Download or read book Beaming Sonny Home written by Cathie Pelletier and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sharp-tongued Mattie...is one of Pelletier's most sublime creations."-Booklist Fortune hasn't been kind to 66-year-old Mattie Gifford. Her mother committed suicide, her husband slept with her best friend, and she can't stand her three selfish daughters. But she does love her son, Sonny, who nevertheless plunges her into deep despair when he takes two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer. Sonny claims to have seen John Lennon's face in an apparition and gets his own mug on the television news. Beaming Sonny Home is a poignant tale of disappointment and a mother's love that stands as a testament to Pelletier's gift for storytelling.
Download or read book Beaming Sonny Home written by Cathie Pelletier and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The sharp-tongued Mattie...is one of Pelletier's most sublime creations."—Booklist Fortune hasn't been kind to 66-year-old Mattie Gifford. Her mother committed suicide, her husband slept with her best friend, and she can't stand her three selfish daughters. But she does love her son, Sonny, who nevertheless plunges her into deep despair when he takes two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer. Sonny claims to have seen John Lennon's face in an apparition and gets his own mug on the television news. Beaming Sonny Home is a poignant tale of disappointment and a mother's love that stands as a testament to Pelletier's gift for storytelling.
Download or read book Beaming Sonny Home written by Pelletie and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1998-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of A Marriage Made At Woodstockdelivers a funny, poignant novel about the complicated love between a mother and her son. When her wayward boy Sonny takes two women and a poodle hostage in his ex-wife's trailer, Mattie finds herself at the center of a drama that has the whole nation glued to their TV's.
Download or read book Funeral Makers written by Cathie Pelletier and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A crazy, rollicking whoop of a book, written with a poet's sensibility and deeply wacky down-home wisdom."-Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls A century after the impulsive McKinnon brothers set out to tame the Canadian wilderness and instead landed in Mattagash, Maine, their madcap legacy reigns supreme. It's 1959, and Pearl and Sicily McKinnon have gathered to plan a funeral for Marge, their older sister dying from the rare disease beriberi, thanks to her eccentric diet. Pearl, who skipped town with big-city dreams only to marry a funeral director, soon clashes with the long-suffering Sicily, who herself is coping with an unfaithful husband. To make matters worse, Sicily's teenage daughter is lusting after the town's blackest sheep, a ne'er-do-well twice her age. Brimming with darkly quirky humor and irresistible spunk, The Funeral Makers explores the inescapable ironies of American life and family dynamics and captures the spirit of a world that is as once familiar and quickly fading from view.
Download or read book Family Catastrophe written by Wen-hsing Wang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 with publication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many critics were outraged, called it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt, and stylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its controversial reception to become what is now widely regarded as a masterpiece in modern Chinese fiction and the benchmark of Taiwan’s Modernist movement. Often described as Joycean, Family Catastrophe is significant for its stylistic and linguistic experimentation as well as for its disturbing and universal themes. It appears now in English for the first time.
Download or read book The Best Novels of the Nineties written by Linda Parent Lesher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader’s guide provides uniquely organized and up-to-date information on the most important and enjoyable contemporary English-language novels. Offering critically substantiated reading recommendations, careful cross-referencing, and extensive indexing, this book is appropriate for both the weekend reader looking for the best new mystery and the full-time graduate student hoping to survey the latest in magical realism. More than 1,000 titles are included, each entry citing major reviews and giving a brief description for each book.
Download or read book Book Lust written by Nancy Pearl and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality. These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter relationships, science for nonscientists, mysteries of all stripes, African-American fiction from a female point of view, must-reads for kids, books on bicycling, "chick-lit," and many more. Pearl's enthusiasm and taste shine throughout.
Download or read book Conversations with Jay Parini written by Michael Lackey and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he has also published numerous volumes of poetry; biographies of William Faulkner, Robert Frost, and John Steinbeck; novels; and literary and cultural criticism. This book contains the most important interviews with the former Guggenheim fellow; former Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford; and former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of London. Parini's work is valuable not just because of its high quality and intellectual range. Parini's life and writings often seem like a seminar table, with friends gathered, talking and trading stories. He has openly written poems in conversation with writers he knew personally: Robert Penn Warren, Gore Vidal, Jorge Luis Borges, and others. He has, in his own life, kept an ongoing conversation with many literary friends over the years—Alastair Reid, Seamus Heaney, Anne Stevenson, Ann Beattie, Julia Alvarez, Peter Ackroyd, A. N. Wilson, and countless others. These interviews offer a more comprehensive understanding of Parini's work as a poet, scholar, public intellectual, literary critic, intellectual historian, biographer, novelist, and biographical novelist. More importantly, these interviews will contribute to our understanding of the history of ideas, the condition of knowledge, and the state of literature, all of which Parini has played an important role in shaping.
Download or read book Sequels written by Janet G. Husband and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
Download or read book Running the Bulls written by Cathie Pelletier and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved novelist returns, once again deftly combining the poignant and the hilarious.
