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The Yokota Officers Club

Author : Sarah Bird
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307775755
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Yokota Officers Club written by Sarah Bird and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Bird’s gutsy, sharp, and touching new novel opens at full speed. Bernadette "Bernie" Root, military brat, speaks. She has never really noticed what a peculiar bunch of nomads her eight-member Air Force family is (with the exception of her Post Princess sister, Kit), until the summer after her first year of college when she joins them at their new assignment: Kadena Air Base, Okinawa. Just as Okinawa turns out to be a sorry version of the Japanese paradise Bernie knew in her childhood at Yokota Air Base, her family, especially her once-beautiful mother, Moe, and her former spy-pilot father, Mace, seems to have been in decline since those glory days of the American Raj. Days when her mother was happy and their best friend, Fumiko, now lost to them, was the family’s maid. The worst part of Okinawa for Bernie, though, is realizing how perfectly she fits with her oddball family and how badly she needs to get out. So when a dance contest first prize, a trip to Japan,offers a chance to escape, she takes it, playing second banana to a third-rate comedian on a tour of Japan’s military bases. At their grand finale at the Yokota Officers’ Club, Fumiko finally reappears, and Bernie discovers the terrible price that is paid when the secrets nations hide end up buried within families. A brilliantly appealing novel whose energy, wit, and feeling have won for it (see back of the jacket) extraordinary advance praise.

Yokota Officer's Club

Author : Sarah Bird
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606298513
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Yokota Officer's Club written by Sarah Bird and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this funny and moving novel, Bernie Root is returning to her family for the summer after her first year at college. Her father is stationed in Okinawa, and the rest of her large family is living at Kadena Air Base. Bernie is happy to be back, but it's more obvious to her than ever that her oddball family is the only place she fits in.

WLA

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book WLA written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Something to Talk About

Author : Ann-Marie Cyr
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461671256
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Something to Talk About written by Ann-Marie Cyr and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-08-02 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus solely on booktalking to adults. Here is an instruction manual and a material sourcebook in one; providing the reader with both step-by-step instructions on how to write a booktalk and 88 samples to use when creating a booktalk program for an adult audience.

How Perfect Is That

Author : Sarah Bird
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143912308X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book How Perfect Is That written by Sarah Bird and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happily entering Austin high society after marrying into a family that made her sign a strict prenuptial agreement, Blythe Young is dumped ten years later for another woman and is forced to take refuge at a housing co-op, where she reunites with the college roommate she had abandoned. Reprint.

The Writer and the Overseas Childhood

Author : Antje M. Rauwerda
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078649106X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Writer and the Overseas Childhood written by Antje M. Rauwerda and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does Ian McEwan have in common with Barbara Kingsolver? Or The Shack's William Paul Young with The Way the Crow Flies' Ann-Marie MacDonald? All four spent significant portions of their formative years overseas as expatriates; all four are third culture kids. These authors share experiences of cultural and geographical displacement that fracture constructions of home and identity, as their fiction attests. This study surveys 17 authors with "expat" backgrounds to define "third culture literature," a burgeoning yet unrecognized branch of international writing characterized by expressions of dislocation, loss, and disenfranchisement. By explicating how the shared cultural details of these writers emerge in literary themes and images, this work introduces third culture literature as a separate field, reinterpreting the work of major writers from across the globe.

The Flamenco Academy

Author : Sarah Bird
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345462386
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The Flamenco Academy written by Sarah Bird and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Albuquerque, New Mexico, two young women become entranced by young flamenco guitarist Toms ̀Montenegro and decide to dedicate themselves to the disciplines and demands of the university's flamenco academy.

Army, Navy, Air Force Journal & Register

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army, Navy, Air Force Journal & Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Above the East China Sea

Author : Sarah Bird
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101873868
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Above the East China Sea written by Sarah Bird and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year Okinawa, present day: Luz, a teenage military brat, has moved to the island’s U.S. Air Force base with her mother, a no-nonsense sergeant. Luz’s mother hopes that the move will reconnect them with the Okinawan branch of their family—and help them heal from the death of Luz’s beloved older sister. This is an island where departed spirits mingle with the living, and interwoven with Luz’s narrative is the story of an Okinawan girl, Tamiko Kokuba, who in 1945 was plucked from her high school and trained to work in the Imperial Army’s horrific cave hospitals. Both of these extraordinary young women are seeking peace, and as Luz digs deeper and deeper into her past, their quests will intersect. Above the East China Sea tells the entwined stories of two lives connected across time by the shared experience of loss, the strength of an ancient culture, and the power of family love.

