Alices Girls

Author : Julia Stoneham
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 0749012935
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice's Girls written by Julia Stoneham and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1945 and the war is drawing to a close. For three years, the land girls at Post Stone Farm have worked together, defying Hitler in their own way. They have witnessed love and loss, found their independence, and made lifetime friends. Her years as warden of a Land Army hostel have transformed Alice Todd's life. From damaged, deserted wife, she has emerged self-confident and ambitious. With peacetime approaching, she must now decide on her future - and decide if it includes Roger Bayliss, the enigmatic farm owner to whom she is increasingly drawn. In this moving installment of the incredibly popular land girls series, Alice and her charges come to terms with life after the war.

Author : Alice Hoffman
Publisher : Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
ISBN 13 : 9780099283980
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local Girls written by Alice Hoffman and published by Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told from Gretel Samuelson's sly and knowing perspective, Local Girls charts her progress as she navigates from childhood to the brink of womanhood, picking her way though the tragedies and absurdities of everyday life in a family which is rocked by divorce and disaster, bad judgement and fierce attachments. Her father has left them, her chain-smoking mother, Franny, is falling apart and refuses to learn the simple lessons of life, her perfect brother has fatal flaws, and even her best friend Jill - blonde, enviable and beautiful - is moving too fast into the unfathomable world of women.

Author : Alice Clark-Platts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526602121
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flower Girls written by Alice Clark-Platts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Enjoyably twisty ... with a killer ending' i 'I couldn't put it down' Sophie Hannah It's been nineteen years since ten-year-old Laurel was given a life sentence and six-year-old Rosie was given a new identity. The sisters were the very picture of innocence: two little girls who loved to listen to their mother's bedtime stories and play make-believe in the garden. But then an act of unparalleled horror tears their family apart, leaving Laurel behind bars and Rosie moved to a different part of the country. Neither sister has laid eyes on the other since then, during which time their lives have followed very different paths. But now – with Laurel coming up for parole – they look set to be reunited in court, and the world will be watching...

Author : Mary Alice Monroe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476758832
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Summer Girls written by Mary Alice Monroe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2013 by Gallery Books. Reprinted in paperback 2014 with a readers group guide and an excerpt from the author's forthcoming novel: The Summer Wind, book two in the Lowcountry Summer trilogy.

Author : Alice Bolin
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006265716X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Girls written by Alice Bolin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 An Edgar Award nominee for best critical / biographical Best of 2018 according to Kirkus, The Boston Globe,The New York Times, The Portland Mercury, Bustle, Thrillist, and Electric Lit A New York Times Editor's Choice, a best of summer 2018 according to Bitch Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, The Millions, Esquire, Refinery29, Nylon, PopSugar, The Chicago Tribune, Book Riot, and CrimeReads In this poignant collection, Alice Bolin examines iconic American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, illuminating the widespread obsession with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised, and whose bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster men’s stories. Smart and accessible, thoughtful and heartfelt, Bolin investigates the implications of our cultural fixations, and her own role as a consumer and creator. Bolin chronicles her life in Los Angeles, dissects the Noir, revisits her own coming of age, and analyzes stories of witches and werewolves, both appreciating and challenging the narratives we construct and absorb every day. Dead Girls begins by exploring the trope of dead women in fiction, and ends by interrogating the more complex dilemma of living women – both the persistent injustices they suffer and the oppression that white women help perpetrate. Reminiscent of the piercing insight of Rebecca Solnit and the critical skill of Hilton Als, Bolin constructs a sharp, perceptive, and revelatory dialogue on the portrayal of women in media and their roles in our culture.

