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Such Devoted Sisters

Author : Mary Engelbreit

Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing

Page : 66 pages

File Size : 30,69 MB

Release : 2005-11-10

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 0740750119

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No other relationship matches the closeness, trust, and forever friendship that sisters share. It is a connection that deserves to be both honored and cultivated, and that's just what award-winning illustrator Mary Engelbreit does in Such Devoted Sisters: A Sister's Treasury. Such Devoted Sisters celebrates sisterhood with a collection of Mary Engelbreit's warm and colorful artwork interspersed with stories, poems, quotations, songs, and verses about sisters by authors such as Christina Rosetti, Charlotte Brontë, Laura Tracy, Louisa May Alcott, Irving Berlin, Margaret Mead, and Shel Silverstein. Mary also shares some of her own cherished memories of the sisters she grew up with and the new "sisters" she's found in dear friends along the way. After all, sisterhood isn't just about families-it's about deep friendship as well. Such Devoted Sisters is the perfect keepsake for sisters of all kinds, and it includes an inside pocket to share a special photograph. This heartwarming collection follows in a tradition of best-selling Mary Engelbreit treasuries, including The Blessings of Friendship, Mother O' Mine, Tiny Teeny Halloweeny Treasury and Believe: A Christmas Treasury. Such Devoted Sisters is a special and lasting tribute to one of life's strongest bonds.



Sisterland

Author : Linda Newbery

Publisher : Laurel Leaf

Page : 293 pages

File Size : 15,43 MB

Release : 2007-12-18

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0307433773

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When Hilly’s grandmother becomes ill with Alzheimer’s disease, her family is turned upside down by revelations from her life during World War II. Hilly’s German grandmother, HeidiGran, comes to live with her family after she gets Alzheimer’s disease. As her mind becomes more muddled, secrets buried in her past start to emerge. Why does HeidiGran keep talking about a girl named Rachel? And why does she make racist remarks about Hilly’s friend, Ruben? As Hilly struggles to cope with revelations about her family’s past, she encounters racism and prejudice for herself when a friend becomes the victim of a mindless attack. This evocative and deftly told novel explores prejudice and its effects on multiple generations in one family.



No Trick or Treats

Author : Helena C. Farrell

Publisher : AuthorHouse

Page : 487 pages

File Size : 27,54 MB

Release : 2020-10-18

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1665504455

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No Trick or Treats is a coming-of-age, multigenerational narrative about family traditions, loyalty, secrets, mystery, revelations and love. Through the lens of a young impressionable girl Elena Rose the book evolves. Elena is on a life-long journey of discovery and resolution. This complex girl experiences intense flashbacks. Elena Rose enhances family traditions through loyalty and love. The varied and interesting characters in this unique story will elicit fascinating and intriguing emotions. In this unique novel, Elena journeys from her teens through adulthood. She harbors a dark secret for years. Adding suspense and intrigue, a parallel storyline emerges about a New England family commencing from the Civil War to the end of the nineteenth century. These two families intersect in a profound way. The narrative is viewed through Elena's vivid imagination. As she searches for truth and love, she learns to accept losses on this extensive journey of discovery and justice. The story begins in Elena's teenage years in Jersey City, New Jersey and follows her through the hustling town of Chicago, to glamorous Hollywood, California and sedate Walpole, NH. In Chicago she meets people who inform her life. In Hollywood, Elena transforms from a naive girl to an impressionable young woman. Later, in rural Walpole, New Hampshire she addresses previous taxing life's challenges. Throughout the novel, historical references from years past enrich the narrative. Elena's extraordinary life is colored by fears, tears, laughter, and life's lessons. You will be drawn in as you observe her grow from an innocent and insecure young girl to an enlightened and fully developed woman of substance. Elena's extraordinary journey will scare you with Tricks and delight you with Treats.



Queer Movie Medievalisms

Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly

Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 15,33 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780754675921

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Queer Movie Medievalisms is the first book of its kind to grapple with the ways in which mediations between past and present, as registered on the silver screen, queerly undercut assumptions about sexuality throughout time. It will be of great interest to scholars of Gender and Sexuality, Cultural and Media Studies, Film Studies and Medieval History.



