My Little Blue Dress

Author : Bruno Maddox
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101191057

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My Little Blue Dress by Bruno Maddox Pdf

“Very funny . . . A pitch-perfect account of how it feels to be part of as culture that’s better at showing you what to wear than what to believe in . . . a real original.”—New York Magazine A gorgeous girl recalls her coming of age in her tiny, picturesque English village at the turn of the last century. After she opts out of a rural beauty pageant, her life—and its telling—begins to unravel. And it unravels into a multitude of extremely amusing, searingly beautiful strands that eventually lead her, and a troubled young man who befriends her, through the wall upholstered hellholes of modern Manhattan toward a heartrending and hugely satisfying climax that will almost literally blow your socks off. “Fun, full-throttle stuff, which rather miraculously dresses down the pernicious personal-history trend while remaining both giggly and moving in its own terms.”—Entertainment Weekly

Author : Walter Mosley
Publisher : Washington Square Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982150341

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Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition) by Walter Mosley Pdf

The first novel by “master of mystery” (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the Mystery Writers of America, this special thirtieth anniversary edition features an all new introduction from the author. The year is 1948, the town is Los Angeles. Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense factory plant. Drinking in his friend’s bar, he’s wondering how he’ll manage to make ends meet, when a white man in a linen suit approaches him and offers him good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a missing blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs. Easy has no idea that by taking this job, his life is about to change forever. “More than simply a detective novel…[Mosley is] a talented author with something vital to say about the distance between the black and white worlds, and with a dramatic way to say it” (The New York Times).

Author : Gaynor Arnold
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781906994549

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Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold Pdf

Beloved writer Alfred Gibson's funeral is taking place at Westminster Abbey, and Dorothea, his wife of twenty years has not been invited. Gibson's will favours his many children and secret mistress over Dorothea - who was sent away from the family home when their youngest was still an infant. Dorothea has not left her apartment in years, but when she receives a surprise invitation to a private audience with Queen Victoria, she is shocked to find she has much in common with Her Highness. With renewed confidence Dorothea is spurred to examine her past and confront not only her family but the pretty young actress Miss Ricketts.

Author : Bruno Maddox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4444412232

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My Little Blue Dress B Special by Bruno Maddox Pdf

Author : E. V. Thompson
Publisher : Robert Hale
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : 0709098464

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Blue Dress Girl by E. V. Thompson Pdf

When a Chinese peasant girl is chosen as a concubine to Li Hung, she quickly learns the reality is far from honourable. She is sent away, but rescued from her Junk by a Royal Marine Second Lieutenant. When the young officer becomes involved in the Taiping Rebellion, their blossoming relationship looks doomed.

Author : Bruno Maddox
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0356227162

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My Little Blue Dress C Book Club by Bruno Maddox Pdf

Author : Bruno Maddox
Publisher : Orbit Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0356229181

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My Little Blue Dress Hb Book Club by Bruno Maddox Pdf

Author : Thylias Moss
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0380793628

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Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress by Thylias Moss Pdf

Within my life's present unified theory of being, splendor divests itself of its own integrity, splitting to belong to everything that notices it, each part as effective as the whole splendid thing. It belongs to whatever wants it and is inexhaustible even as someone lays dying, even as someone else cries thinking there is none, their tears becoming prisms. . . With these words, the acclaimed poet Thylias Moss proclaims a hymn to the power of light over darkness, both in her own life, and in the wider world. In this, her first prose work, the author of six books of poetry and winner of the most distinguished honors--including a MacArthur Fellowship Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship and a Writing Award--delivers a brilliant, passionate, and utterly moving memoir. It is the story of the only child of a maid and factory worker who moved to Ohio from the segregated South of the fifties. Raised with much love, she flourished until the age of five, when disaster struck, in the form of a girl in sky-blue dress. Her childhood was shattered by this girl, her babysitter, who took pleasure from infliction pain, and whose reign of terror, even after its abrupt end, would send poisonous tendril further into her life. Yet ultimately, Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress is about how a young woman retrieved her life from the grasp of darkness. It is about refusing to accept tyranny. It is about feasting on splendor. How can there not be pain in a world spinning madly, in the lovely calculable chaos. . .? asks Thylias. But, she says, I am saying that joy is too necessary to abandon.

