Frances And Bernard

Author : Carlene Bauer
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547858256
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frances and Bernard written by Carlene Bauer and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “dazzling and gorgeously written” novel of art, faith, and life-changing friendship inspired by the correspondence of Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell (Ann Packer). In the summer of 1957, two writers are immersed in their craft at an artist’s colony nestled in upstate New York when chance brings them together. Frances, a country northerner, as committed to her solitude as she is her faith, and Bernard, a gregarious Bostonian with a propensity towards mania and grand gestures, find themselves forming a friendship, and then a courtship, as they each discover a kindred spirit beneath the obvious differences between them. But, as they become inexorably entwined in each other’s lives, they struggle with the dependence of their romance and the conflict it causes with their own dreams. Inspired by the lives of Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell, who formed an unlikely connection after meeting at Yaddo in the late fifties, and told in a series of intimate letters between the protagonists, Frances and Bernard is a touching and bittersweet look at what happens when love, desire, hope, faith, and friendship collide. “Recalling 20th-century masters like Graham Greene and Walker Percy . . . Bauer is herself a distinctive stylist who can write about Simone Weil or Kierkegaard with wit and charm.” —The New York Times Book Review “Engrossing . . . Funny, sweet and sad. A lovely surprise.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “A novel of stunning subtlety, grace, and depth . . . compos[ed in] dueling letters of breathtaking wit, seduction, and heartbreak.” —Booklist, starred review

Author : Bernard Ashley
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 1907666532
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aftershock written by Bernard Ashley and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makis and his mother Sofia escape a devastating Greek earthquake which has claimed his father's life. They move to North London and at first it is hard, especially at school, but being a gifted footballer, Makis slowly begins to fit in. But through no fault of his own, Makis lets down his team at an important match and the whole school, even the teachers, seem to turn against him. Praise for Angel Boy: "Ashley excels at tautly-potted, timely and highly topical thrillers which pack a real emotional punch." - Rivetting Reads "This perfectly plotted thriller." - Bookseller

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113400298X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Bernard Williams written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Kraus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1682998355
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Saint Bernard written by Jim Kraus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Gibson is determined to check off the last item on his bucket list: a trip across America. He hops in his RV to visit - and sketch - the buildings and places across America that he and his wife never got to see. When his daughter learns of a young boy forced to give up a beloved Saint Bernard named Lewis, she suggests George adopt the animal as a traveling companion. The dog even fits perfectly in the sidecar of George's Vespa motor scooter. As George warms to his travel mate, he begins talking to Lewis, sharing stories from his life and his unrealized dreams. Along the way, Lewis seems to attract people and make instant friends with the quirky and charming, funny and odd people who cross their path. Could it be that his new friends - and this strange dog - will help George to finally confront the secret he's been hiding? Can Lewis's devotion to the truth be enough to save George from himself?

Author : Niki Daly
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781847804280
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No More Kisses for Bernard! written by Niki Daly and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone loves Bernard! Especially his four 'kissy' aunts who plaster him with kisses. How much more can a boy take?

Author : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fair Barbarian written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carlene Bauer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374718598
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girls They Write Songs About written by Carlene Bauer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Yorker Best Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice A Must-Read at People, Entertainment Weekly, Nylon, and LitHub “Stylish, reckless . . . Glittering.” —Molly Young, The New York Times A power ballad to female friendship, Girls They Write Songs About is a thrumming, searching novel about the bonds that shape us more than any love affair. We moved to New York to want undisturbed and unchecked. And what did we want? New York, 1997. As the city’s gritty edges are being smoothed into something safer and shinier, two aspiring writers meet at a music magazine. Rose—brash and self-possessed—is a staff writer. Charlotte—hesitant, bookish—is an editor. First wary, then slowly admiring, they recognize in each other an insatiable and previously unmatched ambition. Soon they’re inseparable, falling into the kind of friendship that makes every day an adventure, and makes you believe that you will, of course, achieve extraordinary things. Together, Charlotte and Rose find love and lose it; they hit their strides and stumble; they make choices and live past them. They say to each other, “Don’t ever leave me.” It’s their favorite joke, but they know that they could never say a truer thing. But then the steady beats of their sisterhood fall out of sync. They have seen each other through so much—marriage, motherhood, divorce, career glories and catastrophes, a million small but necessary choices. What will it mean if they have to give up dreaming together? That the friendship that once made them sing out now shuts them down? And even if they can reconcile themselves to the lives they’ve chosen, can they make peace with the ones they didn’t? As smart and comic as it is gloriously exuberant, Carlene Bauer’s Girls They Write Songs About takes a timeless story and turns it into a pulsing, wrecking, clear-eyed tale of two women reckoning with the loss of the friendship that helped define them, and the countless ways all the women they’ve known have made them who they are.

Author : Amy Bess Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Santa Fe Love Song written by Amy Bess Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard is torn between two loves---his new home in Santa Fe and a woman who lives in Philadelphia. How will he resolve the conflict? As a young Jewish immigrant new to America in the 1850s, he finally felt at home after traveling the Santa Fe Trail and settling in Santa Fe with his older brother. His travels across America introduced him to his new nation and challenged his sense of himself and what it meant to be a man. But then he met Frances while traveling back east. Could he convince her to leave the comforts of a big city, a large Jewish community, and her family? And if he did, would she be happy? Bernard and Frances are characters inspired by real people, the author's great-great-grandparents. and their story is based on her research of their times and their lives.

Author : Donald Kladstrup
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767913256
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wine and War written by Donald Kladstrup and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-06-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable untold story of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II. "To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine." –Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour d’Argent In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the tale of their extraordinary efforts has remained largely unknown–until now. This is the thrilling and harrowing story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious, daring measures to save their cherished crops and bottles as the Germans closed in on them. Wine and War illuminates a compelling, little-known chapter of history, and stands as a tribute to extraordinary individuals who waged a battle that, in a very real way, saved the spirit of France.

Author : Bernard B. Fall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780811709040
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Reflections on a War written by Bernard B. Fall and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard B Fall was 40 years old when he was killed by a booby trap in northern South Vietnam on February 21, 1967. By the time of his death he had already authored seven books on Vietnam. This book, first published shortly after Dr Fall's death, is a tribute to his life's work. It contains the only known autobiographical account of his life, several previously unpublished articles, notes for 'Street Without Joy Revisited', and transcripts of Dr Fall's tape recordings, including his last recorded words.