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One Indian Girl is a 2016 novel by Indian author Chetan Bhagat. [ citation needed ] The story follows Radhika Mehta, a senior employee in the distressed debt group at Goldman Sachs . The novel explores the personal and professional challenges she faces within the financial sector.
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is a children's historical novel written by Canadian-American author Eleanor Coerr and published in 1977.It is based on the true story of Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II, who set out to create a thousand origami cranes when dying of leukemia from radiation caused by the bomb.
Whitney Joiner of Salon.com wrote, "The Diary of a Teenage Girl is one of the most brutally honest, shocking, tender and beautiful portrayals of growing up in America.” [3] Michael Martin of nerve.com described the book as “the most honest depiction of sexuality in a long, long time; as a meditation on adolescence, it picks up a literary ball that’s been only fitfully carried after ...
The Hundred Dresses was a 1945 Newbery Honor book. [5] A 2004 study found that it was a common read-aloud book for third-graders in schools in San Diego County, California. [6] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children." [7]
Hollis Woods - Young foster girl.. The Regans - Old man, Izzy, and Steven. They want Hollis to be a part of her family even though she pushes them away. Josie - An elderly retired art teacher who adores Hollis, but is forgetful, so Hollis is afraid that the agency will find out and make her go to a different foster home, so she takes her to the Reagans summer cabin/house.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder left an impression with its Netflix debut — but how does the TV adaptation compare to the original book series?. The six-part adaptation is based on the novel of ...
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One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (published by St. Martin's Press in 1998) is the first novel by journalist Jim Fergus. The novel is written as a series of journals chronicling the fictitious adventures of "J. Will Dodd's" ostensibly real ancestor in an imagined "Brides for Indians" program of the United States government.