Almost Famous Women
Title | Almost Famous Women PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Mayhew Bergman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2015-01-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1476786569 |
Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity, from Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra, to Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly.
Almost Famous
Title | Almost Famous PDF eBook |
Author | David Getz |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1994-03-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780805034646 |
Ten-year-old Maxine is determined to become a famous inventor so she can take care of her younger brother's heart condition, and she convinces a troubled classmate to help her.
Birds of a Lesser Paradise
Title | Birds of a Lesser Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Mayhew Bergman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2012-03-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1451643357 |
From a prizewinning young writer whose stories have been anthologized in "The Best American Short Stories" and "New Stories from the South" comes a heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world.
Famous Women
Title | Famous Women PDF eBook |
Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780674011304 |
Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
Close to Famous
Title | Close to Famous PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Bauer |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2012-01-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0142420174 |
A novel full of heart, humor, and charm from Newbery Honor winner Joan Bauer! When twelve-year-old Foster and her mother land in the tiny town of Culpepper, they don't know what to expect. But folks quickly warm to the woman with the great voice and the girl who can bake like nobody's business. Soon Foster - who dreams of having her own cooking show one day - lands herself a gig baking for the local coffee shop, and gets herself some much-needed help in overcoming her biggest challenge - learning to read . . . just as Foster and Mama start to feel at ease, their past catches up to them. Thanks to the folks in Culpepper, though Foster and her mama find the strength to put their troubles behind them for good.
How Strange a Season
Title | How Strange a Season PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Mayhew Bergman |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2022-03-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1476713103 |
Award-winning short story writer Megan Mayhew Bergman's debut novel--a beautiful and engrossing tale of a southern family, set outside of Charleston in the 1920s and 1930s, with an unforgettable young heroine. Win Spangler and Helena Glass met on the dunes at a beach resort in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1919. Helena, a skilled shooter and former beauty queen, was born and raised on a moss-draped former rice plantation, and her family is devoted to preserving their crumbling heritage. Win is a medical school dropout with a sizeable inheritance, eager to make his mark on southern culture. When Helena seduces Win, their lives become inextricably bound. Their daughter Sally Anne is born at Glass Manor and her father nicknames her Skip, because he hopes any misfortune will pass her by. But her mother is unstable and her father is unsatisfied, and Skip grows up lonely and isolated. She is drawn to the families down the road on Nightingale Lane, where the field workers and servants live, and develops a unique friendship with a boy named Ase. When Skip is thirteen years old her father invites a disquieting doctor to set up a private laboratory on the property, and his pioneering surgical experiments lead to disastrous consequences, forcing Skip to question everything she knows about family, love, and legacy. Author Megan Mayhew Bergman has been hailed "a top-notch emerging writer" (The Boston Globe) and a writer of "intense, richly imagined tales" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR), and brings her formidable storytelling talents to bear in Nightingale Lane, with its rich cast of characters and lush, evocative prose. Atmospheric and steeped in southern lore, Nightingale Lane explores the power of wronged women, the cost of inheritance, and the reconciliation of past and present.
Almost Famous
Title | Almost Famous PDF eBook |
Author | Cameron Crowe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Almost famous (Motion picture : 2000) |
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