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The Life of a Turpentine Girl

Author : Sarah Evelyn Holland Shaw
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642585017
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Life of a Turpentine Girl written by Sarah Evelyn Holland Shaw and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wished for the simpler things in life like wearing flour-sack panties? Have you ever wondered what life was like in 1920""1930's South Georgia? Journey with Sarah Evelyn Holland Shaw as she tells you about the amazing life of a turpentine still worker's daughter. Evelyn will take us on adventures with her family as they follow their father from town to town as he worked as a wood rider at turpentine stills. They may have been poor growing up, but were never bored using their imaginations to create games or cornhusk dolls. Evelyn sums up her early days as, "Life was one perfect summer day." As Evelyn and her siblings got older, they got to experience what working in cotton fields, tobacco barns, and peanut fields was all about. Evelyn's mom was strict and made many sacrifices for her children. She had to be to make ends meet and keep them safe. The family had many a meals of hoecakes with maple syrup. Follow Evelyn as she finds the love of her life during World War ll. They begin their own family and use the lessons she learned in her early days to create her own dreams.

Clown Girl

Author : Monica Drake
Publisher : Hawthorne Books
ISBN 13 : 0979018889
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Clown Girl written by Monica Drake and published by Hawthorne Books. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a seedy neighborhood where drugs, balloon animals, and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Against a backdrop of petty crime, she struggles to live her dreams, calling on cultural masters Charlie Chaplin, Kafka, and da Vinci for inspiration. In an effort to support herself and her layabout performance-artist boyfriend, Clown Girl finds herself unwittingly transformed into a "corporate clown," trapping herself in a cycle of meaningless, high-paid gigs that veer dangerously close to prostitution. Monica Drake has created a novel that riffs on the high comedy of early film stars — most notably Chaplin and W. C. Fields — to raise questions of class, gender, economics, and prejudice. Resisting easy classification, this debut novel blends the bizarre, the humorous, and the gritty with stunning skill.

The Saints of Swallow Hill

Author : Donna Everhart
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1496733339
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book The Saints of Swallow Hill written by Donna Everhart and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where the Crawdads Sing meets The Four Winds as award-winning author Donna Everhart's latest novel immerses readers in its unique setting—the turpentine camps and pine forests of the American South during the Great Depression. This captivating story of friendship, survival, and three vagabonds' intersecting lives will stay with readers long after turning the final page. It takes courage to save yourself... In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners labor, hacking into tree trunks to draw out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling the resin to stills to be refined. Among them is Rae Lynn Cobb and her husband, Warren, who run a small turpentine farm together. Though the work is hard and often dangerous, Rae Lynn, who spent her childhood in an orphanage, is thankful for it--and for her kind if careless husband. When Warren falls victim to his own negligence, Rae Lynn undertakes a desperate act of mercy. To keep herself from jail, she disguises herself as a man named "Ray" and heads to the only place she can think of that might offer anonymity--a turpentine camp in Georgia named Swallow Hill. Swallow Hill is no easy haven. The camp is isolated and squalid, and commissary owner Otis Riddle takes out his frustrations on his browbeaten wife, Cornelia. Although Rae Lynn works tirelessly, she becomes a target for Crow, the ever-watchful woods rider who checks each laborer's tally. Delwood Reese, who's come to Swallow Hill hoping for his own redemption, offers "Ray" a small measure of protection, and is determined to improve their conditions. As Rae Lynn forges a deeper friendship with both Del and Cornelia, she begins to envision a path out of the camp. But she will have to come to terms with her past, with all its pain and beauty, before she can open herself to a new life and seize the chance to begin again. “Fans of Sarah Addison Allen won't be able to put it down.” —Booklist

