Lost in the Forest
Title | Lost in the Forest PDF eBook |
Author | Sue Miller |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1400042267 |
For Eva, the divorced and happily remarried mother of three children, and her adolescent middle child, Daisy, the death of Eva's second husband John in a car accident turns their lives upside down.
Becoming Emily
Title | Becoming Emily PDF eBook |
Author | Krystyna Poray Goddu |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2019-02-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0914091190 |
Emily Dickinson wrote short, often enigmatic poems that are widely read and quoted by people of every age. Yet, as well known as her poetry is, Dickinson as a person is considered to have been a mysterious recluse—a silent figure who wore only white, wrote in secret, never left her home, and had no interest in sharing her poetry. In Becoming Emily, young readers will learn how as a child, an adolescent, and well into adulthood, Dickinson was a lively social being with a warm family life. Highly educated for a girl of her era, she actively engaged in both the academic and social aspects of the schools she attended until she was nearly eighteen. Her family and friends were important to her, and she was a prolific, thoughtful, and witty correspondent who shared many poems with her closest friends and relatives. This indispensable resource includes photos, full-length poems, letter excerpts, a time line, source notes, and a bibliography to present a vivid portrait of this singular American poet.
The Forest Lover
Title | The Forest Lover PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Vreeland |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2004-11-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780143034308 |
In her acclaimed novels, Susan Vreeland has given us portraits of painting and life that are as dazzling as their artistic subjects. Now, in The Forest Lover, she traces the courageous life and career of Emily Carr, who—more than Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo—blazed a path for modern women artists. Overcoming the confines of Victorian culture, Carr became a major force in modern art by capturing an untamed British Columbia and its indigenous peoples just before industrialization changed them forever. From illegal potlatches in tribal communities to artists' studios in pre-World War I Paris, Vreeland tells her story with gusto and suspense, giving us a glorious novel that will appeal to lovers of art, native cultures, and lush historical fiction.
Flirting with Fire
Title | Flirting with Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Hardy |
Publisher | Tule Publishing |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2017-03-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 194587998X |
Meet Mr. July... When meticulous rule-follower Emily Foster meets adrenaline junkie Lyle Tate, the last thing she wants to do is get involved with him–especially as her twin sister has fallen in love with his older brother. But under his charming, reckless, sexy exterior, Tate's the kind of man who rescues people. Can Emily break her rules enough to learn that she can trust Tate with her heart? And will Tate let Emily close enough to learn his deepest, darkest secrets and let her prove to him that he's worthy of love?
September Remember
Title | September Remember PDF eBook |
Author | Eliot Taintor |
Publisher | Easton Studio Press, LLC |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2015-08-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1632260263 |
An alcoholic on awakening is much like a newborn baby—fragile and without any defense against a very sober world. September Remember begins with a terrifying—and darkly funny blackout—the sort of a blackout that pulls you right into the mind of a drunk on the loose. Reading it, I was reminded of my AA friend picking me up in his truck, the uncertainty of that boozy hazy evening. The blackout is not the story of September Remember, but it’s that darkness that will suck you into this story. When published, September Remember was a best seller, and the first known novel that put AA into literary consciousness. It’s been out of print now for over 60 years. The book is full of language and prejudices that are reflective of its time. That was the time of America between the two world wars: more than twenty years before Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, years before women made it out of the kitchen into the living room, and years before new immigrants were only recognizable by the derogatory terms used to describe them. In that way, September Remember can be treated as a historical document that mentions Alcoholics Anonymous, but it is much more than that: its mythology is essentially AA’s, a story of rebirth and redemption.
The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic
Title | The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Croy Barker |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 741 |
Release | 2013-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101585579 |
An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world—where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive Nora Fischer’s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where she’s transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty. Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends and her romance with gorgeous, masterful Raclin is heating up. It’s almost too good to be true. Then the elegant veneer shatters. Nora’s new fantasy world turns darker, a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. Making it here will take skills Nora never learned in graduate school. Her only real ally—and a reluctant one at that—is the magician Aruendiel, a grim, reclusive figure with a biting tongue and a shrouded past. And it will take her becoming Aruendiel’s student—and learning magic herself—to survive. When a passage home finally opens, Nora must weigh her “real life” against the dangerous power of love and magic. For lovers of Lev Grossman's The Magicians series (The Magicians and The Magician King) and Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night).
Sons of Texas
Title | Sons of Texas PDF eBook |
Author | Elmer Kelton |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2006-05-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780765348975 |
In 1816 veteran fighter Mordecai Lewis leaves his family to make a foray into Spanish-held Texas for wild mustangs.