Author: Connie May Fowler
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 034544454X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
WHEN KATIE WAKES Reading Group Companion, Copyright 2002 by the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group A Division of Random House, Inc. RG Logo All of our reading group companions are now available on-line at www.randomhouse.com/resources/rgg.html Doubleday Logo Doubleday * 1540 Broadway * New York, NY 10036
When Katie Wakes
Author: Connie May Fowler
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 034544454X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
WHEN KATIE WAKES Reading Group Companion, Copyright 2002 by the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group A Division of Random House, Inc. RG Logo All of our reading group companions are now available on-line at www.randomhouse.com/resources/rgg.html Doubleday Logo Doubleday * 1540 Broadway * New York, NY 10036
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 034544454X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
WHEN KATIE WAKES Reading Group Companion, Copyright 2002 by the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group A Division of Random House, Inc. RG Logo All of our reading group companions are now available on-line at www.randomhouse.com/resources/rgg.html Doubleday Logo Doubleday * 1540 Broadway * New York, NY 10036
When Katie Wakes
Author: Connie May Fowler
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781860499593
Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In this memoir, award-winning novelist Connie May Fowler tells the story of the abusive relationships she has endured, and the unexpected gifts of love that helped her survive. Connie May Fowler's passage to adulthood was marked by emotional suffering and physical abuse. Her mother was manipulative and needy, unable to give her daughter the love and comfort every child has a right to expect. Then, as a young woman, Fowler found herself involved with a man whose behaviour disturbingly echoed her mother's. But the unconditional love she longed for finally came - in the shape of an adoring Labrador puppy. With Katie at her side, Fowler managed to create a small refuge amid the horrors that surrounded her, and to open her life to a new, gentle man, whose love and understanding helped to transform her.
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781860499593
Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In this memoir, award-winning novelist Connie May Fowler tells the story of the abusive relationships she has endured, and the unexpected gifts of love that helped her survive. Connie May Fowler's passage to adulthood was marked by emotional suffering and physical abuse. Her mother was manipulative and needy, unable to give her daughter the love and comfort every child has a right to expect. Then, as a young woman, Fowler found herself involved with a man whose behaviour disturbingly echoed her mother's. But the unconditional love she longed for finally came - in the shape of an adoring Labrador puppy. With Katie at her side, Fowler managed to create a small refuge amid the horrors that surrounded her, and to open her life to a new, gentle man, whose love and understanding helped to transform her.
Katie Loves the Kittens
Author: John Himmelman
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250134064
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The acclaimed author and illustrator of Chickens to the Rescue has created a sweet, funny, and entirely irresistible new character—a little dog just bursting with good intentions. Katie is so excited when Sara Ann brings home three little kittens that she can't stop herself from howling "AROOOOO!" and trying to run after them. She loves them so much! But Katie's enthusiasm frightens the kitties, and she's sad when they run away from her. Don't they know that she just wants to play? Katie Loves the Kittens is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250134064
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The acclaimed author and illustrator of Chickens to the Rescue has created a sweet, funny, and entirely irresistible new character—a little dog just bursting with good intentions. Katie is so excited when Sara Ann brings home three little kittens that she can't stop herself from howling "AROOOOO!" and trying to run after them. She loves them so much! But Katie's enthusiasm frightens the kitties, and she's sad when they run away from her. Don't they know that she just wants to play? Katie Loves the Kittens is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Remembering Blue
Author: Connie May Fowler
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307416534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Emotionally neglected by her mother, abandoned by her father, Mattie O’Rourke spent her childhood starved for the one thing she thought she’d never find: love. When her mother dies and, at twenty-two, she finds herself completely without ties of any kind, Mattie takes a chance at ending her loneliness and moves to a tiny coastal Florida town. At the Suwannee Swifty convenience store, a sea change envelops her. Mattie O’Rourke sees Proteus Nicholas Blue and their fate is sealed after only a few shy, stolen glances. Nick walks into Mattie’s life having fled his own. A lifelong fisherman from a remote island off the coast, Nick is haunted by the certain knowledge that the sea will be the death of him (as it has been for all the Blue men) and he has resolved to leave it behind. But as Nick and Mattie settle into an intimacy that both comforts and surprises them, Nick feels the inextricable pull of the waxing moon’s tide and the siren’s call of the dolphins that, Blue legend has it, are his brethren. And so it is that Mattie, who only months before felt that happiness would never find her, returns with Nick to the island home that nurtured him and finds herself embraced by a large and loving family and an alluring and sensual landscape. Life on Lethe is transforming for Mattie. But Nick always knew that the sea would claim him, and all of Mattie’s love cannot prevent the tragedy that is their destiny. Moving and enchanting, Remembering Blue is a lush story of love, loss, and the mythic power of the ocean, told in an elegant and passionate voice that could only come from Connie May Fowler. