Author: Louis Bromfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Sabine Callendar, having fled the limitations of life in Durham, New England, shocks her family and the community once again when she returns unbowed twenty years later to present her daughter to society.
Early Autumn
Author: Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0307569462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
“[Robert B.] Parker's brilliance is in his simple dialogue, and in Spenser.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own. With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game.
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0307569462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
“[Robert B.] Parker's brilliance is in his simple dialogue, and in Spenser.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mother hires Spenser to get the boy back. But as soon as Spenser senses the lay of the land, he decides to do some kidnapping of his own. With a contract out on his life, he heads for the Maine woods, determined to give a puny 15 year old a crash course in survival and to beat his dangerous opponents at their own brutal game.
Early Autumn
Author: Andrew Rickis
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595277241
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Raised in an orphanage, Joan Walker becomes a social outcast who discovers murder is a convenient solution and sweet revenge whenever anyone opposes her. When she learns Adam Sard, the man she loves is going to be married, Olga Johnson, a.k.a. Joan Walker, who has been sentenced to death by lethal injection for first degree murder, escapes from death row to prevent the marriage from taking place. Using aliases and disguises, she manages to elude the authorities. Jade Armstrong Otis is an investigative reporter for a Washington, D.C. newspaper. She is searching for the murderer of her grandmother whose death took place years ago in a Boston City hospital where Olga was employed. The trail leads her to the gambling Mecca of Las Vegas and Adam Sard.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595277241
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Raised in an orphanage, Joan Walker becomes a social outcast who discovers murder is a convenient solution and sweet revenge whenever anyone opposes her. When she learns Adam Sard, the man she loves is going to be married, Olga Johnson, a.k.a. Joan Walker, who has been sentenced to death by lethal injection for first degree murder, escapes from death row to prevent the marriage from taking place. Using aliases and disguises, she manages to elude the authorities. Jade Armstrong Otis is an investigative reporter for a Washington, D.C. newspaper. She is searching for the murderer of her grandmother whose death took place years ago in a Boston City hospital where Olga was employed. The trail leads her to the gambling Mecca of Las Vegas and Adam Sard.
Early Autumn
Author: Louis Bromfield
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The Pentlands are a very conservative, old money family in a small town near Boston, who claim ancestry going back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In the fall of an unspecified year in the 1920’s, their world is invaded by several “outsiders,” including Sybil, the patriarch’s granddaughter back from a Paris education, Sabine, a prodigal niece who has returned after being gone for twenty years, together with her daughter Thérèse, and O’Hare, an Irish Catholic politician who is at odds with the deeply ingrained Protestant background of the community. As the novel progresses, it becomes increasingly clear to Olivia, Sybil’s mother, that all is not well in the Pentlands’ world; beneath the apparent calm there are secrets bubbling to the surface that have been hidden for years. It also becomes clear that with the changes taking place in the world at large and in their world in particular, the future of the Pentland family could be in peril. Before Louis Bromfield became a well-known agriculturist, he was a writer of several successful novels. This family study, which is said to be based on his wife’s Puritan upbringing, won him a Pulitzer. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The Pentlands are a very conservative, old money family in a small town near Boston, who claim ancestry going back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In the fall of an unspecified year in the 1920’s, their world is invaded by several “outsiders,” including Sybil, the patriarch’s granddaughter back from a Paris education, Sabine, a prodigal niece who has returned after being gone for twenty years, together with her daughter Thérèse, and O’Hare, an Irish Catholic politician who is at odds with the deeply ingrained Protestant background of the community. As the novel progresses, it becomes increasingly clear to Olivia, Sybil’s mother, that all is not well in the Pentlands’ world; beneath the apparent calm there are secrets bubbling to the surface that have been hidden for years. It also becomes clear that with the changes taking place in the world at large and in their world in particular, the future of the Pentland family could be in peril. Before Louis Bromfield became a well-known agriculturist, he was a writer of several successful novels. This family study, which is said to be based on his wife’s Puritan upbringing, won him a Pulitzer. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
My Autumn Book
Author: Wong Herbert Yee
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1627797785
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Crisp air and gray skies beckon a little girl to thoroughly investigate the outside world: chipmunks, squirrels, insects, and fallen leaves all hint that a change of season is coming. Young readers can explore the signs of autumn along with the adventurous child narrator in this charming conclusion to Wong Herbert Yee's series on the seasons (Tracks in the Snow, Who Likes Rain? and Summer Days and Nights).
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1627797785
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Crisp air and gray skies beckon a little girl to thoroughly investigate the outside world: chipmunks, squirrels, insects, and fallen leaves all hint that a change of season is coming. Young readers can explore the signs of autumn along with the adventurous child narrator in this charming conclusion to Wong Herbert Yee's series on the seasons (Tracks in the Snow, Who Likes Rain? and Summer Days and Nights).
Hello Autumn!
Author: Shelley Rotner
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823438996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"Green leaves are turning colors. . . . Maple seeds twirl to the ground. . . . Animals get ready for the cold days ahead." A simple text and vivid photographs show children the changes in animals, plants, and landscapes that occur during fall, and introduce them to hibernation, migration, leaf changing, and seasonal food and holidays. Energetic photographs of diverse children add vitality and warmth to this celebration of the season.
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823438996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
"Green leaves are turning colors. . . . Maple seeds twirl to the ground. . . . Animals get ready for the cold days ahead." A simple text and vivid photographs show children the changes in animals, plants, and landscapes that occur during fall, and introduce them to hibernation, migration, leaf changing, and seasonal food and holidays. Energetic photographs of diverse children add vitality and warmth to this celebration of the season.
Leaf Man
Author: Lois Ehlert
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152053048
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Fall has come, the wind is gusting, and Leaf Man is on the move. Is he drifting east, over the marsh and ducks and geese? Or is he heading west, above the orchards, prairie meadows, and spotted cows? No one's quite sure, but this much is certain: A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows. With illustrations made from actual fall leaves and die-cut pages on every spread that reveal gorgeous landscape vistas, here is a playful, whimsical, and evocative book that celebrates the natural world and the rich imaginative life of children. Includes an author's note and leaf-identifying labels.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152053048
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Fall has come, the wind is gusting, and Leaf Man is on the move. Is he drifting east, over the marsh and ducks and geese? Or is he heading west, above the orchards, prairie meadows, and spotted cows? No one's quite sure, but this much is certain: A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows. With illustrations made from actual fall leaves and die-cut pages on every spread that reveal gorgeous landscape vistas, here is a playful, whimsical, and evocative book that celebrates the natural world and the rich imaginative life of children. Includes an author's note and leaf-identifying labels.
Pete the Cat Falling for Autumn
Author: James Dean
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062868497
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
New York Times bestselling creators James and Kimberly Dean show us all the wonderful things about autumn. A great book to share with the family at Thanksgiving or anytime! Pete the Cat isn't sure about the changing of the seasons from summer to autumn. But when he discovers corn mazes, hay rides, and apple picking, Pete realizes there's so much to enjoy and be thankful for about autumn.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062868497
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
New York Times bestselling creators James and Kimberly Dean show us all the wonderful things about autumn. A great book to share with the family at Thanksgiving or anytime! Pete the Cat isn't sure about the changing of the seasons from summer to autumn. But when he discovers corn mazes, hay rides, and apple picking, Pete realizes there's so much to enjoy and be thankful for about autumn.