Bookshop On Jacaranda Street

Author : Marlish Glorie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921361449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Bookshop on Jacaranda Street written by Marlish Glorie and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meet the Budd-Doyles: a suburban family in shambles, and about to unravel further as Helen Budd-Doyle in one fell swoop destroys her bed, abandons the family home, and buys a second-hand bookshop form a man in a pub ? leaving her bewildered junk-collecting husband Arnold to sort out his life. But he can't. Enter Gabriel, one of their sons, wreaking havoc as he pushes his father to sell off the accrued junk of a lifetime. Add a little sibling rivalry with his brother Vivian fresh home and licking his wounds from a life in far north... and watch the fireworks on Jacaranda Street."--Back cover.

Author : MARLISH. GLORIE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525215940
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book BOOKSHOP ON JACARANDA STREET. written by MARLISH. GLORIE and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marlish Glorie
Publisher : Fremantle Press
ISBN 13 : 176099250X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Bookshop on Jacaranda Street written by Marlish Glorie and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2023-02-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen can' t sleep. Her husband' s hoarding tendencies have taken over not only their house, but their marriage too, and she needs out. In a moment of desperation, Helen burns her bed, and leaves. Seeking to rediscover herself, she rather spontaneously seizes the opportunity to buy a run-down secondhand bookstore. But when her two adult sons unexpectedly return home with their own problems, Helen' s attempt to turn her life into something out of a literary novel starts to look like more of a comedy of errors. As quirky characters browse the shelves of The Book Maze, and relationships are put to the test, Helen fights to write her own happy ending to her story.

Author : Anni Domingo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643139274
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Breaking the Maafa Chain written by Anni Domingo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly imagined story of two sisters' struggle for true freedom in the mid-nineteenth century as their paths diverge in the middle passage—one to the court of Queen Victoria, the other to an American plantation. Salimatu and her sister Fatmata are captured, sold to slavers, renamed and split apart. Forced to change their names to Sarah and Faith, they end up on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Faith is taken to America, where slavery is still legal and she is stripped of all rights. Sarah ends up in a Victorian England and as the goddaughter of Queen Victoria. Can the two sisters reclaim their freedom and identity in a world that is trying to break them down? Will these once inseparable sisters survive without each other? And if they do find each other again, will they find the other changed beyond recognition? Based on the true story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Breaking the Maafa Chain is by turns epic and intimate and will take the readers on a journey of loss, survival, and hope.

Author : Maame Blue
Publisher : Twenty in 2020
ISBN 13 : 9781913090180
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Bad Love written by Maame Blue and published by Twenty in 2020. This book was released on 2020 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #TwentyIn2020 romance Bad Love is the story of London born Ghanaian Ekuah Danquah and her tumultuous experience with first love. Marked by this experience, she finds herself at a crossroads - can she fall in love again, or does the siren song of her first love still call?

Author : Dannika Patterson
Publisher : Ford Street Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781925804010
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Jacaranda Magic written by Dannika Patterson and published by Ford Street Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five friends are feeling bored on a hot sticky day. Just when they think theyll never find anything fun to place, a simple gust of wind changes everything Jacaranda Magic is a unique rhyming picture book that celebrates imaginative play and highlights the value of boredom and nature in inspiring creativity.

Author : Shola von Reinhold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478018728
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Lote written by Shola von Reinhold and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shola von Reinhold's decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics and beauty, while interrogating the removal and obscuring of Black figures from history.

