Author: Marie Jirlande Fenelon Publisher: Educa Vision Inc. ISBN: 9781584323006 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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Best friends Landie and Gerry go off on an adventure in the mountains near their home in Haiti and meet an old lady who turns out to be not whom she appears to be.
Author: Fannie Flagg Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 042528655X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 402
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Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter—even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again. Praise for Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe “A real novel and a good one [from] the busy brain of a born storyteller.”—The New York Times “Happily for us, Fannie Flagg has preserved [the Threadgoodes] in a richly comic, poignant narrative that records the exuberance of their lives, the sadness of their departure.”—Harper Lee “This whole literary enterprise shines with honesty, gallantry, and love of perfect details that might otherwise be forgotten.”—Los Angeles Times “Funny and macabre.”—The Washington Post “Courageous and wise.”—Houston Chronicle
Author: Velma Wallis Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0060723521 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 164
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Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).
Author: Qi Yueban Publisher: Funstory ISBN: 1648570526 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1004
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When Song Yu saw the customer, he had sneaked out. He hadn't thought that he would run into a classmate that was deliberately making things difficult for her. A man as calm as the wind and as beautiful as the moon, this was the impression she had of him. However, she didn't know that she was never simple in his heart.
Author: Madeline B. Stern Publisher: Main Street Books ISBN: 0307874532 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 307
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Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern are renowned for unlocking the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder" stories on subjects like transvestitism, hashish smoking, and feminism. Old Books, Rare Friends describes their mutual passion for books and literary sleuthing as they take us on their earliest European book buying jaunts. Using what they call Finger-spitzengefühl, the art of evaluating antiquarian books by handling, experience, and instinct, we are treated to some of their greatest discoveries amid the mildewed basements of London's booksellers after the Blitz. We experience the thrill of finding one of the earliest known books printed in America between 1617-1619 by the Pilgrim Press and learn about the influential role of publisher-printers from the fifteenth century. Like a precious gem, Old Books, Rare Friends is a book to treasure about the companionship of two rare friends and their shared passion for old books.
Author: Nan Tubre Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1475975139 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 221
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Regina, Donna, Stella, Bethany, and Cicely are lively residents of the exclusive Heritage Memories Retirement Village. They share an enthusiasm for living life to the fullest but their antics soon turn the Village upside down as they live the way they want rather than how they are expected. They each prevail over personal trials and tribulations by traveling, laughing, and leaning on each other. In the process, they form a partnership and business so secret, most of their family members are completely unaware it exists. Enter Paul Sanders, the mysterious new resident who turns out to be quite a charmer with a history as allusive as it is devastating. His unexpected arrival forces the five best friends along diverse paths filled with deception and betrayal. Their lives are further complicated by the appearance of a woman claiming to be the love child of one of them. The very foundation of The Old Ladies Club is shaken as decades-old secrets emerge, threatening to either reinforceor shattertheir world. Secrets of the Old Ladies Club shares a poignant story of loyalty, ambition, and passion that explores how far a friendship can be tested before it is destroyed forever.
Author: Kate Leaver Publisher: Abrams ISBN: 1468316605 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 170
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Our best friends, Twitter followers, gal-pals, bromances, Facebook friends, and long distance buddies define us in ways we rarely openly acknowledge. But as a society, we are simultaneously terrified of being alone and already desperately lonely. We move through life in packs and friendship circles and yet, in the most interconnected age, we are stuck in the greatest loneliness epidemic of our time. It's killing us, making us miserable and causing a public health crisis. Increasingly, we don’t just die alone; we die because we are alone. What if meaningful friendships are the solution?Journalist Kate Leaver believes that friendship is the essential cure for the modern malaise of solitude, ill health, and anxiety and that, if we only treated camaraderie as a social priority, it could affect everything from our physical health and emotional well being. Her much-anticipated manifesto, The Friendship Cure, looks at what friendship means, how it can survive, why we need it, and what we can do to get the most from it. Why do some friendships last a lifetime, while others are only temporary? How do you “break up†? with a toxic friend? How do you make friends as an adult? Can men and women really be platonic? What are the curative qualities of friendship, and how we can deploy friendship to actually live longer, better lives?From behavioral scientists to besties, Kate draws upon the extraordinary research from academics, scientists, and psychotherapists, and stories from friends of friends, strangers from the Internet, and her “squad†? to get to the bottom of these and other facets of friendship. For readers of Susan Cain’s Quiet and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic, The Friendship Cure is a fascinating blend of accessible “smart thinking,†? investigative journalism, pop culture, and memoir for anyone trying to navigate this lonely world, written with the wit, charm, and bite of a fresh voice.
Author: Marie Jirlande Fenelon
Author: Fannie Flagg
Author: Velma Wallis
Author: Qi Yueban
Author: Madeline B. Stern
Author: Zbigniew Slupski
Author: Nan Tubre
Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Author: Kate Leaver
Author: Charles Dickens