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Author: Mary Ellen Dennis Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1402246331 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 483
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A fast-paced and passionate retelling of a story of two timeless lovers who would die for each other. If only they didn't have to... By day, Rand Remington is a gentleman. But at night he robs the rich to make life better for the poor. He doesn't concern himself with the consequences...until he meets Elizabeth Wyndham. Elizabeth Wyndham is a rarity-a young lady who writes bestselling novels. But with her sharp tongue and quick temper, she's nothing like her vapid, charming heroines. Rand and Elizabeth are drawn unstoppably together, until the fateful night when the men trying to capture Rand use Elizabeth as living bait... Praise for The Landlord's Black-Eyed Daughter: "A swift and bawdy tale...and manages a happy ending as well."—Mary Jo Putney, New York Times bestselling author of Never Less Than a Lady "A fast pace, fluid writing, and an exceptionally well-crafted plot..."—Library Journal "An exhilarating romp throughout 18th century England, with adventure at every turn and spine-tingling suspense."—Midwest Book Review "This wonderful retelling of Alfred Noyes's The Highwayman, is quite simply, remarkable."—Booklist starred review
Author: Mary Ellen Dennis Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1402246331 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 483
Book Description
A fast-paced and passionate retelling of a story of two timeless lovers who would die for each other. If only they didn't have to... By day, Rand Remington is a gentleman. But at night he robs the rich to make life better for the poor. He doesn't concern himself with the consequences...until he meets Elizabeth Wyndham. Elizabeth Wyndham is a rarity-a young lady who writes bestselling novels. But with her sharp tongue and quick temper, she's nothing like her vapid, charming heroines. Rand and Elizabeth are drawn unstoppably together, until the fateful night when the men trying to capture Rand use Elizabeth as living bait... Praise for The Landlord's Black-Eyed Daughter: "A swift and bawdy tale...and manages a happy ending as well."—Mary Jo Putney, New York Times bestselling author of Never Less Than a Lady "A fast pace, fluid writing, and an exceptionally well-crafted plot..."—Library Journal "An exhilarating romp throughout 18th century England, with adventure at every turn and spine-tingling suspense."—Midwest Book Review "This wonderful retelling of Alfred Noyes's The Highwayman, is quite simply, remarkable."—Booklist starred review
Author: Alfred Noyes Publisher: Oxford University Press - Children ISBN: 0192738054 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 39
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The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding- Riding-riding- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door. In Alfred Noyes's thrilling poem, charged with drama and tension, we ride with the highwayman and recoil from the terrible fate that befalls him and his sweetheart Bess, the landlord's daughter. The vivid imagery of the writing is matched by Charles Keeping's haunting illustrations which won him the Kate Greenaway Medal. This new edition features rescanned artwork to capture the breath-taking detail of Keeping's illustrations and a striking new cover.
Author: Matthew Desmond Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0553447459 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 450
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review). In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY President Barack Obama • The New York Times Book Review • The Boston Globe • The Washington Post • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • The New Yorker • Bloomberg • Esquire • BuzzFeed • Fortune • San Francisco Chronicle • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Politico • The Week • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Booklist • Shelf Awareness WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • The PEN/New England Award • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE “Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books.”—Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth “Gripping and moving—tragic, too.”—Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones “Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Author: Bill Strickland Publisher: Hachette Books ISBN: 1401388221 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 234
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Of the eight million dedicated cyclists in this country, just 32,044 own amateur racing licenses. There's a reason for that: Racing is not only incredibly difficult, it's downright excruciating, with the possibility for public humiliation never more than one pedal away. So when Natalie, Bill Strickland's preschool-aged daughter, asked him if he could win ten points during one racing season -- the bicycling equivalent of taking an at-bat against Randy Johnson or going one-on-one with Lebron James--a sensible man would've just said no and moved on. Instead, Strickland decided to try. In the process, he discovered that he was racing toward the loving home life he cherished and, at the same time, trying to get away from something far worse -- his legacy of horrific childhood abuse. Strickland's memoir is filled with lyrical insights on training and dedication, racing scenes packed with nail-biting suspense, and powerful reflections on the meaning of family. Because for Strickland, it's definitely not about the bike.
