Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; it was first published in 1887.
In this special anniversary edition, Maynard’s candid introductory reflections on the girl behind the girl who wrote Looking Back lend a new dimension to this iconic analysis of a generation.
Mania Salinger was born in Radom, Poland and enjoyed a childhood blessed with love, friends, and good luck until horrors unleashed by Nazi invasion changed her life forever.
Using family photographs and quotes from her books, the author provides glimpses into her life.
They are the most unlikely friends: rich, kind, Cecile; brave, talented Norma; and Amanda, the poor girl they met at college. Now Cecile has married her talented architect, Amanda has...
Stuart, Jim, 38 Stubbs, Eddie, 260,273,274–75, 321 Stuckey, Nat, 224–25,321 “Sugar Cane County,” 227,238,284 Sugar Cane County (1969), 238,239,281 “Sugarfoot Rag,” 260 Sullivan, Amanda, 224 Sullivan, Ed, 168. See also Ed Sullivan Show ...
Friends since college, three women--Cecile, the elegant daughter of privilege; the talented but troubled Norma; and Amanda, determined to rise above her humble origins--find their lives torn apart by a single shattering act of betrayal.
This new edition features a refreshed design, an introduction by New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman, and original material from Lois as she shares memories from the past twenty years of her life, including the making of the ...
Twelve-year-old Parisian boy Louis Whittaker has a lot on his plate - his parents are locked in a custody battle over him and his brother and sister, Mum's always working late and Dad's rarely allowed to visit them.
WP, short for Willy Peter, which stood for White Phosphorus, was one of the last things you wanted to be hit by. Apparently the red orange glow was a WP artillery round that sent both of us back into the trench.