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We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg
Paige Dunn contracted polio while nine months pregnant and miraculously gave birth to her to her daughter , Diana ,in an iron long. With remarkable courage and an undefeatable spirit she decides to raise her daughter herself, though she can only move her head and needs assistance to breathe. With the help of an African American carer, Peacie, who has strength of character and fierce loyalty, they raise Diane well, despite poverty and the racial unrest of the time in Tupelo, Tennessee As Diana navigates her thirteenth year she must come to terms not only with her own adolescent changes, but with the prejudice against the ones she loves.
Elizabeth Berg, as always, tells the story from the hearts of the characters, with beauty and truth. With an easy attention to detail you enter the world and the era and take the journey along with Diana, and share her joys, sadness and confusion, and you won?t want to leave.
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Young wive?s tales
Adele Parks
Rose had spent the best years of her youth on a husband that left her for a career-oriented friend,Lucy, when their twin boys were infants. Now she is devoting her life to her children, and not much else. Her sister, Daisy is desperate for the child she can?t have, and Connie has the interesting career, loving children and husband, but will she blow it all by having an affair- again?
Young Wive?s Tales is the follow on novel from Playing Away, but can be read on it?s own without any loss to the plot or character development.Park writes with wit,humour and a realism that brings these women into your home with their everyday lives.
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Well known Australian author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tells the tale of Louisa May Alcott?s Little Women through the eyes of Mr. March. While his wife Marmee and his daughters were depicted as saccharine sweet in Little Women, March tells of an ugly time in American history, the U.S civil war. It is gritty and realistic and sheds a completely different light on the March family and their politics. Enjoyable to read for both men and women with an attention to historical detail based on careful research.
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Tie-in book for the movie Miss Potter starring Renee Zellweger about the career of Beatrix Potter author and illustrator of Tale of Peter Rabbit and other children?s books.
It is not necessary to watch the movie to enjoy this delightful story of the inspiration behind Miss Potter?s work and the subsequent romance with her publisher. It is a fast, easy read and very charming.
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Glamour is beauty,ambition,riches to rags to riches again success, and desire. Three schoolgirls become best friends, but the vow of eternal friendship is tested as lifes struggles, and glamour, threatens their bond.
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We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg
sdbenjamin, July 18, 2007
We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth BergPaige Dunn contracted polio while nine months pregnant and miraculously gave birth to her to her daughter , Diana ,in an iron long. With remarkable courage and an undefeatable spirit she decides to raise her daughter herself, though she can only move her head and needs assistance to breathe. With the help of an African American carer, Peacie, who has strength of character and fierce loyalty, they raise Diane well, despite poverty and the racial unrest of the time in Tupelo, Tennessee As Diana navigates her thirteenth year she must come to terms not only with her own adolescent changes, but with the prejudice against the ones she loves.
Elizabeth Berg, as always, tells the story from the hearts of the characters, with beauty and truth. With an easy attention to detail you enter the world and the era and take the journey along with Diana, and share her joys, sadness and confusion, and you won?t want to leave.
(3 of 6 readers found this comment helpful)
sdbenjamin, June 23, 2007
Young wive?s talesAdele Parks
Rose had spent the best years of her youth on a husband that left her for a career-oriented friend,Lucy, when their twin boys were infants. Now she is devoting her life to her children, and not much else. Her sister, Daisy is desperate for the child she can?t have, and Connie has the interesting career, loving children and husband, but will she blow it all by having an affair- again?
Young Wive?s Tales is the follow on novel from Playing Away, but can be read on it?s own without any loss to the plot or character development.Park writes with wit,humour and a realism that brings these women into your home with their everyday lives.
(1 of 3 readers found this comment helpful)
March by Geraldine Brooks
sdbenjamin, June 5, 2007
Well known Australian author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tells the tale of Louisa May Alcott?s Little Women through the eyes of Mr. March. While his wife Marmee and his daughters were depicted as saccharine sweet in Little Women, March tells of an ugly time in American history, the U.S civil war. It is gritty and realistic and sheds a completely different light on the March family and their politics. Enjoyable to read for both men and women with an attention to historical detail based on careful research.(17 of 28 readers found this comment helpful)
Miss Potter: The Novel by Richard Maltby
sdbenjamin, June 5, 2007
Tie-in book for the movie Miss Potter starring Renee Zellweger about the career of Beatrix Potter author and illustrator of Tale of Peter Rabbit and other children?s books.It is not necessary to watch the movie to enjoy this delightful story of the inspiration behind Miss Potter?s work and the subsequent romance with her publisher. It is a fast, easy read and very charming.
(1 of 3 readers found this comment helpful)
sdbenjamin, June 4, 2007
Glamour is beauty,ambition,riches to rags to riches again success, and desire. Three schoolgirls become best friends, but the vow of eternal friendship is tested as lifes struggles, and glamour, threatens their bond.(0 of 2 readers found this comment helpful)
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