The Danish Girl

Author : David Ebershoff
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 195253318X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book The Danish Girl written by David Ebershoff and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starring Academy Award-winner Eddie Redmayne and directed by Academy Award-winner Tom Hooper, this major motion picture portrays an unforgettable celebration of love. It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Einar Wegener and his American wife Greta Waud have been married for six years, but are yet to have a child. Both painters, they live a life of bohemian languor in Copenhagen until one day their lives are irreversibly altered. The Danish Girl eloquently shows the intimacy that defines a marriage and the nearly forgotten story of the love between a man who discovers that he is, in fact, a woman, and his wife who would sacrifice anything for him. Set against the glitz and decadence of 1920s Copenhagen, Paris and Dresden, and inspired by a true story, The Danish Girl is about one of the most passionate and unusual marriages of the twentieth century. 'a story of true love, suffering and sacrifice' - Sunday Telegraph

The Modern Girl's Guide to Life

Author : Jane Buckingham
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 006174820X
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Girl's Guide to Life written by Jane Buckingham and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stylishly smart collection of practical advice for the busy modern woman With information on entertaining, etiquette, housekeeping, basic home repair, decorating, sex, and beauty, this indispensable book has everything today's young woman should know-but may not! The Modern Girl's Guide to Life is a collection of all the helpful tips and secrets that get passed on from generation to generation, but many of us have somehow missed. It's full of practical, definitive advice on the basics -- the day-to-day necessities like finding a bra that fits, balancing a checkbook, making a decent cup of coffee, and hemming a pair of pants. Modern Girl guru Jane Buckingham includes loads of savvy counsel to help us feel more refined, in charge, and together as we navigate the rocky terrain that is twenty-first-century womanhood.

War and Turpentine

Author : Stefan Hertmans
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101874031
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book War and Turpentine written by Stefan Hertmans and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year The life of Urbain Martien—artist, soldier, survivor of World War I—lies contained in two notebooks he left behind when he died in 1981. In War and Turpentine, his grandson, a writer, retells his grandfather’s story, the notebooks providing a key to the locked chambers of Urbain’s memory. With vivid detail, the grandson recounts a whole life: Urbain as the child of a lowly church painter, retouching his father’s work;dodging death in a foundry; fighting in the war that altered the course of history; marrying the sister of the woman he truly loved; being haunted by an ever-present reminder of the artist he had hoped to be and the soldier he was forced to become. Wrestling with this tale, the grandson straddles past and present, searching for a way to understand his own part in both. As artfully rendered as a Renaissance fresco, War and Turpentine paints an extraordinary portrait of one man’s life and reveals how that life echoed down through the generations. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout)

The Girl from the Hermitage

Author : Molly Gartland
Publisher : Eye & Lightning Books
ISBN 13 : 1785631896
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Girl from the Hermitage written by Molly Gartland and published by Eye & Lightning Books. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galina was born into a world of horrors. So why does she mourn its passing? SHORTLISTED: Impress Prize LONGLISTED: Bath Novel Award LONGLISTED: Grindstone Novel Award It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating soup made of wallpaper, with the occasional luxury of a dead rat. Galina's artist father Mikhail has been kept away from the front to help save the treasures of the Hermitage. Its cellars could now provide a safe haven, provided Mikhail can navigate the perils of a portrait commission from one of Stalin's colonels. Nearly forty years later, Galina herself is a teacher at the Leningrad Art Institute. What ought to be a celebratory weekend at her forest dacha turns sour when she makes an unwelcome discovery. The painting she embarks upon that day will hold a grim significance for the rest of her life, as the old Soviet Union makes way for the new Russia and Galina's familiar world changes out of all recognition. Warm, wise and utterly enthralling, Molly Gartland's debut novel guides us from the old communist world, with its obvious terrors and its more surprising comforts, into the glitz and bling of 21st-century St Petersburg. Galina's story is at once a compelling page-turner and an insightful meditation on ageing and nostalgia. 'A beautifully written book that takes you right into the characters' world. Highly recommended' LUCINDA HAWKSLEY

