The Pursuit Of Alice Thrift

Download The Pursuit Of Alice Thrift full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Pursuit Of Alice Thrift ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

The Pursuit of Alice Thrift

Author : Elinor Lipman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307429237
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by : Elinor Lipman

Download or read book The Pursuit of Alice Thrift written by Elinor Lipman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her newest well-tuned, witty, and altogether wonderful novel, bestselling author Elinor Lipman dares to ask: Can an upper-middle-class doctor find love with a shady, fast-talking salesman? Meet Alice Thrift, surgical intern in a Boston hospital, high of I.Q. but low in social graces. She doesn’t mean to be acerbic, clinical, or blunt, but where was she the day they taught Bedside Manner 101? Into Alice’s workaholic and wallflower life comes Ray Russo, a slick traveling fudge salesman in search of a nose job and well-heeled companionship, but not necessarily in that order. Is he a conman or a sincere suitor? Good guy or bad? Alice’s parents, roommate, and best friend Sylvie are appalled at her choice of mate. Despite her doubts, Alice finds herself walking down the aisle, not so much won over as worn down. Will their marriage last the honeymoon? Only if Alice’s best instincts can triumph over Ray’s unsavory ways.

The View from Penthouse B

Author : Elinor Lipman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547576218
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The View from Penthouse B by : Elinor Lipman

Download or read book The View from Penthouse B written by Elinor Lipman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two newly-single sisters, one a divorce?, the other a widow, become roommates with a handsome, gay cupcake-baker as they try to return to the dating world of lower Manhattan.

Rachel to the Rescue

Author : Elinor Lipman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0358653258
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (586 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rachel to the Rescue by : Elinor Lipman

Download or read book Rachel to the Rescue written by Elinor Lipman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2021 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Klein is sacked from her job at the White House after she sends an email criticizing Donald Trump. As she is escorted off the premises she is hit by a speeding car, driven by what the press will discreetly call "a personal friend of the President." Does that explain the flowers, the get-well wishes at a press briefing, the hush money offered by a lawyer at her hospital bedside? Rachel's recovery is soothed by comically doting parents, matchmaking room-mates, a new job as aide to a journalist whose books aim to defame the President, and unexpected love at the local wine store. But secrets leak, and Rachel's new-found happiness has to make room for more than a little chaos. Will she bring down the President? Or will he manage to do that all by himself? Rachel to the Rescue is a mischievous political satire, with a delightful cast of characters, from one of America's funniest novelists.

Time Is a River

Author : Mary Alice Monroe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439141770
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Time Is a River by : Mary Alice Monroe

Download or read book Time Is a River written by Mary Alice Monroe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-01-20 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While recovering from breast cancer in a remote cabin in North Carolina, Mia Landan finds the journal of Kate Watkins, a 1920s fly fisher, and, inspired by Kate's example, learns to fish and uncovers many secrets around her.

The Inn At Lake Devine

Author : Elinor Lipman
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0755385101
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (553 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Inn At Lake Devine by : Elinor Lipman

Download or read book The Inn At Lake Devine written by Elinor Lipman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1962 and Natalie Marx is shocked when her mother receives this reply to her enquiry about summer accommodation in Vermont: 'Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles.' It was not complicated, as her mother pointed out. 'They had a hotel; they didn't want Jews. We were Jews.' For the intrepid twelve-year-old Natalie, the words are an infuriating, irresistible challenge. She manages to wangle an invitation to join a friend on holiday there - and, as her obsession begins with the family that has excluded her, she sets in train events which will change her life, and which will tie her forever to the eccentric family who run the Inn at Lake Devine

Death in Venice

Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : urzeni yayınevi
ISBN 13 : 6057941705
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (579 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Death in Venice by : Thomas Mann

Download or read book Death in Venice written by Thomas Mann and published by urzeni yayınevi. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most famous literary works of the 20th century, the novella “Death in Venice” embodies themes that preoccupied Thomas Mann (1875–1955) in much of his work; the duality of art and life, the presence of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, the connection between love and suffering, and the conflict between the artist and his inner self. Mann’s handling of these concerns in this story of a middle-aged German writer, torn by his passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, resulted in a work of great psychological intensity and tragic power.

The Inn at Lake Devine

Author : Elinor Lipman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814211
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Inn at Lake Devine by : Elinor Lipman

Download or read book The Inn at Lake Devine written by Elinor Lipman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "tale of delicious revenge" (USA Today) is also "a punchy little comedy of manners.... Think Jane Austen in the Catskills" (Chicago Tribune). It's 1962 and all across America barriers are collapsing. But when Natalie Marx's mother inquires about summer accommodations in Vermont, she gets the following reply: The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort, which has been in continuous operation since 1922. Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles. For twelve-year-old Natalie, who has a stubborn sense of justice, the words are not a rebuff but an infuriating, irresistible challenge. In this beguiling novel, Elinor Lipman charts her heroine's fixation with a small bastion of genteel anti-Semitism, a fixation that will have wildly unexpected consequences on her romantic life. As Natalie tries to enter the world that has excluded her—and succeeds through the sheerest of accidents—The Inn at Lake Devine becomes a delightful and provocative romantic comedy full of sparkling social mischief.

