Download or read book Jackie By Josie written by Caroline Preston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-03-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josie, a literature student, is offered a well-paid job researching the life of Jackie Onassis for a writer working on an intimate biography. She takes the assignment and discovers that Jackie's stormy marriage to President Kennedy strangely resembled her own.
Download or read book Jackie by Josie written by Caroline Preston and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Josie and Jack written by Kelly Braffet and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage siblings Josie and Jack are each other's whole world. Josie lives inside Jack's love and happily submits to his control, following him on his sociopathic path. When their father's erratic behavior finally drives them away, things get complicated, sinister, and interesting, in this contemporary Hansel and Gretel story.
Download or read book Gatsby s Girl written by Caroline Preston and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-05-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical novel based on the life and times of Ginevra King, F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love and muse, reflects on what her life would have been if she had chosen the writer instead.
Download or read book The New Color Mixing Companion written by Josie Lewis and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Color Mixing Companion is a modern, hands-on guide to working with color featuring approachable projects that each explore a different aspect of color mixing. In The New Color Mixing Companion, artist and popular Instagrammer Josie Lewis (@josielewisart) offers easy lessons and exercises on how to mix color and create exciting palettes. This comprehensive guide starts with a crash course in essential terminology and visual vocabulary, then shows you how to go beyond the wheel and basic theory with hands-on projects that illustrate and illuminate a variety of color elements and techniques. The materials used—including watercolor and acrylic paints, and found or purchased collage papers—are accessible, inexpensive, and readily available. Plus, this art guide includes easy-to-use templates featured in many of the projects; their modern geometric layouts yield stunning color arrangements. With The New Color Mixing Companion, artists, crafters, and designers of all skill levels will learn to take color in a whole new direction!
Download or read book We Are Jackie written by Wilkinson B. Dunlace and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilkinson B. Dunlace married his wife, Jackie, without realizing the extent of her early-childhood abuse. He would learn that she was victimized from an early age, and she recorded a vast quantity of material intending to share her story to help others struggling to cope with the after-effects of abuse. Jackie died before she could write her personal history, but relying on her journals and his insights, her husband reveals her journey toward healing and empowerment. While Jackie did not know it at the time, her healing received a boost in May 1990 when she was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder. The diagnosis explained her feelings of low self-esteem, a sense of lost time and bouts of unexplained depression. Coping with the trauma of abuse, however, was not easy, as Jackie was frequently hospitalized and suffered from anxiety and severe depression. Many people have written books about multiple personality disorder in a clinical manner. This one brings readers into the family to highlight the highs and lows that those coping with the condition can expectand how they and their loved ones can persevere.
Download or read book Much Happening Village Mysteries Books 1 3 A Collection of Cozy Mysteries for YOU to Solve written by Julie Davenham and published by Mello Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy solving cozy mysteries in an English village at a terrific price! Much Happening Village Mysteries: Books 1-3 is a collection of the first three books in the You, the Detective! series, where you're not just a reader—you're the detective! Welcome to Much Happening village, where you're challenged to unravel secrets, piece together clues, and solve mysteries. The Aerial Acrobat Mystery (Book 1) – The circus has come to the village of Much Happening, but what initially seemed like a tragic accident involving Lola, the talented aerial acrobat, has taken a sinister turn – it’s now believed to be murder. The Film Festival Mystery (Book 2) – A film festival has brought the silver screen to the village of Much Happening, showing beloved musicals in the village hall. However, the cinematic fun turns sour when Scott, the usher, is found murdered backstage. The Celebrity Chef Mystery (Book 3) – A celebrity chef has arrived in the quaint village of Much Happening to film an episode for their widely acclaimed online show. However, tragedy strikes as the chef is discovered lifeless at the Manor House, a hefty candlestick lying nearby. Get ready for satisfying journeys of mystery, adventure, and decision-making. You, the Detective! NOTE: These books are set in a British village and follow British English spelling and usage. They have no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.