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307416534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Emotionally neglected by her mother, abandoned by her father, Mattie O’Rourke spent her childhood starved for the one thing she thought she’d never find: love. When her mother dies and, at twenty-two, she finds herself completely without ties of any kind, Mattie takes a chance at ending her loneliness and moves to a tiny coastal Florida town. At the Suwannee Swifty convenience store, a sea change envelops her. Mattie O’Rourke sees Proteus Nicholas Blue and their fate is sealed after only a few shy, stolen glances. Nick walks into Mattie’s life having fled his own. A lifelong fisherman from a remote island off the coast, Nick is haunted by the certain knowledge that the sea will be the death of him (as it has been for all the Blue men) and he has resolved to leave it behind. But as Nick and Mattie settle into an intimacy that both comforts and surprises them, Nick feels the inextricable pull of the waxing moon’s tide and the siren’s call of the dolphins that, Blue legend has it, are his brethren. And so it is that Mattie, who only months before felt that happiness would never find her, returns with Nick to the island home that nurtured him and finds herself embraced by a large and loving family and an alluring and sensual landscape. Life on Lethe is transforming for Mattie. But Nick always knew that the sea would claim him, and all of Mattie’s love cannot prevent the tragedy that is their destiny. Moving and enchanting, Remembering Blue is a lush story of love, loss, and the mythic power of the ocean, told in an elegant and passionate voice that could only come from Connie May Fowler. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Companion
Author: Katie Alender
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399545921
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Winner of the Edgar Award for Young Adult Fiction! The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, Agatha. At first, helping with Agatha--and getting to know her handsome younger brother--seems much better than the group home. But soon, the isolated house begins playing tricks on Margot’s mind, making her question everything she believes about the Suttons . . . and herself. Margot’s bad dreams may have stopped when she came to live with Agatha – but the real nightmare has just begun.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399545921
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Winner of the Edgar Award for Young Adult Fiction! The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, Agatha. At first, helping with Agatha--and getting to know her handsome younger brother--seems much better than the group home. But soon, the isolated house begins playing tricks on Margot’s mind, making her question everything she believes about the Suttons . . . and herself. Margot’s bad dreams may have stopped when she came to live with Agatha – but the real nightmare has just begun.
Before Women Had Wings
Author: Connie May Fowler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804118903
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A nine-year-old girl's harrowing account of abuse at the hands of her parents. Her name is Avocet Jackson, but her mother called her Bird, naming both her children after birds, "her logic being that if we were named for something with wings then maybe we'd be able to fly above the shit in our lives."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804118903
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A nine-year-old girl's harrowing account of abuse at the hands of her parents. Her name is Avocet Jackson, but her mother called her Bird, naming both her children after birds, "her logic being that if we were named for something with wings then maybe we'd be able to fly above the shit in our lives."
Mumnesia
Author: Katie Dale
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509810714
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Lucy's mum is so out of date she's practically mouldy. She's super-strict, overprotective and won't let Lucy go to the Valentine's Ball! Lucy can't believe she was ever a teenager . . . Until the morning her mum wakes up with no memory of the last thirty years – and thinks she's twelve years old! All Lucy wants is for her mum to go back to being her old self – but how? Mumnesia by Katie Dale is a hilarious story about a very unusual mother-daughter relationship.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509810714
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Lucy's mum is so out of date she's practically mouldy. She's super-strict, overprotective and won't let Lucy go to the Valentine's Ball! Lucy can't believe she was ever a teenager . . . Until the morning her mum wakes up with no memory of the last thirty years – and thinks she's twelve years old! All Lucy wants is for her mum to go back to being her old self – but how? Mumnesia by Katie Dale is a hilarious story about a very unusual mother-daughter relationship.
