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Hyacinth Girls

Author : Lauren Frankel
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0553418068
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Hyacinth Girls written by Lauren Frankel and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning debut about a young teenager on the brink and a parent desperate to find the truth before it's too late. Thirteen year old Callie is accused of bullying at school, but Rebecca knows the gentle girl she's raised must be innocent. After Callie is exonerated, she begins to receive threatening notes from the girl who accused her, and as these notes become desperate, Rebecca feels compelled to intervene. As she tries to save this unbalanced girl, Rebecca remembers her own intense betrayals and best-friendships as a teenager, when her failure to understand those closest to her led to tragedy. She'll do anything to make this story end differently. But Rebecca doesn’t understand what’s happening or who is truly a victim, and now Callie is in terrible danger. This raw and beautiful story about the intensity of adolescent emotions and the complex identity of a teenage girl looks unflinchingly at how cruelty exists in all of us, and how our worst impulses can estrange us from ourselves - or even save us.

Princess Hyacinth

Author : Florence Parry Heide
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0375845011
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Princess Hyacinth written by Florence Parry Heide and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Hyacinth is bored and unhappy sitting in her palace every day because, unless she is weighed down by specially-made clothes, she will float away, but her days are made brighter when kite-flying Boy stops to say hello.

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Author : Susan Vreeland
Publisher : RosettaBooks
ISBN 13 : 0795323549
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Girl in Hyacinth Blue written by Susan Vreeland and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2012-03-18 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestseller explores the life and many owners of an imaginary Vermeer painting in an “impressive debut collection” of linked stories (Publishers Weekly). A Dutch painting of a young girl survives three and a half centuries of loss, flood, anonymity, theft, secrecy, and even the Holocaust. This is the story of its owners whose lives are influenced by its beauty and mystery. Despite their many troubles and unsatisfied longings, the girl in hyacinth blue has the power to inspire love in all its human variety. This luminous story begins in the present day, when a professor invites a colleague to his home to see a painting that he has kept secret for decades. The professor swears it is a Vermeer—but why has he hidden this important work for so long? The reasons unfold in a series of events that trace the ownership of the painting back to World War II and Amsterdam, and still further back to the moment of the work’s inspiration. As the painting moves through each owner’s hands, what was long hidden quietly surfaces, illuminating poignant moments in multiple lives. Susan Vreeland’s characters remind us, through their love of this mysterious painting, how beauty transforms and why we reach for it, what lasts and what in our lives is singular and unforgettable. “Vreeland’s book is a work of art.” —New York Post

A Drowned Maiden's Hair

Author : Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763652156
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book A Drowned Maiden's Hair written by Laura Amy Schlitz and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People throw the word 'classic' about a lot, but A Drowned Maiden's Hair genuinely deserves to become one." — Wall Street Journal Maud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence, so when the charming Miss Hyacinth and her sister choose Maud to take home with them, the girl is as baffled as anyone. It seems the sisters need Maud to help stage elaborate séances for bereaved, wealthy patrons. As Maud is drawn deeper into the deception, playing her role as a "secret child," she is torn between her need to please and her growing conscience -- until a shocking betrayal makes clear just how heartless her so-called guardians are. Filled with tantalizing details of turn-of-the-century spiritualism and page-turning suspense, this lively historical novel features a winning heroine whom readers will not soon forget.

Hyacinth and the Secrets Beneath

Author : Jacob Sager Weinstein
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0399553207
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Hyacinth and the Secrets Beneath written by Jacob Sager Weinstein and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious first book in a middle-grade fantasy trilogy about the magical rivers that run through the sewers of London and shape history in ways you'd never learn in school. Magic is real. History is a big, fat lie. Before Hyacinth Hayward moves from Illinois to London, she reads up on the city’s history. Too bad for her. Because the books are wrong. The truth is, London was built on magical rivers, and all the major events in its past have been about people trying to control the magic. Hyacinth discovers this when her mom is kidnapped. In the chase to get her back, Hyacinth encounters a giant intelligent pig in a bathing suit, a boy with amnesia, an adorable tosher (whatever that is), a sarcastic old lady, and a very sketchy unicorn. Somehow Hyacinth has to figure out who to trust, so she can save her mom and, oh yeah, not cause a second Great Fire of London.

