The Mothers of Victory Street

The Mothers of Victory Street
Author: Pam Howes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Domestic fiction
ISBN: 9780750550444

Liverpool, 1946. Bella Harrison cannot believe that the devastating war which stole the lives of her father and sister is truly over at last. She and her childhood sweetheart Bobby are happy newlyweds, doting on Levi, the son of Bella and Earl Franklin Junior, a black American pilot. With the other members of Bella's wartime singing trio the Bryant Sisters busy starting families of their own, Bella focuses on recording and writing songs with her husband. Everything seems to be falling into place until they get a surprising letter: Earl is moving to England and wants to see them. Earl arrives, and is delighted to find his son well and happy. He joins them as a singer, and they begin working together. But one night as Earl leaves the recording studio, a racist gang brutally attacks him and sets the place alight, leaving Bobby trapped inside...

Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir

Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir
Author: J.M. Redmann
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2011-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1602825386

Women. Crime. Justice. At least the search for it. On the mean streets, the back allies, the dark corners. These are stories of tough women in hard places. The nights are long, the women are fast, and danger is always a short block or quick minute away. Edited by award winning author/editors J.M. Redmann and Greg Herren, Women of the Mean Streets is an anthology of some of the top, tough women crime writers today, noir stories with a lesbian twist.

The Vengeance of Mothers

The Vengeance of Mothers
Author: Jim Fergus
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250093422

"The vengeance of mothers" explores the bonds among family and community, the search for identity and belonging, during a time of tumultous change in our nation's history. What is a "native" American? Are all men and their wives created equal? How far wil Margaret and her countrywomen go to fight for what's theirs, and what's already gone?

The Mothers of Victory Street

The Mothers of Victory Street
Author: Pam Howes
Publisher: Bookouture
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2021-07-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781800196612

From Amazon charts bestseller Pam Howes comes a heartbreaking and uplifting historical novel about a young woman trying to snatch her chance at happiness amongst the ruins of World War Two. 1946, Liverpool. Bella Harrison cannot believe the devastating war that stole the lives of her father and sister is truly over at last. She wonders how they will ever rebuild Victory Street with the city in ruins, and half their neighbours gone. But for now, she and her childhood sweetheart Bobby are happy newlyweds, doting on Bella's little son, her child with black American pilot, Earl Franklin Junior. With the other members of Bella's wartime singing trio, The Bryant Sisters, busy starting families of their own, Bella focuses on recording and writing songs with her husband. Everything seems to be falling into place until they get a surprising letter: Earl is moving to England and wants to see them. Earl arrives and is delighted to see that his son is well and happy. He joins them as a singer and together, they start recording songs. But one night as Earl leaves the recording studio, a racist gang brutally attacks him and sets the place alight, leaving Bobby trapped inside. Meanwhile, Bella is at home, waiting to tell Bobby a devastating secret... With peace in Liverpool at last, Bella had hoped for a brighter future. But as she faces her life being ripped apart once again, can she rediscover the strength that carried her through the war? A totally unputdownable, heart-wrenching historical novel, packed with family secrets, perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Diney Costeloe and Nancy Revell. What readers are saying about Pam Howes: 'Gripped me from the first page... Tearful at times, but equally filled with joy at others... I really enjoyed this book and once started I found it difficult to put it down!... Would definitely recommend!!' Goodreads reviewer 'I absolutely adored this book! I could not put it down, probably the fastest I have read a book... If you enjoy historical fiction, you will love this. The perfect book to curl up on the sofa with.' Raesbookshelf 'Utterly impossible for me to put down. A heartbreaking story... I really haven't been able to put this one down and found I had devoured the entire book in just one sitting... I have loved this book so much, I wish I could give it five hundred stars.' Little Miss Book Lover 87 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'I was hooked... I wiped tears away tears... If you love a really good wartime saga, then this is definitely the book for you!' Stardust Book Reviews ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'I absolutely loved this book... A heartbreaking story but one that gets you so engaged in it you cannot put it down... Will keep you reading and enjoying right to the very last page... and will desperately want more.' Vicki, I Love Reading UK ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Daughters of Victory Street

The Daughters of Victory Street
Author: Pam Howes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Domestic fiction
ISBN: 9780750550451

Liverpool, 1952. In the face of hardship, Bella Harrison is determined to see the bright side. She is back recording songs with her singing trio the Bryant Sisters, and against all odds, she and her husband Bobby are finding ways to muddle through life as newlyweds whilst raising little Levi, Bella's child with Black American pilot Earl Franklin Junior.Meanwhile, Earl's daughter Dianna is adjusting to her new life in Liverpool. Determined to forge her own path, she has her heart set on becoming a nurse. However, she soon discovers that the reality of nursing is long hours of gruelling work, under constant scrutiny from a matron who seems to take pleasure in making her life miserable. When a handsome art student catches her eye, Dianna finds herself at the crossroads between ambition and love...