Author : Bernice L. McFadden
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617754544
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Book of Harlan written by Bernice L. McFadden and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernice L. McFadden has been named the Go On Girl! Book Club's 2018 Author of the Year WINNER of the 2017 American Book Award WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee (Fiction)! A Washington Post Notable Book of 2016 "McFadden uses the experiences of her own ancestors as loose inspiration for the life of Harlan, whom she portrays from his childhood in Harlem through imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and his struggles afterward to put his life back together." --Library Journal "Simply miraculous...As her saga becomes ever more spellbinding, so does the reader's astonishment at the magic she creates. This is a story about the triumph of the human spirit over bigotry, intolerance and cruelty, and at the center of The Book of Harlan is the restorative force that is music." --Washington Post "Bernice L. McFadden took me on a melodious literary journey through time and place in her masterpiece, The Book of Harlan. It's complex, real, and raw...McFadden intricately and purposefully weaves history as a backdrop in her fiction. The Book of Harlan brilliantly explores questions about agency, purpose, freedom, and survival." --Literary Hub, one of Nicole Dennis-Benn's 26 Books From the Last Decade that More People Should Read "McFadden's writing breaks the heart--and then heals it again. The perspective of a black man in a concentration camp is unique and harrowing and this is a riveting, worthwhile read." --Toronto Star "The Book of Harlan is an incredible read. Bernice McFadden...has created an amazing novel that speaks to lesser known aspects of the African-American experience and illuminates the human heart and spirit. Her spare prose is rich in details that convey deep emotions and draw the reader in. This fictional narrative of Harlan Elliot's life is firmly grounded amidst real people and places--prime historical fiction, and the best book I have read this year." --Historical Novels Review, Editors' Choice "McFadden packs a powerful punch with tight prose and short chapters that bear witness to key events in early twentieth-century history: both World Wars, the Great Depression, and the Great Migration. Partly set in the Jim Crow South, the novel succeeds in showing the prevalence of racism all across the country--whether implemented through institutionalized mechanisms or otherwise. Playing with themes of divine justice and the suffering of the righteous, McFadden presents a remarkably crisp portrait of one average man's extraordinary bravery in the face of pure evil." --Booklist, Starred review The Book of Harlan opens with the courtship of Harlan's parents and his 1917 birth in Macon, Georgia. After his prominent minister grandfather dies, Harlan and his parents move to Harlem, where he eventually becomes a professional musician. When Harlan and his best friend, trumpeter Lizard Robbins, are invited to perform at a popular cabaret in the Parisian enclave of Montmartre--affectionately referred to as "The Harlem of Paris" by black American musicians--Harlan jumps at the opportunity, convincing Lizard to join him. But after the City of Light falls under Nazi occupation, Harlan and Lizard are thrown into Buchenwald--the notorious concentration camp in Weimar, Germany--irreparably changing the course of Harlan's life. Based on exhaustive research and told in McFadden's mesmeric prose, The Book of Harlan skillfully blends the stories of McFadden's familial ancestors with those of real and imagined characters.

Author : Sahar Delijani
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476709092
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Children of the Jacaranda Tree written by Sahar Delijani and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning debut novel set in post-revolutionary Iran that gives voice to the men, women, and children who won a war only to find their livesNand those of their descendantsNimperiled by its aftermath.

Author : Sherrill M Joseph
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947392588
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Nutmeg Street written by Sherrill M Joseph and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids, ages 9 to 12, get ready to meet your new heroes in the exciting first book of the Botanic Hill Detectives Mysteries series! World-famous Egyptologist Dr. Winston Thornsley died suddenly two months ago in disgrace. His widow, Ida Thornsley, remains convinced her husband was falsely accused of stealing an ancient burial urn he discovered in Egypt last summer, but local and federal law enforcement officers are stumped. Mrs. Thornsley, desperate for answers, calls in her thirteen-year-old neighbors, the Botanic Hill Detectives--twins Lanny and Lexi Wyatt, Moki Kalani, and Rani Kumar. Their exciting mission? To find the urn and its real thief, bring the criminal to justice, and exonerate Dr. Thornsley so his spotless reputation can be restored. A roomful of venomous snakes, the poisoned Egyptian pond, and Dragon Pit Man are just a few of the tests awaiting the four tech-savvy teenagers. As the detectives begin to unravel the sinister plot, the mystery takes a dangerous turn. Answers are at their fingertips--if they can only convince their parents to let them solve the case.