning author Aliette de Bodard)—return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy. Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave. A game of cat-and-mouse has begun. Claiming that she is a musical prodigy, Alyona insists she must play a complicated violin piece to find her brother. Confused and wary, Aspirin knows one thing: he wants her out of his apartment and his life. Yet every attempt to get rid of her is thwarted by an unusual protector: her plush teddy bear that may just transform into a fearsome monster. Alyona tells Aspirin that if he would just allow her do her work, she’ll leave him—and this world. He can then return to the shallow life he led before her. But as outside forces begin to coalesce, threatening to finally separate them, Aspirin makes a startling discovery about himself and this ethereal, eerie child.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062916238
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra—a "dark Harry Potter on steroids with a hefty dose of metaphysics" (award-winning author Aliette de Bodard)—return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy. Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave. A game of cat-and-mouse has begun. Claiming that she is a musical prodigy, Alyona insists she must play a complicated violin piece to find her brother. Confused and wary, Aspirin knows one thing: he wants her out of his apartment and his life. Yet every attempt to get rid of her is thwarted by an unusual protector: her plush teddy bear that may just transform into a fearsome monster. Alyona tells Aspirin that if he would just allow her do her work, she’ll leave him—and this world. He can then return to the shallow life he led before her. But as outside forces begin to coalesce, threatening to finally separate them, Aspirin makes a startling discovery about himself and this ethereal, eerie child.
The House of Discarded Dreams
Author: Ekaterina Sedia
Publisher: Prime Books
ISBN: 9781607012283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Trying to escape her embarrassing immigrant mother, Vimbai moves into a dilapidated house in the dunes... and discovers that one of her new roommates has a pocket universe instead of hair, there's a psychic energy baby living in the telephone wires, and her dead Zimbabwean grandmother is doing dishes in the kitchen. When the house gets lost at sea and creatures of African urban legends all but take it over, Vimbai turns to horseshoe crabs in the ocean to ask for their help in getting home to New Jersey.
Publisher: Prime Books
ISBN: 9781607012283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Trying to escape her embarrassing immigrant mother, Vimbai moves into a dilapidated house in the dunes... and discovers that one of her new roommates has a pocket universe instead of hair, there's a psychic energy baby living in the telephone wires, and her dead Zimbabwean grandmother is doing dishes in the kitchen. When the house gets lost at sea and creatures of African urban legends all but take it over, Vimbai turns to horseshoe crabs in the ocean to ask for their help in getting home to New Jersey.
The Lost Heiress
Author: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fathers and daughters
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The story of a heroine rescued by her father from a domineering suitor.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fathers and daughters
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The story of a heroine rescued by her father from a domineering suitor.
Nisei Daughter
Author: Monica Itoi Sone
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295956886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A Japanese-American's personal account of growing up in Seattle in the 1930s and of being subjected to relocation during World War II.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295956886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A Japanese-American's personal account of growing up in Seattle in the 1930s and of being subjected to relocation during World War II.
The Wife's Victory
Author: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Discarded Daughter - Omnibus Edition
Author: Shana Granderson A Lady
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
All 4 books in the Discarded Daughter series are combined into a single book. They are available individually, if you prefer paperback. The story is about the life of Elizabeth Bennet who is kidnapped and discarded at an exceedingly early age. It tells the tale of her life with the family that takes her in and loved her as a true daughter. We follow not only Elizbeth's life, her trials and tribulations, but that of the family that lost her and all of those around her, immediate and extended family, and the effect that she has on their lives. There is love, villains, hurt, and happiness as we watch Elizabeth grow into an exceptional young woman. If you are looking for a story that only concentrates on our heroine, then this is not for you.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
All 4 books in the Discarded Daughter series are combined into a single book. They are available individually, if you prefer paperback. The story is about the life of Elizabeth Bennet who is kidnapped and discarded at an exceedingly early age. It tells the tale of her life with the family that takes her in and loved her as a true daughter. We follow not only Elizbeth's life, her trials and tribulations, but that of the family that lost her and all of those around her, immediate and extended family, and the effect that she has on their lives. There is love, villains, hurt, and happiness as we watch Elizabeth grow into an exceptional young woman. If you are looking for a story that only concentrates on our heroine, then this is not for you.
The Hidden Hand
Author: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitt Southworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Daughter of No Worlds
Author: Carissa Broadbent
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998461939
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998461939
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter
Author: Hazel Gaynor
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006269863X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. “They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.” 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with his brushes, she in turn captures his heart. 1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. She is to stay with Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her baby is born. A discarded, half-finished portrait opens a window into Matilda’s family history. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, living a century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of courage and love.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006269863X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. “They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.” 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with his brushes, she in turn captures his heart. 1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. She is to stay with Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her baby is born. A discarded, half-finished portrait opens a window into Matilda’s family history. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, living a century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of courage and love.