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.
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.
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.
A Brighter Coming Day
Title | A Brighter Coming Day PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
Publisher | Feminist Press at CUNY |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781558610200 |
"Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was the most important and the most popular black feminist abolitionist writer and activist of the nineteenth century. A Brighter Day Coming, the most comprehensive collection of her works, includes all the poems from Harper's extant original volumes, plus many that have never been collected and one that was discovered in manuscript; speeches; and a selection of prose, including excerpts from the novel Iola Leroy and the serialized novel Fancy Etchings, and a generous group of letters ..."--Back cover.
Skiing and the Art of Carving
Title | Skiing and the Art of Carving PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Post Foster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN |
This is a book about refining the technique of skiing. It shows how to carve true arcs on traditional skis and carve extreme arcs on deep sidecut skis. It aims to tone a skier's skills to the maximum, whether he is a beginner or an accomplished skier.
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.