The Design of The Waste Land

Author : Burton Blistein
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761841388
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Design of The Waste Land written by Burton Blistein and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Design of "The Waste Land" offers a detailed, comprehensive explanation of T. S. Eliot's enigmatic poem. It relates The Waste Land to earlier and later poems by Eliot, demonstrating that the major poems describe a continuous spiritual odyssey or quest undertaken by the same individual, initiated by the moment of ecstasy in the Hyacinth garden." "Blistein's analysis of Eliot's sources reveals that the protagonist's glimpse of "the heart of light" is equivalent to drinking from the Grail, or communing with God. The incarnate deity momentarily transforms the Hyacinth garden into the likeness of the Edenic paradise. With the inevitable passing of the moment of communion, the protagonist in effect is expelled from the paradisiacal garden as mankind was from Eden. By contrast, the familiar world appears to him a wasteland. The protagonist seeks to drink again from the divine Source and return again to the garden as it was when transfigured by the divine presence. His is a quest for grail and homeland."--BOOK JACKET.

Hyacinth's Secret

Author : Krissyann Granger
Publisher : Tug Hill Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1955609403
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Hyacinth's Secret written by Krissyann Granger and published by Tug Hill Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-01-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1871 New York City glitters with gossip and promise for Hyacinth Scarborro. At last, she has Helen to herself, as it always should have been. With a plan to marry one of the cities most eligible bachelors, Irvine Westchester, and rid themselves of her dreadful cousins once and for all, Hyacinth could not be happier. Yet her plans go awry with the arrival of Oswald Flynn—Irvine’s roguishly charming stable hand who encourages Hyacinth to pursue her own happiness. As she questions her love for Irvine, Hyacinth discovers there may be more to life than power, money, and Aunt Helen’s affection. Caught in a storm of forbidden love, familial ties, and societal expectations, Hyacinth must choose between the woman who gave her everything and the desires of her heart.

Hyacinth and the Stone Thief

Author : Jacob Sager Weinstein
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0399553215
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Hyacinth and the Stone Thief written by Jacob Sager Weinstein and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious second book in a middle-grade fantasy trilogy about the magical rivers that run through the sewers of London and shape history in ways you'd never learn in school. Magic is real. History is about to be squashed. Now that Hyacinth Hayward knows about the enchanted rivers under London, she's determined to find out more. Unfortunately, London isn't cooperating. Instead, Hyacinth stumbles on a new adversary--a girl who is trying to steal all the ancient stones that keep the city in balance. A girl with glowing, magical fingers, whose entire body is tattooed with spells. A girl called Minnie Tickle. (What? Were you expecting something more . . . fearsome?) To stop her, Hyacinth will need help from stone itself--specifically, a giant talking lion statue and his talking statue friends. Can this enthusiastic but scattered company defeat Minnie before London sinks like a stone?

The Star Side of Bird Hill

Author : Naomi Jackson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143109162
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Star Side of Bird Hill written by Naomi Jackson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sisters are suddenly sent from their home in Brooklyn to Barbados to live with their grandmother, in Naomi Jackson’s stunning debut novel This lyrical novel of community, betrayal, and love centers on an unforgettable matriarchal family in Barbados. Two sisters, ages ten and sixteen, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live for the summer of 1989 with their grandmother Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah. Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother’s limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations, accompanies her grandmother in her role as a midwife, and investigates their mother’s mysterious life. This tautly paced coming-of-age story builds to a crisis when the father they barely know comes to Bird Hill to reclaim his daughters, and both Phaedra and Dionne must choose between the Brooklyn they once knew and loved or the Barbados of their family. Naomi Jackson’s Barbados and her characters are singular, especially the wise Hyacinth and the heartbreaking young Phaedra, who is coming into her own as a young woman amid the tumult of her family. Praise for The Star Side of Bird Hill: “Once in a while, you’ll stumble onto a book like this, one so poetic in its descriptions and so alive with lovable, frustrating, painfully real characters, that your emotional response to it becomes almost physical. . . . The dual coming-of-age story alone could melt the sternest of hearts, but Jackson’s exquisite prose is a marvel too. . . . A gem of a book.” —Entertainment Weekly (A)

