Girl in a Blue Dress

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307462277
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Girl in a Blue Dress by : Gaynor Arnold

Download or read book Girl in a Blue Dress written by Gaynor Arnold and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dazzling debut novel brings the spirit of Catherine Dickens--the cast-off wife of Charles Dickens--to life in the form of Dorothea “Dodo” Gibson, a woman who is doomed to live in the shadow of her husband, Alfred, the most celebrated author in the Victorian world. Girl in a Blue Dress opens on the day of Alfred’s funeral. Dorothea is not among the throngs in attendance when The One and Only is laid to rest. Her mourning must take place within the walls of her modest apartment, a parting gift from Alfred as he ushered her out of their shared home and his life more than a decade earlier. Even her own children, save her outspoken daughter Kitty, are not there to offer her comfort--they were poisoned against her when Alfred publicly declared her an unfit wife and mother. Though she refuses to don the proper mourning attire, Dodo cannot bring herself to demonize her late husband, something that comes all too easily to Kitty. Instead, she reflects on their time together: their clandestine and passionate courtship, when he was a force of nature and she a willing follower; and the salad days of their marriage, before too many children sapped her vitality and his interest. She uncovers the frighteningly hypnotic power of the celebrity author she married. Now liberated from his hold on her, Dodo finds the courage to face her adult children, the sister who betrayed her, and the charming actress who claimed her husband’s love and left her heart aching. A sweeping tale of love and loss that was long-listed for both the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize, Girl in a Blue Dress is both an intimate peek at the woman who was behind one of literature’s most esteemed men and a fascinating rumination on marriage that will resonate across centuries.

Blue Dress Girl

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Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 : 9780709098461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (984 download)

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Book Synopsis Blue Dress Girl by : E. V. Thompson

Download or read book Blue Dress Girl written by E. V. Thompson and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Chinese peasant girl is chosen as a concubine to Li Hung, she quickly learns the reality is far from honourable. She is sent away, but rescued from her Junk by a Royal Marine Second Lieutenant. When the young officer becomes involved in the Taiping Rebellion, their blossoming relationship looks doomed.

Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition)

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Publisher : Washington Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1982150343
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) by : Walter Mosley

Download or read book Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) written by Walter Mosley and published by Washington Square Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel by “master of mystery” (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the Mystery Writers of America, this special thirtieth anniversary edition features an all new introduction from the author. The year is 1948, the town is Los Angeles. Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense factory plant. Drinking in his friend’s bar, he’s wondering how he’ll manage to make ends meet, when a white man in a linen suit approaches him and offers him good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a missing blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs. Easy has no idea that by taking this job, his life is about to change forever. “More than simply a detective novel…[Mosley is] a talented author with something vital to say about the distance between the black and white worlds, and with a dramatic way to say it” (The New York Times).

My Little Blue Dress

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101191058
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis My Little Blue Dress by : Bruno Maddox

Download or read book My Little Blue Dress written by Bruno Maddox and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-03-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Very funny . . . A pitch-perfect account of how it feels to be part of as culture that’s better at showing you what to wear than what to believe in . . . a real original.”—New York Magazine A gorgeous girl recalls her coming of age in her tiny, picturesque English village at the turn of the last century. After she opts out of a rural beauty pageant, her life—and its telling—begins to unravel. And it unravels into a multitude of extremely amusing, searingly beautiful strands that eventually lead her, and a troubled young man who befriends her, through the wall upholstered hellholes of modern Manhattan toward a heartrending and hugely satisfying climax that will almost literally blow your socks off. “Fun, full-throttle stuff, which rather miraculously dresses down the pernicious personal-history trend while remaining both giggly and moving in its own terms.”—Entertainment Weekly

The Girl in the Blue Dress

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis The Girl in the Blue Dress by : Mary Burchell

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The Hundred Dresses

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152052607
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (526 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hundred Dresses by : Eleanor Estes

Download or read book The Hundred Dresses written by Eleanor Estes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by that time it's too late for apologies. Maddie, one of Wanda's classmates, ultimately decides that she is "never going to stand by and say nothing again." This powerful, timeless story has been reissued with a new letter from the author's daughter Helena Estes, and with the Caldecott artist Louis Slobodkin's original artwork in beautifully restored color.

