The Lady with the Purple Hat
The Lady with the Purple Hat

Author: Otilia Greco

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2017-03-29

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1532013205

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Ten years ago, Daisy left her husband, Bernard, to create a new life for herself. But now as their divorce proceedings continue to drag on and Bernard battles terminal cancer, Daisy determines she would rather be his widow than his ex-wife and decides to play with fate. After she dons an outlandish large purple hat to disguise her face, Daisy glides through the hospital corridors, hell-bent on poisoning her husband to accelerate his death. When she finally arrives at his door and opens it, she is shocked to see a woman sitting by his bedside. With her plan foiled, Daisy rushes out of the room as she transforms from the hunter into the hunted. Still obsessed with ending Bernards life, Daisy retreats into her memories, unaware that a surprise is waiting in the shadows. Now only time will tell if fate will intervene to save Daisy or if she will lose her soul to the dark side, where it can never be retrieved. In this contemporary thriller, a woman intent on ending her husbands life is propelled on a journey through her memories that leads her to an unexpected truth.

The Lady in the Purple Hat
The Lady in the Purple Hat

Author: Carol Colbert

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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The Lady in the Purple Hat is set in Southwest Detroit in the summer of 1962. Twins Nelly and Niles Collins didn't have many financial advantages growing up. Their widowed mother had to work two jobs to support them. What they did have was a loving mother and good friends who would have their backs no matter what. Who was The Lady in the Purple Hat? They formed a club to catch the ghost lady and suddenly the entire neighborhood got involved. By the end of the summer every one of their lives were enriched by the bonds they formed before all of their lives went into different directions.

Warning
Warning

Author: Jenny Joseph

Publisher: Souvenir Press

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 180081142X

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'Utterly charming and uplifting' The Good Book Guide Voted Britain's favourite poem, 'Warning', written in 1961, is known and loved the world over for its message of old age as a time for indulgence and fun. In the poem's respectable middle-aged woman, as she imagines herself in old age as a cheeky rebel with outrageous clothes and dotty behaviour, poet Jenny Joseph has created a character whose thoughts have been quoted at conferences and funerals, used to cheer up sick friends and remembered with pleasure by children and adults alike around the world. Here, 'Warning' appears as a beautiful updated edition with new illustrations; the perfect gift for a friend or relative who wants to grow older free from expectations, with a joyful and rebellious spirit.

Corbilina and the Purple Lady
Corbilina and the Purple Lady

Author: Dorothy M. Pritchett

Publisher: BookLogix

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13: 1610052692

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The language children hear is too often one of hate, anger, and prejudice. Corbilina, a little fairy, teaches children a valuable lesson by introducing them to another language—one of compassion and kindness. This language is called heart language. In this story, Corbilina, who has no voice, shows a young child and her grandmother how kindness transforms sadness whenever you listen with respect. Children learn how actions, not just words, demonstrate compassion. Corbilina encourages kindness to the environment by leaving heart shapes in nature, which remind children and adults to value Planet Earth. Children will not only enjoy the story but will engage their imaginations when they answer creative questions at the end of the story. These questions open the door for conversations to build self-esteem and to encourage greater awareness and concern for the needs of others.

Alive and Kicking at All Ages
Alive and Kicking at All Ages

Author: Ulla Kriebernegg

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 3839425824

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The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has shown that we are aged by culture, but we are also culturally made ill when we age. The cultural ambiguity of aging can thus deconstruct negative images of old age as physical decrepitude. This volume investigates the topic of health within the matrix of time and experience by addressing issues such as how our understanding of health influences our notion of agency within a subversive deconstruction of normative age concepts, and what role the notion of health plays in such an interaction.

Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau
Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau

Author: Andrea Beaty

Publisher: ABRAMS

Published: 2014-09-02

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1613126816

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“An eminently stylish tale” from the creators of Ada Twist, Scientist, the #1 New York Times bestseller that’s now a Netflix series (Publishers Weekly). In a three-story house with a shop down below, lived the world’s finest hat maker, Madame Chapeau. Like the Lady herself, all her hats were refined. Brilliantly singular. One of a kind. So begins the tale of a lonely hat maker who matches customers to the perfect hat but lacks her own perfect match in life. Once a year, on her birthday, Madame Chapeau ventures out in her favorite bonnet to dinner. This time, a crow snatches her hat and flies away. Mon dieu! As she chases the crow through the streets of Paris, a baker, a policeman, a cowboy, and others offer her their own hats to wear. None of them are quite right, though, until one special little girl offers her a hat “knitted with love and [her] best birthday wish.” From the bestselling team behind Iggy Peck, Architect and Rosie Revere, Engineer comes this delightful and very stylish story about love, community, and friendship, with some fancy hats thrown in for good measure. “Beaty carries the bounces and lilts to the very last page. Roberts’ colorful, exaggerated hats (many of which are modeled on real designs) whimsically adorn the multicultural Parisian public . . . The underlying suggestion that no one is as alone as they believe is lovely enough, but the fun of reading this aloud elevates it even more.” —Kirkus Reviews