The Way Men Act

Author : Elinor Lipman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671748416
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (717 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Way Men Act by : Elinor Lipman

Download or read book The Way Men Act written by Elinor Lipman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One-time popular and eye-catching Melinda LeBlanc finds her world as a successful florist is not enough.

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Author : Rachel Cohn
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0375896686
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by : Rachel Cohn

Download or read book Dash & Lily's Book of Dares written by Rachel Cohn and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Netflix original series starring Austin Abrams and Midori Francis! A whirlwind holiday season romance from the New York Times bestselling authors of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. “I’ve left some clues for you. If you want them, turn the page. If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.” 16-year-old Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on her favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. Dash, in a bad mood during the holidays, happens to be the first guy to pick up the notebook and rise to its challenges. What follows is a whirlwind romance as Dash and Lily trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations all across New York City. But can their in-person selves possibly connect as well as their notebook versions, or will their scavenger hunt end in a comic mismatch of disastrous proportions? Co-written by Rachel Cohn (GINGERBREAD) and David Levithan, co-author of WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON with John Green (THE FAULT IN OUR STARS), DASH & LILY'S BOOK OF DARES is a love story that will have readers scouring bookstore shelves, looking and longing for a love (and a red notebook) of their own.

Then She Found Me

Author : Elinor Lipman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439186723
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Then She Found Me by : Elinor Lipman

Download or read book Then She Found Me written by Elinor Lipman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April Epner teaches high school Latin, wears flannel jumpers, and is used to having her evenings free. Bernice Graverman brandishes designer labels, favors toad-sized earrings, and hosts her own tacky TV talk show: Bernice G! But behind the glitz and glam, Bernice has followed the life of the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-six years ago. Now that she's got her act together, she's aiming to be a mom like she always knew she could. And she's hurtling straight for April's quiet little life....

The Ladies' Man

Author : Elinor Lipman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030781422X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Ladies' Man by : Elinor Lipman

Download or read book The Ladies' Man written by Elinor Lipman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Inn at Lake Devine ("Rivals her own best work for its understanding of the way smart, opinionated people stumble toward happiness"--Glamour) and Isabel's Bed ("It's Fannie Farmer for the soul . . . delivered in a delicious style that is both funny and elegant"--USA Today) comes a darkly romantic comedy of manners that confirms Elinor Lipman's appointment to the Jane Austen chair in modern American sensibility. Thirty unmarried years have passed since the barely suitable Harvey Nash failed to show up at a grand Boston hotel for his own engagement party. Today, the near-bride, Adele Dobbin, and her two sisters, Lois and Kathleen, blame Harvey for what unkind relatives call their spinsterhood, and what potential beaus might characterize as a leery, united front. The doorbell rings one cold April night. Harvey Nash, older, filled with regrets (sort of), more charming and arousable than ever, just in from the Coast, where he's reinvented himself as Nash Harvey, jingle composer and chronic bachelor, has returned to the scene of his first romantic crime. Despite the sisters' scars and grudges, despite his platinum tongue and roving eye, this old flame becomes an improbable catalyst for the untried and the long overdue. The refined and level-headed Adele finds herself flirting with her boss--on public television. Entrepreneurial Kathleen is suddenly drinking cappuccino with Lorenz, the handsome doorman at the luxury high-rise where she owns a lingerie boutique. And Lois, the only sister to have embarked on the road to matrimony and, subsequently, divorce, revives her long-cherished notion that Harvey abandoned Adele rather than indulge his preference for another Dobbin. Both comic and compassionate, The Ladies' Man has all of Lipman's trademark wit, wattage, and social mischief--with an extra bite.

The Family Man

Author : Elinor Lipman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547394292
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Family Man by : Elinor Lipman

Download or read book The Family Man written by Elinor Lipman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hysterical phone call from Henry Archer’s ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend his well-ordered life and bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. Henry is a lawyer, an old-fashioned man, gay, successful, lonely. Thalia is now twenty-nine, an actress-hopeful, estranged from her newly widowed eccentric mother—Denise, Henry’s ex. Hoping it will lead to better things for her career, Thalia agrees to pose as the girlfriend of a horror-movie luminary who is down on his romantic luck. When Thalia and her complicated social life move into the basement of Henry’s Upper West Side townhouse, she finds a champion in her long-lost father, and he finds new life—and maybe even new love—in the commotion.

