A Star For Mrs Blake

Author : April Smith
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 030795885X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Star for Mrs. Blake written by April Smith and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally charged, brilliantly realized novel, April Smith breathes life into a unique moment in American history, imagining the experience of five of these women. They are strangers at the start, but their lives will become inextricably intertwined, altered in indelible ways. These very different Gold Star Mothers travel to the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery to say final good-byes to their sons and come together along the way to face the unexpected: a death, a scandal, and a secret revealed. None of these pilgrims will be as affected as Cora Blake, who has lived almost her entire life in a small fishing village off the coast of Maine, caring for her late sister’s three daughters, hoping to fill the void left by the death of her son, Sammy, who was killed on a scouting mission during the final days of the war. Cora believes she is managing as well as can be expected in the midst of the Depression, but nothing has prepared her for what lies ahead on this unpredictable journey, including an extraordinary encounter with an expatriate American journalist, Griffin Reed, who was wounded in the trenches and hides behind a metal mask, one of hundreds of “tin noses” who became symbols of the war. With expert storytelling, memorable characters, and beautiful prose, April Smith gives us a timeless story, by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, set against a footnote of history––little known, yet unforgettable. This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.

Author : April Smith
Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780307958846
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Star for Mrs. Blake written by April Smith and published by Alfred a Knopf Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meeting for the first time for a shared pilgrimage to France to visit the graves of their World War I soldier sons, an Irish maid, a chicken farmer's wife, a Boston socialite, a former tennis star and a librarian meet a brutally scarred journalist before confronting a shocking secret set against a lesser-known historical event. By the author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey series.

Author : April Smith
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307948803
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Star for Mrs. Blake written by April Smith and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotionally charged historical novel based on the Gold Star Mothers. Cora Blake never dreamed she’d go to Paris. She’s hardly ever left the small fishing village where she grew up. Yet in the summer of 1931, she is invited to travel to France with hundreds of other Gold Star Mothers, courtesy of the U.S. government, to say goodbye to their fallen sons, American casualties of World War I who were buried overseas. Chaperoned by a dashing West Point officer, Cora’s group includes the wife of an immigrant chicken farmer; a housemaid; a socialite; a former tennis star in precarious mental health; and dozens of other women from all over the country. Along the way, the women will forge lifelong friendships as they face a death, a scandal, and a secret revealed.

Author : Mrs. Newton Crosland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Blake written by Mrs. Newton Crosland and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Quentin Blake
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099434245
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs Armitage Queen of the Road written by Quentin Blake and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the car her uncle gave her loses parts all over the road, Mrs. Armitage takes it in stride, but a gang of friendly motorcyclists is impressed with the results.

Author : Marvin V. Blake
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1634179307
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book WHY written by Marvin V. Blake and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “WHY”, is an epic story, 1838 – 1863, chronicling the lives of two sisters, one white, the other black, both born in 1847, three days apart, on Virginia’s wealthy Rosewood Plantation. The white sister is the child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Billings, Master and Mistress of Rosewood, one of the richest cotton plantations in the state of Virginia. The black girl is the issue of the mating of Henry Billings, the Master of the Rosewood Plantation, and one of his female black slaves. While growing up together, one a slave the other her mistress, in the slave holding antebellum South, sharing many childhood experiences, the girls are forced to adhere to the harsh rules, and laws that separate white from black. Henry and Margaret Billings, Master and Mistress of the plantation, hire a recent college graduate, Miss Eleanor Leary, a young progressive, Irish immigrant, to tutor their children, Rebecca and her brother, Jesse Despite her fear of breaking the laws that prohibit the teaching of slaves to read and write, Eleanor, at Rebecca’s request, decides to include the black slave girl Mandy in their sessions. A whole new world is opened for Mandy. Through the teachings and the eyes of the white teacher, Mandy slowly, gradually, discards her insidious, lifelong feelings of racial inferiority, and self-loathing. Feelings and assumptions that Mandy had harbored and accepted from birth were now being replaced by developing feelings of racial pride and personal self-esteem. The novel examines three co-existing 19th century American Cultures. The privileged world of the South’s antebellum slave holding, White Planter Society; The oppressed communities of the black slaves; and the noble, nomadic hunter-gatherer society of the plains Indians. The turbulent events of this time in American History, results in the two sisters finding themselves living in, and experiencing the three cultures, and one sister is forced to choose between her life-long love for her sibling, or the love that develops between her and a Comanche Warrior.

Author : Philip Pullman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 133816659X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of John Blake written by Philip Pullman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable graphic novel of time travel and adventure on the high seas from the #1 international bestselling author of the His Dark Materials series. Trapped in the mists of time by a terrible research experiment gone wrong, John Blake and his mysterious ship are doomed to sail between the centuries, searching for a way home. In the ocean of the modern day, John rescues a shipwrecked young girl his own age, Serena, and promises to help. But returning Serena to her own time means traveling to the one place where the ship is in most danger of destruction. The all-powerful Dahlberg Corporation has an ambitious leader with plans far greater and more terrible than anyone has realized, and he is hot on their trail. For only John, Serena, and the crew know Dahlberg’s true intentions, and only they have the power to stop him from bending the world to his will . . . Praise for The Adventures of John Blake “With obvious affection for Tintin, Pullman threads this complicated skein of plot with customary measures of awe and menace . . . he proves an expert visual storyteller. Fordham animates with characters who have the detail and agility of a Studio Ghibli cast . . . Anything new from Pullman is big news, and his first original graphic novel won’t disappoint.” —Booklist, starred review “The various plot threads coalesce into a powerful tale, with the artwork creating a soaring, cinematic feel. A modern seafaring epic, highly recommended for all Pullman and fantasy fans and more than worthy of its author’s oeuvre.” —School Library Journal, starred review “Purloined technology, time travelers, ghost ships, and deception converge in this graphic page-turner . . . A richly imagined high-octane thriller.” —Kirkus Reviews “The graphic novel format lets Pullman’s . . . dialogue shine, and Fordham’s lucid panels are strong, legible, and charged with energy.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Mrs. Newton Crosland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Blake written by Mrs. Newton Crosland and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Camilla Crosland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Blake written by Camilla Crosland and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Camilla Crosland (formerly Toulmin.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Blake; a story of twenty years written by Camilla Crosland (formerly Toulmin.) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: