Download or read book Young Jane Young written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “SLY, EXHILARATING . . . HILARIOUS.” —People (Book of the Week) This is the story of five women . . . Meet Rachel Grossman. She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Meet Jane Young. She’s disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time. Meet Ruby Young. She thinks her mom has a secret. She’s right. Meet Embeth Levin. She’s made a career of cleaning up her congressman husband’s messes. Meet Aviva Grossman. The Internet won’t let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions. This is the story of five women . . . . . . and the sex scandal that binds them together. From Gabrielle Zevin, the bestselling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, comes another story with unforgettable characters that is particularly suited to the times we live in now . . .
Download or read book Young Jane Young written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the international bestseller The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry: Named a Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction of 2017 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Chatelaine Best Fall Reads pick #1 on the August Library Reads list An Entertainment Weekly’s “13 Books to Read in August” An Amazon’s “Best Books of the Month” for August A Barnes & Noble “August’s Best New Fiction” pick #3 on the September Indie Next List “A smart, intersectional feminist tour de force.” —Washington Times From Gabrielle Zevin, beloved author of the international bestsellers Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, comes another story with unforgettable characters that is particularly suited to the times we live in now. This is the story of five women... Meet Rachel Grossman. She’ll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Meet Jane Young. She’s disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time. Meet Ruby Young. She thinks her mom has a secret. She’s right. Meet Embeth Levin. She’s made a career of cleaning up her congressman husband’s messes. Meet Aviva Grossman. The internet won’t let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions. “It’s brilliant and hilarious. . . . It has a heart. And a spine. It’s exactly what we need more of right now.” —Chicago Tribune “Splendid. . . . [Zevin’s] vibrant and playful writing, and the fully realized characters taking turns as narrator, bring the story a zestful energy.” —Booklist
Download or read book Young Jane Young written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This sly, exhilarating novel takes on slut-shaming . . . and manages to be hilarious in the process' People 'It's brilliant and hilarious . . . It has a heart. And a spine. It's exactly what we need more of right now.' Chicago Tribune 'A smart, intersectional feminist tour de force' Washington Times This is the story of five women . . . Meet Rachel Grossman. She'll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Meet Jane Young. She's disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time. Meet Ruby Young. She thinks her mom has a secret. She's right. Meet Embeth Levin. She has made a career of cleaning up her congressman husband's messes. Meet Aviva Grossman. The Internet won't let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions. This is the story of five women...and the scandal that binds them together. From Gabrielle Zevin, the bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, comes another story with unforgettable characters that is particularly suited to the times we live in now.
Download or read book When Madeline Was Young written by Jane Hamilton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World brings us a rich and loving novel about a non-traditional family in the aftermath of a terrible accident.When Aaron Maciver’s beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers a head injury in a bicycle crash, she is left with the mental capabilities of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own. Inspired in part by Elizabeth Spencer’s Light in the Piazza, Hamilton offers an honest and exquisite portrait of how a family tragedy forever shapes the boundaries of love.
Download or read book Young Jane Young written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÒSLY, EXHILARATING . . . HILARIOUS.Ó ÑPeople (Book of the Week) Ê This is the story of five women . . . Ê Meet Rachel Grossman. SheÕll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Ê Meet Jane Young. SheÕs disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time. Ê Meet Ruby Young. She thinks her mom has a secret. SheÕs right. Ê Meet Embeth Levin. SheÕs made a career of cleaning up her congressman husbandÕs messes.Ê Ê Meet Aviva Grossman. The Internet wonÕt let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions.Ê Ê This is the story of five women . . . . . . and theÊsex scandal that binds them together.Ê Ê From Gabrielle Zevin, the bestselling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, comes another story with unforgettable characters that is particularly suited to the times we live in now . . . Ê
Download or read book The Young in One Another s Arms written by Jane Rule and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning novel of lesbian identity and camaraderie amid violence and war Ruth Wheeler is the one-armed caretaker of a motley crew of boarders living in her rooming house in Vancouver, British Columbia. The miscreants and outcasts in residence include a sexually confused academic, a one-time-dope-addict-turned-law-student, a high-minded deserter of the Vietnam War, a socially conscious female radical, and a gay man on the run from the cops. Despite personal differences and a turbulent outside world teeming with police brutality, the renters’ affection for one another grows and they form a progressive and idealistic “chosen family.” However, Ruth’s devoted and assimilative spirit is put to the test when her property is slotted to be destroyed by developers. The household packs up and sails to Galiano Island, where they establish a new home, start a business, and strive to overcome the initial antipathy of their neighbors. They even decide to collectively raise a baby born from an unwanted pregnancy. Winner of the 1978 Canadian Authors Association Best Novel of the Year Award, The Young in One Another’s Arms stands as one of the most sophisticated portrayals of an alternative model for domestic life.
