Young Jane Young

Author : Gabrielle Zevin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735234396
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Jane Young written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the international bestseller The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry: Named a Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction of 2017 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Chatelaine Best Fall Reads pick #1 on the August Library Reads list An Entertainment Weekly’s “13 Books to Read in August” An Amazon’s “Best Books of the Month” for August A Barnes & Noble “August’s Best New Fiction” pick #3 on the September Indie Next List Aviva Grossman is a bright, ambitious congressional intern with a promising political future ahead of her until she makes the mistake of having an affair with her very married boss … and writing what she thinks is an anonymous blog about it. When the affair dramatically comes to light, it’s not the popular congressman who takes the fall, it’s Aviva—and her life suddenly seems over before it’s hardly begun. Slut-shamed and hounded by the media, she becomes a late-night talk show punchline. Determined to rebuild her life on her own terms, Aviva changes her name, moves from Florida to a small town in Maine, starts her own wedding planning business … and decides to continue a surprise pregnancy. But when “Jane” decides to run for public office, that long-ago mistake—an inescapable scarlet A—trails her via the Internet, threatening to derail her life yet again. It’s only a matter of time until her daughter finds out who her mother once was—and is forced to reconcile that person with the one she thinks she knows … Young Jane Young is a smart, funny, and extremely timely novel which exposes the myriad ways we shame, forgive, and love one another. Just as she did in The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, the superbly talented Gabrielle Zevin has created a cast of unforgettable characters: an ambitious yet naive twenty-something, a mother attempting to steer her daughter through a judgmental world, a veteran political wife facing the hard truth that fidelity isn’t always rewarded, and a young girl who feels bold about her choices before she realizes the restrictions all around her. Not only does Zevin skewer the inherent double standards in women’s everyday lives, she also explores the true meaning of resilience—and, ultimately, forgiveness.

Author : Gabrielle Zevin
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616208694
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Jane Young written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÒSLY, EXHILARATING . . . HILARIOUS.Ó ÑPeople (Book of the Week) Ê This is the story of five women . . . Ê Meet Rachel Grossman. SheÕll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything. Ê Meet Jane Young. SheÕs disrupting a quiet life with her daughter, Ruby, to seek political office for the first time. Ê Meet Ruby Young. She thinks her mom has a secret. SheÕs right. Ê Meet Embeth Levin. SheÕs made a career of cleaning up her congressman husbandÕs messes.Ê Ê Meet Aviva Grossman. The Internet wonÕt let her or anyone else forget her past transgressions.Ê Ê This is the story of five women . . . . . . and theÊsex scandal that binds them together.Ê Ê From Gabrielle Zevin, the bestselling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, comes another story with unforgettable characters that is particularly suited to the times we live in now . . . Ê

Author : Jane Hamilton
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400096995
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Madeline Was Young written by Jane Hamilton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World brings us a rich and loving novel about a non-traditional family in the aftermath of a terrible accident.When Aaron Maciver’s beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers a head injury in a bicycle crash, she is left with the mental capabilities of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own. Inspired in part by Elizabeth Spencer’s Light in the Piazza, Hamilton offers an honest and exquisite portrait of how a family tragedy forever shapes the boundaries of love.

Author : Jane Rule
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480479209
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Young in One Another's Arms written by Jane Rule and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning novel of lesbian identity and camaraderie amid violence and war Ruth Wheeler is the one-armed caretaker of a motley crew of boarders living in her rooming house in Vancouver, British Columbia. The miscreants and outcasts in residence include a sexually confused academic, a one-time-dope-addict-turned-law-student, a high-minded deserter of the Vietnam War, a socially conscious female radical, and a gay man on the run from the cops. Despite personal differences and a turbulent outside world teeming with police brutality, the renters’ affection for one another grows and they form a progressive and idealistic “chosen family.” However, Ruth’s devoted and assimilative spirit is put to the test when her property is slotted to be destroyed by developers. The household packs up and sails to Galiano Island, where they establish a new home, start a business, and strive to overcome the initial antipathy of their neighbors. They even decide to collectively raise a baby born from an unwanted pregnancy. Winner of the 1978 Canadian Authors Association Best Novel of the Year Award, The Young in One Another’s Arms stands as one of the most sophisticated portrayals of an alternative model for domestic life.

Author : Jane H. Hunter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300092636
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Young Ladies Became Girls written by Jane H. Hunter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There they competed for grades and honor directly against male classmates. Before and after school they joined a public world beyond adult supervision - strolling city streets, flagging down male friends, visiting soda foundations." "Over the long term, their school experiences as "girls" foreshadowed both the turn-of-the-century emergence of the independent "New Women" and the birth of adolescence itself."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jane Ridley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Young Disraeli written by Jane Ridley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Disraeli's personal and public lives which draws on his letters and his neglected early novels. It tells of his youth in Bloomsbury, and his novel "Vivian Grey" which catapulted him to precocious fame and infamy.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480423351
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast written by Jane Yolen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVBefore Atalanta became a Greek legend, she encountered a beast . . ./divDIV Abandoned by her parents and raised by bears until the age of four, Atalanta has led a life of adventure. After her adoptive father is slain by a ferocious beast, the twelve-year-old Atalanta sets off on a journey of revenge, accompanied by the bear she treats as a brother. She discovers that a monster is terrorizing the land of Arcadia and that the king has assembled a party to track it down—led by the legendary huntsman Orion. Atalanta wins a place at Orion’s side, but the hunt for the beast is also a hunt to uncover the secret of her own past. And that may prove to be the greatest danger of all./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features personal histories by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris including rare images from the authors’ personal collections, as well as a timeline of the Heroic Age and a conversation between the two authors about the making of the series./div/div

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544201205
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passager written by Jane Yolen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary wizard’s early years are explored in this magical adventure by the acclaimed author of the Pit Dragon Chronicles. A boy is abandoned in the woods of medieval England. A year passes—a year of terror and hunger, of sleeping in trees and foraging for food, of outrunning packs of wild dogs—until one day a falconer captures and tames the boy as he would any passager, a young bird caught in the wild and trained. The falconer adopts the boy and teaches him all of the things he’s forgotten, including the boy’s true name—and the legacy of magic that will be his when he comes of age. Praise for Passager “This first book of the Young Merlin Trilogy will have readers awaiting the sequels.” —The Horn Book “Steeped in hawks, mews, and wood life, the trilogy evokes a romantic, dreamy time. But its unadorned language lets the story emerge in a guileless way that will captivate young readers. This is a fine read-aloud.” —San Diego Union Tribune

Author : Patrick McDonnell
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316210102
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Me . . . Jane written by Patrick McDonnell and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick McDonnell-beloved, bestselling author-artist and creator of the Mutts syndicated comic strip--shares the inspiring story of young Jane Goodall, the legendary and inspiring conservationist featured in the hit documentary film Jane. In his characteristic heartwarming style, Patrick McDonnell tells the story of the young Jane Goodall and her special childhood toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. As the young Jane observes the natural world around her with wonder, she dreams of "a life living with and helping all animals," until one day she finds that her dream has come true. With anecdotes taken directly from Jane Goodall's autobiography, McDonnell makes this very true story accessible for the very young--and young at heart. One of the world's most inspiring women, Dr. Jane Goodall is a renowned humanitarian, conservationist, animal activist, environmentalist, and United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 1977 she founded the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), a global nonprofit organization that empowers people to make a difference for all living things.

Author : Gabrielle Zevin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 074757720X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elsewhere written by Gabrielle Zevin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a novel of hope, love, and redemption.