Author : Barry G.
Publisher : BM Goodwin
ISBN 13 : 1005733821
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East End Alice, A Victorian Girls Escape From Sin written by Barry G. and published by BM Goodwin. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East End of London, Victorian London 1884. The crowded tenements, the poor standard of living, the diseases, the crime and the vice are all inhabitants of this darkest of places, yet people here are not insular nor vying to be better than their neighbour’s. This is an environment where everyone looks out for one another, where despite poverty, friendship is watchword and this is the world in which twelve-year-old Alice Kettle sweeps her street crossing, keeping it clear for people to cross the road without the detritus of Victorian traffic fouling their person. A job she does to earn pennies to help support her mother’s family through these hard times. Alice however is an unsuspecting target for that most foul of purveyors of human flesh, the purchasers of young girls who take them from their homes and then force them to work in the high class brothels which are mostly frequented by the moneyed classes. Charlie Atkin has Alice in his sights and he sets his devious plans into action in order to make a pretty penny from the appropriation of Alice, this despite the efforts of the Social Sisters movement to change the laws on the current age of consent and prostitution in general.A book that follows Alice through the trials that await her as her life is suddenly turned on her head. Will she escape her fate?

Author : Amanda Kennell
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824896874
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice in Japanese Wonderlands written by Amanda Kennell and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first translations of Lewis Carroll's Alice books appeared in Japan in 1899, Alice has found her way into nearly every facet of Japanese life and popular culture. The books have been translated into Japanese more than 500 times, resulting in more editions of these works in Japanese than any other language except English. Generations of Japanese children learned English from textbooks containing Alice excerpts. Japan's internationally famous fashion vogue, Lolita, merges Alice with French Rococo style. In Japan Alice is everywhere--in manga, literature, fine art, live-action film and television shows, anime, video games, clothing, restaurants, and household goods consumed by people of all ages and genders. In Alice in Japanese Wonderlands, Amanda Kennell traverses the breadth of Alice's Japanese media environment, starting in 1899 and continuing through 60s psychedelia and 70s intellectual fads to the present, showing how a set of nineteenth-century British children's books became a vital element in Japanese popular culture. Using Japan's myriad adaptations to investigate how this modern media landscape developed, Kennell reveals how Alice connects different fields of cultural production and builds cohesion out of otherwise disparate media, artists, and consumers. The first sustained examination of Japanese Alice adaptations, her work probes the meaning of Alice in Wonderland as it was adapted by a cast of characters that includes the "father of the Japanese short story," Ryūnosuke Akutagawa; the renowned pop artist Yayoi Kusama; and the best-selling manga collective CLAMP. While some may deride adaptive activities as mere copying, the form Alice takes in Japan today clearly reflects domestic considerations and creativity, not the desire to imitate. By engaging with studies of adaptation, literature, film, media, and popular culture, Kennell uses Japan's proliferation of Alices to explore both Alice and the Japanese media environment.

Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814556
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of Girls and Women written by Alice Munro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut novel from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (The New York Times). “Munro has an unerring talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary.”—Newsweek Rural Ontario, 1940s. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father’s fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women—her mother, an agnostic, opinionated woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother’s boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence. Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro’s unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.

Author : Alice Mabel Bacon
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Chronicles: Bacon, Mill, Hemingway (Japanese Girls and Women by Alice Mabel Bacon/ The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill/ Men without women by Ernest Hemingway) written by Alice Mabel Bacon and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-22 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1: Explore the nuances of Japanese culture with “ Japanese Girls and Women by Alice Mabel Bacon .” Alice Mabel Bacon provides insightful observations on the lives, customs, and experiences of Japanese girls and women. Delve into the rich tapestry of Japanese society, as Bacon sheds light on the roles, traditions, and aspirations of women in Japan during her time. Book 2: Engage with the philosophical discourse on gender equality in “ The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill .” John Stuart Mill's groundbreaking work advocates for the liberation of women from social and legal inequalities. Through compelling arguments, Mill challenges prevailing notions and advocates for the recognition of women's rights, making a lasting impact on the discourse surrounding gender equality. Book 3: Peer into the complexities of human relationships with “ Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway .” Ernest Hemingway's collection of short stories delves into the lives of men navigating love, loss, and solitude. Through his distinctive prose, Hemingway captures the essence of masculinity and the intricacies of interpersonal connections, offering poignant insights into the human condition.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410351327
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.