The Problem with Murmur Lee
Author: Connie May Fowler
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767923944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The bestselling author of Before Women Had Wings spins a wild new tale about the ties that bind a group of friends together after the loss of its quirkiest member, Murmur Lee. When Murmur Lee Harp drowns in the Iris Haven river, her friends are grief-stricken and haunted by the mysteries surrounding her death. But as her circle of friends sets out to discover what really happened to her, they end up learning as much about her failings and triumphs as they do their own. After years of self-exile in the North, Charlee Mudd returns to set her best friend’s affairs in order, only to confront her own ghosts. Edith Piaf, a former marine who underwent a sex change at the age of sixty-two, must find the confidence to carry on without the encouragement of her friend. Lonely widower Dr. Zachary Klein plummets into the depths of depression at the loss of the second woman he has ever loved. As for Murmur Lee: in death she experiences her own journey as she is plunged into her familial past and discovers the truth about who she really is. With poignancy and humor Fowler weaves the voices of Murmur and her friends into a compelling narrative. Part family saga, part murder mystery, The Problem with Murmur Lee is Fowler’s most rewarding and engrossing work yet.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767923944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The bestselling author of Before Women Had Wings spins a wild new tale about the ties that bind a group of friends together after the loss of its quirkiest member, Murmur Lee. When Murmur Lee Harp drowns in the Iris Haven river, her friends are grief-stricken and haunted by the mysteries surrounding her death. But as her circle of friends sets out to discover what really happened to her, they end up learning as much about her failings and triumphs as they do their own. After years of self-exile in the North, Charlee Mudd returns to set her best friend’s affairs in order, only to confront her own ghosts. Edith Piaf, a former marine who underwent a sex change at the age of sixty-two, must find the confidence to carry on without the encouragement of her friend. Lonely widower Dr. Zachary Klein plummets into the depths of depression at the loss of the second woman he has ever loved. As for Murmur Lee: in death she experiences her own journey as she is plunged into her familial past and discovers the truth about who she really is. With poignancy and humor Fowler weaves the voices of Murmur and her friends into a compelling narrative. Part family saga, part murder mystery, The Problem with Murmur Lee is Fowler’s most rewarding and engrossing work yet.
Cuddle Up, Goodnight
Author: Katie Cleminson
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9781423138440
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wake up! Animal friends are ready to play. Clean up, dress up, eat up! With friends by your side, even everyday routines are full of fun and whimsy. Cuddle up! At the end of a busy day comes the nicest routine of all: cuddling up with the perfect book. Katie Cleminson's winsome illustrations make Cuddle Up, Goodnight a delightful addition to any child's bedtime routine.
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9781423138440
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wake up! Animal friends are ready to play. Clean up, dress up, eat up! With friends by your side, even everyday routines are full of fun and whimsy. Cuddle up! At the end of a busy day comes the nicest routine of all: cuddling up with the perfect book. Katie Cleminson's winsome illustrations make Cuddle Up, Goodnight a delightful addition to any child's bedtime routine.
Quarantine: A Love Story
Author: Katie Cicatelli-Kuc
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338232932
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Love can be contagious in this infectiously fun romance by debut author Katie Cicatelli-Kuc. Oliver wants a girlfriend, and there's a girl back home who might be interested in him. The problem is, he has to spend his spring break on a volunteer trip in the Dominican Republic. Flora, on the other hand, isn't really looking for a boyfriend. She just wants to end a miserable spring break visiting her dad and her new stepmom in the D.R.The solution to both their problems? Get back home to New York ASAP. Sadly, they won't be getting there anytime soon. Their hopes are dashed when Flora's impulsiveness lands them in quarantine -- just the two of them. Now, the two teens must come together in order to survive life in a bubble for 30 days. In that time, love will bloom. But is it the real thing, or just a placebo effect? In her debut novel, Katie Cicatelli-Kuc delivers an introspective and witty story about finding love in the most unexpected place.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338232932
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Love can be contagious in this infectiously fun romance by debut author Katie Cicatelli-Kuc. Oliver wants a girlfriend, and there's a girl back home who might be interested in him. The problem is, he has to spend his spring break on a volunteer trip in the Dominican Republic. Flora, on the other hand, isn't really looking for a boyfriend. She just wants to end a miserable spring break visiting her dad and her new stepmom in the D.R.The solution to both their problems? Get back home to New York ASAP. Sadly, they won't be getting there anytime soon. Their hopes are dashed when Flora's impulsiveness lands them in quarantine -- just the two of them. Now, the two teens must come together in order to survive life in a bubble for 30 days. In that time, love will bloom. But is it the real thing, or just a placebo effect? In her debut novel, Katie Cicatelli-Kuc delivers an introspective and witty story about finding love in the most unexpected place.