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Author | : Shirley Ann Grau |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-04-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1453247203 |
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A “beautifully written” Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about prejudice and a distinguished family’s secrets in the American South (The Atlantic Monthly). Seven generations of the Howland family have lived in the Alabama plantation home built by an ancestor who fought for Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. Over the course of a century, the Howlands accumulated a fortune, fought for secession, and helped rebuild the South, establishing themselves as one of the most respected families in the state. But that history means little to Abigail Howland. The inheritor of the Howland manse, Abigail hides the long-buried secret of her grandfather’s thirty-year relationship with his African American mistress. Her fortunes reverse when her family’s mixed-race heritage comes to light and her community—locked in the prejudices of the 1960s—turns its back on her. Faced with such deep-seated racism, Abigail is pushed to defend her family at all costs. A “novel of real magnitude,” The Keepers of the House is an unforgettable story of family, tradition, and racial injustice set against the richly drawn backdrop of the American South (Kirkus Reviews). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Shirley Ann Grau, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Author | : Rebecca T. Godwin |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2013-08-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466850396 |
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Keeper of the House is Rebecca T. Godwin's unforgettable novel narrated by the lively Minyon Manigault, a young black woman from a coastal South Carolina Gullah community. In 1929, due to mysterious family circumstances, Minyon is given up by her grandmother to the employment of Ariadne Fleming, a white madam in the famously elegant brothel called Hazelhedge. At the age of fourteen, she becomes a pair of eyes and hands, watching and working almost invisibly in a world where men and women leave their inhibition, and their pasts, at the door. As Minyon grows up in the household with other black people who provide behind-the-scenes support of Hazelhedge, she cannot escape her haunting childhood memories. Even while bearing witness to the events unfolding around her, Minyon seeks to find her place in the world, and her pace within herself.
Author | : Julie Lee |
Publisher | : Holiday House |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0823444945 |
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With war looming on the horizon and winter setting in, can two children escape North Korea on their own? Winner of the Freeman Book Award! North Korea. December, 1950. Twelve-year-old Sora and her family live under an iron set of rules: No travel without a permit. No criticism of the government. No absences from Communist meetings. Wear red. Hang pictures of the Great Leader. Don't trust your neighbors. Don't speak your mind. You are being watched. But war is coming, war between North and South Korea, between the Soviets and the Americans. War causes chaos--and war is the perfect time to escape. The plan is simple: Sora and her family will walk hundreds of miles to the South Korean city of Busan from their tiny mountain village. They just need to avoid napalm, frostbite, border guards, and enemy soldiers. But they can't. And when an incendiary bombing changes everything, Sora and her little brother Young will have to get to Busan on their own. Can a twelve-year-old girl and her eight-year-old brother survive three hundred miles of warzone in winter? Haunting, timely, and beautiful, this harrowing novel from a searing new talent offers readers a glimpse into a vanished time and a closed nation. A Jane Addams Children's Book Award Finalist An ILA Intermediate Fiction Award Winner An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Junior Library Guild Selection A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year "Will ultimately be recognized as one of the best books... on the Korean War."—Education About Asia, the Association for Asian Studies
Author | : Kate Morton |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2013-07-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439152810 |
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Withdrawing from a family party to the solitude of her tree house, 16-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking murder that throughout a subsequent half century shapes her beliefs, her acting career and the lives of three strangers from vastly different cultures. By the best-selling author of The Distant Hours. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.
Author | : Natalie Barelli |
Publisher | : Furphies Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2019-10-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0648225984 |
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She's a liar. She's a stalker. She's in your house. When Claire sees Hannah Wilson at an exclusive Manhattan hair salon, it's like a knife slicing through barely healed scars. It may have been ten years since Claire last saw Hannah, but she has thought of her every day, and not in a good way. So Claire does what anyone would do in her position—she stalks her. Hannah is now Mrs. Carter, living the charmed life that should have been Claire's. It's the life Claire used to have, before Hannah came along and took it all away from her. Back then, Claire was a happy teenager with porcelain skin and long, wavy blond hair. Now she's an overweight, lazy drunk with hair the color of compost and skin to match. Which is why when Hannah advertises for a housekeeper, Claire is confident she can apply and not be recognized. And since she has time on her hands, revenge on her mind, and a talent for acting… Because what better way to seek retribution—and redress—than from within the beautiful Mrs. Hannah Carter's own home? Except that it's not just Claire who has secrets. Everyone in that house seems to have something to hide. And now, there's no way out.