A Leaf In Freefall

Author : Dean Cracknell

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 410 pages

File Size : 17,49 MB

Release : 2011

Category :

ISBN : 1446789411

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Misspelled

Author : Julie E. Czerneda

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 35,86 MB

Release : 2008-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780756404758

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Thirteen original fantasy stories reveal what happens when spell-driven situations get out of hand and wreak magical havoc in the lives of a colorful cast of unsuspecting characters.



Jackie

Author : Jay Mulvaney

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 44,37 MB

Release : 2002-12-06

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780312291594

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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis is the ultimate American fashion icon. Jay Mulvaney, author of Kennedy Weddings, celebrates her unique style in this lavishly illustrated book. Jackie: The Clothes of Camelot is a richly illustrated history of those magical years when the Kennedys captivated a nation and the world. Her glamour was electric, her style imaginative, and the effect was brilliant. Jacqueline Kennedy's fashions from the White House years, over two hundred outfits, are illustrated with three hundred photographs, in both black and white and color, many previously unpublished or rarely seen. Also included are photographs of jewelry and accessories as well as memorabilia, all exploring the continuing impact of Jackie's fashion sensibility on our culture. The range of illustrations and text is broad, including: Early Fashion Influences The Inauguration Ensembles Gowns for State Events The Wardrobe for State Visits Abroad Private Living and Casual Wear French Designers: Haute Couture in the White House November 1963 Mrs. Onassis and the Post-Camelot Years JACKIE: The Clothes of Camelot is a striking portrait of an unforgettable fashion legend.



Our Twelve Days Before Christmas

Author : Christopher White

Publisher : ECW Press

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 17,2 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1550226142

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This hilarious and moving account of one family's frantic countdown to Christmas Eve follows the trials of a Christian minister as he tries to put up a giant Christmas tree, rearranges his schedule to attend his children's concerts, struggles against mobs at the mall, and participates in the church choir's first attempt at Handel's Messiah. Familiar stories of family events during the holidays accompany quirky, entertaining accounts of the particular challenges a minister encounters, such as his desperate nationwide search for goats for the church's Christmas pageant. The joy and frustration of the Christmas season are captured in this story of a family's struggle to find the genuine meaning of the holiday.



Singled Out

Author : Virginia Nicholson

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 27,56 MB

Release : 2008-10-29

Category : History

ISBN : 0190452196

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Almost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort to life's great feast. Drawing upon a wealth of moving memoirs, Singled Out tells the inspiring stories of these women: the student weeping for a lost world as the Armistice bells pealed, the socialite who dedicated her life to resurrecting the ancient past after her soldier love was killed, the Bradford mill girl whose campaign to better the lot of the "War spinsters" was to make her a public figure--and many others who, deprived of their traditional roles, reinvented themselves into something better. Tracing their fates, Nicholson shows that these women did indeed harbor secret sadness, and many of them yearned for the comforts forever denied them--physical intimacy, the closeness of a loving relationship, and children. Some just endured, but others challenged the conventions, fought the system, and found fulfillment outside of marriage. From the mill-girl turned activist to the debutante turned archeologist, from the first woman stockbroker to the "business girls" and the Miss Jean Brodies, this book memorializes a generation of young women who were forced, by four of the bloodiest years in human history, to stop depending on men for their income, their identity, and their future happiness. Indeed, Singled Out pays homage to this remarkable generation of women who, changed by war, in turn would change society.



A Penny for Them

Author : Pat McDonald

Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency

Page : 265 pages

File Size : 29,89 MB

Release : 2016-05-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1681817470

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Benjamin Matthews is the hapless hero with the innocent face of an angel and only two GCSEs in chemistry and history. At the vast age of thirty, he has not yet found his niche in life, but has drifted along performing a series of jobs that always go wrong. Then he meets Rebecah, a nymphomaniac and the beautiful daughter of a failed politician who is one of the most successful villains in his hometown. If lying should ever become an art form, Ben would succeed, because people believe in his honest face. From his very first white lie (about his name being Benjamin Pollock), he digs himself in deeper and deeper, realising that it is important to be considered a Pollock. Even he has to admit that he is rather good at this lying malarkey. Ben finds he has a talent for being a criminal, going from strength to strength, and taking Daisy Productions to new heights. But will his latest business venture follow the usual pattern and fail? Will his fabrications be the end of him? A Penny for Them takes a humorous look at crime from the viewpoint of the criminal and is spot on.