Searching for Sarah Rector

Searching for Sarah Rector

Author: Tonya Bolden

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2014-01-07

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1613125313

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The incredible and little-known story of Sarah Rector, once the wealthiest Black woman in America, from Coretta Scott King Honor Award winner Tonya Bolden Searching for Sarah Rector brings to light the intriguing mystery of Sarah Rector, who was born into an impoverished family in 1902 in Indian Territory and later was famously hailed by the Chicago Defender as “the wealthiest colored girl in the world.” Author Tonya Bolden sets Rector’s rags-to-riches tale against the backdrop of American history, including the creation of Indian Territory; the making of Oklahoma, with its Black towns and boomtowns; and the wild behavior of many greedy and corrupt adults. At the age of eleven, Sarah was a very rich young girl. Even so, she was powerless . . . helpless in the whirlwind of drama—and danger—that swirled around her. Then one day word came that she had disappeared. This is her story, and the story of other children like her, filled with ups and downs, bizarre goings-on, and a heap of crimes. Out of a trove of primary documents, including court and census records, as well as interviews with family members, Bolden painstakingly pieces together the events of Sarah’s life.


The Rector's Daughter

The Rector's Daughter

Author: F. M. Mayor

Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions

Published: 2021-11-10T14:54:00Z

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1774644312

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The Rector’s Daughter is the story of Mary Jocelyn, a woman who fears life is passing her by. Having lost her mother and her beloved invalid sister, Mary shares her days in sleepy Dedmayne with her father, the severe and distant Canon Jocelyn. Then, with the arrival in the village of Robert Herbert, her quiet, ordered existence is changed forever.


Girl at the Grave

Girl at the Grave

Author: Teri Bailey Black

Publisher: Tor Teen

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0765399482

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A debut author unearths the long-buried secrets of a small New England town in the 1850s in this richly atmospheric Gothic tale of murder, guilt, redemption, and finding love where it's least expected.


The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

The Girls of Slender Means (New Directions Classic)

Author: Muriel Spark

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1998-04-17

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0811221040

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"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."


Girl from the South

Girl from the South

Author: Joanna Trollope

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2003-07-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1101143908

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When Gillon comes back to her native Charleston, she has a young Englishman in tow. He has accompanied her on a lark, planning to take pictures. But he soon falls in love with the sights of South Carolina, with Gillon's family-and perhaps, with Gillon herself...From the acclaimed author of Marrying the Mistress, this is an unforgettable novel about feeling like a fish out of water-and finding those with whom we can breathe more easily.


Girls Dinner Club

Girls Dinner Club

Author: Jessie Elliot

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-06-09

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0061954020

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The love of Junie's life for the past year is suddenly acting like a crazed puppy. Celia's dad has found the most ridiculous woman in all of Manhattan—and decided, after fifteen years of being single, to date her. Danielle's hot-guy-in-a-band ex-boyfriend is trying to convince her that he's "changed." Sometimes living life is a recipe for disaster. Sometimes, girls just have to make their own recipes.


Girl Reading

Girl Reading

Author: Katie Ward

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2011-05-05

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0748119264

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An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist's servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. A woman reading in a Shoreditch bar catches the eye of a young man who takes her picture, and a Victorian medium holds a book that she barely acknowledges while she waits for the exposure.


The Goddess of Nothing At All

The Goddess of Nothing At All

Author: Cat Rector

Publisher: Tychis Media

Published: 2021-10

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9781988931104

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A dark fantasy LGBTQA+ Norse Myth Retelling from the eyes of Sigyn, Loki's wife. It challenges the ideas of right and wrong, fate and choice, love and loyalty and asks if we've been on the wrong side all along.


Who Wants to Marry a Mormon Girl?: Love Letters Series Book One

Who Wants to Marry a Mormon Girl?: Love Letters Series Book One

Author: Julie L. Spencer

Publisher: Love Letters

Published: 2019-02-20

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781797414157

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You will love this sweet and clean romance. One elegant leading lady and twenty hot guys. What could possibly go wrong?Michelle knew she wouldn't meet her forever husband on a reality dating show. This was just for fun. You never know what might happen when surrounded by twenty hot guys, none of whom shared her values.Running from his past, Ashton rides the waves to the pinnacle of his career as a professional surfer. He's just arrogant enough to think he stands a chance with the elegant leading lady playing the part of bachelorette on the dating show, Love Letters.Until he figures out she's a Mormon. Even before he makes the mistake of calling her out in front of the other guys he knows she'll never choose him. Good girls don't choose bad boys and there was no way he could hide his secrets from Michelle. Or could he?