My Mother was Nuts

My Mother was Nuts
Author: Penny Marshall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0547892624

From her humble roots in the Bronx to Laverne and Shirley and her unlikely ascent in Hollywood, the beloved actor and director tells the story of her incredible life.

A Year Without Mom

A Year Without Mom
Author: Dasha Tolstikova
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2015-09-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554986931

Now available in paperback, Dasha Tolstikova’s acclaimed graphic novel A Year Without Mom follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America. It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America — a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone she loves. Dasha Tolstikova’s major talent is on full display in this gorgeous and subtly illustrated graphic novel. Key Text Features map Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.

Hush Little Babies

Hush Little Babies
Author: Donald A. Davis
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1429903465

A killing so brutal it shocked the police and left the nation grieving, Hush Little Babies is the appalling true story of Darlie Routier, the neighborhood's most wonderful mom, who one night, coldly, calculatingly and brutally stabbed her two sons and watched them die in a pool of their own blood... Darlie claimed an intruder has come through the window, fatally stabbed her sons, six-year-old Devon and five-year-old Damon, slashed her throat with same knife, then fled, while her husband and infant son slept upstairs. At first Darlie's heartfelt testimony evoked fear and sympathy in her safe Dallas community. Then police became suspicious after these troubling questions were raised: Why, according to a police report, didn't Darlie make any attempt to help her dying sons? Why, when she called 911, did she tell the dispatcher that her own fingerprints would be on the murderer's knife because she had picked it up? Why did the trail of blood left behind contradict Darlie's testimony? From the dark forces that drove her to kill her own flesh and blood, to the evidence that snared her in her own twisted web, here is a chilling account of homemaker, loving wife, mother of three, and cold-blooded killer--Darlie Routier.

Roosevelt's Centurions

Roosevelt's Centurions
Author: Joseph E. Persico
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0679645438

“FDR’s centurions were my heroes and guides. Now Joe Persico has written the best account of those leaders I've ever read.”—Colin L. Powell All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In Roosevelt’s Centurions, distinguished historian Joseph E. Persico reveals how, during World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt seized the levers of wartime power like no president since Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Declaring himself “Dr. Win-the-War,” FDR assumed the role of strategist in chief, and, though surrounded by star-studded generals and admirals, he made clear who was running the war. FDR was a hands-on war leader, involving himself in everything from choosing bomber targets to planning naval convoys to the design of landing craft. Persico explores whether his strategic decisions, including his insistence on the Axis powers’ unconditional surrender, helped end or may have prolonged the war. Taking us inside the Allied war councils, the author reveals how the president brokered strategy with contentious allies, particularly the iron-willed Winston Churchill; rallied morale on the home front; and handpicked a team of proud, sometimes prickly warriors who, he believed, could fight a global war. Persico’s history offers indelible portraits of the outsize figures who roused the “sleeping giant” that defeated the Axis war machine: the dutiful yet independent-minded George C. Marshall, charged with rebuilding an army whose troops trained with broomsticks for rifles, eggs for hand grenades; Dwight Eisenhower, an unassuming Kansan elevated from obscurity to command of the greatest fighting force ever assembled; the vainglorious Douglas MacArthur; and the bizarre battlefield genius George S. Patton. Here too are less widely celebrated military leaders whose contributions were just as critical: the irascible, dictatorial navy chief, Ernest King; the acerbic army advisor in China, “Vinegar” Joe Stilwell; and Henry H. “Hap” Arnold, who zealously preached the gospel of modern air power. The Roosevelt who emerges from these pages is a wartime chess master guiding America’s armed forces to a victory that was anything but foreordained. What are the qualities we look for in a commander in chief? In an era of renewed conflict, when Americans are again confronting the questions that FDR faced—about the nature and exercise of global power—Roosevelt’s Centurions is a timely and revealing examination of what it takes to be a wartime leader in a freewheeling, complicated, and tumultuous democracy.