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Author: Cindy Madara
Publisher: Bookbaby
Published: 2017-08-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781543906974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRuby's Peaches is a timeless picture book set within the seasons on a peach and apple farm; from the bare peach branches in winter to the pink umbrella blossoms of spring. The story presents the wonders of life by illustrating growth. As the fruit grows on the trees, Ruby grows as she begins to learn to read.
Author: Jaye Robin Brown
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-08-30
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0062271016
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A sweet, sexy, honest teen romance that just happens to involve two girls—all the more charming for being so very ordinary.”—Kirkus A Kirkus Best Book of the Year! A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year! A Bustle Best Young Adult Book of the Year! 3 starred reviews! Joanna meets the perfect girl for her and must decide whether to break a promise that could change everything for her and her family or lose out on love in this charming young adult romance that’s perfect for fans of Julie Murphy’s Dumplin’ and Becky Albertalli’s Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from Atlanta to the more conservative Rome, Georgia, he asks Jo to do the impossible: to lie low for the rest of her senior year. And Jo reluctantly agrees. Although it is (mostly) much easier for Jo to fit in as a straight girl, things get complicated when she meets Mary Carlson, the oh-so-tempting sister of her new friend at school. But Jo couldn’t possibly think of breaking her promise to her dad. Even if she’s starting to fall for the girl. Even if there’s a chance Mary Carlson might be interested in her, too. Right?
Author: C. Thornton
Publisher:
Published: 2015-05-31
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781925110791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRed-fleshed peaches are far rarer than the white-fleshed or yellow-fleshed types. In some countries they are almost impossible to find. How they spread from China to other parts of the world is an interesting story, partially shrouded in mystery. Their colour sets these fruits apart - the deep ruby shade of their flesh make them spectacular additions to recipes. Their flavour, too, is unique. Moreover, red-fleshed peaches have numerous health benefits. Rich in antioxidant anthocyanins and flavonoids, they possess qualities that both heal and protect the human body.
Author: Edwin Shrake
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maurine H. Beasley
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2017-04-11
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1498519504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the story of Ruby A. Black, a feminist who broke new ground for women in Washington journalism in the 1920s and 1930s as a correspondent for a Puerto Rican newspaper and the first biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt. It offers access to the secret correspondence that shows how Black used her friendship with Roosevelt to advance the political career of Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rico's first elected governor. The book describes Black’s effort, ultimately unsuccessful, to become both a well-regarded journalist and a political operative in the nation’s capital, a feat particularly difficult for a woman. It contends Black’s closeness to Roosevelt proved both a help and a hindrance to Black’s stature as a journalist.
Author: Masha D'yans
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 0545225000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA little girl imagines that she is a queen of a sparkling winter world where her dog, Rocket, is her knight in barking armor.
Author: Cynthia Bond
Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 2015-02-10
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0804188246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection, the epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her. This beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction. Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby Bell, “the kind of pretty it hurt to look at,” has suffered beyond imagining, so as soon as she can, she flees suffocating Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. Ruby quickly winds her way into the ripe center of the city—the darkened piano bars and hidden alleyways of the Village—all the while hoping for a glimpse of the red hair and green eyes of her mother. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, thirty-year-old Ruby finds herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood. With the terrifying realization that she might not be strong enough to fight her way back out again, Ruby struggles to survive her memories of the town’s dark past. Meanwhile, Ephram must choose between loyalty to the sister who raised him and the chance for a life with the woman he has loved since he was a boy. Full of life, exquisitely written, and suffused with the pastoral beauty of the rural South, Ruby is a transcendent novel of passion and courage. This wondrous page-turner rushes through the red dust and gossip of Main Street, to the pit fire where men swill bootleg outside Bloom’s Juke, to Celia Jennings’s kitchen, where a cake is being made, yolk by yolk, that Ephram will use to try to begin again with Ruby. Utterly transfixing, with unforgettable characters, riveting suspense, and breathtaking, luminous prose, Ruby offers an unflinching portrait of man’s dark acts and the promise of the redemptive power of love. Ruby was a finalist for the PEN America Robert Bingham Debut Novel Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and an Indie Next Pick.
Author: Moni Mohsin
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2020-12-21
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9351185524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRuby Rauf is an idealistic, industrious scholarship student with a fixed plan. She is going to ace her exams and get a decent job so she never has to suffer the daily degradation of poverty again. Yet, when she meets the compelling actor-turned-politician Saif Haq, her world is upended. Dazzled by his charisma, inspired by his zeal, she quits her degree midway to join his campaign as his social media manager. Ruby soon discovers that politics, even with a leader as upright as Saif Haq, is a moral minefield. Diligent, sincere but desperately naïve, Ruby longs to do the right thing but struggles at first to square her innate integrity with the difficult choices her job demands. As she wades deeper into the quagmire of political intrigue and the savage world of social media, her values grow more flexible, her methods more ruthless. She out-thinks allies and rivals to deliver brilliant results. Resented and admired by her colleagues, favoured by Saif, Ruby appears unstoppable-until one day when Saif asks her to prove her loyalty by making the most painful sacrifice of all. With quicksilver dialogue, shrewd political insight and a thoughtful take on the MeToo debate, this sparkling novel reveals Moni Mohsin on top satirical form.
Author: Tanita S. Davis
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2011-01-25
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0375850775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeet Mare, a World War II veteran and a grandmother like no other. She was once a willful teenager who escaped her less than perfect life in the deep South and lied about her age to join the African American Battalion of the Women's Army Corps. Now she is driving her granddaughters—two willful teenagers in their own rite—on a cross-country road trip. The girls are initially skeptical of Mare's flippy wigs and stilletos, but they soon find themselves entranced by the story she has to tell, and readers will be too. Told in alternating chapters, half of which follow Mare through her experiences as a WAC and half of which follow Mare and her granddaughters on the road in the present day, this novel introduces readers to a larger-than-life character and a fascinating chapter in African American history.
Author: Jane Carling
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-10-27
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1326059076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRuby's New Coat begins in London when, for one night only, Ruby Biggs forgets she is engaged to be married. A V2 rocket hits a London pub and Ruby's life is turned upside down in more ways than one, as she is tumbled into a doorway and dragged into the bowels of Selfridges by a mysterious and enigmatic stranger. Passion erupts and a connection is made. Her rescuer, Loukas, is from Crete and has to return, where he discovers terrible atrocities committed by both the Germans and the Cretans against each other. Meanwhile, Ruby is in trouble, even more so after her fiancé's sister reveals a shocking secret. When her father returns from the war to discover his daughter has been "carrying on with a foreigner," Ruby has no choice but to leave England. She throws caution to the wind and moves to Crete where she begins a new life. Combining fiction with historical fact, this romantic tale has twists and turns and heals scars spanning ten years of conflict.
