Author: Mary Greenleaf Darling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: Julie Schumacher
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385737734
Category : Book clubs (Discussion groups)
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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When four very different small-town Delaware high school girls are forced to join a mother-daughter book club over summer vacation, they end up learning about more than just the books they read.

Author: Gwen Tarbox
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317776038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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The author provides an interdisciplinary cultural study of the evolution of Progressive-era girls' peer groups, their representation in popular girls' fiction, and the influence of these communities, both real and fictional, upon young women's lives during the years leading up to the Second World War. The writers featured in this volume were the first generation of New Women, whose ability to enter traditionally male spaces such as the college campus, the playing field, the wilderness, and the office was facilitated by their membership in women's clubs, political and religious organizations, and athletic teams. Eager to promote the idea that same-sex group activities would lead to female empowerment, these clubwomen targeted young girls as their intended audience and developed an idealized fictional portrait of female cooperation that girls could replicate in their own lives. By adding to our knowledge of girls' cultural history, the author gives voice to a segment of the population that was, and still is, at the center of society's debates concerning the appropriate roles for girls and women. Authors discussed include Louisa May Alcott, Emma Dunham Kelley, Laura Lee Hope (psuedonym for Lilian Garis), Carolyn Keene (pseudonym for Mildred Wirt Benson), and Margaret Sutton.

Author: Julia Alvarez
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616200987
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is "poignant...powerful... Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." (The New York Times Book Review) Julia Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father’s role in an attempt to overthrow brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. Here they tell their stories about being at home—and not at home—in America. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "A clear-eyed look at the insecurity and yearning for a sense of belonging that are a part of the immigrant experience . . . Movingly told." —The Washington Post Book World

Author: Susan Rothstein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401139695
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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This volume covers a broad spectrum of research into the role of events in grammar. It addresses event arguments and thematic argument structure, the role of events in verbal aspectual distinctions, events and the distinction between stage and individual level predicates, and the role of events in the analysis of plurality and scope relations. It is of interest to scholars and students of theoretical linguistics, philosophers of language, computational linguists, and computer scientists.

Author: Adeline Trafton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732633942
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Reproduction of the original: An Americal Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton

Author: Sarah Domet
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250086612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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"In the vein of The Virgin Suicides, a dazzling debut novel about four girls inexplicably named Guinevere, all left by their parents to be raised by nuns"--

Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Author: Doris Miller
Publisher: Hill Publications
ISBN: 0966205553
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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DIANE D In The Headlines is the 2nd book of the DIANE D Series. It involves headline and article scandals, sniper shootings, highway shootings, drunk driving arrests, weapons possession charges, fist fights, attacks, highway car chasings, motorcycle chasings, paralyzes, miscarriages, abortions, mental illness, split personality disorders, eerie spirit possessions and superhuman strength. It also involves Diane D and her deranged and dangerous cousin Dana, of DANGEROUS DANA A Suspense Thriller, being tossed and thrown behind bars together! Diane D and her cousin Dana are in jail for illegal weapons possession charges. Their lawyer is on the phone talking to Diane D. While he is talking to Diane D, he overhears Dana in the background hollering, cursing and swearing about him calling him every name in the book after he fails to get them bail! After the lawyer overhears Dana belittling him, he turns to Diane D and Dana’s family and threatens to quit and walk out on their case telling Diane D‘s family that he will represent Diane D, but not Dana! Diane D and Dana’s Grandfather Mike will not hear of it! He has a fit and tells the lawyer to either represent both Diane D and Dana or represent none of them! This story also involves a newspaper reporter and Dana getting into a heated argument and physical altercation outside a Banquet Hall over what the newspaper reporter threatened to write about Diane D! This story also involves three female police officers being beat up, attacked and injured on two separate occasions by Dana. Dana is soon tossed and thrown behind bars again for assaulting the female police officers. All three female officers are forced to quit and resign from the police force because of the injuries they suffered. This story also involves the Dianettes rivalry against another well-known female pop group. In one incident, the Dianettes’ attack and go against the other well-known female pop group who wanted to perform and collaborate on stage with them and Diane D. The Dianettes will not hear of it! They later speed in their van and chase the other well-known female singing group’s limousine down the highway all the way to the airport! When the Dianettes’ van and well-known female group’s limousine reach the airport terminal, the Dianettes come out their van, run to the limousine and start to pull the other well-known female pop group out of the limousine and attack them right at the airport! All six of the Dianettes are then tossed and thrown right in jail over the beat down for assaulting the other female pop group! The other female pop group had to be hospitalized which causes them to miss their flight to Paris. This story also involves the newspaper reporter's apparent suicide. This story also involves two male hospital employees who work the night shift. One night during the night shift, the two male hospital employees are working inside a dimly lit isolated clinic hallway as they eavesdrop outside one of the closed clinic room doors secretly listening on Diane D’s private conversation while Diane D is alone inside the clinic room talking on the telephone. The two male hospital employees hear Diane D about to leave the room. They quietly back up and quietly race back down the other end of the hallway! As the two male hospital employees hide round the corner, they hear Diane D leaving the room. They accidentally make a loud noise and fear that the loud noise has attracted Diane D’s attention! They run down the stairs into the lower level of the clinic area. They then hide and bend behind some boxes inside another dimly lit isolated hallway. As they hide behind the boxes and carts, they see Diane D in the distance coming from around the corner. They secretly watch Diane D from the distance. They see her strange eerie behavior as she looks around the dimly lit hallway. They then see her go from closed locked clinic room door to closed locked clinic room door trying to open each door as if looking for someone. They then witness Diane D do something so strange and so frightening that they become shocked and frozen in fear! They frighteningly have their backs leaned against the wall with their mouths and eyes wide open not able to move! Diane D then goes into a storage room. While she is inside the storage room, the two male hospital employees manage to break loose from their fear! They quickly sneak away and frighteningly run down the hallway! They then turn around the corner and race towards the stairwell! They reach the stairwell door and run into the stairwell! Once inside the stairwell, they run right back up the stairs, not looking back! This story also involves Diane D’s eerie and frightening performance in Germany which causes several thousand spectators in a German park to scream and run in fear! This story also involves, the Dianettes’ back stage attack on another well-known female singer who wanted to perform and collaborate on stage with them and Diane D at a shopping mall. Again, the Dianettes will not hear of it! They later chase down the well-known female singer and her husband behind the shopping mall inside the parking lot. They catch up to the well-known female singer and her husband and knock them down to the ground! They then attack the well-known female singer and her husband! All six of the Dianettes are then tossed and thrown behind bars again over the beat down. The well-known female singer and her husband both had to be hospitalized which causes the well-known female singer’s upcoming concert in New York to be canceled! This story also involves, the Dianettes’ attack on two well-known Latin female duo who tried to perform and collaborate with them and Diane D. Again, the Dianettes will not hear of it! They later chase down the well-known Latin female duo outside a police station!

Author: Pansy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' bindings
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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