Author: James Baldwin Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525566120 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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A stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review). "One of the best books Baldwin has ever written—perhaps the best of all." —The Philadelphia Inquirer Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions—affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.
Author: Bette Bao Lord Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062857363 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 132
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A timeless classic that will enchant readers who love Jennifer L. Holm and Thanhhà Lại, about an immigrant girl inspired by the sport she loves to find her own home team—and to break down any barriers that stand in her way. Shirley Temple Wong sails from China to America with a heart full of dreams. Her new home is Brooklyn, New York. America is indeed a land full of wonders, but Shirley doesn't know any English, so it's hard to make friends. Then a miracle happens: baseball! It's 1947, and Jackie Robinson, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is a superstar. Suddenly Shirley is playing stickball with her class and following Jackie as he leads the Brooklyn Dodgers to victory after victory. With her hero smashing assumptions and records on the ball field, Shirley begins to feel that America is truly the land of opportunity—and perhaps has also become her real home.
Author: Alicia D. Williams Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books ISBN: 1481465813 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
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“Reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” —The New York Times “One of the best books I have ever read…will live in the hearts of readers for the rest of their lives.” —Colby Sharp, founder of Nerdy Book Club “An emotional, painful, yet still hopeful adolescent journey…one that needed telling.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “I really loved this.” —Sharon M. Draper, author of the New York Times bestseller Out of My Mind This deeply sensitive and “compelling” (BCCB) debut novel tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself. There are ninety-six reasons why thirteen-year-old Genesis dislikes herself. She knows the exact number because she keeps a list: -Because her family is always being put out of their house. -Because her dad has a gambling problem. And maybe a drinking problem too. -Because Genesis knows this is all her fault. -Because she wasn’t born looking like Mama. -Because she is too black. Genesis is determined to fix her family, and she’s willing to try anything to do so…even if it means harming herself in the process. But when Genesis starts to find a thing or two she actually likes about herself, she discovers that changing her own attitude is the first step in helping change others.
Author: Gwendolyn Brooks Publisher: Library of America ISBN: 1598533819 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 68
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Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the most accomplished and acclaimed poets of the last century, the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first black woman to serve as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress—the forerunner of the U.S. Poet Laureate. Here, in an exclusive Library of America E-Book Classic edition, is her groundbreaking first book of poems, a searing portrait of Chicago’s South Side. “I wrote about what I saw and heard in the street,” she later said. “There was my material.”
Author: Jenny Diski Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1632866889 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 241
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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Transcendently disobedient, the most existence-affirming and iconoclastic defense a writer could mount against her own extinction." --Heidi Julavits, New York Times Book Review From "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine) comes a breathtaking memoir about terminal cancer and the author's relationship with Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing. In July 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given "two or three years" to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, as if she were acting out her part. To find the response that felt wholly her own, she had to face the clichés and try to write about it. And there was another story to write, one she had not yet told: that of being taken in at age fifteen by the author Doris Lessing, and the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship. In the pages of the London Review of Books, to which Diski contributed for the last quarter century, she unraveled her history with Lessing: the fairy-tale rescue as a teenager, the difficulties of being absorbed into an unfamiliar family, the modeling of a literary life. Swooping from one memory to the next--alighting on the hysterical battlefield of her parental home, her expulsion from school, the drug-taking twenty-something in and out of psychiatric hospitals--and telling all through the lens of living with terminal cancer, through what she knows will be her final months, Diski paints a portrait of two extraordinary writers--Lessing and herself. From a wholly original thinker comes a book like no other: a cerebral, witty, dazzlingly candid masterpiece about an uneasy relationship; about memory and writing, ingratitude and anger; about living with illness and facing death.
Author: Mary Ellen Dennis
Author: Mary Ellen Dennis
Author: Alfred Noyes
Author: Matthew Desmond
Author: Bill Strickland
Author: James Baldwin
Author: Bette Bao Lord
Author: Alfred Noyes
Author: Alicia D. Williams
Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Author: Jenny Diski