Download or read book The Aerial Acrobat Mystery written by Julie Davenham and published by Mello Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleash your inner detective and solve this interactive mystery! Immerse yourself in “Choose Your Own Way” style storytelling. By gathering clues and unravelling the truth, can YOU bring the culprit to justice? The circus has come to the village of Much Happening, but what initially seemed like a tragic accident involving Lola, the talented aerial acrobat, has taken a sinister turn – it’s now believed to be murder. Guided by Peggy, a trusted family friend with a knack for solving mysteries, you’ll travel to the diverse locales within the village. Engage in conversations with the circus troupe and members of the village to unearth the elusive pieces of the puzzle to unveil the truth. Step right up and investigate! Get ready for a satisfying journey of mystery, adventure, and logical decision-making. You, the Detective! This book follows British English spelling and usage. It has no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.
Download or read book The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt written by Caroline Preston and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie Pratt receives a scrapbook and her father’s old Corona typewriter. Despite Frankie’s dreams of becoming a writer, she must forgo a college scholarship to help her widowed mother. But when a mysterious Captain James sweeps her off her feet, her mother finds a way to protect Frankie from the less-than-noble intentions of her unsuitable beau. Through a kaleidoscopic array of vintage postcards, letters, magazine ads, ticket stubs, catalog pages, fabric swatches, candy wrappers, fashion spreads, menus, and more, we meet and follow Frankie on her journey in search of success and love. Once at Vassar, Frankie crosses paths with intellectuals and writers, among them “Vincent” (alumna Edna St. Vincent Millay), who encourages Frankie to move to Greenwich Village and pursue her writing. When heartbreak finds her in New York, she sets off for Paris aboard the S.S. Mauritania, where she keeps company with two exiled Russian princes and a “spinster adventuress” who is paying her way across the Atlantic with her unused trousseau. In Paris, Frankie takes a garret apartment above Shakespeare & Company, the hub of expat life, only to have a certain ne’er-do-well captain from her past reappear. But when a family crisis compels Frankie to return to her small New England hometown, she finds exactly what she had been looking for all along. Author of the New York Times Notable Book Jackie by Josie, Caroline Preston pulls from her extraordinary collection of vintage ephemera to create the first-ever scrapbook novel, transporting us back to the vibrant, burgeoning bohemian culture of the 1920s and introducing us to an unforgettable heroine, the spirited, ambitious, and lovely Frankie Pratt.
Download or read book Josie s Story written by Sorrel King and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “wrenching but inspiring” true story of a tragic medical mistake that turned a grieving mother into a national advocate (The Wall Street Journal). Sorrel King was a young mother of four when her eighteen-month-old daughter was badly burned by a faulty water heater in the family’s new home. Taken to the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital, Josie made a remarkable recovery. But as she was preparing to leave, the hospital’s system of communication broke down and Josie was given a fatal shot of methadone, sending her into cardiac arrest. Within forty-eight hours, the King family went from planning a homecoming to planning a funeral. Dizzy with grief, falling into deep depression, and close to ending her marriage, Sorrel slowly pulled herself and her life back together. Accepting Hopkins’ settlement, she and her husband established the Josie King Foundation. They began to implement basic programs in hospitals emphasizing communication between patients, family, and medical staff—programs like Family-Activated Rapid Response Teams, which are now in place in hospitals around the country. Today Sorrel and the work of the foundation have had a tremendous impact on health-care providers, making medical care safer for all of us, and earning Sorrel a well-deserved reputation as one of the leading voices in patient safety. “I cried . . . I cheered” at this account of one woman’s unlikely path from full-time mom to nationally renowned patient advocate (Ann Hood). “Part indictment, part celebration, part catharsis” Josie’s Story is the startling, moving, and inspirational chronicle of how a mother—and her unforgettable daughter—are transforming the face of American medicine (Richmond Times-Dispatch).
Download or read book Finding Josie written by Wendy Bilen and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus squarely on the Midwest, Wendy Bilen pieces together the history of her grandmother, Josie Broadhead, born in 1911 and raised on the North Dakota prairie. Josie married a Wisconsin farmer and moved to a large dairy farm outside La Crosse; along the way she began taking in people in need of a home: ". . . beggars and drunks and children of drunks, mentally ill children and children with mentally ill parents. Brothers and cousins and sisters and in-laws and strangers." By taking on these challenges that no one else wanted, Josie left an almost mythical legacy. Years after Josie's death, Bilen embarks on a journey to unearth Josie's story and quickly realizes that the search is about her, too. As she discovers her grandmother's complicated nature ("a woman proud and humble, loving and unaffectionate, strict and visionary, joyful and troubled, a woman held together by contradictions like an arch and its capstone"), she learns much about herself and her own choices. And as she breathes life into Josie and her family, friends, and neighbors, the author evokes a powerful sense of place of small towns and farms, of prairie, of Josie's home, all of which feel both fresh and satisfyingly familiar. Much more than mere memoir or family history, this dual story about Bilen's journey illuminates the surprising ways our lives intersect with our ancestors'. An extraordinary story about a seemingly ordinary woman, Finding Josie will inspire readers to explore their own family history in their own way.
