Finding Annie Farrell

Finding Annie Farrell
Author: Beth J. Harpaz
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2004-02-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312301514

Beth Harpaz recounts her search for her mother's true identity, hoping to uncover the reason behind her mother's relentless sorrow and understand why the family's yearly trips to Maine helped soothe her mother's spirit and mind.

Finding Annie

Finding Annie
Author: Peter Maher
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2019-06-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1984590014

This is a fictional tale but based on the true rags-to-riches story of a young Irish girl escaping the poverty of post–Potato Famine Ireland. Annie Elizabeth Maher ends up in the service of one of the wealthiest and well-connected families in New York. She mixes with artists, politicians, and wealthy business people and travels the world with her mistress, Georgiana. After Georgiana dies young, Annie retreats to make a new life in Long Branch, New Jersey. A successful and philanthropic woman with a portfolio of seven properties in 1900 is a rare event, let alone one who has emerged from poverty in Ireland. Nonetheless, she makes her mark on this seaside town and lives happily. However, she is arrested in 1924 and is committed to Trenton Asylum as a lunatic—was this a conspiracy to bring her down or an intolerance of female success? Of her time in Trenton under the now infamous Dr. Henry Cotton, how will this megalomania in medicine impact on her life?

Down East

Down East
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1080
Release: 2004
Genre: Maine
ISBN:

Showstoppers!

Showstoppers!
Author: Gerald Nachman
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1613731051

When Robert Preston shouted "Ya got trouble!" in River City, when Carol Channing glided down a gilded staircase while waiters serenaded her with "Hello, Dolly!," when Barbra Streisand defied us to rain on her parade in Funny Girl, audiences were instantly enchanted. Showstoppers! is all about Broadway musicals' most memorable numbers—why they were so effective, how they were created, and why they still resonate. Much of it is told through the eyes of the performers, songwriters, directors, and choreographers who first built these explosive numbers and lit the fuse. Gerald Nachman interviewed dozens of iconic musical theater figures, including Patti LuPone, John Raitt, Jerry Herman, Edie Adams, Dick Van Dyke, Joel Grey, Marvin Hamlisch, John Kander, Tommy Tune, Sheldon Harnick, and Harold Prince, uncovering priceless untold anecdotes and details.

An American Childhood

An American Childhood
Author: Annie Dillard
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 006184313X

"An American Childhood more than takes the reader's breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you're a different person, one who has virtually experienced another childhood." — Chicago Tribune A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and 60s. Dedicated to her parents—from whom she learned a love of language and the importance of following your deepest passions—Dillard's brilliant memoir will resonate with anyone who has ever recalled with longing playing baseball on an endless summer afternoon, caring for a pristine rock collection, or knowing in your heart that a book was written just for you.

Annie

Annie
Author: Calliope Glass
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780545797528

Annie, an optimistic orphan living in a New York foster home, is taken in by billionaire Will Stacks to help his mayoral campaign.