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The brown sofa matched the brown-andgray rug, which matched the rather generic abstract pictures hanging on the wall. It was all spotlessly clean and tidy. “The mess? ... “I'm the mess,” Kendra said, and gave her the faintest of ...
Award-winning author Linda Williams Jackson pulls from her own childhood in the Mississippi Delta to tell the story of Ellis Earl, who dreams of a real house, food enough for the whole family—and to be someone.
teacher , Mr. Taylor , asked me to tutor him . I didn't have much of a choice — there was no real reason why I couldn't . And it wasn't terrible ; I was surprised by how he knew a ton about the battles of World War II , about what ...
Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen, author of the bestselling Luxe series, introduced the girls of 1929, girls with big dreams and big secrets in the big city of Manhattan during the Jazz Age.
This jazzlike tale captures the complex, contradictory improvisations of all who come to these shores in search of freedom and fulfillment.
... should sneak out to the parking lot and slash their tires.” Ninah laughed and jerked her thumb toward Carly. “Great minds think alike. Carly said the same thing.” Shawn Dunwoody, the Longdogs closer, recorded his fifth strikeout of ...
Isaiah Taber: Lee, Picturing Chinatown, 40–58. current fashion in Shanghai: Fashion plate 15 (1891, Shanghai), in Zhou Xibao, Zhongguo gudaifushi shi (Taipei, 1989), 533. I thank Dorothy Ko for this reference. wanted the Euro-American ...
Oh, she's very lucky.” But we adopted parents all know that we are the real lucky ones, not the girls. We're both lucky. Double happiness. Our two children have different backgrounds. We often talk about their individual birth stories.
For fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, This Is How It Ends, and All the Bright Places, comes a new novel about life after.
A rare novel that illuminates "the bustling concourses of life" without sacrificing emotional depth and complexity, The Lucky Ones confirms Rachel Cusk's place among our most incisive writers.
A haunting debut collection of stories from the extraordinarily talented new writer, Julianne Pachico.
They were supposed to die.
A prismatic tale of a group of characters who emerge and recede throughout the novel and touch one another’s lives in ways even they cannot comprehend, The Lucky Ones captures the intensity of life in Colombia as paramilitaries, ...
Unfortunately, before they get settled, the Germans invade Poland, putting Esther's family back into the middle of war. Esther speaks and understands only German, so she can't interpret much of what is being said by her Polish relatives.
"Pachico's debut novel, set during the ongoing civil war in Colombia, is a prismatic tale about a group of characters whose lives intersect in often unexpected ways"--
Could it really be "HER"? They just wait... ...Although we questioned why she chose us as opposed to the many others in the colony, we were happy to have someone to care for us. I guess we were the LUCKY ONES.
As one airman said: “The real heroes...were the many...who died in combat.” These are the stories of other heroes who survived what seemed certain death. These are the stories of The Lucky Ones.
Award-winning author Linda Williams Jackson pulls from her own childhood in the Mississippi Delta to tell the story of Ellis Earl, who dreams of a real house, food enough for the whole family--and to be someone.