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Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1616203021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHaving suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780151012046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sequel to the now-classic "Ellen Foster" picks up Ellen's life five years later, at 15, with a new mother, a home, a mind too large for her surroundings, and a brave and compassionate integrity.
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 1997-01-12
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1565127005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo unforgettable characters, Jack Ernest Stokes, known as Blinking Jack, and his wife, Ruby Pitt Woodrow Stokes, tell the story of their years together. Jack was forty and Ruby only twenty when they were married. For twenty-five years they lived together, man and wife, until Ruby died of lung cancer. A LITERARY GUILD AND DOUBLEDAY BOOK CLUB selection.
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2012-10-17
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1616203080
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Filled with lively humor, compassion, and intimacy." —Alice Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review "When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy." With that opening sentence we enter the childhood world of one of the most appealing young heroines in contemporary fiction. Her courage, her humor, and her wisdom are unforgettable as she tells her own story with stunning honesty and insight. An Oprah Book Club selection, this powerful novel has become an American classic. Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction.
Author: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781558610200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was the most important and the most popular black feminist abolitionist writer and activist of the nineteenth century. A Brighter Day Coming, the most comprehensive collection of her works, includes all the poems from Harper's extant original volumes, plus many that have never been collected and one that was discovered in manuscript; speeches; and a selection of prose, including excerpts from the novel Iola Leroy and the serialized novel Fancy Etchings, and a generous group of letters ..."--Back cover.
Author: Ellen Post Foster
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a book about refining the technique of skiing. It shows how to carve true arcs on traditional skis and carve extreme arcs on deep sidecut skis. It aims to tone a skier's skills to the maximum, whether he is a beginner or an accomplished skier.
Author: Jim Booth
Publisher: Watchmaker Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780972178600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so."--Back cover
Author: Kitty Salsberg
Publisher:
Published: 2015-09
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781897470879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrive in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which has taken both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto is fresh in their minds, as are their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto are far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigate their new surroundings, they each grow fiercely strong and independent, while holding onto the comfort that they will be Never Far Apart.
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780783801155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most talked-about and endearing first novels in years bears the story of a female Huck Finn and her search for a true home. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-08-06
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 1442471808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
