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.
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.
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.
Sights Unseen
Title | Sights Unseen PDF eBook |
Author | Kaye Gibbons |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2005-06-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0060797150 |
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Ellen Foster,Kaye Gibbons paints intimate family portraits in lyrical prose, using as her palette the rich, vibrant colors of the American South. Sights Unseen shows the author at her most passionate and heartfelt best -- an unforgettable tale of unconditional love, and of a family's desperate search for normalcy in the midst of mental illness. It is a novel of rare poignancy, wit, and evocative power -- the story of the relationship between Hattie Barnes and her emotionally elusive mother, Maggie, known by their neighbors as "that Barnes woman with all the problems." This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Charms for the Easy Life
Title | Charms for the Easy Life PDF eBook |
Author | Kaye Gibbons |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2005-07-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0060760257 |
A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path to their door. And they are protected by the eccentric wisdom and muscular love of the remarkable matriarch Charlie Kate, a solid, uncompromising, self-taught healer who treats everything from boils to broken bones to broken hearts. Sophia, Margaret, and Charlie Kate find strength in a time when women almost always depended on men, and their bond deepens as each one experiences love and loss during World War II. Charms for the Easy Life is a passionate, luminous, and exhilarating story about embracing what life has to offer ... even if it means finding it in unconventional ways. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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.
A Cup of Silver Linings
Title | A Cup of Silver Linings PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Hawkins |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2021-07-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1982105569 |
From New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins comes another "mesmerizing fusion of the mystical and the everyday" (Susan Andersen, New York Times bestselling author) in her Dove Pond series--and this time Ava's famous tea leaves spell trouble ahead. Ava Dove--the sixth of seven daughters of the famed Dove family, and owner of Ava's Landscaping and Specialty Gourmet Tea--is frantic. Just as she is getting ready to open her fabulous new tearoom, her herbal teas have gone wonky. Suddenly, the tea that is supposed to help people sleep is startling them awake with vivid dreams; the tea that infuses romance back into tired marriages is causing people to blurt out their darkest secrets; and the tea that helps people find happiness is making them spend hours staring into mirrors. Meanwhile, living four doors down the road from Ava, sixteen-year-old Kristen Foster's life has just crashed down around her. After her mother's death, Kristen's grandmother Ellen has arrived in town to sweep Kristen off to a white mansion on a hill in distant Raleigh. But Kristen has had enough 'life changes' and is desperate to stay with her friends in her beloved hometown of Dove Pond. But to do so means Kristen must undertake a quest she's been avoiding her entire life--finding her never-been-there-for-her father. With the help of an ancient herbal remedy book found in her attic by her sister, Ava realizes that Kristen holds the key to fixing her unstable tea leaves. So Ava throws herself into Kristen's search, even convincing Kristen's grandmother Ellen to help, too. Together, the three embark on a reluctant but magical journey of healing, friendship, and family that will delight fans of Alice Hoffman, Kate Morton, and Sarah Addison Allen.