Third Girl From The Left
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Third Girl From The Left
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Author : Christine Barker
language : en
Publisher: Delphinium Books
Release Date : 2024-03-12
Third Girl From The Left written by Christine Barker and has been published by Delphinium Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As a middle child in a large military family, Christine just wants to dance. Her parents support her dreams, even if they seem beyond their comprehension. At 20, determined and talented, Christine heads across the country from Santa Fe to New York City and, in a made for-Hollywood story, is chosen for the London cast of A Chorus Line. While unwilling to fully cut ties with the traditional life her parents envision for her, she finds a new family with the dancers and more fluid, open characters that fill the theater world in London, and later New York, in the '70s & '80s. Christine learns that one member of her family is equally at home in her new world: Laughlin, her older brother--divorced, a father, ex-military and a corporate lawyer--also makes his way to New York City, where he meets, and begins to build a life, with rising fashion star Perry Ellis. The two men enjoy a partnership and a financial success that Christine both admires. and envies. She spends much of her free time in their Upper West Side brownstone and Water Island retreat. Soon everyone is talking about a mysterious new disease. As deaths of dancers, theater folk, and eventually friends start to mount, Christine realizes she's in the middle of an epidemic that neither her traditional family nor the public at large is ready to reckon with. As the AIDS crisis cuts closer and closer, eventually impacting those she loves most, Christine does what she has always done: she strikes her own path. This memoir is an emotional, honest examination of what it takes to succeed in the competitive world of New York theater, how hard-won dreams can be quickly lost, what it means to redefine family, and the devasting toll AIDS exacted on a generation of artists.
Third Girl From The Left
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Author : Martha Southgate
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2006
Third Girl From The Left written by Martha Southgate 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 2006 with Fiction categories.
The New York Times hailed Martha Southgate's previous novel, The Fall of Rome, as "powerful," O, the Oprah Magazine called it "quietly accomplished," and Essence lauded it as "a bracingly honest look at race, class, and self-acceptance." With Third Girl from the Left, Southgate brings her acute vision and emotional scope to a larger canvas. This enormously entertaining yet serious novel tells a story of African-American women struggling against all odds to express what lies deepest in their hearts. Like Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay or E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime, it ranges freely through time, fact, and fiction to weave an enthralling story about history and art and their place in the lives of three women. "My mother believed in the power of movies and the people in them to change a life, to change her life." So explains Tamara, daughter of Angela, granddaughter of Mildred - the three women whose lives are portrayed in stunning detail in this ambitious novel spanning three generations of one family. Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1970 is not a place a smart black girl wants to linger. For Angela, twenty years old and beautiful, the stifling conformity is unbearable. She heads to Los Angeles just as blaxploitation movies are pouring money into the studios and lands a few bit parts before an unplanned pregnancy derails her plans for stardom. For Mildred, movies have always been a blessed diversion in a life marked by the legacy of the 1921 Tulsa race riots. But after Angela leaves Tulsa following a bitter fight, the distance between them grows into a breach that remains for years. It falls to Tamara, a budding documentarian - raised in LA by Angela as though they have no family, no history - to help mother and grandmother confront all that has been silenced and left unsaid in their lives. A bold, beautifully written, and deeply involving novel, Third Girl from the Left deftly examines the pull of the movies, the power of desire, and the bonds of family in a quintessentially American story.
Third Girl From The Left
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Author : Ann Warren Turner
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Release Date : 1986
Third Girl From The Left written by Ann Warren Turner and has been published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Mail order brides categories.
Itching to do something different, eighteen-year-old Sarah leaves Maine for the harsh Montana environment as a mail-order bride, and is soon left a widow with a 2000-acre ranch to run.
