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Frank, a troubled, somewhat desperate, Italian American, works long hours in the grocery store of a struggling Jewish family in a Brooklyn neighborhood where he develops a secret passion for his employer's attractive daughter.
Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 2003-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374504847
Frank, a troubled, somewhat desperate, Italian American, works long hours in the grocery store of a struggling Jewish family in a Brooklyn neighborhood where he develops a secret passion for his employer's attractive daughter.
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Laity
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Author : Amanda Skenandore
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496713699
An enthralling novel of historical fiction for fans of Lisa Wingate and Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Undertaker’s Assistant is a powerful story of human resilience set during Reconstruction-era New Orleans that features an extraordinary and unforgettable heroine at its heart. “The dead can’t hurt you. Only the living can.” Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies—and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned south to New Orleans and earns her living as an embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employer’s shortcomings. Tall and serious, Effie keeps her distance from the other girls in her boarding house, holding tight to the satisfaction she finds in her work. But despite her reticence, two encounters—with a charismatic state legislator named Samson Greene, and a beautiful young Creole, Adeline—introduce her to new worlds of protests and activism, of soirees and social ambition. Effie decides to seek out the past she has blocked from her memory and try to trace her kin. As her hopes are tested by betrayal, and New Orleans grapples with violence and growing racial turmoil, Effie faces loss and heartache, but also a chance to finally find her place . . .
Author : Bonnie Low-Kramen
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Administrative assistants
ISBN : 9780976326816
Real life tools and advice for every professional assistant and their high-powered employers. A first-hand look at the world of a celebrity assistant, and its application to the larger realm of all professional assistants.
Author : Charlotte Mason
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Page : 506 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1801
Category : Cooking
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Author : Ann Patchett
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 2004-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547548796
From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, a secretive magician’s death becomes the catalyst for his partner’s journey of self-discovery in this “enchanting” book (San Francisco Chronicle) “that is something of a magic trick in itself.” (Newsweek) When Parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine—who was also his faithful assistant for twenty years—learns that the family he claimed to have lost in a tragic accident is very much alive and well. Sabine is left to unravel his secrets, and the journey she takes, from sunny Los Angeles to the bitter windswept plains of Nebraska, will work its own magic on her. Sabine's extraordinary tale, “with its big dreams, vast spaces, and disparate realities lying side by side” captures the hearts of its readers and “proves to be the perfect place for miraculous transformations.” (The New Yorker)
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Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 1872
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Author : Marika McCoola
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 076366961X
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Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Lutheran Church
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Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 1919
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