The Only Girl
Title | The Only Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Green |
Publisher | Virago Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-07-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780349010229 |
The Only Girl in the World
Title | The Only Girl in the World PDF eBook |
Author | Maude Julien |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2017-12-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0316466603 |
For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman's rise above an unimaginable childhood. Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor -- raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment. But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity. By turns horrifying and magical, The Only Girl in the World is a story that will grip you from the first page and leave you spellbound, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.
The Only Girl in School
Title | The Only Girl in School PDF eBook |
Author | Natalie Standiford |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2016-01-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0545829984 |
She's the only one who knows what it's like to be the only one. When Claire's best friend, Bess, moves away, she becomes the only girl left in her entire school. At first, she thinks she'll be able to deal with this -- after all, the girls' bathroom is now completely hers, so she can turn it into her own private headquarters and draw on the walls. When it comes to soccer games or sailing races, she can face off against any boy. The problem is that her other best friend, Henry, has begun to ignore her. And Webby, a super-annoying bully, won't leave her alone. And Yucky Gilbert, the boy who has a crush on her, also won't leave her alone.It's never easy being the only one -- and over the course of a wacky school year, Claire is going to have to make it through challenges big and small. The boys may think they rule the school, but when it comes to thinking on your feet, Claire's got them outnumbered.
Only Girl in the Car
Title | Only Girl in the Car PDF eBook |
Author | Kathy Dobie |
Publisher | Arrow |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780099761617 |
"This is a story of a young girl - the oldest daughter in a Catholic family of six children, with a rebelious older brother, an exhausted mother whose attention Kathy craves, and a glamorous father whom she idolises - struggling to find her proper place in the world. In the spring of her 14th year suddenly 'the earth blossomed with men and boys... they were everywhere', and Kathy sees her path towards power and freedom. Bur girls who break the rules in small towns like hers are expected to pay a high price for their transgressions, and Kathy soon learns the rpice. How she stepped out of that car forever altered, but not forever damaged, and how she learned to fight back after being labelled as a slut, insulted and ostrcised in her own neighbourhood, is also part of her story. Always aware that her ambitions were bigger and more complicated that the suburbs she grew up in, Kathy was determined to come through and to transform her life."
If You Were the Only Girl
Title | If You Were the Only Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Bennett |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2013-01-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007383703 |
Their love crossed the class divide, but will it survive the ravages of war?
Only a Girl
Title | Only a Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Lian Gouw |
Publisher | Dalang Pub |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780983627371 |
Three generations of Chinese women struggle for identity against a political backdrop of the World Depression, World War II, and the Indonesian Revolution. The unique ways in which Nanna, Carolien, and Jenny face their own challenges reveal the complex tale of Chinese society in Indonesia between 1930 and 1952.
Myrna Loy
Title | Myrna Loy PDF eBook |
Author | Emily W. Leider |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2011-10-03 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520949633 |
From the beginning, Myrna Loy’s screen image conjured mystery, a sense of something withheld. "Who is she?" was a question posed in the first fan magazine article published about her in 1925. This first ever biography of the wry and sophisticated actress best known for her role as Nora Charles, wife to dapper detective William Powell in The Thin Man, offers an unprecedented picture of her life and an extraordinary movie career that spanned six decades. Opening with Loy’s rough-and-tumble upbringing in Montana, the book takes us to Los Angeles in the 1920s, where Loy’s striking looks caught the eye of Valentino, through the silent and early sound era to her films of the thirties, when Loy became a top box office draw, and to her robust post–World War II career. Throughout, Emily W. Leider illuminates the actress’s friendships with luminaries such as Cary Grant, Clark Gable, and Joan Crawford and her collaborations with the likes of John Barrymore, David O. Selznick, Sam Goldwyn, and William Wyler, among many others. This highly engaging biography offers a fascinating slice of studio era history and gives us the first full picture of a very private woman who has often been overlooked despite her tremendous star power.