This Little Mommy Stayed Home

Author : Samantha Wilde
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553906674
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis This Little Mommy Stayed Home by : Samantha Wilde

Download or read book This Little Mommy Stayed Home written by Samantha Wilde and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mother of all Motherhood novels. In this riotously funny, ruefully honest, and irresistibly warmhearted debut, Samantha Wilde writes about one new mother who discovers the wonders and terrors of motherhood—one hilarious crisis at a time. For new moms, potential moms-to-be, and anyone who just wants to (wisely) live the experience vicariously… New mom Joy McGuire hasn’t changed her sweatpants since her baby was born. Of course she’s crazy about her newborn son; it’s her distracted, work-obsessed husband and his impossible mother she can’t stand. Joy turns to her own mom for support, but she’s too busy planning her fourth wedding to a suspicious self-help guru. Sure, Joy’s a woman on the brink, but it’s nothing a little sleep, sanity, and chocolate can’t fix. Until her old college boyfriend shows up at their ten-year reunion. The one she was still in love with when she married her husband. It must be the lack of sleep, because Joy is starting to think she might have ended up with the wrong man. Not to mention she’s obsessed with her sexy yoga instructor, who might just be interested in her. Joy used to be single, skinny, and able to speak in complete sentences, but who is she now? As she’s trying to figure that out, her husband goes missing…. Frank, bawdy, and full of keenly self-aware observations, this novel tells the story of one new mother, three men, one marriage, and the baby love that keeps us up at night

The Dearly Departed

Author : Elinor Lipman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 140003325X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Dearly Departed by : Elinor Lipman

Download or read book The Dearly Departed written by Elinor Lipman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her trademark humor and warmth, the beloved author of The Ladies' Man and The Inn at Lake Devine explores going home again; about finding light in the dark corners of one's inhospitable past; about love, golf, and DNA. Everyone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten, part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower, and single mother to a now-distant daughter, Sunny. But accidents happen. The death of Margaret, side by side with her putative fiancé, brings Sunny back to the scene of the unhappy adolescence she thought she’d left behind. Reentry is to be dreaded; there’s no hiding in a town with one diner, one doctor, one stop sign, one motel. Yet allies surface; even high school tormentors have grown up in unforeseen and gratifying ways. Just possibly, Sunny begins to think, she wasn’t as beleaguered as she felt she was. And maybe her mother’s life was richer than anyone suspected. Add to the mix a chief of police whose interest in Sunny exceeds his civic duty, and you have the makings of an irresistibly beguiling tale from an author who writes with all the wit and wry authority of a latter-day Jane Austen.

Hedwig and Berti

Author : Frieda Arkin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 146683871X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Hedwig and Berti by : Frieda Arkin

Download or read book Hedwig and Berti written by Frieda Arkin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five years after publication of her first novel, The Dorp (followed by other works on cooking and gardening), Frieda Arkin returns to the world of fiction to give us another darkly humorous novel, Hedwig and Berti. Hedwig and Berti is a saga of the totally unlikely marriage of a grandly Teutonic woman, Hedwig Kessler, and her diminutive cousin Berti, two upper-class German Jews forced to leave their homeland during the rise of the Nazis. They flee to London, then to New York City, and from there, finally, to a university town in Kansas. In London, Hedwig gives birth to a daughter whose broodingly dark construction and immense genius for the piano point back in time to the tragedy of her bloodline. This is a story of prejudice taken to extremes, both within the domain of a severely class-conscious German-Jewish family and beyond it. The characters are subtle, and finely-honed, and their story is told with grace and unexpected humor. Like Penelope Fitzgerald, Frieda Arkin possesses a rare gift for combining love, wit, and dark realism in the reactions and behavior of her characters in the several cultures they are forced to adapt to.

The View from Castle Rock

Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307266028
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The View from Castle Rock by : Alice Munro

Download or read book The View from Castle Rock written by Alice Munro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet. A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro’s art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.

Seventh Heaven

Author : Alice Hoffman
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497638054
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Seventh Heaven by : Alice Hoffman

Download or read book Seventh Heaven written by Alice Hoffman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller about a 1950s suburb transformed by the arrival of a divorced mother: “part American Graffiti, part early Updike” (The New York Times). On Hemlock Street, the houses are identical, the lawns tidy, and the families traditional. A perfect slice of suburbia, this Long Island community shows no signs of change as the 1950s draw to a close—until the fateful August morning when Nora Silk arrives. Recently divorced, Nora mows the lawn in slingback pumps and climbs her roof in the middle of the night to clean the gutters. She works three jobs, and when her casseroles don’t turn out, she feeds her two boys—eight-year-old Billy and his baby brother, James—Frosted Flakes for supper. She wears black stretch pants instead of Bermuda shorts, owns twenty-three shades of nail polish, and sings along to Elvis like a schoolgirl. Though Nora is eager to fit in on Hemlock Street, her effect on the neighbors is anything but normal. The wives distrust her, the husbands desire her, and the children think she’s a witch. But through Nora’s eyes, the neighborhood appears far from perfect. Behind every neatly trimmed hedge and freshly painted shutter is a family struggling to solve its own unique mysteries. Inspired by Nora, the residents of Hemlock Street finally unlock the secrets that will transform their lives forever. A tale of extraordinary discoveries, Seventh Heaven is an ode to a single mother’s heroic journey and a celebration of the courage it takes to change.