Restart

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Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338053787
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Restart by : Gordon Korman

Download or read book Restart written by Gordon Korman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing New York Times bestseller about what you can do when life gives you a second chance. Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name. He knows he's Chase. But who is Chase? When he gets back to school, he sees that different kids have very different reactions to his return. Some kids treat him like a hero. Some kids are clearly afraid of him. One girl in particular is so angry with him that she pours her frozen yogurt on his head the first chance she gets. Pretty soon, it's not only a question of who Chase is -- it's a question of who he was . . . and who he's going to be. From the #1 bestselling author of Swindle and Slacker, Restart is the spectacular story of a kid with a messy past who has to figure out what it means to get a clean start.

Ghost in the Blue Dress

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ISBN 13 : 9781626942974
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (429 download)

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Book Synopsis Ghost in the Blue Dress by : R. a. Slone

Download or read book Ghost in the Blue Dress written by R. a. Slone and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Jenna Moores is struggling with her father's recent death. Not long after his passing, a ghost from her childhood returns. When she was young, Jenna's father convinced her that the ghost was just her imagination and that he would always protect her. But now he's gone, the ghost is back, and Jenna knows she's not imagining it. As the entity grows stronger, its threats move from alienating Jenna from her friends and family to killing her. Alone and afraid, she must find and destroy the link that holds the spirit to this world...before Jenna, too, becomes a ghost.

The Dress Lodger

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555847668
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dress Lodger by : Sheri Holman

Download or read book The Dress Lodger written by Sheri Holman and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book from the author of A Stolen Tongue: A tale of crime and survival in nineteenth-century England “as unsettling as it is brilliant” (The Washington Post Book World). In Sunderland, England, a city quarantined by the cholera epidemic of 1831, a defiant, fifteen-year-old beauty in an elegant blue dress sells her body to feed her only love: a fragile baby boy. When the surgeon Henry Chiver offers Gustine a different kind of work, she hopes to finally change her terrible circumstances. But Chiver was recently implicated in the famous case of Burke and Hare, who murdered beggars and sold their corpses for medical research. And soon, Gustine’s own efforts to secure cadavers for Chiver’s anatomy school will threaten the very things she’s working so hard to protect . . . “Reminiscent of Wuthering Heights . . . or the novels of Dickens . . . An even better book than Holman’s first, with prose that’s more limber and vivid—and with, appropriately, even more heart.” —The New York Times Book Review “As unsettling as it is brilliant. Holman attempts Herculean feats of plot and character, and the resulting novel is seamlessly crafted.” —The Washington Post Book World “Holman seduces you. Her prose, tart, racy and somber, will sing in your soul a long while.” —Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes “Holman’s style is risky and direct . . . with unflinching emotional precision. This dazzlingly researched epic is an uncommon read.” —Publisher Weekly, starred review

Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress

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Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780380793624
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress by : Thylias Moss

Download or read book Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress written by Thylias Moss and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within my life's present unified theory of being, splendor divests itself of its own integrity, splitting to belong to everything that notices it, each part as effective as the whole splendid thing. It belongs to whatever wants it and is inexhaustible even as someone lays dying, even as someone else cries thinking there is none, their tears becoming prisms. . . With these words, the acclaimed poet Thylias Moss proclaims a hymn to the power of light over darkness, both in her own life, and in the wider world. In this, her first prose work, the author of six books of poetry and winner of the most distinguished honors--including a MacArthur Fellowship Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship and a Writing Award--delivers a brilliant, passionate, and utterly moving memoir. It is the story of the only child of a maid and factory worker who moved to Ohio from the segregated South of the fifties. Raised with much love, she flourished until the age of five, when disaster struck, in the form of a girl in sky-blue dress. Her childhood was shattered by this girl, her babysitter, who took pleasure from infliction pain, and whose reign of terror, even after its abrupt end, would send poisonous tendril further into her life. Yet ultimately, Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress is about how a young woman retrieved her life from the grasp of darkness. It is about refusing to accept tyranny. It is about feasting on splendor. How can there not be pain in a world spinning madly, in the lovely calculable chaos. . .? asks Thylias. But, she says, I am saying that joy is too necessary to abandon.

The Midnight Dress

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Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0375847650
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Book Synopsis The Midnight Dress by : Karen Foxlee

Download or read book The Midnight Dress written by Karen Foxlee and published by Ember. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose, nearly sixteen, is used to traveling around with her alcoholic father but connects with the people of a small, coastal Australian town, especially classmate Pearl and reclusive Edie, who teaches her to sew a magical dress for the Harvest Festival while a mystery unfolds around them.

