Only Ever Yours
Only Ever Yours

Author: Louise O'Neill

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 2015-05-12

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1623654556

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Where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise O'Neill's world of Only Every Yours women are no longer born naturally, girls (called "eves") are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age. Freida and Isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions--wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure they stay in the top ten beautiful girls in their year. The alternatives--life as a concubine, or a chastity (teaching endless generations of girls)--are too horrible to contemplate. But as the intensity of final year takes hold, the pressure to be perfect mounts. Isabel starts to self-destruct, putting her beauty--her only asset--in peril. And then into this sealed female environment, the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride. Freida must fight for her future--even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known.

As Ever Yours
As Ever Yours

Author: Maxwell Evarts Perkins

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780271022543

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First time publications of letters from 25-year correspondence between famed Charles Scribner's Sons editor Max Perkins and Virginia socialite Elizabeth Lemmon.

Yours Ever
Yours Ever

Author: Thomas Mallon

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-12-07

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 030747741X

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A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly sharp reports from the French court, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tormented advice to his young daughter, the casually brilliant musings of Flannery O’Connor, the lustful boastings of Lord Byron, and the prison cries of Sacco and Vanzetti, all accompanied by Thomas Mallon’s own insightful commentary. From battlefield confessions to suicide notes, fan letters to hate mail, Yours Ever is an exuberant reintroduction to a vast and entertaining literature—a book that will help to revive, in the digital age, this glorious lost art.

Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale
Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale

Author: Florence Nightingale

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9780674270206

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For many, Florence Nightingale is the most famous woman of her day, second only perhaps to Queen Victoria. Celebrated and beloved by the public and her friends, considered an irritant by politicians and bureaucrats, the great reformer remains a figure of considerable controversy. In this full 'life in letters' we see her at first hand. Martha Vicinus and Bea Nergaard weave together a narrative account and a selection of her letters in such a way as to create--in Nightingale's own words--a fascinating portrayal of the woman, her career, and her concerns.

Yours Always
Yours Always

Author: Eleanor Bass

Publisher: Icon Books

Published: 2017-01-05

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1785781693

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Love letters are potent. They breathe. They speak. They can arouse, comfort, captivate. They can also cut deep. The powerful, deeply personal letters collected here reveal the painful underside of love. Witness Winston Churchill 'growl with anger to be treated with benevolent indifference' and Edith Piaf reel in the throes of a 'terrible' passion. Through the letters of literary icons Charlotte Brontë, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf, Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and statesmen Henry VIII and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Yours Always offers an unusually intimate insight into the lives of such illustrious figures. Love is revealed here in its many shades of disharmony and confusion: unrequited, uncertain, imbalanced, unconventional, thwarted, failed and forbidden. Love is not always rose-tinted, and Yours Always illuminates the sorrows that can accompany falling in, falling out, and staying in love. Includes letter to and from: Charlotte Brontë, Richard Burton, Lord Byron, Winston Churchill, Marie Curie, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Henry VIII, Ted Hughes, Graham Greene, Franz Kafka, Marilyn Monroe, Iris Murdoch, Edith Piaf, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Elizabeth Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats

Ever Yours
Ever Yours

Author: Gabriella Anderson

Publisher: Zebra Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780821774458

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In this entertaining spin on "Beauty and the Beast, " soon-to-be-bride Ivy St. Clair must deliver a package and a letter to the reclusive Earl of Tamberlake in order to collect an inheritance. But she never imagines that the brooding stranger may be her last chance at love. Original.

Always Never Yours
Always Never Yours

Author: Emily Wibberley

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-05-22

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0451478657

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"Every page bursts with humor, squee-inducing romance, and an abiding sense of the deep love and joy of its two writers . . . Always Never Yours is a necessary, feel-good addition to the YA canon.”—Entertainment Weekly Megan Harper is the girl before. All her exes find their one true love right after dating her. It's not a curse or anything, it's just the way things are. and Megan refuses to waste time feeling sorry for herself. Instead, she focuses on pursuing her next fling, directing theater, and fulfilling her dream school's acting requirement in the smallest role possible. But her plans quickly crumble when she's cast as none other than Juliet--yes, that Juliet--in her high school's production. It's a nightmare. Megan's not an actress and she's certainly not a Juliet. Then she meets Owen Okita, an aspiring playwright who agrees to help Megan catch the eye of a sexy stagehand in exchange for help writing his new script. Between rehearsals and contending with her divided family, Megan begins to notice Owen--thoughtful, unconventional, and utterly unlike her exes, and wonders: shouldn't a girl get to star in her own love story?

Things a Bright Girl Can Do
Things a Bright Girl Can Do

Author: Sally Nicholls

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2017-09-07

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1448188822

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Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book Prize Includes an exclusive preview of The Silent Stars Go By by Sally Nicholls Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for the vote. Evelyn is seventeen, and though she is rich and clever, she may never be allowed to follow her older brother to university. Enraged that she is expected to marry her childhood sweetheart rather than be educated, she joins the Suffragettes, and vows to pay the ultimate price for women's freedom. May is fifteen, and already sworn to the cause, though she and her fellow Suffragists refuse violence. When she meets Nell, a girl who's grown up in hardship, she sees a kindred spirit. Together and in love, the two girls start to dream of a world where all kinds of women have their place. But the fight for freedom will challenge Evelyn, May and Nell more than they ever could believe. As war looms, just how much are they willing to sacrifice?

Fur-Ever Yours, Booker Jones
Fur-Ever Yours, Booker Jones

Author: Betsy Duffey

Publisher: Puffin Books

Published: 2002-12

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780142302156

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Aspiring writer Booker Jones isn't happy. His parents have left Booker's older sister, Libba, in charge while they're on vacation, Booker's best friend, Germ, has suddenly become the most popular writer in school, and now Booker's got writer's block! Life is going from bad to worse, and there's nothing Booker can do to stop it-or is there? Author-to-be Booker Jones is back in this hilarious sequel to Utterly Yours, Booker Jones. "Booker is a thoughtful, creative and sympathetic character. . . . This funny, entertaining novel will appeal especially to boys." (School Library Journal)

Forever Yours, Faithfully
Forever Yours, Faithfully

Author: Lorrie Morgan

Publisher:

Published: 1998-11-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780517287040

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By turns passionate and desperate, tragic and triumphant--the life of Lorrie Morgan could easily have been lifted from the lyrics of a classic country song. Now, in FOREVER YOURS, FAITHFULLY, Lorrie shares all the pleasure and the pain of her remarkable career and her turbulent, consuming love for doomed, brilliant bluegrass star Keith Whitley. In a voice all her own, Lorrie takes us inside the country music world, where she has risen to become Nashville gold. Beloved, betrayed, and ultimately resilient, Lorrie Morgan gives us a painfully honest memoir about letting go and moving on. FOREVER YOURS, FAITHFULLY resonates with emotion and the power of the human spirit. "From the Paperback edition.