Author: Rosie ThomasPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007460104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
A gripping, exotic and epic tale for fans of Dinah Jeffries and Victoria Hislop
Iris and Ruby
Author: Rosie ThomasPublisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468313347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The bestselling author “writes with ravishing sensuality” in this saga of a wartime love that reverberates through three generations of women (The Times, London). The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to eight-two-year-old Iris Black’s old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn’t seen for years. An unlikely bond develops between them, as Ruby helps Iris record her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War II—and of her one true love whom she lost to the ravages of conflict. This long-ago love has shaped Iris’s life, and, as becomes increasingly apparent, those of her daughter and her granddaughter. And it is to affect them all, again, in ways they could not have imagined. “[Thomas’s] evocation of the wartime Cairo has all the raffish, glittering brittleness of life on the edge . . . Touches on the varieties and nuances of love between men and women, and the power of family relationships to enhance and destroy lives.” —Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Mail “The pairing of these two women, at opposite life stages, shows how the generations can heal one another while discovering more about themselves . . . Lovely to read.” —Historical Novel Society “[A] brilliant tale. Rosie Thomas is a writer whose talent shines with every page. I was lost immediately as the pages began turning and the story swallowed me up whole and took me along the two women’s journeys.” —Urban Book Reviews
Author: Masha D'yansMidnight Mystery #1
Author: Rebecca MccarthyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110122018X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Ruby and her friends wake up and find that the mansion’s kitchen has been ransacked and there’s not a crumb left to eat. Everyone loves a late night snack, but someone has gone too far! All the friends swear they are innocent, but someone—or something—must be responsible. Can Ruby and her friends solve this midnight mystery?
Author: Rosie ThomasIris and Ruby
Author: Rosie ThomasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780007796564
Category : English
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
A story of love, loss and the distance between three generations of one family, this novel centres on Iris and Ruby - a grandmother and her granddaughter - as they try and make sense of their respective lives.
RUBYRED SLIPPERS & ALL
Author: Iris BollingPublisher: Siri Enterprises
ISBN: 9780991342662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A Lassiter Novella Ruby Lassiter has spent her life taking care of others. Helping to raise her siblings took all her time and energy. Now they are grown, some married with children and all living their lives. Ruby is now thirty-seven years old, experiencing empty nest syndrome. No she never married and has no children of her own. What is she supposed to do with her life now? Devin Upton moved back home to settle his father's estate. Taking over his father's business was one thing. Fulfilling his father's dying request was another. It was up to him to find the right person to bring the plan to fruition. At thirty-eight, never married and no children, love was the last thing on his mind. An angry woman bursting through the door and literally knocking him to his knees changed that. Christmas magic is in the air. Love is all around. Anything...anything can happen when red slippers are involved.
Ruby in the Sky
Author: Jeanne Zulick FerruoloPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374309078
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club Read Twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested. And she definitely does not want to make any friends. Ruby just wants to stay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. She and her mother won’t be staying long in Vermont anyway, and then things can go back to the way they were before everything went wrong. But keeping to herself isn’t easy when Ahmad Saleem, a Syrian refugee, decides he’s her new best friend. Or when she meets “the Bird Lady,” a recluse named Abigail who lives in a ramshackle shed near Ruby’s house. Before long Ahmad and Abigail have become Ruby’s friends—and she realizes there is more to their stories than everyone knows. As ugly rumors begin to swirl around the people Ruby loves, she must make a choice: break her silence, or risk losing everything that’s come to mean so much to her. Ruby in the Sky is a story of the walls we hide behind, and the magic that can happen when we’re brave enough to break free.
Ruby on the Outside
Author: Nora Raleigh BaskinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442485043
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes has a real best friend for the first time ever, but agonizes over whether or not to tell her a secret she has never shared with anyone--that her mother has been in prison since Ruby was five--and over whether to express her anger to her mother.
Iris & Ruby
Author: Rosie ThomasPublisher: McArthur & Company
ISBN: 9781552785737
Category : Conflict of generations
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
A richly textured story of love, loss and the distance between three generations of one family. The unexpected arrival of her wilful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn't seen for years. An unlikely bond develops between them, as Ruby helps Iris to record her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War Two, and of her one true love -- the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneaux -- whom she lost to the ravages of the conflict. This long-ago love has shaped Iris's life, and, as becomes increasingly apparent, those of her daughter and granddaughter. And it is to affect them all, again, in ways they could not have imagined.