Author | : Nona Freeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1995-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781676366102 |
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Book Details: Book Size 6'x9' 100 Pages 50 Sheets This extra special Mom Appreciation Notebook or Journal is the perfect way to express your gratitude to the best Mom ever! Filled with 50 double sided sheets (100 writing pages!) of lined paper, this Motivational and Inspirational Notebook with quote makes a Memorable and useful gift for Mom.With the Heartwarming quote on the full-color matte SOFT Cover, This Notebook will help remind a Mom that their work is truly appreciated. With custom sized pages(6'x9') this notebook with chalk style lettering is the perfect size to tuck into a purse, keep on a desk or as a cherished bedside companion. Give a Mom a gift they'll remember you! Cute NoteBooks for Moms are also Perfect for: Mom Gifts Journal Mother christmas Gifts Journal Stepmom Thank You Gifts Journal StepmotherTraining Gifts Journal Mohter Retirement Gifts Journal Stepmohter Retirement Gifts Journal
Author | : Andrea Gillies |
Publisher | : Broadway Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Alzheimer's disease |
ISBN | : 9780307719126 |
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'Keeper' is a very humane and honest exploration of living with Alzheimer's, giving an illuminating account of the disease itself. Gillies tells about the time she and her family spent living with someone with dementia, in a big Victorian house in the far, far north of Scotland.
Author | : Kelcey Ervick |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2022-10-04 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 0593539184 |
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A beautifully illustrated coming-of-age graphic memoir chronicling how sports shaped one young girl’s life and changed women’s history forever. Growing up playing on a top national soccer team in the 1980s, Kelcey Ervick and her teammates didn’t understand the change they represented. Title IX was enacted in 1972 with little fanfare, but to seismic effect; between then and now, girls’ participation in organized sports has exploded more than 1,000 percent. Braiding together personal narrative, pop culture, literature, and history, Ervick tells the story of how her adolescence was shaped by this boom. Ervick also explores her role as a goalkeeper—a position marked by outsider status and observation—and reveals it has drawn some of the most famed writers of our time. With wit and poignant storytelling, The Keeper brings to life forgotten figures who understood the importance of athletics to help women step into their confidence and power—and push for equality. Full of 1980s nostalgia and heart, The Keeper is a celebration of how far we have come and a reminder of how far we have to go.
Author | : Lisa Wingate |
Publisher | : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : Appalachian Region |
ISBN | : 1496443993 |
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"She'd noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does." When successful New York editor Jen Gibbs discovers a decaying slush-pile manuscript on her desk, she has no idea that the story of Sarra, a young mixed-race woman trapped in Appalachia at the turn of the twentieth century, will both take her on a journey and change her forever. Happy with her life in the city, and at the top of her career with a new job at Vida House Publishing, Jen has left her Appalachian past and twisted family ties far behind. But the search for the rest of the manuscript, and Jen's suspicions about the identity of its unnamed author, will draw her into a mystery that leads back to the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains . . . and quite possibly through the doors she thought she had closed forever.
Author | : Lisa St. Aubin De Teran |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1405512911 |
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Since the eighteenth century the eccentric and flamboyant Beltran family have ruled their desolate Andean valley. Now they are almost extinct. At seventeen, Lydia Sinclair, newly married to Don Diego Beltran, the last of the line, arrives at the vast decaying Hacienda La Bebella. As her husband retreats into himself, Lydia takes refuge in unearthing his ancestors' tragic history. Benito, the family's oldest retainer, relates to her tales of splendour and romance, violence and suffering. From these she weaves a rich gothic tapestry in which the fantastic legends of the past are mingled with the present necessity for survival in a harsh, drought-ridden land.