Sweet Water

Author : Christina Baker Kline
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062020765

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Sweet Water by Christina Baker Kline Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be, comes a novel about buried secrets and the redemptive power of forgiveness—includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more. Cassie Simon is a struggling artist living in New York City. When she receives a call from a magistrate in Sweetwater, TN, telling her she has inherited sixty acres of land from her grandfather, whom she never knew, she takes it as a sign: it’s time for a change. She moves into the house where her mother, Ellen, was born—and where she died tragically when Cassie was three. From the moment she arrives in Sweetwater, Cassie is overwhelmed by the indelible mark her mother’s memory had left behind. As she delves into the thicket of mystery that surrounds her mother’s death, Cassie begins to understand the desperate measures the human heart is capable of.

Author : Roxana Robinson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307431882

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Sweetwater by Roxana Robinson Pdf

In this brilliant, luminous novel, one of our finest realist writers gives us a story of surpassing depth and emotional power. Acclaimed for her lucid and compassionate exploration of the American family, Roxana Robinson sets her new work on familiar terrain—New York City and the Adirondacks—but with Sweetwater she transcends the particulars of the domestic sphere with a broader, more encompassing vision. In this poignant account of a young widow and her second marriage, Robinson expands her scope to include the larger natural world as well as the smaller, more intimate one of the home. Isabel Green’s marriage to Paul Simmons, after the death of her first husband, marks her reconnection to life—a venture she’s determined will succeed. But this proves to be harder than she’d anticipated, and the challenges of starting afresh seem more complicated in adulthood. Staying at the Simmons lodge for their annual summer visit, Isabel finds herself entering into a set of familial complexities. She struggles to understand her new husband, his elderly, difficult parents and his brother, whose relationship with Paul seems oddly fraught. Furthermore, her second marriage begins to cast into sharp relief the troubling echoes of her first. Isabel’s professional life plays a part as well: a passionate environmental advocate, she is aware of the tensions within the mountain landscape itself during a summer of spectacular beauty and ominous drought. In her cool, elegant prose, Robinson gracefully delivers a plot that is complex, surprising and ultimately wrenching in its impact. As the strands of family are woven tightly and inevitably together, and as the past painfully informs the present, the vivid backdrop of the physical world provides its own eloquent dynamic. Sweetwater is a stunning achievement by a writer at the peak of her craft.

Author : Julie Carobini
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : California
ISBN : 9780805448733

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Sweet Waters by Julie Carobini Pdf

A young woman hopes moving back to the California coast her family left for the Midwest many years ago will lead to a fairytale, but a soap opera is waiting there instead.

Author : Katherine Paterson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0395913241

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Celia and the Sweet, Sweet Water by Katherine Paterson Pdf

While journeying to find a remedy for her mother's illness, Celia and her grumpy dog Brumble encounter strange and threatening characters who have never known kindness.

Author : Nathan Harris
Publisher : Tinder Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472274415

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The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 2021, OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK AND BARACK OBAMA SELECTION 'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and political' Observer Landry and Prentiss are two brothers born into slavery, finally freed as the American Civil War draws to its bitter close. Cast into the world without a penny to their names, their only hope is to find work in a society that still views them with nothing but intolerance. Farmer George Walker and his wife Isabelle are reeling from a loss that has shaken them to their core. After a chance encounter, they agree to employ the brothers on their land, and slowly the tentative bonds of trust begin to blossom between the strangers. But this sanctuary survives on a knife's edge, and it isn't long before a tragedy causes the inhabitants of the nearby town to turn their suspicion onto these new friendships, with devastating consequences. '[A] highly accomplished debut' Sunday Times Readers have been swept away by The Sweetness of Water: 'Such a powerful, magnificent book; I urge you to read it. The comparisons with Colson Whitehead are justified' ***** 'A staggering debut and a story that stays with you' ***** 'Thought-provoking and moving . . . a gripping and compelling novel that exposes flaws, mixed emotions and imperfect relationships, and yet it holds on with determination and hope. It fully deserves a 5-star rating' ***** 'Outstanding . . . A book that deserves widespread recognition and a wide audience' *****

Author : Robin M. Boylorn
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : African American women
ISBN : 1433117754

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Sweetwater by Robin M. Boylorn Pdf

This book is a multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural South. Written from field notes and memory, the author combines narrative and autoethnography to weave her own experiences as a rural black girl into the story, revealing the complexities of black women's lived experiences and exposing the communicative and interpersonal choices black women make through storytelling.

Author : Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061755040

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Sweetwater Creek by Anne Rivers Siddons Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society. At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly aware of yearning and loss. Rather than be consumed by sadness, she has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels. It is a meager, narrow, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic: the storied deep-sea dolphins who come regularly to play in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the beautiful dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself. Emily hides from the dreaded world here. It is enough. And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a truly grand plantation, who has run away from her hectic Charleston debutante season to spend a healing summer with the quiet marshes and river, and the life-giving dogs. Where Emily's father sees their guest as an entrée to a society he thought forever out of reach, Emily is at once threatened and mystified. Lulu has a powerful enchantment of her own, and this, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emily's magical water world apart and let the real one in—but at a terrible price. Poignant and emotionally compelling, Sweetwater Creek draws you into the luminous landscape of the Lowcountry, with characters that will linger long after you've turned the last page.