The Girl Who Howled at the Moon

Author : Carol J. Etheridge
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483483223
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book The Girl Who Howled at the Moon written by Carol J. Etheridge and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twelve-year-old Hyacinth Star is struck by lightning, her spirit animal, a great white wolf named Dreamcatcher, pays her a visit. It seems she can communicate with animals, and the lightning has also sparked her inner magical powers-if only she can learn how to use them. When bounty hunters arrive seeking the wolves, Hyacinth flees to join Dreamcatcher's pack. To survive, they must reach the Mystic Forest, where a powerful shaman named Joyful Savannah offers a safe haven. But the journey will take them through the Seven Devils Mountains, where they will face man-eating ogres, a legion of goblins, and other terrors. Even worse, an evil witch named Priscilla rules the territory. Only time will tell whether Hyacinth can control her powers, lead her pack to safety, and become a true shaman. In this fantasy novel, a girl who discovers she has the power to speak with animals, along with other magical gifts, sets out on a quest to become the shaman she is meant to be.

Haldol and Hyacinths

Author : Melody Moezzi
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1583335501
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Haldol and Hyacinths written by Melody Moezzi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences with both clinical and cultural bipolarity. Born to Persian parents at the height of the Islamic Revolution and raised amid a vibrant, loving, and gossipy Iranian diaspora in the American heartland, Melody Moezzi was bound for a bipolar life. At 18, she began battling a severe physical illness, and her community stepped up, filling her hospital rooms with roses, lilies and hyacinths. But when she attempted suicide and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, there were no flowers. Despite several stays in psychiatric hospitals, bombarded with tranquilizers, mood-stabilizers, and anti-psychotics, she was encouraged to keep her illness a secret—by both her family and an increasingly callous and indifferent medical establishment. Refusing to be ashamed or silenced, Moezzi became an outspoken advocate, determined to fight the stigma surrounding mental illness and reclaim her life along the way. Both an irreverent memoir and a rousing call to action, Haldol and Hyacinths is the moving story of a woman who refused to become a victim. Moezzi reports from the frontlines of an invisible world, as seen through a unique and fascinating cultural lens. A powerful, funny, and moving narrative, Haldol and Hyacinths is a tribute to the healing power of hope and humor.

Butterfly's Sisters

Author : Yoko Kawaguchi
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300169469
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Butterfly's Sisters written by Yoko Kawaguchi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Yoko Kawaguchi explores the Western portrayal of Japanese women—and geishas in particular—from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. She argues that in the West, Japanese women have come to embody certain ideas about feminine sexuality, and she analyzes how these ideas have been expressed in diverse art forms, ranging from fiction and opera to the visual arts and music videos. Among the many works Kawaguchi discusses are the art criticism of Baudelaire and Huysmans, the opera Madama Butterfly, the sculptures of Rodin, the Broadway play Teahouse of the August Moon, and the international best seller Memoirs of a Geisha. Butterfly’s Sisters also examines the impact on early twentieth-century theatre, drama, and dance theory of the performance styles of the actresses Madame Hanako and Sadayakko, both formerly geishas.

Working Girls

Author : Katherine Mullin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191037834
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Working Girls written by Katherine Mullin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality, and Modernity investigates the significance of a new form of sexual identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Young women of the lower-middle and working classes were increasingly abandoning domestic service in favour of occupations of contested propriety. They inspired both moral unease and erotic fascination. Working Girls considers representations of four highly glamorised yet controversial types of women worker: telegraphists and typists (in newly-feminised offices), shop assistants (in the new department stores), and barmaids (in the new 'gin palaces' of major British cities). Economically emancipated (more or less) and liberated (more or less) from the protection and constraints of home and family, shop-girls, barmaids, typists, and telegraphists became mass media sensations. They energised a wide range of late-Victorian and Modernist fiction. This study will bring late-Victorian and Modernist British writers into intimate conversation with a substantial new archive of ephemeral sources often regarded as remote from high art and its concerns: popular fiction; music hall and musical comedy; beauty pageants and fairground exhibitions; visual art and early film; careers manuals; magazine and periodical journalism; moral reform crusades, Royal Commissions, and attempts at protective legislation. Working Girls argues that these seductive yet perilous young women helped writers negotiate anxieties about the state of literary culture in the United Kingdom. Crucially, they preoccupy novelists who were themselves beleaguered by anxieties over cultural capital, the shifting pressures of the literary marketplace, or controversies about the morality of fiction (often leading to the threat of censorship). In articulating questions about sexual integrity, Working Girls articulate often submerged questions about textual integrity and the role of the modern novel.

The One and Only Marigold

Author : Florence Parry Heide
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
ISBN 13 : 9780375940514
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The One and Only Marigold written by Florence Parry Heide and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the misadventures of Marigold, a monkey, as she shops with her mother for a coat, makes a hobby of "bugging" her best friend, Maxine the hippo, and imaginatively copes with finding the right outfit for the first day of school.

More or Less a Temptress

Author : Anna Bradley
Publisher : Lyrical Press
ISBN 13 : 1516105370
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book More or Less a Temptress written by Anna Bradley and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful debutante in Regency London seems destined to make a good match. But the Somerset sisters have made courtship and matrimony a deliciously scandalous affair . . . Hyacinth Somerset’s debut is the most anticipated event of the season, as it will be the reclusive young lady’s first public appearance. But within moments of being asked to dance by a dashing stranger, Hyacinth calls him a murderer, then faints dead away! Now all the ton is a aflutter over Hyacinth’s baffling shun of their most intriguing newcomer—the wildly handsome Lachlan Ramsey . . . Recently arrived from Scotland, Lachlan only wishes to claim his place in society to secure his sister’s future. When that is threatened by the accusations of a hapless slip of a girl, he will do anything protect his family. Yet it appears Hyacinth has only damaged her own hopes, inspiring the label of hysteric—and ultimately inspiring Lachlan to shelter her from harm. Now if only there were a defense for the surge of feeling he has every time Hyacinth turns her gaze his way. If only there were a way to make her his—while keeping the true secret in his past from destroying everything—and everyone—he cares about . . .

The Smart Set

Author : George Jean Nathan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Smart Set written by George Jean Nathan and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bridgerton Collection Volume 3

Author : Julia Quinn
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063138956
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Bridgerton Collection Volume 3 written by Julia Quinn and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting collection containing books seven and eight of #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Regency-set Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix —It’s in His Kiss and On the Way to the Wedding—as well as the first book in her Bridgerton Prequel series, Because of Miss Bridgerton. It’s in His Kiss Gareth St. Clair’s ignoble father is determined to ruin his inheritance. Gareth’s sole bequest is an old family diary, which may hold the key to his future. The problem is it’s written in Italian. Hyacinth Bridgerton has offered to translate. She’s fiendishly smart, devilishly outspoken, and according to Gareth, best in small doses. But there’s something equally charming and vexing about her that draws him in. As they delve into the mysterious text, these two might discover that the answers they seek lie in each other . . . and that there is nothing as simple—or as complicated—as a single, perfect kiss. On the Way to the Wedding Gregory Bridgerton believes he has found his dream woman. Unfortunately, the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another. Her best friend, the ever-practical Lady Lucinda Abernathy, wants to save Hermione from a disastrous alliance, and offers to help Gregory win her heart. In the process, Lucy falls in love—with Gregory! But she is already engaged, and her uncle is not inclined to let her out of the betrothal. Now, on the way to the wedding, Gregory must risk everything to ensure that when it comes time to kiss the bride, he is the only man standing at the altar… Because of Miss Bridgerton Everyone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. As a child, tomboyish Billie ran wild with Edward and Andrew. There is only one Rokesby Billie absolutely cannot tolerate. George may be the heir to the earldom, but he’s arrogant, annoying, and she’s certain he detests her. She can’t stand the sight of him either. But when Billie and George are quite literally thrown together, sparks begin to fly. They just might discover that the one person they can’t abide is the one person they can’t live without...