The Red Coat

Author : Dolley Carlson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781510743328

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The Red Coat by Dolley Carlson Pdf

Think Downton Abbey, set in the heart of Boston Irish domestic worker Norah King's decision to ask her wealthy employer, Caroline Parker, for an elegant red coat that the Beacon Hill matriarch has marked for donation ignites a series of events that neither woman could have fathomed. The unlikely exchange will impact their respective daughters and families for generations to come, from the coat's original owner, marriage-minded collegian Cordelia Parker, to the determined and spirited King sisters of South Boston, Rosemary, Kay, and Rita. As all of these young women experience the realities of life – love and loss, conflict and joy, class prejudices and unexpected prospects – the red coat reveals the distinction between cultures, generations, and landscapes in Boston during the 1940s and 50s, a time of change, challenge, and opportunity. Meet the proud, working-class Irish and staid, upper-class Brahmins through the contrasting lives of these two families and their friends and neighbors. See how the Parkers and the Kings each overcome sudden tragedy with resolve and triumph. And witness the profound impact of a mother’s heart on her children’s souls. Carlson brings us front and center with her knowing weave of Celtic passion – both tragic and joyful – words of wisdom, romance, humor, and historical events. Dive into Boston feet first! The Red Coat is a rich novel that chronicles the legacy of Boston from both sides of the city, Southie and the Hill.

Author : Kate Hamer
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571313259

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The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa First Novel Award Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award 'Mesmerising, compulsive, deliciously dark' LUCY FOLEY Carmel is missing - but doesn't know she's lost. When sensitive, distracted eight-year-old Carmel becomes separated from her mother at a local children's festival, a man claiming to be her estranged grandfather finds her - and takes her. Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good, Beth makes it her mission to find her. But in what she's told is her new family, Carmel has embarked on an extraordinary journey, one that will make her question who she is - and who she might become. 'Keeps the reader turning pages at a frantic clip . . . What's most powerful here is not whodunnit, or even why, but how this mother and daughter bear their separation.' CELESTE NG **Carmel and Beth's story continues in The Lost Girls - pre-order now!**

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473574038

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The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes Pdf

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* 'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a scientific man with a famously complicated private life. Pozzi's life played out against the backdrop of the Parisian Belle Epoque. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine. **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2019**

Author : Roma Ligocka
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250111227

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The Girl in the Red Coat by Roma Ligocka Pdf

When she first saw Schindler's List--to whose premiere in Germany she was invited--Roma Ligocka suddenly realized she was witnessing a part of her own life. She felt instinctively that the little girl in the red coat--the only spot of color in the film--was her. When she had lived in the Krakow ghetto during the Second World War she had worn a strawberry-red coat given to her by her grandmother. Unlike the girl in Spielbeg's film, however, Roma survived the war. Startled by this eerie conjunction of art and reality, Ligocka determined to write the story of her own life, to find out what had become of the little girl, and to measure who she now was. From a harrowing childhood under the Nazis, described with a simplicity and innocence that lends it even greater power, through the trials of living in Communist Poland, to a career in the theater and film (an artistic struggle paralleling that of her cousin, Roman Polanski), Ligocka traces her struggle for self-defiition and happiness. The Girl in the Red Coat is a courageous and moving story of survival and triumph.

Author : David Melling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-11-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1536237671

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Ruffles and the Red, Red Coat by David Melling Pdf

Join in with Ruffles as he faces all the trials and tribulations of toddler life in this brightly colored new picture book series from award-winning author and illustrator David Melling. As Ruffles learns about the world around him, he discovers there are lots of things he likes . . . and some things he doesn't! He loves scratching, digging, and chewing, but he does not like wearing his red coat on rainy days. No, no, no, no, NO! But when Ruffles wants to splash in puddles with his best friend, Ruby, he soon learns that sometimes wearing a raincoat is a very good idea after all.

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141949246

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Redcoat by Bernard Cornwell Pdf

From THE BESTSELLING author Bernard Cornwell comes Redcoat . . . NOW AT THIS SPECIAL EBOOK PRICE Philadelphia in 1777 is a city at war - not just between American troops and the British army, but within itself. For an occupied city throws together loyalist and patriot, soldier and civilian, man and woman; divides families and breeds treachery. Here ruthless Captain Kit Vane and beautiful Martha Crowl, passionate patriot Caroline and her idealist young lover Jonathon, unscrupulous Ezra Woollard and the brutal Sergeant Scammell, forge and break shifting allegiances that drive them to dangerous lengths. And caught between them Private Sam Gilpin, seduced into war by a dare and a red coat, must learn the bitter lessons of love, loss and the real meaning of loyalty.

Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007374052

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Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket by Richard Holmes Pdf

Redcoat is the brilliant story of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900, based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them.

