The Blossom Sisters

Author : Fern Michaels
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 1420144405
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blossom Sisters written by Fern Michaels and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With its cast of . . . spunky, resourceful women, Michaels’ latest is sure to capture the hearts of its readers, even while tickling their funny bones.” —Booklist Gus Hollister owes all his success to his feisty grandmother, Rose, and her two sisters, Iris and Violet. They raised him, sent him to the best schools, and helped him start his own accounting business. Rose even bought the house Gus lives in with his wife, Elaine. Now, Gus stands to lose everything—his home, his car, and his business. Worse, he’s alienated his beloved grandma, who tried to warn him about Elaine’s greedy ways. Heartsick and remorseful, Gus returns to Rose’s Virginia farmhouse. But it won’t be easy to make amends. Yet family and forgiveness go hand in hand, and Gus isn’t giving up. Because no matter how daunting starting over can be, the results can surpass your wildest expectations—especially when the Blossom sisters are in your corner . . . “The Blossom Sisters will take you on quite a journey toward discovering what is important and the value of being trusted. Many of us have been blessed with grandparents and elderly relatives that have enriched our lives in so many ways. You will certainly be richer after meeting these cagey, smart, industrious and loving sisters.” —Fresh Fiction

Author : Zhuqing Li
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393541789
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War written by Zhuqing Li and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BookBrowse Best Nonfiction for Book Clubs in 2024 “Exceptional…[A] gripping narrative of one family divided by the ‘bamboo curtain.’” —Deirdre Mask, New York Times Book Review Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brought political revolution, violence, and a fractured national identity. By a quirk of timing, at the end of the Chinese Civil War, Jun ended up on an island under Nationalist control, and then settled in Taiwan, married a Nationalist general, and lived among fellow exiles at odds with everything the new Communist regime stood for on the mainland. Hong found herself an ocean away on the mainland, forced to publicly disavow both her own family background and her sister’s decision to abandon the party. A doctor by training, to overcome the suspicion created by her family circumstances, Hong endured two waves of “re-education” and internal exile, forced to work in some of the most desperately poor, remote areas of the country. Ambitious, determined, and resourceful, both women faced morally fraught decisions as they forged careers and families in the midst of political and social upheaval. Jun established one of U.S.-allied Taiwan’s most important trading companies. Hong became one of the most celebrated doctors in China, appearing on national media and honored for her dedication to medicine. Niece to both sisters, linguist and East Asian scholar Zhuqing Li tells her aunts’ story for the first time, honoring her family’s history with sympathy and grace. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden is a window into the lives of women in twentieth-century China, a time of traumatic change and unparalleled resilience. In this riveting and deeply personal account, Li confronts the bitter political rivals of mainland China and Taiwan with elegance and unique insight, while celebrating her aunts’ remarkable legacies.

Author : Betsy Byars
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480402699
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blossoms and the Green Phantom written by Betsy Byars and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ALA Notable Book for Children: “The Blossoms are totally real and believable, yet quirky enough to be fun” (School Library Journal). Junior Blossom has created the most spectacular invention of all time: a homemade UFO. The Green Phantom took all of the garbage bags and Day-Glo paint Junior could find, but now it requires one more very special ingredient. Although Junior needs help, his family seems too busy to notice. Then when Pap and his dog, Mud, don't come home from town, the Blossoms are pulled apart even farther. Are Pap and Mud in serious trouble? Can a Blossom promise bring everyone back together again? The strength of family love triumphs in this adventurous third title of the best-selling Blossom Family series by Newbery Medal–winning author Betsy Byars.

Author : V.C. Andrews
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476792410
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mirror Sisters written by V.C. Andrews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina (now Lifetime movies) comes the first book in a new series featuring identical twin sisters forced to act, look, and feel truly identical by a perfectionist mother. For fans of Ruth Ware (The Woman in Cabin 10) and Emma Donoghue (Room). Alike in every single way.... with one dark exception. As identical twins, their mother insists that everything about them be identical: their clothes, their toys, their friends . . . the number of letters in their names, Haylee Blossom Fitzgerald and Kaylee Blossom Fitzgerald. If one gets a hug, the other must too. If one gets punished, the other must be too. Homeschooled at an early age, when the girls attend a real high school they find little ways to highlight the differences between them. But when Haylee runs headfirst into the dating scene, both sisters are thrust into a world their mother never prepared them for—causing one twin to pursue the ultimate independence. The one difference between the two girls may spell the difference between life... and a fate worse than death. Written with the taboo-breaking, gothic atmosphere that V.C. Andrews is loved for, The Mirror Sisters is the latest in her long line of spellbinding novels about mysterious families and tormented love.