Chris Abani

Author : Annalisa Oboe
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152614719X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Chris Abani written by Annalisa Oboe and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length book on the work of ‘global Igbo’ writer Chris Abani. The volume dedicates a chapter to each of Abani’s fiction books, the two novellas Becoming Abigail (2006) and Song for Night (2007), the three novels GraceLand (2004), The Virgin of Flames (2007), and The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014), which are read against the grain of Abani’s most important essays and poetical production. By combining close readings and more theoretical reflections, this volume provides a significant insight for both scholars and students interested in the literature produced by the emerging African voices in the twentieth-first century, in the debate about human rights, and in general in how aesthetics is deeply linked with ethics.

Surrender, Dorothy

Author : Meg Wolitzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439125740
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Surrender, Dorothy written by Meg Wolitzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, a “devastatingly on target” (Elle) novel about a young woman's accidental death and its effect on her family and friends. For years, Sara Swerdlow was transported by an unfettered sense of immortality. Floating along on loving friendships and the adoration of her mother, Natalie, Sara's notion of death was entirely alien to her existence. But when a summer night's drive out for ice cream ends in tragedy, thirty-year-old Sara—"held aloft and shimmering for years"—finally lands. Mining the intricate relationship between love and mourning, acclaimed novelist Meg Wolitzer explores a single, overriding question: who, finally, "owns" the excruciating loss of this young woman—her mother or her closest friends? Depicting the aftermath of Sara's shocking death with piercing humor and shattering realism, Surrender, Dorothy is the luminously thoughtful, deeply moving exploration of what it is to be a mother and a friend, and, above all, what it takes to heal from unthinkable loss.

Blue Chicken

Author : Deborah Freedman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101587938
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Blue Chicken written by Deborah Freedman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mind-bendingly clever farmyard romp In this deceptively simple picture book, author-illustrator Deborah Freedman has created an irresistible character that springs to life and wreaks havoc in a farmyard with a pot of blue paint. The innocent chicken just wants to help, but things get worse and worse - and bluer and bluer - the more she tries. Playing with colors and perspective, and using minimal text, this richly layered story reveals new things to see and laugh about with each reading.

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

Author : Brad Ricca
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466883650
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Sherlock Holmes written by Brad Ricca and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime! This is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, detective, and first woman U.S. District Attorney who turned her back on New York society life to become one of the nation's greatest crime-fighters during an era when women were still not allowed to vote. After agreeing to take the sensational case of missing eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger, Grace and her partner, the hard-boiled detective Julius J. Kron, navigated a dangerous web of secret boyfriends, two-faced cops, underground tunnels, rumors of white slavery, and a mysterious pale man, in a desperate race against time. Brad Ricca's Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is the first-ever narrative biography of this singular woman the press nicknamed after fiction's greatest detective. Her poignant story reveals important clues about missing girls, the media, and the real truth of crime stories. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is a nominee for the 2018 Edgar Awards for Best Fact Crime.

About a Girl

Author : Sarah McCarry
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250068622
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book About a Girl written by Sarah McCarry and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old genius Tally makes a discovery that upends her fiercely ordered world and compels her to search for the mother who abandoned her as a baby, finding instead an enigmatic and beautiful girl who will unlock the door to her future.

Uncle Sagamore and His Girls

Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453291679
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Uncle Sagamore and His Girls written by Charles Williams and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVIt’s election season in Blossom County, and that means it’s time for moonshine/divDIV Educated at the racetrack, Billy has never had a firm grip on his ABCs, but he sure knows how to read a racing form. When a family court judge threatens to put the seven-year-old in a foster home, Billy and his father go to live in the countryside, at the wholesome little farm owned by Billy’s Uncle Sagamore, where the air is pure, the grass is green, and the liquor from his hidden distillery is clear as water—and about 120 proof. /divDIV /divDIVBut pressure from the law has kept Sagamore’s still silent, and the stash of white lightning is starting to dwindle. To get his home-brewing operation back underway, Sagamore needs a distraction—and there’s none better than local politics. When Uncle Sagamore throws his weight into the Blossom County elections, democracy will never be the same./div

Turpentine's Soul

Author : Jerry Stordahl
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1602666008
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Turpentine's Soul written by Jerry Stordahl and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keegan Turpentine has lost his son and been stoned by the Hell Hounds, but he survives. Now, demons are vying for his soul.