Author : Tom Ryan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780062445001

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Will's Red Coat by Tom Ryan Pdf

Boston Globe Bestseller A true story of acceptance, perseverance, and the possibility of love and redemption as evocative, charming, and powerful as the New York Times bestseller Following Atticus. Drawn by an online post, Tom Ryan adopted Will, a frightened, deaf, and mostly blind elderly dog, and brought him home to live with him and Atticus. The only owners Will ever knew had grown too fragile to take care of themselves, or of him. Ultimately, Will was left at a kill shelter in New Jersey. Tom hoped to give Will a place to die with dignity, amid the rustic beauty of the White Mountains of his New Hampshire home. But when Will bites him numerous times and acts out in violent displays, Tom realizes he is in for a challenge. With endless patience and the kind of continued empathy Tom has nurtured in his relationship with Atticus, Will eventually begins to thrive. Soon, the angry, hurt, depressed, and near-death oldster has transformed into a happy, gamboling companion with a puppy-like zest for discovery. Will perseveres for two and a half years, inspiring hundreds of thousands of Tom and Atticus’s fans with his courage, resilience, and unforgettable heart. A story of a dog and an indelible bond that is beautiful, heartbreaking, uplifting, and unforgettable, Will’s Red Coat honors the promise held in all of us, at any stage of life. Will’s Red Coat includes eight pages of color photographs.

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926613703

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Ghost Town Stories of the Red Coat Trail by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

The Red Coat Trail of southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta runs near the route of the North West Mounted Police's famous 1874 March West. Today, this lonely highway passes through a windswept land of ghostly abandoned towns. Johnnie Bachusky takes readers back to the heyday of these towns, which sprang up as settlers travelled west during the last great land rush. The Roaring Twenties brought bumper harvests, but also bootleggers and bank robbers; fortunes were won and lost in high-stakes poker games. The Great Depression devastated the region as disease, drought, dust storms and grasshoppers took their toll. History comes to life in these exciting true stories, from an account of a 1920s bank robbery in Manyberries to the tales of a boisterous Govenlock rancher who hunted with Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok.

Author : Ruth Ogden
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732689699

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A Loyal Little Red-Coat by Ruth Ogden Pdf

Reproduction of the original: A Loyal Little Red-Coat by Ruth Ogden

Author : Kevin Flynn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1723279943

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The Little Red Coat by Kevin Flynn Pdf

Dr. Kevin Flynn, a family physician and a coroner in Ontario, Canada accidentally breaks a family heirloom and finds four documents that start him on the trail of documenting a family tragedy set in his school-teacher parents' home in rural Ireland nine decades past. His family in Ireland did not talk about the past and what little information became available in his younger years proved to be incorrect. Using his experience of death investigation in Canada for thirty years, his odyssey takes him back to the land of his birth in search of documents in the National Archives of Ireland and interviews with people still alive who helped to throw light on the mystery and to discover and document the truth about how two sisters, Philomena, age one year and ten months and Maureen age six years and nine months, whom he never knew, came to their deaths at the hands of a teenage girl. Mary Cole had been a pupil at the Camross National School and was taught by the parents of Dr. Flynn. They took the girl into their home after she finished her primary education to care for their family of five small children in the village of Camross, nestled in the shade of the Slieve Bloom Mountains in the Irish midlands. Mr. Flynn discovered that the live-in 15 year old girl, mature beyond her years, misbehaved with some local boys at night, and after she was confronted by her employers, she denied her guilt two times until the truth was revealed before the local Parish Priest. This true story of deceit and betrayal by a young girl who nursed, fed and cared for the children of the schoolmaster and his teacher wife unites the tragedy that unfolded with Ireland's recovery from a brutal civil war with the transition from the English colonial education system that suppressed the proud traditions of the Irish language and history until the War of Independence that fostered the rebirth of national pride. It is a tale of revenge for being exposed twice before the priest and the perceived loss of her good name at the cost of two innocent and vulnerable children. So ingenious was Mary Cole that two deaths and two fires were deemed to be accidental, even after an inquest by the local coroner until after Michael and Statia Flynn had left Camross for the town of Tipperary where the author was later born and where he grew up thinking that he was 'one of ten' instead of 'one of twelve'. Astute investigation by An Garda Síochána detectives based their suspicions on a simple red woollen coat, hand made by the children's mother. Read how the poignant discovery of the little red coat in the National Archives in Dublin and the striking out of Maureen's name from the school roll book by her teacher mother were revealed.

Author : Richard Gnann
Publisher : Mascot Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : College stories
ISBN : 1937406563

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Dreaming of the Redcoat Band by Richard Gnann Pdf

Jody dreams of running across the Sanford Stadium field and Dad helps to make the dream come true. If your blood runs Red and Black, if you dream Bulldog dreams, this book is for you.

Author : Anthony D. Darling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Firearms
ISBN : LCCN:73178604

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Red Coat and Brown Bess by Anthony D. Darling Pdf

Author : Emmanuel Kariũki
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Kenya
ISBN : 9966255354

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The Red Coat by Emmanuel Kariũki Pdf

Author : Jean McGarry,A. S. C. Rower
Publisher : Flockophobic PressLtd
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 0962358509

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The Red Coat by Jean McGarry,A. S. C. Rower Pdf