The Runaway Daughter

Author : Joanna Rees
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447266757
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Runaway Daughter written by Joanna Rees and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Runaway Daughter by Joanna Rees is the first novel in A Stitch in Time – a sweeping historical trilogy. It’s 1926 and Anna Darton is on the run from a terrible crime she was forced into committing. Alone and scared in London, salvation comes in the form of Nancy, a sassy American dancer at the notorious nightclub, the Zip. Re-inventing herself as Vita Casey, Anna becomes part of the line-up and is thrown into a hedonistic world of dancing, parties, flapper girls and fashion. When she meets the dashing Archie Fenwick, Vita buries her guilty conscience and she believes him when he says he will love her no matter what. But unbeknown to Vita, her secret past is fast catching up with her, and when the people closest to her start getting hurt, she is forced to confront her past or risk losing everything she holds dear.

Author : Sandy Taylor
Publisher : Bookouture
ISBN 13 : 9781786812889
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Runaway Children: Gripping and Heartbreaking Historical Fiction written by Sandy Taylor and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a gripping and heartbreaking historical fiction about love, friendship and fight for survival during the war.

Author : Kathryn A. Sloan
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 082634478X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Runaway Daughters written by Kathryn A. Sloan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Oaxaca City, Kathryn Sloan analyzes rapto trials--cases of abduction and/or seduction of a minor--to gain insight beyond the actual crime and into the reality that testimonies by parents, their children, and witnesses reveal about courtship practices, generational conflict, the negotiation of honor, and the relationship between the state and its working-class citizens in post colonial Mexico. Unlike the colonial era where paternal rule was absolute, Sloan found that the state began to usurp parental authority in the home with the introduction of liberal reform laws. As these laws began to shape the terms of civil marriage, the courtroom played a more significant role in the resolution of familial power struggles and the restoration of family honor in rapto cases. Youths could now exert a measure of independence by asserting their rights to marry whom they wished. In examining these growing rifts between the liberal state and familial order within its lower order citizens, Sloan highlights the role that youths and the working class played in refashioning systems of marriage, honor, sexuality, parental authority, and filial obedience.

Author : Carissa Phelps
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101583703
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Runaway Girl written by Carissa Phelps and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Riveting . . . A genuinely important book that casts the problem of sex trafficking in America into stunning, heartbreaking relief.” (Kirkus Reviews) A School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Teens A Joan F. Kaywell Award Finalist from the Florida Council of Teachers of English Carissa Phelps was a runner. By the time she was twelve, she had run away from home, dropped out of school, and fled blindly into the arms of a brutal pimp. Even when she escaped him, she could not outrun the crushing inner pain of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. With little to hope for, she expected to end up in prison, or worse. But then her life was transformed through the unexpected kindness of a teacher and a counselor. Through small miracles, Carissa accomplished the unimaginable, graduating from UCLA with both a law degree and an MBA. She left the streets behind, yet found herself back, this time working to help homeless and at-risk youth discover their own paths to a better life. Like the multimillion-copy bestseller The Glass Castle, this memoir moves us through the power of its unflinching candor and generosity.

Author : Margaret Wise Brown
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060775823
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Runaway Bunny written by Margaret Wise Brown and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-01-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little bunny keeps runningaway from his mother in an imaginative and imaginary game of verbal hide-and-seek; children will be profoundly comforted by this lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time. The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed become a classic. Generations of readers have fallen in love with the gentle magic of its reassuring words and loving pictures.

Author : Anna DeStefano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Runaway Daughter written by Anna DeStefano and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Debra Gwartney
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 054734788X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Live Through This written by Debra Gwartney and published by HMH. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “achingly beautiful” memoir about a mother’s mission to rescue her two teenage daughters from the streets and bring them back home (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). After a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves with her four young daughters to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her family. But the two oldest, fourteen-year-old Amanda and thirteen-year-old Stephanie, blame their mother for what happened, and one day the two run off together—to the streets of their own city, then San Francisco, then nowhere to be found. The harrowing subculture of the American runaway, with its random violence, its dangerous street drugs, and its patchwork of hidden shelters, is captured with brilliant intensity in Live Through This as this panicked mother sets out to find her girls—examining her own mistakes and hoping against hope to bring them home and become a family again, united by forgiveness and love. “For all the raw power of this true story and the fearless honesty of the voice telling it, what sticks out for me is the literary craft that shapes every sentence. Debra Gwartney has seen clear to the bottom of her experience, purged it of self-righteousness, and emerged with a stunningly humane and humbled awareness of life’s troubles” —Phillip Lopate

Author : Anna DeStefano
Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Superromance 90s
ISBN 13 : 9780373780747
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Runaway Daughter written by Anna DeStefano and published by Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Superromance 90s. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Runaway Daughter by Anna DeStefano released on Feb 14, 2006 is available now for purchase.

Author : Lauri Robinson
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1460385977
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Runaway Daughter written by Lauri Robinson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From stowaway… After years of playing the local gin joint to pay off his father's debts, talented musician Brock Ness has landed a radio gig in Chicago. Now he's on the up-and-up, his next stop is securing the dame of his dreams, Ginger Nightingale… …to Chicago celebrity! If Brock is headed for fortune and fame, Ginger won't be left behind! She may be the youngest of the Nightingale sisters, but she's old enough to know what she wants. And Brock is right at the top of her wish list! Daughters of the Roaring Twenties Their hair is short and their skirts are even shorter!

Author : Karen English
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338676075
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Shoes written by Karen English and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red shoes glowing--Perched on a pedestal in the shop windowas if on a throne."I want those, Nana," Malika says, as they pass the shop."We'll see," Nana says with a wink. "Looks like you could use a new pair." Malika is delighted when Nana surprises her with a beautiful new pair of red shoes! And with a click-clack-click and a swish, swish, swish, Malika wears her wonderful new shoes everywhere she goes. But one day, the shoes begin to pinch Malika's toes. And alas, they don't let her forget that her feet have grown! Soon Malika and Nana are off to the Rare Finds Resale Shop, where the shoes can be resold -- so somebody else can enjoy them!Who will be the next to wear the red shoes? Malika wonders.Then Inna Ziya buys the shoes, and readers follow the shoes all the way across the world to Ghana in Africa, where Amina, another little girl, who has fasted her first time for Ramadan is about to get an amazing gift!Karen English and Ebony Glenn have crafted a satisfying and heartwarming story about a pair of shoes, two girls, and a connection they share across continents.