Girl Left Behind
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Author : Judy Temes
language : en
Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-06-15
Girl Left Behind written by Judy Temes and has been published by Saint Julian Press, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Girl Left Behind At age five, Judy Temes was living with her parents and brother in a small town near Hungary's southern border. Unlike most, the family had comforts: a roomy apartment, a television, even a vacation home. What more could anyone want? But for her father, a doctor and a survivor of the Holocaust, living among the people who stood by as his family was taken to their deaths in cattle cars had become untenable. On a summer night in 1969, the family packed the car for what was supposed to be a vacation to Vienna. Only this was no vacation. They were escaping Hungary's totalitarian regime, using tourist visas that allowed entry into a Western country. Such visas, however, came at a high price. One child had to be left behind. This was the government's way to ensure that citizens who left the country would return. The child left behind was "Juditka," who would go on to live with her grandmother in a tiny lakeside Hungarian village. When, if ever, would she see her family again? No one knew.
Southwestern Journal Of Education
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
Southwestern Journal Of Education written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Education categories.
The Girl Who Left From Croatia To The Canefields
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Author : Debra Gavranich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08
The Girl Who Left From Croatia To The Canefields written by Debra Gavranich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Marija lives in a small village on the idyllic island of Korčula off the coast near Split in the country now known as Croatia. At 18 years of age she agrees to a proxy marriage to a 27-year-old sugarcane farmer in Far North Queensland who had left the village as a small child with his family in the 1920s. The couple do not know each other, having only exchanged photographs and a handful of letters, but this marriage is Marija's escape from a traumatised post-war Europe. Her childhood is scarred by constant fear, with death and brutality stalking the island after it is occupied, first by the Italian army and later by the Nazis. Marija's older sister joins the Partisan rebels as a codebreaker for General Tito, while Marija and her younger sister and father secretly help the Partisans hiding in the hills, with intelligence on the enemy. At one stage, her beloved father is taken by the Nazis, only to return at the end of the war grateful to be alive. Bitter ethnic battles accompany this war and many from her village are tortured and killed. A life in Australia with a husband she does not know is a risk worth taking. She travels by ship to Australia along with hundreds of other young men and women seeking escape from poverty and despair in the old world to the promise of adventure, love and a better life. Finding herself sharing a farmhouse with a hostile father-in-law far removed from neighbours, in the midst of cane fields in tropical Queensland, was only bearable as she fell in love with her devoted husband, created her own family and with it, a future for the next generations in the new country. At 62, Marija is diagnosed with cancer so returns one last time to Korčula to farewell her family. However, Yugoslavia is imploding, and she finds herself once again fleeing tanks in the midst of a war. Shortly after returning from her trip, she passes away, surrounded by her Australian family in the country she has come to feel is truly her home. This is the migrant story of Australia, of courageous individuals taking the biggest risk of their lives often with little or no English. Their determination and hard work enable them to live with their sacrifices and overcome the profound loneliness of homesickness. The result is the rich diversity of our modern multicultural nation.
St Andrew Catholic Church Le Roy Wisconsin
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Author : Leonard Schraufnagel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
St Andrew Catholic Church Le Roy Wisconsin written by Leonard Schraufnagel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Church buildings categories.
Werner S Voice Magazine
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Author : Edgar S. Werner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Werner S Voice Magazine written by Edgar S. Werner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Elocution categories.
Left With A Trust
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Author : Nellie Hellis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
Left With A Trust written by Nellie Hellis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Short stories categories.
The Girl You Left Behind
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Author : Jojo Moyes
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-08-20
The Girl You Left Behind written by Jojo Moyes and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-20 with Fiction categories.
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, a sweeping bestseller of love and loss, deftly weaving two journeys from World War I France to present day London. Paris, World War I. Sophie Lefèvre must keep her family safe while her adored husband, Édouard, fights at the front. When their town falls to the Germans, Sophie is forced to serve them every evening at her hotel. From the moment the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie’s portrait—painted by her artist husband—a dangerous obsession is born. Almost a century later in London, Sophie’s portrait hangs in the home of Liv Halston, a wedding gift from her young husband before his sudden death. After a chance encounter reveals the portrait’s true worth, a battle begins over its troubled history and Liv’s world is turned upside all over again.