Author: Lillian Halegua
Publisher: Peter Owen Modern Classics (20
ISBN: 9780720620917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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During a school holiday, 15-year-old Francie escapes from her stifling New York home to the seaside on Long Island. On the beach she is raped, leaving her pregnant and unable to return home. Even her adopted Jewish family at the coastal motel at which she has taken a summer job cannot assuage her unhappiness, and she becomes a victim of her age, her era and of society. In Halegula's first-person narration there is real understanding of the difficulties of communication between adults and teenagers in the late 1950s. The Pearl Bastard is a sensitive, lyrical evocation of the world of adolescence that is as relevant now as it was on its first publication. Part of the new look Peter Owen Modern Classics range featuring a logo crafted by graphic design icon Alvin Lustig.
Author: Dorothy Allison
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101007176
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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A profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South and “an essential novel” (The New Yorker) “As close to flawless as any reader could ask for . . . The living language [Allison] has created is as exact and innovative as the language of To Kill a Mockingbird and The Catcher in the Rye.” —The New York Times Book Review The publication of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina was a landmark event that won the author a National Book Award nomination and launched her into the literary spotlight. Critics have likened Allison to Harper Lee, naming her the first writer of her generation to dramatize the lives and language of poor whites in the South. Since its appearance, the novel has inspired an award-winning film and has been banned from libraries and classrooms, championed by fans, and defended by critics. Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family—a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other’s trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective. When her stepfather Daddy Glen, “cold as death, mean as a snake,” becomes increasingly more vicious toward her, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that tests the loyalty of her mother, Anney—and leads to a final, harrowing encounter from which there can be no turning back.
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
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Author: Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station
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Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Author: Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Author: Jo Knowles
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1429975059
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Bean (née Pearl) and Henry, misfits and best friends, have the strangest mothers in town. Henry's mom Sally never leaves the house. Bean's mom Lexie, if she is home, is likely nursing a hangover or venting to her friend Claire about Bean's beloved grandfather Gus, the third member of their sunny household. Gus's death unleashes a host of family secrets that brings them all together. And they threaten to change everything—including Bean's relationship with Henry, her first friend, and who also might turn out to be her first love.
Author: Rob Grader
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762751592
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Languages : en
Pages : 323
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Author: Charles Luther Fitch
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Category : Potatoes
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Author: Bernice Bohnet
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039199062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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Due to bullying in school, fifteen-year-old Pearl Armstrong longs to leave her repressive and unfair life on a Canadian farm. Thus, she runs away to San Francisco, the epicenter of the 1960’s counterculture movement. Pearl leaves behind her distraught mother and is introduced to mind-altering drugs, free love, communal living, war-time politics, racism and unexpected friendships. It is only after her immersion into that unfamiliar and surreal world that Pearl belatedly realizes that the adventures and freedom she so desperately sought are neither as enticing nor exciting as she had once imagined.
Author: American Society for Horticultural Science
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Category : Fruit-culture
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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