Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download You Were There Before My Eyes PDF full book. Access full book title You Were There Before My Eyes by Maria Riva. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Maria Riva Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1639361405 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 448
Book Description
A richly imagined portrait of an immigrant woman in the heady and unpredictable first half of the twentieth century. Sweeping and panoramic, You Were There Before My Eyes is the epic and intimate story of a young woman who chafes at the stifling routine and tradition of her small, turn-of-the-century Italian village. When an opportunity presents itself for her to emigrate to America, her hunger for escape compels her to leave everything behind for the gleaming promises that await her and her young husband in Mr. Ford’s factories. Determined to survive, and perhaps even thrive, young Jane finds herself navigating not just a new language and country, but a world poised upon the edge of economic and social revolution—and war. As Jane searches for inner fulfillment while building young family, the tide of history ebbs and flows. From the chaos of Ellis Island to the melting pot of industrial Detroit, You Were There Before My Eyes spills over with colorful characters and vivid period details. Maria Riva paints an authentic portrait of immigrant America and poignantly captures the ever evolving nature of the American dream.
Author: Maria Riva Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1639361405 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 448
Book Description
A richly imagined portrait of an immigrant woman in the heady and unpredictable first half of the twentieth century. Sweeping and panoramic, You Were There Before My Eyes is the epic and intimate story of a young woman who chafes at the stifling routine and tradition of her small, turn-of-the-century Italian village. When an opportunity presents itself for her to emigrate to America, her hunger for escape compels her to leave everything behind for the gleaming promises that await her and her young husband in Mr. Ford’s factories. Determined to survive, and perhaps even thrive, young Jane finds herself navigating not just a new language and country, but a world poised upon the edge of economic and social revolution—and war. As Jane searches for inner fulfillment while building young family, the tide of history ebbs and flows. From the chaos of Ellis Island to the melting pot of industrial Detroit, You Were There Before My Eyes spills over with colorful characters and vivid period details. Maria Riva paints an authentic portrait of immigrant America and poignantly captures the ever evolving nature of the American dream.
Author: Caroline Bock Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin ISBN: 1250035678 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 303
Book Description
In Caroline Bock's Before My Eyes, Claire has spent the last few months taking care of her six-year-old sister, Izzy, as their mother lies in a hospital bed. Claire believes she has everything under control until she meets a guy online who appears to be a kindred spirit. Claire is initially flattered by the attention but when she meets Max, the shy state senator's son, her feelings become complicated. Working alongside Max at a beachfront food stand is Barkley. Lonely and obsessive, Barkley has been hearing a voice in his head. Narrated in turns by Claire, Max, and Barkley, Before My Eyes captures a moment when possibilities should be opening up, but instead everything teeters on the brink of destruction.
Author: Bert Cardullo Publisher: University Press of America ISBN: 9780819156372 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
This volume is a festschrift honoring film and theatre critic / teacher Stanley Kauffmann. The essays in this collection are by 18 of his more prominent former students and are divided into three parts: dramatic, theatrical, and film criticism.
Author: Michael Imperioli Publisher: Akashic Books ISBN: 1617756423 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
An outer-borough boy moves to the foreign land of Manhattan and befriends Lou Reed, in a novel by the Emmy-winning actor and screenwriter: “A winner.”—Library Journal Matthew is a sixteen-year-old living in Jackson Heights, Queens, in 1976. After he loses his two most important male role models, his father and grandfather, his mother uses her inheritance to uproot Matthew and herself to a posh apartment building in Manhattan. Although only three miles from his boyhood home, “the city” is a completely new and strange world. Soon, he befriends (and becomes a quasi-assistant to) Lou Reed, who lives with his transgender girlfriend in the same building. And the drug-addled, artistic/shamanic musician will eventually become an unorthodox father figure to Matthew, as he moves toward adulthood, adjusts to a new life, and falls head over heels for a girl wise beyond her years. “Imperioli can definitely write, and he gets high marks for the verisimilitude and empathy that he evokes.”—Booklist (starred review) “A coming-of-age tale dashed with relatable angst and humor.”—Entertainment Weekly “Some fictional trips into 1970s New York abound with nostalgia; this novel memorably opts for grit and heartbreak.”—Kirkus Reviews
Author: S. Marie Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1466903252 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 213
Book Description
Rusty Garnet, award-winning actor known for his aggressive sex appeal had finally met a woman with whom he could be happy spending the rest of his life with. Elsie was plain and down-to-earth. Hardly the type of woman the tabloids would link to Rusty. As a matter of fact, most men took his self-assuredness as cold. Over time Rusty learned Elsie was hiding a tender heart. They started as friends that grew into something more. Their love was devastated when Elsie had a serious accident. If she survived, she might never be the same again.
