Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616203021
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Ellen Foster
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616203021
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616203021
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565122054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"--Eudora Welty; "A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."--Walker Percy. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565122054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"--Eudora Welty; "A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."--Walker Percy. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.
A Virtuous Woman
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565127005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Two unforgettable characters, Jack Ernest Stokes, known as Blinking Jack, and his wife, Ruby Pitt Woodrow Stokes, tell the story of their years together. Jack was forty and Ruby only twenty when they were married. For twenty-five years they lived together, man and wife, until Ruby died of lung cancer. A LITERARY GUILD AND DOUBLEDAY BOOK CLUB selection.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565127005
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Two unforgettable characters, Jack Ernest Stokes, known as Blinking Jack, and his wife, Ruby Pitt Woodrow Stokes, tell the story of their years together. Jack was forty and Ruby only twenty when they were married. For twenty-five years they lived together, man and wife, until Ruby died of lung cancer. A LITERARY GUILD AND DOUBLEDAY BOOK CLUB selection.
The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151012046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A sequel to the now-classic "Ellen Foster" picks up Ellen's life five years later, at 15, with a new mother, a home, a mind too large for her surroundings, and a brave and compassionate integrity.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780151012046
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A sequel to the now-classic "Ellen Foster" picks up Ellen's life five years later, at 15, with a new mother, a home, a mind too large for her surroundings, and a brave and compassionate integrity.
Ellen Foster
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616203080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"--Eudora Welty; "A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."--Walker Percy. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616203080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"--Eudora Welty; "A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."--Walker Percy. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.
Sights Unseen
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060797150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Ellen Foster,Kaye Gibbons paints intimate family portraits in lyrical prose, using as her palette the rich, vibrant colors of the American South. Sights Unseen shows the author at her most passionate and heartfelt best -- an unforgettable tale of unconditional love, and of a family's desperate search for normalcy in the midst of mental illness. It is a novel of rare poignancy, wit, and evocative power -- the story of the relationship between Hattie Barnes and her emotionally elusive mother, Maggie, known by their neighbors as "that Barnes woman with all the problems." This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060797150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Ellen Foster,Kaye Gibbons paints intimate family portraits in lyrical prose, using as her palette the rich, vibrant colors of the American South. Sights Unseen shows the author at her most passionate and heartfelt best -- an unforgettable tale of unconditional love, and of a family's desperate search for normalcy in the midst of mental illness. It is a novel of rare poignancy, wit, and evocative power -- the story of the relationship between Hattie Barnes and her emotionally elusive mother, Maggie, known by their neighbors as "that Barnes woman with all the problems." This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Stones from the River
Author: Ursula Hegi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439144761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” (Los Angeles Times). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439144761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” (Los Angeles Times). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.
Charms for the Easy Life
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101174641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101174641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women
A Cure for Dreams
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565126904
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
A story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565126904
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
A story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another.
The Rapture of Canaan
Author: Sheri Reynolds
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425162446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Ninah Huff, the teenage granddaughter of the founder of an isolated religious community, causes controversy when she is discovered to be pregnant with what she claims is a holy child
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425162446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Ninah Huff, the teenage granddaughter of the founder of an isolated religious community, causes controversy when she is discovered to be pregnant with what she claims is a holy child