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1-492-69163-1. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a 2019 novel by Kim Michele Richardson. The story is a fictionalized account of real subjects in the history of eastern Kentucky. Cussy Mary is a "Book Woman" — one of the Packhorse Librarians who delivered books to remote areas of the Appalachian Mountains during the Great Depression ...
The book was published again in English in 2005 in editions in the United Kingdom and the United States. [5] It has been translated into seven other languages. The book was adapted as a 2008 German feature film, directed by Max Färberböck and starring Nina Hoss. It was released in the United States as A Woman in Berlin in 2008.
Rose in Bloom is a novel by Louisa May Alcott published in 1876 and is a sequel to Eight Cousins. It depicts the story of a nineteenth-century girl, Rose Campbell, finding her way in society, seeking a profession in philanthropy, and finding a marriage partner. Considered enjoyable by some readers and dull by others, the novel received ...
The narrative follows the age-old pattern of separate stories embedded within a primary story, as in the Panchatantra, the Arabian Nights and the Canterbury Tales.Each of the stories is linked to a different piece of furniture in an antique shop, and the question arises as to whether the stories are pure invention ("a pack of lies") or could perhaps be true – and what their being "true ...
United States. ISBN. 978-0-7043-4424-2. Followed by. Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun (1996) Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend Of Betrayal, Courage And Survival is a 1993 novel by Velma Wallis, set in northeastern Alaska.
Women's Barracks. Women's Barracks: The Frank Autobiography of a French Girl Soldier is a classic work of lesbian pulp fiction by French writer Tereska Torrès published in 1950. Historians credit it as the first US paperback-original bestseller, as the first lesbian pulp fiction book published in America, and as "the pioneer of lesbian fiction".
The Group (novel) The Group. (novel) The Group is the best-known novel of American writer Mary McCarthy. It made New York Times Best Seller list in 1963 [1] and remained there for almost two years. In 1966, United Artists released a film adaptation of the novel directed by Sidney Lumet. [citation needed]
400 (hardcover) 384 (paperback) ISBN. 978-0-670-89471-0. Followed by. Stolen. Bitten is a fantasy novel by Canadian writer Kelley Armstrong, published in 2001. It is the first book in the Women of the Otherworld series, and her first novel.