Iris and Ruby
Title | Iris and Ruby PDF eBook |
Author | Rosie Thomas |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2011-11-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007460104 |
A gripping, exotic and epic tale for fans of Dinah Jeffries and Victoria Hislop
Iris and Ruby
Title | Iris and Ruby PDF eBook |
Author | Rosie Thomas |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2016-04-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1468313347 |
The bestselling author “writes with ravishing sensuality” in this saga of a wartime love that reverberates through three generations of women (The Times, London). The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to eight-two-year-old Iris Black’s old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn’t seen for years. An unlikely bond develops between them, as Ruby helps Iris record her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War II—and of her one true love whom she lost to the ravages of conflict. This long-ago love has shaped Iris’s life, and, as becomes increasingly apparent, those of her daughter and her granddaughter. And it is to affect them all, again, in ways they could not have imagined. “[Thomas’s] evocation of the wartime Cairo has all the raffish, glittering brittleness of life on the edge . . . Touches on the varieties and nuances of love between men and women, and the power of family relationships to enhance and destroy lives.” —Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Mail “The pairing of these two women, at opposite life stages, shows how the generations can heal one another while discovering more about themselves . . . Lovely to read.” —Historical Novel Society “[A] brilliant tale. Rosie Thomas is a writer whose talent shines with every page. I was lost immediately as the pages began turning and the story swallowed me up whole and took me along the two women’s journeys.” —Urban Book Reviews
Razzle-dazzle Ruby
Title | Razzle-dazzle Ruby PDF eBook |
Author | Masha D'yans |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0545225000 |
A little girl imagines that she is a queen of a sparkling winter world where her dog, Rocket, is her knight in barking armor.
Midnight Mystery #1
Title | Midnight Mystery #1 PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Mccarthy |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2008-08-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 110122018X |
Ruby and her friends wake up and find that the mansion’s kitchen has been ransacked and there’s not a crumb left to eat. Everyone loves a late night snack, but someone has gone too far! All the friends swear they are innocent, but someone—or something—must be responsible. Can Ruby and her friends solve this midnight mystery?
The Kashmir Shawl
Title | The Kashmir Shawl PDF eBook |
Author | Rosie Thomas |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2011-07-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007449992 |
For fans of The Tea-Planter’s Wife and Victoria Hislop comes a gripping story of doomed love and secrets in 1940s Kashmir.
Iris and Ruby
Title | Iris and Ruby PDF eBook |
Author | Rosie Thomas |
Publisher | |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | English |
ISBN | 9780007796564 |
A story of love, loss and the distance between three generations of one family, this novel centres on Iris and Ruby - a grandmother and her granddaughter - as they try and make sense of their respective lives.
Ruby in the Sky
Title | Ruby in the Sky PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-02-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0374309078 |
A Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club Read Twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested. And she definitely does not want to make any friends. Ruby just wants to stay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. She and her mother won’t be staying long in Vermont anyway, and then things can go back to the way they were before everything went wrong. But keeping to herself isn’t easy when Ahmad Saleem, a Syrian refugee, decides he’s her new best friend. Or when she meets “the Bird Lady,” a recluse named Abigail who lives in a ramshackle shed near Ruby’s house. Before long Ahmad and Abigail have become Ruby’s friends—and she realizes there is more to their stories than everyone knows. As ugly rumors begin to swirl around the people Ruby loves, she must make a choice: break her silence, or risk losing everything that’s come to mean so much to her. Ruby in the Sky is a story of the walls we hide behind, and the magic that can happen when we’re brave enough to break free.