The Life of B. R. H. ... from His Autobiography and Journals. Edited and Compiled by Tom Taylor

Author : Benjamin Robert Haydon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Life of B. R. H. ... from His Autobiography and Journals. Edited and Compiled by Tom Taylor written by Benjamin Robert Haydon and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Old Me

Author : Meredith Maran
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0399574158
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The New Old Me written by Meredith Maran and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A funny, seasoned take on dashed illusions.”—O Magazine “I love everything Meredith Maran writes. She is insightful, funny, and human, and the things she writes about matter to me deeply. Her memoir, The New Old Me, is a book I don’t just want to read—I need to read it. So does everyone else who’s getting older and wants to live fully, with immediacy and enjoyment, which is to say, everyone.”—Anne Lamott, author of Hallelujah Anyway For readers of Anne Lamott, Abigail Thomas, and Ayelet Waldman comes one woman's lusty, kickass, post-divorce memoir of starting over at 60 in youth-obsessed, beauty-obsessed Hollywood. After the death of her best friend, the loss of her life’s savings, and the collapse of her once-happy marriage, Meredith Maran leaves her San Francisco freelance writer’s life for a 9-to-5 job in Los Angeles. Determined to rebuild not only her savings but also herself while relishing the joys of life in La-La land, Maran writes “a poignant story, a funny story, a moving story, and above all an American story of what it means to be a woman of a certain age in our time” (Christina Baker Kline, number-one New York Times–bestselling author of Orphan Train). Praise for The New Old Me: “High time we had a book that celebrates becoming an elder! Meredith Maran writes of the difficulties of loss and change and aging, but makes it clear that getting on can be more interesting, more fun, and a lot more exciting than youth.”—Abigail Thomas, author of the New York Times bestseller What Comes Next and How to Like It “By turns poignant and funny, the book not only shows how one feisty woman coped with a ‘Plan B life’ she didn't want or expect with a little help from her friends. It also celebrates how she transformed uncertainty into a glorious opportunity for continued late-life personal growth. A spirited and moving memoir about how ‘it's never too late to try something new.’”—Kirkus

A Parchment of Leaves

Author : Silas House
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202912
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book A Parchment of Leaves written by Silas House and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2002-08-16 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Silas House made his debut with Clay's Quilt last year, it touched a nerve not just in his home state (where it quickly became a bestseller), but all across the country. Glowing reviews-from USA Today (House is letter-perfect with his first novel), to the Philadelphia Inquirer (Compelling. . . . House knows what's important and reminds us of the value of family and home, love and loyalty), to the Mobile Register (Poetic, haunting), and everywhere in between-established him as a writer to watch. His second novel won't disappoint. Set in 1917, A PARCHMENT OF LEAVES tells the story of Vine, a beautiful Cherokee woman who marries a white man, forsaking her family and their homeland to settle in with his people and make a home in the heart of the mountains. Her mother has strange forebodings that all will not go well, and she's right. Vine is viewed as an outsider, treated with contempt by other townspeople. Add to that her brother-in-law's fixation on her, and Vine's life becomes more complicated than she could have ever imagined. In the violent turn of events that ensues, she learns what it means to forgive others and, most important, how to forgive herself. As haunting as an old-time ballad, A PARCHMENT OF LEAVES is filled with the imagery, dialect, music, and thrumming life of the Kentucky mountains. For Silas House, whose great-grandmother was Cherokee, this novel is also a tribute to the family whose spirit formed him.