When Molly was a Harvey Girl

When Molly was a Harvey Girl
Author: Frances M. Wood
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781935279518

Left penniless by their father's death, thirteen-year-old Molly and her older sister end up as waitresses in the Raton, New Mexico Harvey House. But not for long. If Molly has her way!

Harvey Girl

Harvey Girl
Author: Sheila Wood Foard
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780896725706

In 1919, fourteen-year-old Clara Fern Massie runs away from her family's farm in Missouri to earn a living and find adventure as a Harvey Girl, one of the waitresses who worked at Harvey House restaurants along the railroads in the Southwest United States.

The Sunshine Girls

The Sunshine Girls
Author: Molly Fader
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2022-12-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0369717724

“A breathtaking story of an extraordinary friendship. Molly Fader has penned an unforgettable novel that is sure to be one of the year’s best.” —Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil Two friends. A lifetime of secrets. One sparkling story. 1967 Iowa. Nursing school roommates BettyKay and Kitty don’t have much in common. BettyKay has risked her family’s disapproval to pursue her dreams away from her small town. Cosmopolitan Kitty has always relied on her beauty and smarts to get by and to hide a painful secret. Yet the two share a determination to prove themselves in a changing world, forging an unlikely bond on a campus unkind to women. Before their first year is up, tragedy strikes, and the women’s paths are forced apart. But against all odds, a decades-long friendship forms, persevering through love, marriage, failure, and death, from the jungles of Vietnam to the glamorous circles of Hollywood. Until one snowy night leads their relationship to the ultimate crossroads. Fifty years later, two estranged sisters are shocked when a famous movie star shows up at their mother's funeral. Over one tumultuous weekend, the women must reckon with a dazzling truth about their family that will alter their lives forever...

Becoming Rosemary

Becoming Rosemary
Author: Frances Wood
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-05-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307513998

The year Rosemary makes her first true friend is also a year of great change for her and her entire community. Rumors have begun to spread through the serene farming village: tales of witchcraft and evil. To protect her family and her new friend, Rosemary takes action against the harmful gossip. In the process, she discovers a new, wondrous side of herself. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Football Girl

The Football Girl
Author: Thatcher Heldring
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0375987142

For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school, friendship has blossomed into a relationship . . . and their playful sports days are coming to an end. Caleb is getting ready to try out for the football team, and Tessa is training for cross-country. But all their structured plans derail in the final flag game when they lose. Tessa doesn’t want to end her career as a loser. She really enjoys playing, and if she’s being honest, she likes it even more than running cross-country. So what if she decided to play football instead? What would happen between her and Caleb? Or between her two best friends, who are counting on her to try out for cross-country with them? And will her parents be upset that she’s decided to take her hobby to the next level? This summer Caleb and Tessa figure out just what it means to be a boyfriend, girlfriend, teammate, best friend, and someone worth cheering for. “A great next choice for readers who have enjoyed Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen and Miranda Kenneally’s Catching Jordan.”—SLJ “Fast-paced football action, realistic family drama, and sweet romance…[will have] readers looking for girl-powered sports stories…find[ing] plenty to like.”—Booklist “Tessa's ferocious competitiveness is appealing.”—Kirkus Reviews “[The Football Girl] serve[s] to illuminate the appropriately complicated emotions both of a young romance and of pursuing a dream. Heldring writes with insight and restraint.”—The Horn Book

Aspirations of an Author

Aspirations of an Author
Author: John A. Miller Jr.
Publisher: Pima Books
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480042692

Southern Pacific Railroad Detective Pima Gallagher is asked by the Santa Fe Railroad to help track down who might be smuggling whiskey to the huge Navajo Reservation. When he suddenly disappears, Pima's stepdaughter, fifteen-year-old Scout Walker, convinces her mother, Ellen, to travel with her to Winslow, Arizona to find Pima and help him in his search. At the same time, Scout decides to begin writing her memoirs with assistance from an English author they meet in Winslow, a waitress at the local Harvey House Restaurant is found murdered, Pima spends some time in the painted desert as the unhappy guest of a mysterious person, and a deserting soldier and an itinerant peddler become prime smuggling suspects. Everything comes to an end with a gun battle in the as-yet-unprotected Petrified Forest.

Harvey Houses of New Mexico

Harvey Houses of New Mexico
Author: Rosa Walston Latimer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2015-05-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1625853580

A look at the memorable chain of restaurants and hotels and its place in New Mexico’s history. The Santa Fe Line and the famous Fred Harvey restaurants forever changed New Mexico and the Southwest, bringing commerce, culture, and opportunity to a desolate frontier. The first Harvey Girls ever hired staffed the Raton location. In a departure from the ubiquitous black and white uniform immortalized by Judy Garland in 1946’s TheHarvey Girls, many of New Mexico’s Harvey Girls wore colorful dresses reflective of local culture. In Albuquerque, the Harvey-managed Alvarado Hotel doubled as a museum for carefully curated native art. Join author Rosa Walston Latimer and discover New Mexico’s unique history of hospitality the “Fred Harvey way.”

Waiting for Dusk

Waiting for Dusk
Author: Nancy Pennick
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612355234

Read a book. Fall asleep. Meet a boy. Is it real or just a dream? Katie’s everyday life suddenly turns exciting when she travels back in time and meets the boy of her dreams. Thinking of nothing else, willing to leave the real world behind, she’s determined to find out if it’s all a dream…or not. Returning again and again, Katie almost has her answers until one day her precious book goes missing.

Daughter of Madrugada

Daughter of Madrugada
Author: Frances M. Wood
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

After the United States wins the war with Mexico in 1848, life on her Mexican family's ranch in California is greatly changed for thirteen- year-old Cesa.

In The Space Of A Song

In The Space Of A Song
Author: Richard Dyer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-07-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1136641939

Richard Dyer's 'In the Space of a Song' takes an in-depth look at the use of songs in film. Songs take up space and time in film and the way they do so indicates a great deal about the songs themselves, the nature of the feelings they present, and who is allowed to present feelings how, when and where. This book explores this perception.