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Author: Lorraine Tosiello
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Published: 2019-10-16
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781949598117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLouisa May Alcott, at the height of her celebrity in 1875, plunges into the dichotomous life of New York and straddles the worlds of the literary elite and the urban destitute, causing her to reassess the worth of fame and fortune.
Author: Lorraine Tosiello
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Published: 2022-04-05
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ISBN-13: 9781955904032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harriet Reisen
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2010-10-25
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1429928816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPBS and HBO documentary scriptwriter Harriet Reisen reveals the extraordinary woman behind the beloved American classic as never before. Louisa May Alcott is the perfect gift for fans of Little Women and of Greta Gerwig's adaptation starring Meryl Streep, Emma Watson, and Saoirse Ronan. “At last, Louisa May Alcott has the biography that admirers of Little Women might have hoped for.” —The Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of the Year A fresh, modern take on the remarkable Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Reisen's vivid biography explores the author's life in the context of her works, many of which are to some extent autobiographical. Although Alcott secretly wrote pulp fiction, harbored radical abolitionist views, and served as a Civil War nurse, her novels went on to sell more copies than those of Herman Melville and Henry James. Stories and details culled from Alcott's journals, together with revealing letters to family, friends, and publishers, plus recollections of her famous contemporaries, provide the basis for this lively account of the author's classic rags-to-riches tale.
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0820317403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects the writer's letters, revealing her observations, struggles, and triumphs
Author: Dr. Jay and Sons
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2021-02-08
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1664218645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBridge the gap between God’s Word and the journey called our lives with this devotional. Each entry offers an opening Scripture and a narrative of meaning or purpose. The authors include an element called “truth is,” which highlights how each passage relates to everyday life. Most of us do not adhere to or accept anything—unless we can envision ourselves in the situation. Explaining how passages from the Bible apply to our daily lives is what makes this book so powerful. In exploring what it means to know, love, and serve Jesus Christ, the authors answer questions such as: Why do so many ailments affect us on the path to eternal life? What is forgiveness—and why is it so important? How do our attitudes shape our outcomes? How can we change ourselves and influence one person at a time? Each weekly devotional ends with a list of verses and chapters for meditation, so you can apply what you’ve learned and move closer to the Lord.
Author: Francis J. Suttill
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014-11-03
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 075095762X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn May 1940 Francis Suttill was commissioned into the East Surrey regiment of the British Army. He was later recruited by the SOE, and after being trained during the summer of 1942, Suttill was chosen to create a new resistance network in northern France, based in Paris, with the operational name Physician. His code name was Prosper and his assumed identity was François Desprées. The circuit of agents grew fast until June 1943, when the Gestapo discovered letters, instructions, crystal sets and addresses in a car and false ID papers in an apartment. Over the next three months, more then eighty agents died or were killed, mostly in concentration camps. Major Suttill DSO would be killed in Sachsenhausen in May 1945. Rumours of betrayal by MI6, even of the involvement of Winston Churchill, have abounded ever since. For the first time, Major Suttill's son tells the whole story of the tragedy basing his meticulous research on primary sources.
Author: Mary Sharratt
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2006-01-13
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0547346883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “memorable [and] entertaining” novel of three strong women in 1920s small-town Minnesota by the author of Revelations (The Washington Post Book World). Winner of the Willa Literary Award Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award In a Midwestern farming community in 1923, as book-loving Penny enters adolescence, her mother, Barbara, pulls her out of school to send her to work. Destined to become a cleaning woman like her mother, Penny sees no escape from her bleak existence—until a scandalous figure arrives in the town of Minerva, Minnesota: Cora, very pregnant, very headstrong, and very alone, has come to make a home on her grandfather’s farm. Intrigued by this curious new resident, Penny sets out to work for Cora, setting into motion events that will change multiple lives. Drawing on her mother’s and grandmother’s stories of Minnesota farm life in the early twentieth century, acclaimed author Mary Sharratt has created a suspenseful and moving novel about the strength of women and the unexpected friendships that form between them. “A paean to the bond between mothers and daughters . . . engrossing.” —Booklist “Wonderful.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times-bestselling author of With or Without You
Author: Susan Cheever
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-11-08
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1416569928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the life of Louisa May Alcott, discussing her family, relationships, works, rejection of marriage, and other related topics.
Author: John Reed
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2012-07-31
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1612191266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unauthorized companion to George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a controversial parable about September 11th by one of fiction’s most inventive and provocative writers Written in 14 days shortly after the September 11th attacks, Snowball’s Chance is an outrageous and unauthorized companion to George Orwell’s Animal Farm, in which exiled pig Snowball returns to the farm, takes charge, and implements a new world order of untrammeled capitalism. Orwell’s “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” has morphed into the new rallying cry: “All animals are born equal—what they become is their own affair.” A brilliant political satire and literary parody, John Reed’s Snowball’s Chance caused an uproar on publication in 2002, denounced by Christopher Hitchens, and barely dodging a lawsuit from the Orwell estate. Now, a decade later, with America in wars on many fronts, readers can judge anew the visionary truth of Reed’s satirical masterpiece.
Author: Hannah Kent
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
Published: 2017-09-19
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0316243930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of Burial Rites, "a literary novel with the pace and tension of a thriller that takes us on a frightening journey towards an unspeakable tragedy" (Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water). Based on true events in nineteenth century Ireland, Hannah Kent's startling new novel tells the story of three women, drawn together to rescue a child from a superstitious community. Nora, bereft after the death of her husband, finds herself alone and caring for her grandson Micheal, who can neither speak nor walk. A handmaid, Mary, arrives to help Nora just as rumors begin to spread that Micheal is a changeling child who is bringing bad luck to the valley. Determined to banish evil, Nora and Mary enlist the help of Nance, an elderly wanderer who understands the magic of the old ways. Set in a lost world bound by its own laws, The Good People is Hannah Kent's startling new novel about absolute belief and devoted love. Terrifying, thrilling and moving in equal measure, this follow-up to Burial Rites shows an author at the height of her powers.
