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An Unfinished Season
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Author : Ward Just
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2005
An Unfinished Season written by Ward Just and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Fiction categories.
"The winter of the year my father carried a gun for his own protection was the coldest on record in Chicago." So begins Ward Just's An Unfinished Season, the winter in question a postwar moment of the 1950s when the modern world lay just over the horizon, a time of rabid anticommunism, worker unrest, and government corruption. Even the small-town family could not escape the nationwide suspicion and dread of "the enemy within." In rural Quarterday, on the margins of Chicago's North Shore, nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan watches as his father's life unravels. Teddy Ravan -- gruff, unapproachable, secure in his knowledge of the world -- is confronting a strike and even death threats from union members who work at his printing business. Wilson, in the summer before college, finds himself straddling three worlds when he takes a job at a newspaper: the newsroom where working-class reporters find class struggle at the heart of every issue, the glittering North Shore debutante parties where he spends his nights, and the growing cold war between his parents at home. These worlds collide when he falls in love with the headstrong daughter of a renowned psychiatrist with a frightful past in World War II. Tragedy strikes her family, and the revelation of secrets calls into question everything Wilson once believed. From a distinguished chronicler of American social history and the political world, An Unfinished Season is a brilliant exploration of culture, politics, and the individual conscience.
American Romantic
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Author : Ward S. Just
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2014
American Romantic written by Ward S. Just and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fiction categories.
While on duty as a young foreign service officer in Indochina in the 1960s, Harry Sanders briefly meets a young German woman who changes the course of his life in this new novel from the author of Forgetfulness. 25,000 first printing.
A Season In The Highlands
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Author : Jude Deveraux
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2000-12
A Season In The Highlands written by Jude Deveraux and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12 with Fiction categories.
The beauty of the Scottish Highlands forms the backdrop for a collection of love stories by Jude Devereaux, Jill Barnett, and other romance authors.
My Jane Austen Summer
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Author : Cindy Jones
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-03-29
My Jane Austen Summer written by Cindy Jones and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-29 with Fiction categories.
“When one has read the six great Austen novels…and then reread and then reread the six again, one’s only recourse is the company of others equally bereft. Cindy Jones’s My Jane Austen Summer fills the gap with a nourishing Austen-soaked setting, a wonderfully surprising plot, and Lily, a delightfully peculiar heroine.” —Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club Author Cindy Jones has a gift for the millions of readers everywhere who have been enchanted by Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and the other wondrous works of the inimitable Austen—not to mention fans of more contemporary delights such as The Jane Austen Book Club. Jones’s My Jane Austen Summer is a delightful, funny, poignant novel in which a contemporary woman—an obsessed Austenphile—learns much about life, love, and herself during one magical summer in England spent re-enacting Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park.
The Sweetheart Season
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Author : Karen Joy Fowler
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-07-27
The Sweetheart Season written by Karen Joy Fowler and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-27 with Fiction categories.
A warm and witty novel from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler. 'Polls have recently confirmed what has long been suspected; most men do not want brainy women. Stewardesses have turned out to be that occupation blessed most often with marriage. The key elements appear to be uniforms and travel.' It is 1947 and in the aftermath of World War II halcyon days have not returned to Magrit, Minnesota, where the veterans have failed to come home. The men haven't died; they've just moved onto greener pastures, rejecting the local women, who served the war effort in the Scientific Kitchen of Margaret Mill. The mill was founded by Henry Collins, the man responsible for Sweetwheats, the world's first puffed and sugar-coated cereal. As part of a publicity campaign, Henry creates the Sweetwheats Sweethearts all-girl baseball team, convincing the mill girls that this will help them find husbands.
A Dangerous Friend
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Author : Ward Just
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 1999-05-03
A Dangerous Friend written by Ward Just and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-03 with Fiction categories.
