Author: Edith Van Dyne
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Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Aunt Jane's nieces go to work campaigning for their cousin who is running for Congress against a powerful incumbent, and solve a mystery along the way.

Author: L. Frank Baum
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775452549
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Inspired by Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, this book, which Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum wrote under the pen name Edith Van Dyne, is much in the same vein as Alcott's cozy coming-of-age tale. The first in a series, the story of this novel follows three nieces who are summoned to their wealthy aunt's estate so she can decide to whom she will bequeath her sizable inheritance. Although the girls couldn't be more different personality-wise, a series of calamities brings them closer together. Aunt Hane's Nieces is a delightful read for fans of classic young adult fiction.

Author: Edith Van Dyne
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Aunt Jane's nieces make their debuts in New York's Fashionable Society and solve a mystery.

Author: Lyman Frank Baum
Publisher:
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John picks up the continuing story of the three cousins Patsy Doyle, Beth De Graf, and Louise Merrick, and their family; the plot of the book begins three days after the wedding of Louise and her fiance Arthur Weldon. The sixth novel begins with the cousins' Uncle John getting an inspiration for a new adventure: in this case, the family will escape a cold New York City winter by taking a trip to southern California, the land of "sunshine and roses."

Author: Edith Van Dyne
Publisher:
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Category : Young women
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Uncle John and his nieces vacation at their farm in Millville where they start a local newspaper and investigate a mystery.

Author: Lyman Frank Baum
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Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Edith Van Dyne
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Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Three American girl cousins leave the comforts of home to join the Red Cross and go abroad to nurse wounded soldiers during World War I.

Author: Maggie Nelson
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593766580
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Part elegy, part true crime story, this memoir-in-verse from the author of the award-winning The Argonauts expands the notion of how we tell stories and what form those stories take through the story of a murdered woman and the mystery surrounding her last hours. Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson’s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane’s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane’s death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche. Exploring the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related “true crime” books such as The Michigan Murders and Killer Among Us, and fragments from Jane’s own diaries written when she was 13 and 21, its eight sections cover Jane’s childhood and early adulthood, her murder and its investigation, the direct and diffuse effect of her death on Nelson’s girlhood and sisterhood, and a trip to Michigan Nelson took with her mother (Jane’s sister) to retrace the path of Jane’s final hours. Each piece in Jane has its own form, and the movement from each piece to the next--along with the white space that surrounds each fragment--serve as important fissures, disrupting the tabloid, “page-turner” quality of the story, and eventually returning the reader to deeper questions about girlhood, empathy, identification, and the essentially unknowable aspects of another’s life and death. Equal parts a meditation on violence (serial, sexual violence in particular), and a conversation between the living and the dead, Jane’s powerful and disturbing subject matter, combined with its innovations in genre, shows its readers what poetry is capable of--what kind of stories it can tell, and how it can tell them.

Author: Sophia Hillan
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Limited
ISBN: 9780856408687
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Tells the story of Jane Austen's nieces and their extraordinary journey from the ordered world of Regency England to the turbulent upheaval of nineteenth-century Ireland.

Author: Lyman Frank Baum
Publisher:
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Category : Aunts
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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