Essie Rose's Revelation Summer

Essie Rose's Revelation Summer
Author: Deanie Yasner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2019-08-23
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN: 9781732027695

The coming of age story of Essie Rose Ginsberg, writer and worrier, the lone Jewish girl in Tipton, Mississippi in 1953. Essie Rose's love and loyalty for her only friend, the family's housekeeper, inspires her to challenge the segregation rules in her small southern town while privately challenging the limits of her own personal courage.

Time for Bubbe

Time for Bubbe
Author: Sharon Rosenblatt Kramer
Publisher: Golden Alley Press
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2021-03-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781733305570

Boychik and his great-bubbe nosh, play and cook together in her hi-rise city apartment. Includes Yiddish glossary and Bubbe's Best Noodle Kugel Recipe

Writing Out Loud

Writing Out Loud
Author: Beth Finke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2017-04-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780998442921

In 2004, blind writer Beth Finke reluctantly agrees to teach a memoir-writing class to older adults in downtown Chicago. Over the next decade, she comes to love her students and the community that forms around her courses. Filled with humor, poignancy, and stories in the students' own voices, this book will move and inspire readers of any age.

A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You

A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
Author: Amy Bloom
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2009-07-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307417859

Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. In her new collection, she enhances her reputation as a true artist of the form. Here are characters confronted with tragedy, perplexed by emotions, and challenged to endure whatever modern life may have in store. A loving mother accompanies her daughter in her journey to become a man, and discovers a new, hopeful love. A stepmother and stepson meet again after fifteen years and a devastating mistake, and rediscover their familial affection for each other. And in "The Story," a widow bent on seducing another woman's husband constructs and deconstructs her story until she has "made the best and happiest ending" possible "in this world."

Apricot Sky

Apricot Sky
Author: Ruby 1899-1966 Ferguson
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781013482229

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A Company of Swans

A Company of Swans
Author: Eva Ibbotson
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2008-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0230737889

A Company of Swans is a sweeping tale of romance, freedom and the beauty of dance from award-winning author, Eva Ibbotson, with a new introduction by Joanna Nadin. Weekly ballet classes are Harriet Morton's only escape from her intolerably dull life. So when she is chosen to join a corps de ballet which is setting off on a tour of the Amazon, she leaps at the chance to run away for good. Performing in the grand opera houses is everything Harriet dreamed of, and falling in love with an aristocratic exile makes her new life complete. Swept away by it all, she is unaware that her father and intended fiancé have begun to track her down . . . 'I have binged on Eva Ibbotson . . . her elegantly written, witty and well-observed fables' Nigella Lawson, The Times Rediscover Eva Ibbotson, award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea, in her sweeping historical romances, including The Morning Gift, A Song For Summer and The Secret Countess, originally published as A Countess Below Stairs, Magic Flutes, originally published as The Reluctant Heiress, Madensky Square and A Company of Swans.

The Magic Toyshop

The Magic Toyshop
Author: Angela Carter
Publisher: Hutchinson Radius
Total Pages: 199
Release: 1988
Genre: Teenage girls
ISBN: 9780091823481

The Darkness of Wallis Simpson (Storycuts)

The Darkness of Wallis Simpson (Storycuts)
Author: Rose Tremain
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2011-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1448128668

Repeatedly exhorted by a strange figure to remember unspecified facts about her life, Wallis struggles with a world of random, snapshot memories. Try as she might to remember her third husband, the dull little man with no name, it is deeper remembrances that engulf her on her death bed, blotting out the inconsequential details of her life. Part of the Storycuts series, this story was previously published in the collection The Darkness of Wallis Simpson.