Two Souls Indivisible

Author : James S. Hirsch
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547526903
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Two Souls Indivisible written by James S. Hirsch and published by HMH. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How two Vietnam POWs, one white and one black, formed an unexpected friendship that saved them both: “A moving story.” —John McCain Fred Cherry was one of the few black pilots taken prisoner by the Vietnamese, tortured and intimidated by captors who tried and failed to get him to sign antiwar statements. Porter Halyburton was a white southern navy flier who the Vietnamese threw into a cell with Cherry at the famous Hanoi Hilton, hoping that close quarters would inspire racial tensions to boil over. Instead, they fostered an intense connection that would help both men survive the war—and continue for the rest of their lives. An unforgettable story of courage and friendship, Two Souls Indivisible is a compelling reminder of what can be achieved, in the face of incredible odds, when we put our differences aside. “A riveting tale . . . Two Souls Indivisible joins the small list of essential tomes on the war, race, and to an even larger degree, books that describe the true meaning of heroism.” —The Seattle Times “A moving story of two men whose courage, sense of duty, and love proved greater than the depravity of their captors.” —Sen. John McCain

A.D.M.

Author : Cliff Peterson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578001152
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book A.D.M. written by Cliff Peterson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known best by his nickname, Adam, Brigadier General Angus Donald McGregor (A.D.M.) is the Air Force and Defense Attache' serving at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. As a handsome, career bachelor with an eye for beauty, Adam enjoys the finer things in life. Sonya Olsen, a young, beautiful housewife from Minnesota, is uprooted by her husband from the safety and security of her Midwestern life. Sonya and her two small boys are transplanted to Cairo innocent of the dangers that plague the Middle East. Thrown together by unusual circumstances, Adam and Sonya begin a love affair faced with ostensibly grave odds that only their stalwart resolve to each other can overcome. Their torrid amour is abruptly halted by a family catastrophe resulting from a terrorist attack and a tragic accident that leaves Sonya clinging to her life.

The Mommy Club

Author : Sarah Bird
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 : 9780385411233
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Mommy Club written by Sarah Bird and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young surrogate mother attempts to make an ordered world for her child as she wanders through the maze of trendy yuppiedom to the treacherous waters of her relations with her old love, Sinclair.

The Gap Year

Author : Sarah Bird
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451678762
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Gap Year written by Sarah Bird and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single mom and her seventeen-year-old daughter learn how to let go in that precarious moment before college empties the nest.

By Its Cover

Author : Ned Drew
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568984971
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book By Its Cover written by Ned Drew and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know we're not supposed to judge books by their covers, but the truth is that we do just that nearly every time we walk into a bookstore or pull a book off a tightly packed shelf. It's really not something we should be ashamed about, for it reinforces something we sincerely believe: design matters. At its best, book cover design is an art that transcends the publisher's commercial imperativesto reflect both an author's ideas and contemporary cultural values in a vital, intelligent, and beautiful way. In this groundbreaking and lavishly illustrated history, authors Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger establish American book cover design as a tradition of sophisticated, visual excellence that has put shape to our literary landscape. By Its Cover traces the story of the American book cover from its inception as a means of utilitarian protection for the book to its current status as an elaborately produced form of communication art. It is, at once, the intertwined story of American graphic design and American literature, and features the work of such legendary figures as Rockwell Kent, E. McKnight Kauffer, Paul Rand, Alvin Lustig, Rudy deHarak, and Roy Kuhlman along with more recent and contemporary innovators including Push Pin Studios, Chermayeff & Geismar, Karen Goldberg, Chip Kidd, and John Gall.

The Invisible Bridge

Author : Julie Orringer
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1400041163
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Bridge written by Julie Orringer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical novel set in 1937 Europe tells the story of three Hungarian Jewish brothers bound by history and love, of a marriage tested by disaster, of a Jewish family's struggle against annihilation by the Nazis and of the dangerous power of art in the time of war.

Playing Botticelli: A Novel

Author : Liza Nelson
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1619844400
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Playing Botticelli: A Novel written by Liza Nelson and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2016-01-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godiva Blue thinks she controls the world she has created for her daughter Dylan and herself in a neglected corner of North Florida. While her fellow college activists have become Reagan-era yuppies, Godiva—an elementary-school janitor who is also an avant-garde artist and avowed nonconformist—staunchly refuses to compromise her ideals. Then one day she glances at the wanted posters hanging in her local post office and recognizes the face of a man she hasn’t seen since 1969: Dylan’s father. Shaken, Godiva grabs the poster and takes it home. When 15-year-old Dylan, already secretly chafing against her mother’s out-sized personality, finds the photograph, the discovery rocks the very foundation of their relationship. Fueled by simmering adolescent resentment, Dylan sets out across America to look for the father she’s never known. Left behind and powerless to protect her daughter, Godiva must finally confront the choices she made long ago. By turns funny, scary and reflective, Playing Botticelli follows Godiva and Dylan deep into the uncharted territories of their hearts as they seek that elusive balance between autonomy and family love?

Turning Final, a Life Complete

Author : Jim Reed
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426963602
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Turning Final, a Life Complete written by Jim Reed and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Reed has had a life of diverse adventure. From sending U-2s to the North Pole, retrieving Missiles in the open ocean and a flying career that spanned the world, he has done just about everything that you could pack into one lifetime. Turning Final captures those adventures and shares it with all of us who dream of meeting exciting challenges. This story is about a real life pilot/sailor who accomplished things that most people only dream about while at the same time he and his lovely wife raised a family of four boys. His life truly spans the world.