Author : Bureda Ann Hall
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780805973976

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Stories of My Little Blue Monkey by Bureda Ann Hall Pdf

Author : Sheri Holman
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555847661

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The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book from the author of A Stolen Tongue: A tale of crime and survival in nineteenth-century England “as unsettling as it is brilliant” (The Washington Post Book World). In Sunderland, England, a city quarantined by the cholera epidemic of 1831, a defiant, fifteen-year-old beauty in an elegant blue dress sells her body to feed her only love: a fragile baby boy. When the surgeon Henry Chiver offers Gustine a different kind of work, she hopes to finally change her terrible circumstances. But Chiver was recently implicated in the famous case of Burke and Hare, who murdered beggars and sold their corpses for medical research. And soon, Gustine’s own efforts to secure cadavers for Chiver’s anatomy school will threaten the very things she’s working so hard to protect . . . “Reminiscent of Wuthering Heights . . . or the novels of Dickens . . . An even better book than Holman’s first, with prose that’s more limber and vivid—and with, appropriately, even more heart.” —The New York Times Book Review “As unsettling as it is brilliant. Holman attempts Herculean feats of plot and character, and the resulting novel is seamlessly crafted.” —The Washington Post Book World “Holman seduces you. Her prose, tart, racy and somber, will sing in your soul a long while.” —Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes “Holman’s style is risky and direct . . . with unflinching emotional precision. This dazzlingly researched epic is an uncommon read.” —Publisher Weekly, starred review

Author : Carrie Firestone
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781984816443

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Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone Pdf

In this debut middle-grade girl-power friendship story, perfect for fans of Moxie, an eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion. Molly Frost is FED UP... Because Olivia was yelled at for wearing a tank top. Because Liza got dress coded and Molly didn't, even though they were wearing the exact same outfit. Because when Jessica was pulled over by the principal and missed a math quiz, her teacher gave her an F. Because it's impossible to find shorts that are longer than her fingertips. Because girls' bodies are not a distraction. Because middle school is hard enough. And so Molly starts a podcast where girls can tell their stories, and before long, her small rebellion swells into a revolution. Because now the girls are standing up for what's right, and they're not backing down.

Author : R. a. Slone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1626942978

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Ghost in the Blue Dress by R. a. Slone Pdf

Fifteen-year-old Jenna Moores is struggling with her father's recent death. Not long after his passing, a ghost from her childhood returns. When she was young, Jenna's father convinced her that the ghost was just her imagination and that he would always protect her. But now he's gone, the ghost is back, and Jenna knows she's not imagining it. As the entity grows stronger, its threats move from alienating Jenna from her friends and family to killing her. Alone and afraid, she must find and destroy the link that holds the spirit to this world...before Jenna, too, becomes a ghost.

Author : Boni Ashburn
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781613122020

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I Had a Favorite Dress by Boni Ashburn Pdf

Open up a fresh and stylish story about growing up and keeping hold of your favorite memories. As the year passes, the narrator’s favorite dress goes through a series of creative changes, from dress to shirt to tank top to scarf and so on, until all that’s left of it is a good memory. Assisted by her patient and crafty mama, the narrator finds that when disaster strikes her favorite things, she doesn’t need to make mountains out of molehills—she “makes molehills out of mountains” instead! Structured around the days of the week, the story is also illustrated to show the passing of the seasons, a perfect complement to the themes of growing older and keeping hold (and letting go) of special mementos. Praise for I Had a Favorite Dress "A spunky story about adjusting to change with creativity and style. Tailor-made, so to speak, for the Etsy generation of DIY enthusiasts.” –Publishers Weekly “Everyone is smiling in the buoyant confections created by illustrator Julia Denos—including, it’s fair to say, young readers looking at them. Endearing picture book.” –Wall Street Journal “What could have been yet another example of kindergarten consumerism instead becomes one of resourcefulness and resilience.” –New York Times “Denos’s multimedia illustrations reinforce the narrator’s vibrant personality and the amazing transformations of the dress while capturing the action and emotion of the story. This book is sure to capture the imaginations of would-be seamstresses; children who can’t bear to part with a favorite item; and those who want to reduce, reuse, recycle.” –School Library Journal “Breezy in style, they smartly stitch each scene of alteration as the not-so-little girl sashays through the days of the week and the seasons. A charming interpretation of an old story that will speak to young fashionistas.” –Kirkus Reviews

Author : Cotton Noe
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:4064066145439

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The Loom of Life by Cotton Noe Pdf

Published in 1912, "The Loom of Life" is an incredible collection of poetry by Cotton Noe. He is the author of five famous volumes of poetry, and he compiled an anthology of Kentucky poetry and Kentucky eloquence. His poetry has appeared in more than thirty collections. Noe's wonderful writing style and expression take the readers on a fascinating journey to the world of poetry.

Author : Harriet Ziefert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1934706450

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My Forever Dress by Harriet Ziefert Pdf

A story about sewing and sharing, recycling and remembering, this book follows a special party dress a grandmother makes for her granddaughter. When her granddaughter grows taller, new fabric is added. The next year the dress is ingeniously turned into a sleeveless jumper. Finally when the little girl turns ten and is ready for a new outfit, she decides to give the dress to her little cousin so it can be her forever dress. Liz Murphy's collage artwork is the perfect medium for this inventive story of sewing and altering, mixing and matching, and the rituals that connect generations.