Download or read book The Promise Horse written by Jackie Merchant and published by Walker Books Australia. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging story about a girl and a horse who form an unlikely bond is perfect for middle-grade readers. Harry is tired of being the tall new kid with red hair, big feet and freckles; the one with the dead sister whose voice follows her wherever she goes. Everyone says she’s imagining it, but she knows they’re wrong. If she was making Sissy up, wouldn’t she make her less of a pain? When Harry’s wish for a horse comes true and Marksman comes into her life, she isn’t sure that the impressive horse is the one for her. She doesn’t need another challenge. But could he be just what she needs to learn the difference between standing out and standing up? This fantastic story for middle-grade readers will tug at your heartstrings.
Download or read book Speak Softly She Can Hear written by Pam Lewis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “gripping psychological thriller” (New York Post), two best friends at an exclusive Manhattan girls’ school make a pact: they will lose their virginity before graduation. Carole is a shy, overweight scholarship student who finds herself under the spell of the charismatic, pedigreed Naomi—it’s an unlikely friendship that will set in motion a series of events with dire and far-reaching consequences. Enter Eddie, a slick Upper East Side prep school dropout, expelled from a half-dozen private schools on the East Coast. Eddie is handsome, fatally charming, and more than willing to help the girls accomplish their goal. But something about him is not quite right—his overly familiar way with Naomi, his hair-trigger temper, the stories that just don't add up—and on one bitterly cold holiday weekend in an isolated cabin deep in the Vermont woods, a horrifying twist develops in the girls’ plan. #1 bestselling author Wally Lamb says, “Pam Lewis is a sly and sure-footed storyteller whose literary tale of treachery, deception, and truth sits comfortably alongside Donna Tartt's The Secret History and Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley."
Download or read book Lovely Me written by Barbara Seaman and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 1996-08-06 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Seaman's pioneering biography of the author of Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine, and other mega-sellers examines the life of a woman who exhibited amazing strength in every aspect of her life-from getting her writing published and promoted to fighting her ultimate adversary, breast cancer.
Download or read book More Stories from the Round Barn written by Jacqueline Jackson and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this much anticipated companion volume to Stories from the Round Barn, Jacqueline Dougan Jackson continues her loving tribute to life on her family's Wisconsin dairy farm with the unusual round barn. Readers acquainted with Jackson's first collection will find the familiar cast of family members -- Grampa, Grama, Daddy, Mother, Jackie and her siblings, and Daddy's brother Trever and foster sister, Esther -- joined by others who have a part in the workings of the farm and the surrounding community. You will meet Miss Egan, who creates a stir as a woman barn hand; Charlie, a one-armed milkman who mysteriously vanishes; and Aunt Lillian, who almost single-handedly keeps the farm going through the 1918 flu epidemic.
Download or read book Shockwaves written by Thomas Tessier and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beware the Blade… Jackie is lost. A college student stuck in a loveless marriage, she feels she cannot escape the monotony of her life. Then along comes Brooks, a mysterious but successful lawyer with political ambitions. He’s passionate, a true lover. But someone else has come to town. Brooks, Jackie discovers, is tracking a serial killer known as The Blade, whose victims are exclusively teenage girls. The killer is on a rampage, pursuing several women. Soon, many turn up dead – brutally murdered by the Blade. As he goes on however, he begins to get carried away with the killings and makes mistakes. Soon, the situation rises above boiling point. As Jackie has a confusing encounter with the man who appears to be the murderer, she is forced to decide: With the intensity of both the murders and her relationship hotting up, will she be able to keep her head? Will she be able to control herself? Or will the Blade add Jackie’s name to his list?
Download or read book Lucy Crocker 2 0 written by Caroline Preston and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Crocker saves the family software business when she develops the computer game Maiden's Quest, but then, in an effort to save her family truly, she packs everyone up for the north woods of Wisconsin.
