Finding Celia's Place

Finding Celia's Place
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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 0890969639
ISBN-13 : 9780890969632
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Finding Celia's Place by : Celia Morris

For most women who came of age in the 1950s, and particularly for a smart, attractive, and ambitious girl from Houston, life as a single woman was unthinkable. Marriage was a woman's destiny, and everyone expected her to choose well and live happily ever after. For Celia Morris and many women like her, this set of assumptions proved to be misguided. In this wrenching but ultimately uplifting memoir, she describes how marriage and conformity to received notions of "woman's place" ate away at the selfrespect, dignity, and even sanity of her generation. Busy, bright, and athletic, young Celia Buchan had a hectic schedule that masked an emotional void at home, where an adored father dominated and a depressed but dutiful mother drank. As a star student at the University of Texas, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and crowned University Sweetheart, she studied hard and eagerly supported fights against injustice. A year after graduating, she took what seemed the logical next step by marrying fellow student Willie Morris, a hardhitting, controversial campus newspaper editor and Rhodes scholar. In the years that followed, amidst exhilarating intellectual circles at Oxford, graduate studies in California and New York City, and the heady life she shared with Morris during his celebrated tenure as editorinchief of Harper's magazine, her life was a baffling mixture of high times and misery. During these years, through psychoanalysis, she began a journey that strengthened her emotionally even as it made the inequities of marriage harder to tolerate. As tumultuous events and fundamental changes transformed American society, she divorced Morris, went to work while raising their son David, and eight years later married Texas Congressman Bob Eckhardt, another liberal hero. Deepening friendships and her immersion in professional work that she believed in and could do well sustained her when, after ten years, that marriage, too, foundered. In Finding Celia's Place, Morris unflinchingly weighs her own experiences and the unconventional lives of several close college friends and reflects on the tangled relationships of women and men in their generation. Coming to terms with what their sixtysomething years have taught them, she offers four defining principles they hope to pass on to a younger generation. Finding Celia's Place is a candid, gripping story that will ring true to everyone in this bridge generation. It should also appeal to their children and grandchildren, who can learn how hard the fight has been for the precarious freedoms women now enjoy.

Feeling Sorry for Celia

Feeling Sorry for Celia
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9781466873773
ISBN-13 : 1466873779
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Feeling Sorry for Celia by : Jaclyn Moriarty

A #1 Bestseller in Australia and Book Sense 76 Pick Life is pretty complicated for Elizabeth Clarry. Her best friend Celia keeps disappearing, her absent father suddenly reappears, and her communication with her mother consists entirely of wacky notes left on the fridge. On top of everything else, because her English teacher wants to rekindle the "Joy of the Envelope," a Complete and Utter Stranger knows more about Elizabeth than anyone else. But Elizabeth is on the verge of some major changes. She may lose her best friend, find a wonderful new friend, kiss the sexiest guy alive, and run in a marathon. So much can happen in the time it takes to write a letter... A #1 bestseller in Australia, this fabulous debut is a funny, touching, revealing story written entirely in the form of letters, messages, postcards—and bizarre missives from imaginary organizations like The Cold Hard Truth Association. Feeling Sorry for Celia captures, with rare acuity, female friendship and the bonding and parting that occurs as we grow. Jaclyn Moriarty's hilariously candid novel shows that the roller coaster ride of being a teenager is every bit as fun as we remember—and every bit as harrowing.

Searching for Celia

Searching for Celia
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Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9781626391741
ISBN-13 : 1626391742
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Searching for Celia by : Elizabeth Ridley

Dayle Salvesen, a bestselling spy novelist from Wisconsin, arrives in London for a writers’ conference only to be told that her best friend and former lover, Celia Frost, has died under mysterious circumstances. Or has she? There’s no sign of Celia’s body, and Celia’s flat contains items suggesting she planned to travel. Dayle joins forces with Celia’s ex-girlfriend, Nigerian-British university lecturer Edwina Adebayo, to investigate. Hampering their efforts is Detective Constable Andrea Callaway, who claims that Celia, who ran a refugee center, profited financially from her work rescuing trafficked sex slaves. The deeper Dayle and Edwina dig, the more Dayle questions not only how well she knew Celia, but also how well she knows herself.

