Author: Drude Krog Janson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801868818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
With this edition of A Saloonkeeper's Daughter, an important and prescient work of American fiction is finally available in English.
A Saloonkeeper's Daughter
Author: Drude Krog Janson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801868818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
With this edition of A Saloonkeeper's Daughter, an important and prescient work of American fiction is finally available in English.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801868818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
With this edition of A Saloonkeeper's Daughter, an important and prescient work of American fiction is finally available in English.
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Author: Kim Edwards
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143037149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love Kim Edwards’s stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century—in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that winter night long ago. A family drama, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter explores every mother's silent fear: What would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? It is also an astonishing tale of love and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets are finally uncovered.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143037149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love Kim Edwards’s stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century—in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that winter night long ago. A family drama, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter explores every mother's silent fear: What would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? It is also an astonishing tale of love and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets are finally uncovered.
... The Curse of Drink
Author: Elton Raymond Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholics
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alcoholics
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A Girl of the Klondike
Author: Victoria Cross
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465532528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465532528
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A Souvenir Selection of the Anti-saloon Addresses Delivered at the Annual Congress of the Ohio Anti-saloon League at Columbus, Dec. 11-13, 1894
Author: John A. Watterson (bp. of Columbus.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Sea Keeper's Daughters
Author: Lisa Wingate
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414388276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours. From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt's WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny. Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a decaying Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina's Outer Banks may provide just the ray of hope she needs. But things at the Excelsior are more complicated than they seem. Whitney's estranged stepfather is entrenched on the third floor, and the downstairs tenants are determined to save the historic building. Searching through years of stored family heirlooms may be Whitney's only hope of quick cash, but will the discovery of an old necklace and a Depression-era love story change everything?
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1414388276
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours. From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt's WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny. Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a decaying Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina's Outer Banks may provide just the ray of hope she needs. But things at the Excelsior are more complicated than they seem. Whitney's estranged stepfather is entrenched on the third floor, and the downstairs tenants are determined to save the historic building. Searching through years of stored family heirlooms may be Whitney's only hope of quick cash, but will the discovery of an old necklace and a Depression-era love story change everything?
Vera
Author: Carol Edgarian
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150115754X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian delivers “an all-encompassing and enthralling” (Oprah Daily) novel featuring an unforgettable heroine coming of age in the aftermath of catastrophe, and her quest for love and reinvention. Meet Vera Johnson, fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco’s most legendary bordello. Vera has grown up straddling two worlds—the madam’s alluring sphere, replete with tickets to the opera, surly henchmen, and scant morality, and the quiet domestic life of the family paid to raise her. On the morning of the great quake, Vera’s worlds collide. As the city burns and looters vie with the injured, orphaned, and starving, Vera and her guileless sister, Pie, are cast adrift. Disregarding societal norms and prejudices, Vera begins to imagine a new kind of life. She collaborates with Tan, her former rival, and forges an unlikely family of survivors, navigating through the disaster together. “A character-driven novel about family, power, and loyalty, (San Francisco Chronicle), Vera brings to life legendary characters—tenor Enrico Caruso, indicted mayor Eugene Schmitz and boss Abe Ruef, tabloid celebrity Alma Spreckels. This “brilliantly conceived and beautifully realized” (Booklist, starred review) tale of improbable outcomes and alliances takes hold from the first page, with remarkable scenes of devastation, renewal, and joy. Vera celebrates the audacious fortitude of its young heroine, who discovers an unexpected strength in unprecedented times.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150115754X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian delivers “an all-encompassing and enthralling” (Oprah Daily) novel featuring an unforgettable heroine coming of age in the aftermath of catastrophe, and her quest for love and reinvention. Meet Vera Johnson, fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco’s most legendary bordello. Vera has grown up straddling two worlds—the madam’s alluring sphere, replete with tickets to the opera, surly henchmen, and scant morality, and the quiet domestic life of the family paid to raise her. On the morning of the great quake, Vera’s worlds collide. As the city burns and looters vie with the injured, orphaned, and starving, Vera and her guileless sister, Pie, are cast adrift. Disregarding societal norms and prejudices, Vera begins to imagine a new kind of life. She collaborates with Tan, her former rival, and forges an unlikely family of survivors, navigating through the disaster together. “A character-driven novel about family, power, and loyalty, (San Francisco Chronicle), Vera brings to life legendary characters—tenor Enrico Caruso, indicted mayor Eugene Schmitz and boss Abe Ruef, tabloid celebrity Alma Spreckels. This “brilliantly conceived and beautifully realized” (Booklist, starred review) tale of improbable outcomes and alliances takes hold from the first page, with remarkable scenes of devastation, renewal, and joy. Vera celebrates the audacious fortitude of its young heroine, who discovers an unexpected strength in unprecedented times.
Cyclopedia of Religious Anecdotes
SCARLET WOMAN
Author: Barbara Faith
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459288173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Scarlet Woman Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks and then marrying the son of the wealthiest man in town had made Holly Moran the center of gossip. So she'd left home. But even now, years later, returning for a visit as a widow, Holly was stirring up more trouble than any woman could survive…all due to mesmerizing Clint Van Arsdale. Holly had avoided Clint for years. Partly because of his reaction to her marrying his brother and partly because of his accusations about his brother's death—but mostly because of the simmering attraction between them. The heat that swirled around this scarlet woman was about to explode—but who would get burned?
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459288173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Scarlet Woman Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks and then marrying the son of the wealthiest man in town had made Holly Moran the center of gossip. So she'd left home. But even now, years later, returning for a visit as a widow, Holly was stirring up more trouble than any woman could survive…all due to mesmerizing Clint Van Arsdale. Holly had avoided Clint for years. Partly because of his reaction to her marrying his brother and partly because of his accusations about his brother's death—but mostly because of the simmering attraction between them. The heat that swirled around this scarlet woman was about to explode—but who would get burned?
Stories of Hell's Commerce
Author: Elton Raymond Shaw (ed.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description