The Adventures of a Country Girl
Author : Teddi Robinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
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ISBN : 0557334292
Author : Teddi Robinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
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ISBN : 0557334292
Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316230367
"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.
Author : Christina Uss
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0823441083
A determined 12-year-old girl bikes across the country in this quirky and charming debut middle grade novel. Introverted Bicycle has lived most of her life at the Mostly Silent Monastery in Washington, D.C. When her guardian, Sister Wanda, announces that Bicycle is going to attend a camp where she will learn to make friends, Bicycle says no way and sets off on her bike for San Francisco to meet her idol, a famous cyclist, certain he will be her first true friend. Who knew that a ghost would haunt her handlebars and that she would have to contend with bike-hating dogs, a bike-loving horse, bike-crushing pigs, and a mysterious lady dressed in black. Over the uphills and downhills of her journey, Bicycle discovers that friends are not such a bad thing to have after all, and that a dozen cookies really can solve most problems.
Author : Patrick Taylor
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765369277
The New York Times bestselling tale of heartbreak and hope from the author of An Irish Country Doctor
Author : Elva Hurst
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736960899
When eleven-year-old Elva finally finishes her chores on this beautiful summer morning, she hurries to the neighboring farm to see if her friend Linda can join her for an afternoon adventure. Come on along with the young Mennonite girls as they hitch up the pony, climb into the cart, and trot down the drive for a day filled with unexpected excitement. This charming story, the first in the Farm Life Series, is based on author Elva Hurst's growing-up years on the family farm and written for children from seven to eleven years old. Reminiscent of days gone by, this simple tale is full of good-hearted fun.
Author : Edna O'Brien
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374718024
A treasure of world literature back in print, featuring a new introduction by Eimear McBride This omnibus edition includes the novels The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in Their Married Bliss. The country girls are Caithleen “Kate” Brady and Bridget “Baba” Brennan, and their story begins in the repressive atmosphere of a small village in the west of Ireland in the years following World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a survivor. Setting out to conquer the bright lights of Dublin, they are rewarded with comical miscommunications, furtive liaisons, bad faith, bad luck, bad sex, and compromise; marrying for the wrong reasons, betraying for the wrong reasons, fighting in their separate ways against the overwhelming wave of expectations forced upon "girls" of every era. The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue charts unflinchingly the pattern of women’s lives, from the high spirits of youth to the chill of middle age, from hope to despair, in remarkable prose swinging from blunt and brutal to whimsical and lyrical. It is a saga both painful and hilarious, and remains one of the major accomplishments of Edna O’Brien’s extraordinary career.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Country life
ISBN : 9780736913683
A collection of poems, quotations, and excerpts from fiction and nonfiction on the topic of girls playing and growing up in the country, richly illustrated.
Author : Rosemarie Schulga
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Refugees
ISBN : 9781419683121
A rare intimate account of a resourceful girl's adventures as she sets out on her own in a quest for knowledge and freedom. It is an inspiring story of hardship, courage, and hope, told with wit and charm. Born stateless in a village in Germany, without any citizenship, the girl without a country has to satisfy the demands of the law for non-citizens. She seeks a better life by immigrating to Australia, but not before falling in love with an American soldier. Their touching love story develops across the oceans. Trying to obtain a visa to visit her love in America, she is forced to return to Germany to have her passport for foreigners extended. The irony is that she has to be in Germany first before she can receive permission to return to Germany. A girl without a country has no right to travel. She manages the impossible by taking, without proper documentation and without resources, a remarkable journey from Australia to Germany, traveling through Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok, India, and Turkey. The reader is held in suspense as, against all odds, she finally succeeds in her quest. Readers may more deeply appreciate their own citizenship after reading this book.
Author : Susan Coolidge
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 1896
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