Author: Jonathan Bryan Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Ltd. ISBN: 1911600796 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 125
Book Description
Can you imagine not being able to speak or communicate? The silence, the loneliness, the pain. But, inside you disappear to magical places, and even meet your best friend there. However, most of the time you remain imprisoned within the isolation. Waiting, longing, hoping. Until someone realises your potential and discovers your key, so your unlocking can begin. Now you are free, flying like a wild bird in the open sky. A voice for the voiceless. Jonathan Bryan has severe cerebral palsy, a condition that makes him incapable of voluntary movement or speech. He was locked inside his own mind, aware of the outside world but unable to fully communicate with it until he found a way by using his eyes to laboriously choose individual letters, and through this make his thoughts known. In Eye can Write, we read of his intense passion for life, his mischievous sense of fun, his hopes, his fears and what it's like to be him. This is a powerful book from an incredible young writer whose writing ability defies age or physical disability - a truly inspirational figure. Foreword by Sir Michael Morpurgo A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Jonathan Bryan's charity, Teach Us Too. http://www.teachustoo.org.uk/
Author: Wendy Etherington Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1426875770 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 209
Book Description
At Last by Liz Allison & Wendy Etherington Charleston blueblood and Double S racing team owner Gil Sizemore has always been a maverick. And small-town café owner Sheila Trueblood is far from immune to his legendary charms. Gil is doing everything he can to melt her resistance, but she can't risk trusting him. Because once he discovers her secret nothing will be the same…. End of the Line by Jean Brashear On his way to becoming the next NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion, Bart Branch could have his pick of women. But the top driver is intrigued only by the new waitress in town. What he doesn't know is that Mellie Donovan is on the run—and she's keeping a shocking secret that will change everything.
Author: Derek Raymond Publisher: Profile Books ISBN: 1847655785 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the case is assigned to a nameless detective sergeant, a tough-talking cynic and fearless loner from the Department of Unexplained Deaths at the Factory police station. Working from cassette tapes left behind in the dead man's property, our narrator must piece together the history of his blighted existence and discover the agents of its cruel end. What he doesn't expect is that digging for the truth will demand plenty of lying, and that the most terrible of villains will also prove to be the most attractive. In the first of six police procedurals that comprise the Factory series, Derek Raymond spins a riveting, and vividly human crime drama. Relentlessly pursuing justice for the dispossessed, his detective narrator treads where few others dare: in the darkest corners of London, a city of sin plagued by unemployment, racism and vice, and peopled by a cast of low-lifes, all utterly convincing and brought to life by Raymond's pitch-perfect dialogue.
Author: Brittany Adelle Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1105677087 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 253
Book Description
Still holding onto the guilt of having a child by her psychotic ex-boyfriend, can young mother Sierra find the strength to move on with Morgan, a carefree Californian who seems to have his life in order? Or will her baby's father go to such horrible lengths to keep them apart, that their new found relationship ends before it can barely begin?
Author: Maria Riva
Author: Maria Riva
Author: Caroline Bock
Author: Bert Cardullo
Author: Michael Imperioli
Author: S. Marie
Author: Dick Schaap
Author: Jonathan Bryan
Author: Wendy Etherington
Author: Derek Raymond
Author: Brittany Adelle