Strange Birds

Strange Birds
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9780425290439
ISBN-13 : 0425290433
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Strange Birds by : Celia C. Pérez

From the award-winning author of The First Rule of Punk comes the story of four kids who form an alternative Scout troop that shakes up their sleepy Florida town. * "Writing with wry restraint that's reminiscent of Kate DiCamillo... a beautiful tale." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review When three very different girls find a mysterious invitation to a lavish mansion, the promise of adventure and mischief is too intriguing to pass up. Ofelia Castillo (a budding journalist), Aster Douglas (a bookish foodie), and Cat Garcia (a rule-abiding birdwatcher) meet the kid behind the invite, Lane DiSanti, and it isn't love at first sight. But they soon bond over a shared mission to get the Floras, their local Scouts, to ditch an outdated tradition. In their quest for justice, independence, and an unforgettable summer, the girls form their own troop and find something they didn't know they needed: sisterhood.

Not Quite Nice

Not Quite Nice
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9781408846896
ISBN-13 : 1408846896
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Not Quite Nice by : Celia Imrie

Sunday Times Bestseller Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, tired of babysitting her bossy daughter's obnoxious children, she sells her house and moves to a picture-perfect town, just outside Nice. Once the hideaway of artists and writers, Bellevue-Sur-Mer is now home to the odd movie star and, as Theresa discovers, a close-knit set of expats. Settling to the gentle rhythm of the seaside, Theresa embraces her new-found friendships and freedom. But life is never as simple as it seems, and when skeletons fall out of several closets, Theresa starts to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as nice as it first appeared ...

The Truth About Celia Frost

The Truth About Celia Frost
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Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9781409537663
ISBN-13 : 1409537668
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Truth About Celia Frost by : Paula Rawsthorne

Celia Frost is a freak. At least that's what everyone thinks. Her life is ruled by a rare disorder that means she could bleed to death from the slightest cut, confining her to a gloomy bubble of "safety". No friends. No fun. No life. But when a knife attack on Celia has unexpected consequences, her mum reacts strangely. Suddenly they're on the run. Why is her mum so scared? Someone out there knows – and when they find Celia, she's going to wish the truth was a lie... A buried secret; a gripping manhunt; a dangerous deceit: what is the truth about Celia Frost? A page-turning thriller that's impossible to put down. "Paula Rawsthorne's excellent debut is original and gripping and the tension is palpable throughout... As well as being a compulsive thriller, this novel is also a skilful coming-of-age novel.Both parts of the story build to a thoroughly satisfying climax and resolution, with final twists to surprise." - Books For Keeps Winner Leeds Book Award 2012 and Sefton Super Reads Award 2012, Winner Brilliant Book Award

Gracious and Strong

Gracious and Strong
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1945507764
ISBN-13 : 9781945507762
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Gracious and Strong by : Celia Swanson

The first female executive vice president of Walmart Stores, Inc. reveals what it means to rise above uncertain leadership challenges and make essential hard-right decisions. She explains that a leader who inspires others and helps them achieve their full potential is one who is gracious and strong.

Celia, a Slave

Celia, a Slave
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 9780300224597
ISBN-13 : 0300224591
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Celia, a Slave by : Barbara Seyda

The winner of the 2015 Yale Drama Series playwriting competition was selected by Nicholas Wright, former Associate Director of London’s Royal Court. Barbara Seyda’s stunningly theatrical Celia, a Slave is a vivid tableau of interviews with the dead that interweaves oral histories with official archival records. Powerful, poetic, and stylistically bold, this work foregrounds twenty-three diverse characters to recall the events that led to the hanging of nineteen-year-old Celia, an African American slave convicted in a Missouri court of murdering her master, the prosperous landowner Robert Newsom, in 1855. Excavating actual trial transcripts and court records, Seyda bears witness to racial and sexual violence in U.S. history, illuminating the brutal realities of female slave life in the pre–Civil War South while exploring the intersection of rape, morality, economics, and gender politics that continue to resonate today.

Celia's Journey

Celia's Journey
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Publisher : PublishAmerica
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 1451273827
ISBN-13 : 9781451273823
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Celia's Journey by : Heather Muzik

Celia, a Slave

Celia, a Slave
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9780820369259
ISBN-13 : 082036925X
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Celia, a Slave by : Melton A. McLaurin