Download or read book To Be Continued written by Hope Apple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping track of prolific authors who write fiction series was quite challenging for even the most ardent fan until To Be Continueddebuted in 1995. Noew, readers will be happy that the soon-to-be-released second edition has added 1,600 new books and 400 new series. To Be Continued, Second Edition, maintians the first volume's successful formula that featured concise A-to-Z entries packed with useful information, including titles, publishers, publication dates, genre categories, annotations, and subject terms. Among the genre categories that can be found in To Be Continued are romance, science fiction, crime novel, horror, adventure, fantasy, humor, western, war, Christian fiction, and others.
Download or read book Water Witches written by Chris Bohjalian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant, a comic and life affirming novel of the clash between progress and tradition, science and magic: “one of the most elegantly philosophical, urgent—yet somehow timeless—novels of these perilous times” (Howard Norman, National Book Award finalist for The Bird Artist). Vermont is drying up. The normally lush, green countryside is in the grip of the worst drought in years: stunted cornstalks rasp in the hot July breeze, parched vegetable gardens wither and die, the Chittenden River shrinks to a trickle, and the drilling trucks are booked solid as one by one the wells give out. Patience Avery, known nationwide as a gifted "water witch", is having a busy summer, too. Using the tools of the dowser's trade —divining sticks, metal rods, bobbers, and pendulums—she can locate, among other things, aquifers deep within the earth. In the midst of this crisis, Scottie Winston lobbies for permits to expand Powder Peak, a local ski area that's his law firm's principal client. As part of the expansion, the resort seeks to draw water for snowmaking from the beleaguered Chittenden, despite opposition from environmentalists who fear that the already weakened river will be damaged beyond repair.
Download or read book Donald written by Donald Upham Reed and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 1999-12-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DONALDS WORLD leads on a young boys trip to the top of the tallest building between San Francisco and Los Angeles during the 1930s When he returned home he climbed a 60-feet tree in his back yard to see from a distance where he had been. Who is this boy? The answer comes in chapter 2 -- from birth to his mothers commitment to a state insane asylum. Thirty years would pass before she is released under his care and gardianship. Chapter 3 explores the family tree and adventures by those who made the Oklahoma land rush of 1888 and their departure later because of crop failure. It took Donalds great great grandfather 65 days in all kinds of weather to return to Tennesee from Oklahoma. One can take the same trip today in less than 100 hours! Mrs. C. Jackson arrives on the scene in Chapter 4 to take care of Donald and his older brother, Stanley. Donald didnt know until she died many years later that her middle name was Charity. The headline for Chapter 6 is The White Avenue Gang. Donald recalls being only a bystander when the rich kid was tied to a church tree on White Avenue and one of his captures rode the boys red and white motor-bike around the block. He and his brother looked like the Balkan who assassinated Archduke Ferdinand to start World War I. Elsewere the book involves Donalds school days, summer work in the Sierra before joining the Navy and being saved by bombs that crushed two Japanese cities. He cast his first vote for Harry Truman. After that his presidential votes went only to Republicans. During college Marcia and Don where married before their sophomore year. After graduation Don joined UP and 34 year career followed by 10 years as a journalism professor at Oklahoma State University. He retired in 1994 and now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 7543 S. 70th East Ave, Tulsa, Ok 74133 918 494-3634 E-mail [email protected]
Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Download or read book Candles on Bay Street written by K. C. McKinnon and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman who left her high-school sweetheart to marry another, returns 15 years later as a single mother, becoming best friends with his wife. It happens in Maine where she opens a candle shop.
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Download or read book The Summer Experiment written by Cathie Pelletier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberta McKinnon, age 11, is a science nerd and big dreamer. She likes to add to this resume, “And guess what? I'm blonde!” She and her best friend, Marilee Evans, are trying to figure out how to beat the impossibly brilliant Henry Horton Harris Helmsby---the 4 Hs of the Apocalypse---at the upcoming science fair. Allagash, Maine, their little hometown, is famous for something called “The Allagash Abductions,” when four men from Vermont claimed to have been taken aboard a spaceship while on a trip down the Allagash River. Robbie McKinnon puts her brain to work and comes up with a solution. “If aliens visited Allagash before, they might again. What if we try to contact them? If we interview them for the school paper, we’ll win science fair for sure!” But standing in the way is her annoying big brother Johnny, and his best friend, Billy, on whom Robbie has her first crush. After a mean trick played on the girls (it has to do with fake aliens appearing in town) Robbie decides revenge is in the air. It'll serve Johnny and Billy right. But it means they have to drive their 4-wheelers up on Peterson's Mountain after sundown. Everyone knows the mountain is haunted by the ghost of Cally Peterson. It’s while up on the mountain that the girls see for the first time those strange lights in the sky that many townsfolk have been spotting. “This time it isn't your crazy brother,” says a frightened Marilee. It’s a summer of excitement, but it’s also marked by sadness over a death in the family. By the time school is starting again, these two wise young girls have grown even wiser.
