Ellen Foster
Title | Ellen Foster PDF eBook |
Author | Kaye Gibbons |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1616203021 |
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)
Title | Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club) PDF eBook |
Author | Kaye Gibbons |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1987-01-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1565122054 |
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"--Eudora Welty; "A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."--Walker Percy. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.
A Virtuous Woman
Title | A Virtuous Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Kaye Gibbons |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 1997-01-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1565127005 |
Two unforgettable characters, Jack Ernest Stokes, known as Blinking Jack, and his wife, Ruby Pitt Woodrow Stokes, tell the story of their years together. Jack was forty and Ruby only twenty when they were married. For twenty-five years they lived together, man and wife, until Ruby died of lung cancer. A LITERARY GUILD AND DOUBLEDAY BOOK CLUB selection.
Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)
Title | Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club) PDF eBook |
Author | Kaye Gibbons |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2012-10-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1616203080 |
"Filled with lively humor, compassion, and intimacy." —Alice Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review "When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy." With that opening sentence we enter the childhood world of one of the most appealing young heroines in contemporary fiction. Her courage, her humor, and her wisdom are unforgettable as she tells her own story with stunning honesty and insight. An Oprah Book Club selection, this powerful novel has become an American classic. Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction.
The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster
Title | The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster PDF eBook |
Author | Kaye Gibbons |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780151012046 |
A sequel to the now-classic "Ellen Foster" picks up Ellen's life five years later, at 15, with a new mother, a home, a mind too large for her surroundings, and a brave and compassionate integrity.
Songs in Ordinary Time
Title | Songs in Ordinary Time PDF eBook |
Author | Mary McGarry Morris |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 772 |
Release | 1996-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101199474 |
It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Maria Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen—involved with a young priest; Norm, sixteen—hotheaded and idealistic; and Benny, twelve—isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth he knows about Duvall. We also meet Sam Fermoyle, the children's alcoholic father; Sam's brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his failing appliance store; and the Klubock family, who—in contrast to the Fermoyles—live an orderly life in the house next door. Songs in Ordinary Time is a masterful epic of the everyday, illuminating the kaleidoscope of lives that tell the compelling story of this unforgettably family.
A Cure for Dreams
Title | A Cure for Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Kaye Gibbons |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 1991-01-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1565126904 |
A story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another.