Dear Teddy Robinson
Title | Dear Teddy Robinson PDF eBook |
Author | Joan G. Robinson |
Publisher | Puffin Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Teddy bears |
ISBN | 9780140302721 |
When Marnie Was There (Essential Modern Classics)
Title | When Marnie Was There (Essential Modern Classics) PDF eBook |
Author | Joan G. Robinson |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2014-05-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0007586868 |
Anna hasn’t a friend in the world – until she meets Marnie among the sand dunes. But Marnie isn’t all she seems... A major motion picture adaptation by Studio Ghibli, creators of SPIRITED AWAY and ARRIETTY.
Dear Teddy Robinson
Title | Dear Teddy Robinson PDF eBook |
Author | Joan G. Robinson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 105 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Dear Olly
Title | Dear Olly PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Morpurgo |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 17 |
Release | 2010-08-19 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0007375840 |
Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation’s favourite storyteller A moving story of a brother, a sister and a swallow, and how all are in some way victims of the horrors of landmines.
Lila (Oprah's Book Club)
Title | Lila (Oprah's Book Club) PDF eBook |
Author | Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2014-10-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374709084 |
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award National Book Award Finalist A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church-the only available shelter from the rain-and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood. Together they crafted a life on the run, living hand to mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a ragged blade to protect them. Despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation, their shared life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves. Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Home, a National Book Award finalist, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become an American classic.
Home
Title | Home PDF eBook |
Author | Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher | Harper Perennial |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2009-09-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781554681228 |
Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with torment and pain. A troubled boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. He is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Reverend Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, beguiling, lovable and wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with John Ames, his godfather and namesake. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is arguably Marilynne Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.
Jack
Title | Jack PDF eBook |
Author | Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2020-09-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0349011788 |
'[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama 'Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest writers of our time' Sunday Times 'Jack is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet' Observer Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction. Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the loved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child, with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent will. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson's greatest achievements.