Well-meaning American civilians make an attempt at nation-building during the Vietnam War, in this “powerful” novel by a National Book Award finalist (Newsweek). Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Time and the Los Angeles Times In this “extraordinary,” beautifully constructed large-canvas novel of Saigon in 1965, Ward Just takes a penetrating look into America’s role in the world (The New York Times). Sydney Parade, a political scientist, has left his home and family in an effort to become part of something larger than himself, a foreign aid operation in the South Vietnamese capital. Even before he arrives, he encounters French and Americans who reveal to him the unsettling depths of a conflict he thought he understood—and in Saigon, the Vietnamese add yet another dimension. Before long, the rampant missteps and misplaced ideals trap Parade and others in a moral crossfire. “Emotionally wrenching and always beautifully observant,” this is a story of conscience and its consequences among those for whom Vietnam was neither the right fight nor the wrong fight but the only fight (Entertainment Weekly). The exotic tropical surroundings, coarsening and corrupting effects of a colonial regime, and visionary delusions of the American democratizers all play their part. “A literary triumph that transcends its war story” and a New York Times Notable Book, A Dangerous Friend can be justly compared to Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo or Graham Greene’s The Quiet American—a thrilling narrative roiling with intrigue, mayhem, and betrayal (San Francisco Chronicle). “Makes you want to run screaming into the street to protest retrospectively the war he has so movingly recreated.” —The New York Times
The Season S Work At Ahnas And Beni Hasan 1890 1891
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Author : Egypt Exploration Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
The Season S Work At Ahnas And Beni Hasan 1890 1891 written by Egypt Exploration Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Banī Hạsan Site (Egypt) categories.
Echo House
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Author : Ward Just
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 1997-12-15
Echo House written by Ward Just and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-15 with Fiction categories.
This family saga from a National Book Award finalist is a “brilliantly orchestrated tale of several generations of Washington, D.C., insiders” (Booklist). In this epic and acutely observed novel, three generations of a family of Washington power brokers vie for influence over the fate of the nation. In the 1930s, Sen. Adolph Behl and his wife, Constance, buy historic mansion Echo House with the vision of transforming it into Washington’s greatest salon—an auspicious base camp from which the senator can launch his “final ascent,” and son Axel can prepare his first. Across decades of secrets, betrayals, victories, and humiliations, the Behl family will fight to remain near the center, and behind the scenes, of American political power—from the New Deal to Watergate and beyond. “A fascinating if ultimately painful fairy tale, complete with . . . a family curse . . . The decline of the Behls represents the decline of Washington from the bright dawn of the American century into the gathering shadows of an alien new millennium.” —The Washington Post “Puts the standard run-of-the-mill Washington novel to shame . . . It is Mr. Just’s intimate portrait of the city that makes his book so convincing.” —TheNew York Times “Will be read in a century’s time by anyone seeking to understand how we lived.” —Detroit Free Press “[Ward’s] stories put him in the category reserved for writers who work far beyond the fashions of the times. . . . Masterpieces of balance, focus, and hidden order.” —Chicago Tribune “He has earned a place on the shelf just below Edith Wharton and Henry James.” —Newsweek
The Eastern Shore
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Author : Ward Just
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2016-10-18
The Eastern Shore written by Ward Just and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-18 with Fiction categories.
A novel about journalism and one man’s moral choices, “evoking the rhythms of Ernest Hemingway’s early fiction . . . A quietly affecting, mournful achievement” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Ned Ayres has never wanted anything but a newspaper career. His defining moment comes early, when Ned is city editor of his hometown paper. One of his beat reporters fields a tip: William Grant, the town haberdasher, married to the bank president’s daughter and the father of two children, once served six years in Joliet. The story runs—Ned offers no resistance to his publisher’s argument that the public has a right to know. The consequences, swift and shocking, haunt him throughout a long career—until eventually, as the editor of a major newspaper in post-Kennedy Washington, DC, Ned has reason to return to the question of privacy and its many violations.
The Uncertain Season
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Author : Ann Howard Creel
language : en
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Release Date : 2017
The Uncertain Season written by Ann Howard Creel and has been published by Lake Union Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with FICTION categories.
When her lovely, charming, and disgraced cousin Etta arrives, Grace finds her place in society, and in her mother's heart, threatened. In a reckless moment, Grace reveals Etta's scandalous past, and as punishment, she's sent to work in Galveston's back alleys, helping the poor. There, a silent waif known only as Miss Girl opens Grace's eyes to new love and purpose. She's determined to save this girl who lost her entire family in the hurricane and now slips along the shadows of the unfinished seawall with a mysterious resolve.