Download or read book Hobby written by Jane Yolen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1996-09-15 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the young Merlin’s coming-of-age continues in this thrilling sequel to Passager. “An enjoyable introduction to Arthurian fantasy.”--The Horn Book
Download or read book Signs from the Ancestors written by M. Jane Young and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passager written by Jane Yolen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foundling rediscovers his identity through the help of the falconer who adopts him.
Download or read book Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons written by Jane Yolen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVBefore she became Queen of the Amazons, young Hippolyta fought to break a goddess’s curse . . . /divDIV An ancient prophecy states that any Amazon who bears two sons must kill the second, lest he grow up to destroy all the Amazons. But Queen Otrere can’t bear to sacrifice her baby, so she gives him to her daughter, thirteen-year-old Hippolyta, begging her to take the child to his father, Laomedon, King of Troy. In order to save her baby brother’s life, Hippolyta must find a lost city and lift a goddess’s curse. Along the way, she will need help from an unexpected source: a newly discovered brother. But can Hippolyta bring herself to trust a boy in order to save the Amazons?/divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features personal histories by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris including rare images from the authors’ personal collections, as well as a timeline of the Heroic Age and a conversation between the two authors about the making of the series./div/div
Download or read book Jane written by April Lindner and published by Poppy. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced to drop out of an esteemed East Coast college after the sudden death of her parents, Jane Moore takes a nanny job at Thornfield Park, the estate of Nico Rathburn, a world-famous rock star on the brink of a huge comeback. Practical and independent, Jane reluctantly becomes entranced by her magnetic and brooding employer and finds herself in the midst of a forbidden romance. But there's a mystery at Thornfield, and Jane's much-envied relationship with Nico is soon tested by an agonizing secret from his past. Torn between her feelings for Nico and his fateful secret, Jane must decide: Does being true to herself mean giving up on true love? An irresistible romance interwoven with a darkly engrossing mystery, this contemporary retelling of the beloved classic Jane Eyre promises to enchant a new generation of readers.
Download or read book How Young Ladies Became Girls written by Jane H. Hunter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There they competed for grades and honor directly against male classmates. Before and after school they joined a public world beyond adult supervision - strolling city streets, flagging down male friends, visiting soda foundations." "Over the long term, their school experiences as "girls" foreshadowed both the turn-of-the-century emergence of the independent "New Women" and the birth of adolescence itself."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book In the Age of Love and Chocolate written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Age of Love and Chocolate is the story of growing up and learning what love really is. It showcases the best of Gabrielle Zevin's writing for young adults: the intricate characterization of Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac and the big-heartedness of Elsewhere. All These Things I've Done, the first novel in the Birthright series, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen year old with the heart of a girl and the responsibilities of a grown woman. Now eighteen, life has been more bitter than sweet for Anya. She has lost her parents and her grandmother, and has spent the better part of her high school years in trouble with the law. Perhaps hardest of all, her decision to open a nightclub with her old nemesis Charles Delacroix has cost Anya her relationship with Win. Still, it is Anya's nature to soldier on. She puts the loss of Win behind her and focuses on her work. Against the odds, the nightclub becomes an enormous success, and Anya feels like she is on her way and that nothing will ever go wrong for her again. But after a terrible misjudgment leaves Anya fighting for her life, she is forced to reckon with her choices and to let people help her for the first time in her life.
Download or read book School for Young Riders written by Jane Marshall Dillon and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Me Jane written by Patrick McDonnell and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick McDonnell-beloved, bestselling author-artist and creator of the Mutts syndicated comic strip--shares the inspiring story of young Jane Goodall, the legendary and inspiring conservationist featured in the hit documentary film Jane. In his characteristic heartwarming style, Patrick McDonnell tells the story of the young Jane Goodall and her special childhood toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. As the young Jane observes the natural world around her with wonder, she dreams of "a life living with and helping all animals," until one day she finds that her dream has come true. With anecdotes taken directly from Jane Goodall's autobiography, McDonnell makes this very true story accessible for the very young--and young at heart. One of the world's most inspiring women, Dr. Jane Goodall is a renowned humanitarian, conservationist, animal activist, environmentalist, and United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 1977 she founded the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), a global nonprofit organization that empowers people to make a difference for all living things.
Download or read book The Young Disraeli written by Jane Ridley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Disraeli's personal and public lives which draws on his letters and his neglected early novels. It tells of his youth in Bloomsbury, and his novel "Vivian Grey" which catapulted him to precocious fame and infamy.
Download or read book Briar Rose written by Jane Yolen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American journalist is trapped in Nazi Germany in this variation on the Sleeping Beauty theme.