Author : Jan Watson
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496415400

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Sweetwater Run by Jan Watson Pdf

In 1891 in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, two young women stand at a crossroads. Both are protégées of the same mentor, Copper Brown, yet they couldn’t be more different. Darcy Whitt falls in love with the town’s handsome yet unscrupulous attorney who plots to take not only Darcy’s land but that of her sister as well. Meanwhile, her beautiful sister-in-law, Cara Whitt, suddenly finds herself alone and afraid, living in a rickety cabin on the backside of nowhere. As they struggle with the realities of life, both women learn to rely on their faith above all else.

Author : Denise Hunter
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781418574000

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Sweetwater Gap by Denise Hunter Pdf

Life doesn’t give do-overs. She’s sure of it. But then she goes home again. Josie Mitchell’s sister Laurel thinks she’s come home to pitch in with the apple harvest and save the family orchard. Her brother-in-law Nate thinks she’s there to talk the overworked, very pregnant Laurel into finally selling the family business. The orchard’s new manager Grady Mackenzie just thinks she’s trouble with a capital T. They’re all right . . . and all wrong. Because no one really knows what drove Josie from home in the first place. Why she’s never come home before, even for her own father’s funeral. Why she pushes herself so hard . . . and what she’s running from. And nobody, not even Josie, is prepared for the surprising new fruit she’ll find on her last trip home.

Author : Philip McLaren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 1875641777

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Sweet Water by Philip McLaren Pdf

WINNER David Unaipon Award. First released in 1993, this historical thriller was a national success. '...excellent characterisations and a seasoning of racial and sexual tension...' Sydney Sun-Herald.

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Flood control
ISBN : UCSD:31822016489098

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General Design Memorandum for Sweetwater River Flood Control Channel, San Diego County, California by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District Pdf

Author : Anna Katharine Green
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026865179

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DETECTIVE CALEB SWEETWATER MYSTERIES - Agatha Webb, The Woman in the Alcove & The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "DETECTIVE CALEB SWEETWATER MYSTERIES - Agatha Webb, The Woman in the Alcove & The House of the Whispering Pines" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel". As journalist Kathy Hickman writes, Green "stamped the mystery genre with the distinctive features that would influence writers from Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle to contemporary authors of suspenseful "whodunits". The Caleb Sweetwater Mysteries is a collection of three novels featuring Caleb Sweetwater, a policeman in New York City. Anna Katharine Green is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective. Table of Contents: Agatha Webb The Woman in the Alcove The House of the Whispering Pines

Author : Beryl Gilroy
Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032314356

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Sunlight on Sweet Water by Beryl Gilroy Pdf

This book brings back to life in rich detail the Afro-Guyanese village community of the author's childhood, where there were old people who had been slaves as children and Africa was not forgotten. It was a time when children did not have open access to the world of adults and childhood had not yet disappeared, and perhaps for this reason, the men and women who pass through these stories have a mystery and singularity that are as unforgettable for the reader as they were for the child.

Author : Joan Johnston
Publisher : Dell
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440335191

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Sweetwater Seduction by Joan Johnston Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston tells the passionate tale of a prickly woman, a small Wyoming town, and the irresistible stranger who sets out to seduce them both. Spinster schoolteacher Eden Devlin is desperate when she convinces rancher and nester wives to withhold sex from their husbands until they agree to end a devastating range war. But frustrated husbands resort to their own desperate measures—and hire gunslinger Burke Kerrigan to seduce Miss Devlin, “ ’cause if she knew what she was missin’, she’d tell our wives to let us back in the bedroom!” With battle lines drawn between husband and wife, Burke Kerrigan has his work cut out for him. Time is of the essence as he sets out to seduce Miss Devlin. But Kerrigan quickly learns that it’s not easy to hoodwink an educated woman, and the battle of sharp wits and even sharper passions that ensues results in an all-or-nothing love that takes both spinster and gunslinger by surprise.

Author : Akwaeke Emezi
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802165565

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Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi Pdf

A National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A New York Times Notable Book The astonishing debut novel from the acclaimed bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, and Pet, Freshwater tells the story of Ada, an unusual child who is a source of deep concern to her southern Nigerian family. Young Ada is troubled, prone to violent fits. Born “with one foot on the other side,” she begins to develop separate selves within her as she grows into adulthood. And when she travels to America for college, a traumatic event on campus crystallizes the selves into something powerful and potentially dangerous, making Ada fade into the background of her own mind as these alters—now protective, now hedonistic—move into control. Written with stylistic brilliance and based in the author’s realities, Freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace.