Perfecting A Piece Of The World
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Author |
: Christina Baker Kline |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2017-02-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062356284 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062356283 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Piece of the World by : Christina Baker Kline
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A must-read for anyone who loves history and art.” --Kristin Hannah From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World. "Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won’t stay hidden." To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century. As she did in her beloved smash bestseller Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America’s history. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists. Told in evocative and lucid prose, A Piece of the World is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy.
Author |
: Clarissa Goenawan |
Publisher |
: Soho Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781641291194 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1641291192 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by : Clarissa Goenawan
"University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or whom, was she running from? To Ryusei, a fellow student at Waseda; Chie, Miwako's best friend; and Fumi, Ryusei's older sister, Miwako was more than the blunt, no-nonsense person she projected to the world. Heartbroken, Ryusei begs Chie to take him to the village where Miwako spent her final days. While he is away, Fumi receives an unexpected guest at their shared apartment in Tokyo, increasingly fearful that Miwako's death may ruin what is left of her brother's life. Expanding on the beautifully crafted world of Rainbirds, Clarissa Goenawan gradually pierces through a young woman's careful faðcade, unmasking her most painful secrets"--
Author |
: Trish Doller |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2017-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781481479882 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1481479881 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis In a Perfect World by : Trish Doller
When her mother has the chance to establish an eye clinic for the poor in Cairo, Egypt, seventeen-year-old Caroline reluctantly gives up her plans for a summer spent with her best friend and boyfriend and instead moves to Cairo, where she encounters a culture and city that enchant her and a charming boy who challenges her thoughts on love, faith, and privilege.
Author |
: Kevin Wilson |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2017-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062450357 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062450352 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Perfect Little World by : Kevin Wilson
Wilson’s ambition alone is exciting. . . . [His] writing has a Houdini-like perfection, wherein no matter how grim the variables, each lovely sentence manages to escape with all its parts intact.” —Boston Globe The eagerly-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Family Fang—a warm-hearted and moving story about a young woman making a family on her own terms. When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she’s fresh out of high school, pregnant with her art teacher's baby, and totally on her own. Izzy knows she can be a good mother but without any money or relatives to help, she’s left searching. Dr. Grind, an awkwardly charming child psychologist, has spent his life studying family, even after tragedy struck his own. Now, with the help of an eccentric billionaire, he has the chance to create a “perfect little world”—to study what would happen when ten children are raised collectively, without knowing who their biological parents are. He calls it The Infinite Family Project and he wants Izzy and her son to join. This attempt at a utopian ideal starts off promising, but soon the gentle equilibrium among the families disintegrates: unspoken resentments between the couples begin to fester; the project's funding becomes tenuous; and Izzy’s growing feelings for Dr. Grind make her question her participation in this strange experiment in the first place. Written with the same compassion and charm that won over legions of readers with The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson shows us with grace and humor that the best families are the ones we make for ourselves.
Author |
: Laura Kasischke |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2009-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061941825 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0061941824 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis In a Perfect World by : Laura Kasischke
In a Perfect World is critically acclaimed writer Laura Kasischke’s new novel of marriage, motherhood, and the choices we make when we have no choices left. Kasischke, the author of The Life Before Her Eyes, tells the story of Jiselle, a young flight attendant who’s just settled into a fairy tale life with her new husband and stepchildren. But as a mysterious new illness spreads rapidly throughout the country, she begins to realize that her marriage, her stepchildren, and their perfect world are all in terrible danger . . .
Author |
: Lauren Gibaldi |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2018-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062490094 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062490095 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Tiny Perfect World by : Lauren Gibaldi
The big-hearted story of a small-town girl who discovers how wide the world really is during one transformative summer. Perfect for fans of Susane Colasanti and Sarah Dessen. Penny loves her small-town Florida life, and she has her future mapped out. She’s going to community college after graduation to stay close to home and her best friend, Faye. She’ll take over the family diner that her dad has been managing since her mother died. And one day, she’ll marry her high school sweetheart, Logan. But when she unexpectedly lands a scholarship to a prestigious summer theater camp, she is thrust into a world of competition and self-doubt. And suddenly, her future gets a little hazy. As she meets new friends, including Chase, a talented young actor with big-city dreams, she begins to realize that maybe the life everyone (including her) expects her to lead is not the one she was meant to have. From the acclaimed author of The Night We Said Yes and Autofocus.
Author |
: Suzanne Bugler |
Publisher |
: Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 2011-01-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780330536127 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0330536125 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Perfect World by : Suzanne Bugler
A Richard and Judy Book Club selection. Heddy Partridge was never my friend. I have to start with that. Heddy Partridge was never my friend because I was pretty, popular, clever and blonde and my friends were pretty, popular, clever and generally blonde, too. Heddy Partridge was none of these things. Laura Hamley is the woman who has everything: a loving and successful husband, two beautiful children, an expensive home and a set of equally fortunate friends. But Laura's perfect world is suddenly threatened when she receives an unwelcome phone call from Mrs Partridge, mother of Heddy - the girl Laura and her friends bullied mercilessly at school. Heddy has been hospitalized following a mental breakdown, and Mrs Partridge wants Laura's help to get her released. As Laura reluctantly gets drawn back into the past, she is forced to face the terrible consequences of her cruelty. But, as her secrets are revealed, so too is another even more devastating truth, and the perfect world Laura has so carefully constructed for herself begins to fall apart. This Perfect World is the debut novel from Suzanne Bulger.
Author |
: Brian James |
Publisher |
: Push |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2005-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0439673658 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780439673655 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Perfect World by : Brian James
Though she has her doubts, Lacie follows her best friend Jenna into a fast-moving lifestyle in order to be cool and popular with the boys, but when Jenna's friendship turns fierce, Lacie's perfect world comes crashing down. Reprint.
Author |
: Kevin Henkes |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 34 |
Release |
: 1995-09-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780688143886 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0688143881 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Julius, the Baby of the World by : Kevin Henkes
The riotously funny Lilly, last seen in Chester's Way (Greenwillow), thinks her new baby brother, Julius, is disgusting -- if he was a number, he would be zero. But when Cousin Garland dares to criticize Julius, Lilly bullies her into loudly admiring Julius as the baby of the world.Lilly knows her baby brother is nothing but dreadful -- until she claims him for her own. "Henkes displays a deep understanding of sibling rivalry and a child's fragile self-esteem....Lilly is a superb and timely heroine." -- Publishers Weekly. "
Author |
: Nancy Lynner |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 36 |
Release |
: 2021-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1916901409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781916901407 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis What is a Perfect World? by : Nancy Lynner
What is a Perfect World? allows readers to share and discuss eleven world issues with young children and show them what work awaits.The title asks a question, and each page, through pictures and text, demonstrates an answer for a perfect world. The whimsical watercolor characters include 22 children from multicultural backgounds and abilities, and there are seven adult characters who are parents or helpers. The text asks the readers to help us make the world perfect together, and finishes with a soft surprise. This juvenile non-fiction book uses text and paintings to show issues of environmental conservation and protection, clean air, clean water, freedom from hunger, safe sleeping, medical care, blended familes, and the happiness of learning to help others. Each of the diverse cast of charachters is featured in a glossary at the back with given names and separate portraits. The red bird on each page is leading the reader through the issues. There are 17 paintings, and most are double page spreads.