A Guide to Sisters

A Guide to Sisters

Author: Paula Metcalf

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780553498998

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Originally published: London: Words & Pictures, 2014.


Sisters: A Graphic Novel

Sisters: A Graphic Novel

Author: Raina Telgemeier

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2014-08-26

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0545540666

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Raina Telgemeier’s #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all.Raina uses her signature humor and charm in both present-day narrative and perfectly placed flashbacks to tell the story of her relationship with her sister, which unfolds during the course of a road trip from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado.


The Book of Sisters

The Book of Sisters

Author: Olivia Meikle

Publisher: Neon Squid

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1684492009

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Biographies of the most amazing sisters in world history, written by podcasting sisters Olivia Meikle and Katie Nelson.


Band of Sisters

Band of Sisters

Author: Lauren Willig

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 0062986171

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"A crackling portrayal of everyday American heroines…A triumph." — Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue A group of young women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I in this sweeping novel based on a true story—a skillful blend of Call the Midwife and The Alice Network—from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig. A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smith’s Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the summer after graduation. When charismatic alumna Betsy Rutherford delivers a rousing speech at the Smith College Club in April of 1917, looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine, Kate is too busy earning her living to even think of taking up the call. But when her former best friend Emmeline Van Alden reaches out and begs her to take the place of a girl who had to drop out, Kate reluctantly agrees to join the new Smith College Relief Unit. Four months later, Kate and seventeen other Smithies, including two trailblazing female doctors, set sail for France. The volunteers are armed with money, supplies, and good intentions—all of which immediately go astray. The chateau that was to be their headquarters is a half-burnt ruin. The villagers they meet are in desperate straits: women and children huddling in damp cellars, their crops destroyed and their wells poisoned. Despite constant shelling from the Germans, French bureaucracy, and the threat of being ousted by the British army, the Smith volunteers bring welcome aid—and hope—to the region. But can they survive their own differences? As they cope with the hardships and terrors of the war, Kate and her colleagues find themselves navigating old rivalries and new betrayals which threaten the very existence of the Unit. With the Germans threatening to break through the lines, can the Smith Unit pull together and be truly a band of sisters?


Oh, Brother... Oh, Sister!

Oh, Brother... Oh, Sister!

Author: Brooks Whitney Phillips

Publisher: Paw Prints

Published: 2009-04-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781439599808

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Handling the ups and downs of sibling relationships isn't always easy. This book gives girls advice on dealing with teasing, tattling, and fighting, as well as on playing and staying close as a family. Plus, inside are special extras including photo frames, door hangers, and a Sibling Constitution to help families establish ground rules, rights, and responsibilities.


Through the Land of Hyster

Through the Land of Hyster

Author: Kathy Kelley

Publisher:

Published: 2001-02-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780970884800

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From the author: After researching & gathering information before my hysterectomy in June of 1998, I found that no matter what resources I had, I needed more! I wanted more than medical brochures. I wanted reassurances that the funny aches & pains & odd smells were normal. I wanted to know if I would survive the hormone jungle. The Book: Through the Land of Hyster, the Sisters Guide is from the website (www.hystersisters.com). The book contains frequently asked questions by women for women. It is not intended to be medical information or to take the place of a personal physician. The book is intended to be a comfort & a companion through the difficult choices & decisions we must make for pre-op, post-op & hormone choices. Included in the book are checklists, humorous antidotes, "Bedtime Stories for Hyster Sisters" & photographic illustrations from the Land of Hyster. This book is neither anti-hyst or pro-hyst in nature. Rather, it is a book of kindness with medical concerns that each woman faces when she is told by her doctor that a hysterectomy may be necessary or an option.


Sisters

Sisters

Author: Daisy Johnson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0593188950

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR “[A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book.” —Financial Times “It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan.” —The New York Times Book Review “Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely.” —Time From a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of one darkly riveting sibling relationship, from the inside out. “One of her generation’s most intriguing authors” (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins. Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house. Meanwhile, outside, the sisters push boundaries of behavior—until a series of shocking encounters tests the limits of their shared experience, and forces shocking revelations about the girls’ past and future. Written with radically inventive language and imagery by an author whose work has been described as “entrancing” (The New Yorker), “a force of nature” (The New York Times Book Review), and “weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling” (Celeste Ng), Sisters is a one-two punch of wild fury and heartache—a taut, powerful, and deeply moving account of sibling love and what happens when two sisters must face each other’s darkest impulses.


Between Sisters

Between Sisters

Author: Kristin Hannah

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2003-06-03

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0345464249

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Bestselling author [Kristin] Hannah [brings] snap and a lot of warmth to a familiar lesson: that contentment comes from accepting each other’s flaws.”—People Years ago, Meghann Dontess made a terrible choice that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Now, Meghann is a highly successful attorney who doesn’t believe in intimacy—until she meets the one man who can change her mind. Claire Cavenaugh has fallen in love for the first time in her life. As her wedding day approaches, she prepares to face her strong-willed older sister. Reunited after more than two decades apart, these two women who believe they have nothing in common will try to become what they never were: a family. Tender, funny, bittersweet, and moving, Between Sisters skillfully explores the profound joys and sorrows shared by sisters, the mistakes made in the name of love, and the promise of redemption—all beautifully told by acclaimed author Kristin Hannah. “Enormously entertaining . . . Hannah has a nice ear for dialogue and a knack for getting the reader inside the characters’ heads.”—The Seattle Times “Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.”—Luanne Rice


The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters

The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters

Author: Julie Klam

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0735216444

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A Washington Post best nonfiction book pick of 2021 “It is biography as an expression of love.” – The New York Times New York Times–bestselling author Julie Klam’s funny and moving story of the Morris sisters, distant relations with mysterious pasts. Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the twentieth century the sisters’ parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their mother died. The father left the children in an orphanage and promised to send for them when he settled in California—a promise he never kept. One of the Morris sisters later became a successful Wall Street trader and advised Franklin Roosevelt. The sisters lived together in New York City, none of them married or had children, and one even had an affair with J. P. Morgan. The stories of these independent women intrigued Klam, but as she delved into them to learn more, she realized that the tales were almost completely untrue. The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the revealing account of what Klam discovered about her family—and herself—as she dug into the past. The deeper she went into the lives of the Morris sisters, the slipperier their stories became. And the more questions she had about what actually happened to them, the more her opinion of them evolved. Part memoir and part confessional, and told with the wit and honesty that are hallmarks of Klam’s books, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the fascinating and funny true story of one writer’s journey into her family’s past, the truths she brings to light, and what she learns about herself along the way.