Author : Ann H. Gabhart
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 0800733819
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angel Sister written by Ann H. Gabhart and published by Revell. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author of historical fiction tells a story of hope and love in the face of desperate circumstances during the Great Depression.

Author : Fern Michaels
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 0821779559
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tuesday's Child written by Fern Michaels and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being falsely convicted more than ten years ago of murdering her wealthy patient, nurse Sophie Lee retreats to Georgia attorney Mikala Aulani's house and tries to evade the media frenzy that surrounds her.

Author : Tara Grace Ericson
Publisher : Silver Fountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9781949896282
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poppy's Proposal written by Tara Grace Ericson and published by Silver Fountain Press. This book was released on 2022-02-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She vowed he would never hurt her again. He hides his pain behind a campaign smile. Harrison Coulter is in the spotlight. Rumored to be the next candidate for governor, there is just one problem - the people won't elect the most eligible bachelor to the state's highest office. He needs a wife, but he isn't looking for love. There is one woman from his past though... Poppy Bloom has roots as deep as the produce she grows on Bloom's Farm. When her livelihood is threatened and she finds herself helpless to make a difference, Poppy agrees to a proposal she never saw coming. Old feelings blossom into something new, but their individual goals clash with the promises made to each other. How will God use this marriage that was strategized instead of starry-eyed to open them both to the power of love?

Author : Sarah McFarland Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674027108
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Green Sisters written by Sarah McFarland Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen to a short interview with Sarah McFarland TaylorHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneIt is perhaps the critical issue of our time: How can we, as human beings, find ethical and sustainable ways to live with one another and with other living beings on this planet? Inviting us into the world of green sisters, this book provides compelling answers from a variety of religious communities. Green sisters are environmentally active Catholic nuns who are working to heal the earth as they cultivate new forms of religious culture. Sarah Taylor approaches this world as an "intimate outsider." Neither Roman Catholic nor member of a religious order, she is a scholar well versed in both ethnography and American religious history who has also spent time shucking garlic and digging vegetable beds with the sisters. With her we encounter sisters in North America who are sod-busting the manicured lawns around their motherhouses to create community-supported organic gardens; building alternative housing structures and hermitages from renewable materials; adopting the "green" technology of composting toilets, solar panels, fluorescent lighting, and hybrid vehicles; and turning their community properties into land trusts with wildlife sanctuaries. Green Sisters gives us a firsthand understanding of the practice and experience of women whose lives bring together Catholicism and ecology, orthodoxy and activism, traditional theology and a passionate mission to save the planet. As green sisters explore ways of living a meaningful religious life in the face of increased cultural diversity and ecological crisis, their story offers hope for the future--and for a deeper understanding of the connections between women, religion, ecology, and culture.

Author : Jessica Spotswood
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698158466
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sisters' Fate written by Jessica Spotswood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning conclusion to the Cahill Witch Chronicles trilogy, for fans of Deborah Harkness's A Discovery of Witches series A fever ravages New London, but with the Brotherhood sending suspected witches straight to the gallows, the Sisters are powerless against the disease. They can’t help without revealing their powers—as Cate learns when a potent display of magic turns her into the most wanted witch in all of New England. To make matters worse, Cate has been erased from the memory of her beloved Finn. While she’s torn between protecting him from further attacks and encouraging him to fall for her all over again, she’s certain she can never forgive Maura’s betrayal. And now that Tess’s visions have taken a deadly turn, the prophecy that one Cahill sister will murder another looms ever closer to its fulfillment.

Author : Caroline Brickley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997782714
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Friendly Bookshelf written by Caroline Brickley and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Bibli, a brave little library bookshelf in search of a story about someone like him . . . Once upon a time, in a library like any other, there lived a little bookshelf named Bibli who carried a BIG question on his shelves: "Could there be a story somewhere about a bookshelf like me?" Bibli is told that bookshelves are supposed to hold stories, not have ones of their own. But everything changes when he meets Cassie, a girl longing for a friend just as much as Bibli longs for a story to relate to. Bibli learns that with kindness, confidence, empathy, and friendship, even your biggest dreams can come true--and that everyone has an important story worth sharing. The Friendly Bookshelf is a social-emotional learning (SEL) research-based book and the first-ever picture book about a bookshelf. Written to build self-confidence and self-esteem as well as encourage inclusivity, Bibli's story empowers children to be brave, be a friend, and always be your-shelf! Readers will be inspired to go beyond the final page of the book and share their own stories, as well as be the pioneers of a kinder, more inclusive world where everybody (and every bookshelf!) belongs.