Jeannette Walls
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
Author
Publisher
SUMA
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Por la autora de El castillo de cristal, la emocionante y tierna historia de una intrépida niña dispuesta a todo para desafiar las injusticias del mundo de los adultos.
Década de los setenta en una pequeña ciudad de California. «Bean» Holladay tiene doce años y su hermana Liz quince cuando su madre las abandona «para encontrarse a sà misma» y triunfar en la música. Aunque les deja dinero para subsistir un mes o dos, las pequeñas tienen...
Author
Publisher
SUMA
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Formats
Description
El Castillo de Cristal es la historia conmovedora de una familia que ama y que también abandona, que es leal y al mismo tiempo decepciona. Su lectura no dejará indiferente a ningún lector que se atreva con ella.
Algunas pocas veces en la vida nos encontramos con libros excepcionales. Libros que se nos van imponiendo lentamente, que nos envuelven con su magia y que se instalan en nuestro corazón para no irse más.
Asà es la historia que nos cuenta...
Author
Publisher
SUMA
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
Description
Si El Castillo de Cristal nos conmovió con la fortaleza y las ganas de vivir de los niños de la familia Walls, en esta precuela es Lily Casey Smith, su abuela, quien nos brinda su tenacidad y perseverancia ante las dificultades que atravesó en el camino de su vida.
Caballos salvajes nos descubre los orÃgenes de la disfuncional familia Walls.
HeroÃna y pionera en el Lejano Oeste americano, Lily Casey Smith vivió durante sus casi primeros diez...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Provocative and invariably entertaining" a #1 New York Times bestselling author "gives dishing the dirt its historical, social and political due"Â (Publishers Weekly).
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, now a major motion picture, comes an incisive study of our obsession with gossip.
Gossip. It's more than just hearsay, society columns, and supermarket tabloids. It has, like it or...
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, now a major motion picture, comes an incisive study of our obsession with gossip.
Gossip. It's more than just hearsay, society columns, and supermarket tabloids. It has, like it or...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chronicling the adventures of an eccentric, resilient, and tight-knit family. A remarkable story of unconditional love. A young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father, found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
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Series
America The Story of Us volume 3
Language
English
Description
Trailblazing pioneers set out to conquer the west, but find the land already claimed. Wagon trains meet hardship on the road to California's gold. The steamboat ushers in a new era of commerce, industry, and unprecedented wealth.
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Series
America The Story of Us volume 9
Language
English
Description
Boom turns to bust when the stock market crashes. The Great Depression and the dust bowl blanket the nation in darkness. Roosevelt's New Deal signals recovery.
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Series
America The Story of Us volume 5
Language
English
Description
The Civil War rages. The formidable Confederate army cannot match the Union's mastery of technology; railroads, supply lines and the telegram become new weapons in a modern war.
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Series
America The Story of Us volume 10
Language
English
Description
The attack on Pearl Harbor brings America into World War. The war effort revitalizes the nation's economy. American innovation and manufacturing might invigorate the Allies in Europe and in the Pacific.
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Series
America The Story of Us volume 7
Language
English
Description
Americans conquer a new frontier: the modern city, with Carnegie's empire of steel as its backbone. Skyscrapers and the Statue of Liberty are symbols of the American Dream for millions of immigrants.
Author
Series
America The Story of Us volume 8
Language
English
Description
America strikes oil and the boom time begins. Henry Ford brings the motorcar to the masses; the nation hits the road. Massive engineering projects modernize the West.
Author
Series
America The Story of Us volume 11
Language
English
Description
America becomes a global superpower; the economy and population boom. In the jet age and the space age, pioneers conquer new frontiers and run headlong into Cold War.
Author
Series
America The Story of Us volume 4
Language
English
Description
Commerce and industry thrive across the new nation, now one of the wealthiest on Earth. The Erie Canal brings big risk and bigger reward. In the South, cotton is king but slavery fuels a growing divide.
Author
Series
America The Story of Us volume 1
Language
English
Description
From Jamestown to Plymouth, early settlers fight for survival. Tobacco sows the seeds of opportunity; the north becomes a powerhouse of trade. Tension, taxation and resistance explode into war as the rebels take on the might of the British Empire.
Author
Series
America The Story of Us volume 6
Language
English
Description
The Transcontinental Railroad unites the nation and transforms the Heartland. Native American civilizations decline as farmers settle the continent.
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Series
America The Story of Us volume 12
Language
English
Description
The Cold War is the first test for the new superpower. The Challenger disaster and 9/11 are tragedies that challenge the nation. From the television to the credit card and the personal computer, technology drives America into the 21st Century.