Book Description
Laurel Hand is forced to face her Southern past when she returns to Mississippi for her father's funeral.
Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Families
ISBN :
Laurel Hand is forced to face her Southern past when she returns to Mississippi for her father's funeral.
Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307787311
This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Along in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.
Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 1990-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 067972883X
This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Along in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.
Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307787982
Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday. Possessed of the true storyteller's gift, the members of this clan cannot resist the temptation to swap tales.
Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : HMH
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 1979-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547538685
This novel of a Mississippi family in the 1920s “presents the essence of the Deep South and does it with infinite finesse” (The Christian Science Monitor). From one of the most treasured American writers, winner of a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, comes Delta Wedding, a vivid and charming portrait of Southern life. Set in 1923, the story is centered on the Fairchilds, a big and clamorous family, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. They are in the midst of planning their daughter’s wedding when a nine-year-old relative, Laura McRaven, whose mother has just died, comes to visit. Drama leads to drama, revelation to revelation, in a novel that is “nothing short of wonderful” (The New Yorker). The result is a sometimes-riotous view of a Southern family, and the parentless child who learns to become one of them.
Author : Amy E. Reichert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1501154958
Three generations. Seven days. One big secret. The author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake unfolds a mother-daughter story told by three women whose time to reckon with a life-altering secret is running out. Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her fastidious mother, Lorraine, cataloguing all her faults, and her sullen teenage daughter, May, snubbing her. Too bad there’s no chance of that. Her relentlessly sunny disposition annoys them both, no matter how hard she tries. Instead, Gina finds order and comfort in obsessive list-making and her work at Grilled G’s, the gourmet grilled cheese food truck built by her late husband. But when Lorraine suffers a sudden stroke, Gina stumbles upon a family secret Lorraine's kept hidden for forty years. In the face of her mother’s failing health and her daughter’s rebellion, this optimist might find that piecing together the truth is the push she needs to let go...
Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780878058662
Collects photographs of Mississippians that Welty took in the 1930s when she worked for the Works Progress Administration.
Author : Susin Nielsen
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0553496921
Award-winning author Susin Nielsen has written a laugh-out-loud and heartrending novel for fans of Robyn Schneider’s Extraordinary Means and Cammie McGovern’s Say What You Will. Beware: Life ahead. Sixteen-year-old Petula de Wilde is anything but wild. A former crafting fiend with a happy life, Petula shut herself off from the world after a family tragedy. She sees danger in all the ordinary things, like crossing the street, a bug bite, or a germy handshake. She knows: life is out to get you. The worst part of her week is her comically lame mandatory art therapy class with a small group of fellow misfits. Then a new boy, Jacob, appears at school and in her therapy group. He seems so normal and confident, though he has a prosthetic arm; and soon he teams up with Petula on a hilarious project, gradually inspiring her to let go of some of her fears. But as the two grow closer, a hidden truth behind why he’s in the group threatens to derail them, unless Petula takes a huge risk. . . Praise: Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year “Nielsen writes with sensitivity, empathy, and humor.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred “Nielsen excels at depicting troubled, clever teenagers in familiar environments.” —School Library Journal, Starred “[An] empathic and deeply moving story, balanced by sharply funny narration and dialogue.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred “A poignant exploration into the nuances of healing.” —Quill and Quire, Starred
Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
ISBN : 9780605025882
Author : Jeff Mack
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1452118531
Good news, Rabbit and Mouse are going on a picnic. Bad news, it is starting to rain. Good news, Rabbit has an umbrella. Bad news, the stormy winds blow the umbrella (and Mouse!) into a tree. So begins this clever story about two friends with very different dispositions. Using just four words, Jeff Mack has created a text with remarkable flair that is both funny and touching, and pairs perfectly with his energetic, and hilarious, illustrations. Good news, this is a book kids will clamor to read again and again!