Author: Holly Chamberlin
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 0758292260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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Returning to Ogunquit, Maine, for an extended visit, successful businesswoman Maggie Weldon reunites with her best friend growing up, native Mainer Delphine Crandall, and together they reflect on their choices and compromises, the girls they were and the women they've become.
Author: Holly Chamberlin
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1617735175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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Set in coastal Maine, “a novel rich in drama and insights into what factors bring people together and, just as fatefully, tear them apart” (Portland Press Herald). In this compelling novel set against the beautiful backdrop of Ogunquit, Maine, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin portrays an unexpected friendship, and its consequences for two very different women as time inevitably sweeps them into adulthood . . . Over the course of one eventful summer, nine-year-old native Mainer Delphine Crandall and Maggie Weldon, a privileged girl “from away,” become best friends. Despite the social gulf between them, their bond is strengthened during vacations spent rambling around Ogunquit’s beaches and quiet country lanes, and lasts throughout their college years in Boston. It seems nothing can separate them, yet after graduation, Delphine and Maggie slowly drift in different directions . . . With her MBA, Maggie acquires a lucrative career, and eventually marries. Delphine is drawn back home, her life steeped in family and the Maine community she loves. Twenty years pass, until one summer, Maggie announces she’s returning to Ogunquit to pay an extended visit. And for the first time, the friends are drawn to reflect on their choices and compromises, the girls they were and the women they’ve become, the promises kept and broken—and the deep, lasting ties that even time can never quite wash away . . . “Nostalgia over real-life friendships lost and regained pulls readers into the story.” —USA Today “A great summer read.” —Fresh Fiction
Author: Charles McGrath
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593466489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Alive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, and a singular bond made at a time when he thought he was beyond making friends. “To read Chip McGrath’s gentle, elegant memoir … is to lose yourself in your own past summers, especially the ones of your youth, when you imagined there’d be an infinite number of them, and also friends to share those summers with. That both turn out to be numbered makes this book positively ache with beauty and loss.” —Richard Russo It was early evening and a new acquaintance had come to retrieve his daughter from a play date. Instead of driving up in a minivan, he arrived by water, tacking his sailboat smartly across a squiggly channel in the marsh, throwing a rope overboard, and zipping back home, his gleeful daughter riding in the wake. Who knew you could do such a thing? And how could you resist befriending a man such as that? Over the course of this rich memoir, McGrath recalls with a gimlet eye the pleasures of summers past: amateur lobstering, 9-hole golf, family costume charades, bridge-jumping, and a friendship forged between two men from different backgrounds who came together late in life. Recounting the vagaries of summer with such precision and warmth-- peeling long strips of sunburnt skin from your shoulder as if “shuffling off your own cocoon,” the outdoor shower curtain blowing open in the breeze, an M80 firework in the mailbox--The Summer Friend is simultaneously a potent evocation of the rhythms and rituals of summer and a stirring remembrance of a friend found and then lost.
Author: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780689856938
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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What could be more fun than sunny days with your friends? The weather is getting warm and Mister Frog, Mistress Pig, Missy Cat, and Master Dog are looking forward to pleasant days spent in the park, rowing, and tending to their gardens. But their plans don't always turn out the way they think! Join Tomie dePaola's beloved and classic characters as they learn that it doesn't matter how those carefree days are spent -- as long as you're with your friends!
Author: Elise Allen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1619632713
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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When the Weeds ruin her bonfire party, Summer and her sisters agree to settle the rivalry through a series of competitive sports that further strain Summer and Thunderbolt's secret friendship. Simultaneous.
Author: Charles Fenno Hoffman
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Author: Marjory Zoet Bankson
Publisher: Augsburg Books
ISBN: 9781451413656
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Drawing on the biblical story of Ruth and Naomi, Bankson explores what we can learn from their unique friendship that survived marriages and moves, death and displacement. Bankson proposes that we need different kinds of friendships in different seasons of our lives. Stories from the author's own life illustrate the contemporary aspects of Ruth and Naomi's journey. The concluding chapter presents a unique perspective on the Book of Ruth as a parable of our friendship with God. The first title in the new Women to Walk With series, Seasons of Friendship includes personal journaling themes for reflection and a study guide with discussion questions and group exercises.
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Category : Courtship
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Author: Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019535849X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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This book develops the dual themes that languages can differ widely in their vocabularies, and are also sensitive indices to the cultures to which they belong. Wierzbicka seeks to demonstrate that every language has "key concepts," expressed in "key words," which reflect the core values of a given culture. She shows that cultures can be revealingly studied, compared, and explained to outsiders through their key concepts, and that the analytical framework necessary for this purpose is provided by the "natural semantic metalanguage," based on lexical universals, that the author and colleagues have developed on the basis of wide-ranging cross-linguistic investigations. Appealing to anthropologists, psychologists, and philosophers as well as linguists, this book demonstrates that cultural patterns can be studied in a verifiable, rigorous, and non-speculative way, on the basis of empirical evidence and in a coherent theoretical framework.