The Girl in Blue

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Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781590204726
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis The Girl in Blue by : P.G. Wodehouse

Download or read book The Girl in Blue written by P.G. Wodehouse and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This charming novel is one of Wodehouse's best late works.

The Blue Dress

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Publisher : Hachette Children's Books Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780733611513
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (115 download)

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Book Synopsis The Blue Dress by : Libby Hathorn

Download or read book The Blue Dress written by Libby Hathorn and published by Hachette Children's Books Australia. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libby Hathorn has asked some of Australia's finest writers for their response to the painting by internationally acclaimed artist Brian Dunlop. First love, joy and disappointment, secrets, violence and the vagaries of fate are interwoven in these stories that remind us things are not always as they appear. Full of pathos, insight and wry humour, The Blue Dress is a stunning display of the possibilities of imagination. The contributing writers include Brian Caswell, Gary Crew, Libby Gleeson, Sophie Masson, Jenny Pausacker and Nadia Wheatley. 'These stories offer the reader different ways to define and access our common experience and in doing so the writers reflect with considerable insight on what it is to be on the threshold of childhood in an adult world.' Libby Hathorn

The Boy in the Red Dress

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593113683
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Book Synopsis The Boy in the Red Dress by : Kristin Lambert

Download or read book The Boy in the Red Dress written by Kristin Lambert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp of truth, lies, and troubled pasts. New Year's Eve, 1929. Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town. The new year is just around the corner, and all of New Orleans is out to celebrate, but even wealthy partiers' diamond earrings can't outshine the real star of the night: the boy in the red dress. Marion is the club's star performer and his fans are legion--if mostly underground. When a young socialite wielding a photograph of Marion starts asking questions, Millie wonders if she's just another fan. But then her body is found crumpled in the courtyard, dead from an apparent fall off the club's balcony, and all signs point to Marion as the murderer. Millie knows he's innocent, but local detectives aren't so easily convinced. As she chases clues that lead to cemeteries and dead ends, Millie's attention is divided between the wry and beautiful Olive, a waitress at the Cloak & Dagger, and Bennie, the charming bootlegger who's offered to help her solve the case. The clock is ticking for the fugitive Marion, but the truth of who the killer is might be closer than Millie thinks.

Island of the Blue Dolphins

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0395069629
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Island of the Blue Dolphins by : Scott O'Dell

Download or read book Island of the Blue Dolphins written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1960 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.

The Woman in the Green Dress

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Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0785235167
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Book Synopsis The Woman in the Green Dress by : Tea Cooper

Download or read book The Woman in the Green Dress written by Tea Cooper and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her husband’s death in World War I, Fleur’s surprising inheritance takes her deep into the past—and could unravel a mystery surrounding a cursed opal, a gnarled family tree, and a sinister woman in a green dress. 1919: After a whirlwind romance, London teashop waitress Fleur Richards can’t wait for her new husband, Hugh, to return from the Great War. But when word of his death arrives on Armistice Day, Fleur learns he has left her a sizable family fortune. Refusing to accept the inheritance, she heads to his beloved home country of Australia in search of the relatives who deserve it more. In spite of her reluctance, she soon finds herself the sole owner of a remote farm and a dilapidated curio shop full of long-forgotten artifacts, remarkable preserved creatures, and a mystery that began more than sixty-five years ago. With the help of Kip, a repatriated soldier dealing with the sobering aftereffects of war, Fleur finds herself unable to resist pulling on the threads of the past. What she finds is a shocking story surrounding an opal and a woman in a green dress. . . a story that, nevertheless, offers hope and healing for the future. This romantic mystery from award-winning Australian novelist Tea Cooper will keep readers guessing until the astonishing conclusion. Praise for The Woman in the Green Dress: “Refreshing and unique, The Woman in the Green Dress sweeps you across the wild lands of Australia in a thrilling whirl of mystery, romance, and danger. This magical tale weaves together two storylines with a heart-pounding finish that is drop-dead gorgeous.” —J’nell Ciesielski, author of The Socialite A USA TODAY bestseller Full-length historical fiction with both mystery and romance Stand-alone novel Includes discussion questions for book clubs

The Girl in the Blue Dress

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Publisher : Harlequin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis The Girl in the Blue Dress by : Mary Burchell

Download or read book The Girl in the Blue Dress written by Mary Burchell and published by Harlequin Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: