Jeannette Walls
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie...
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Language
English
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Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
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Language
English
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A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
Author
Publisher
SUMA
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
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Por la autora de El castillo de cristal, la emocionante y tierna historia de una intrépida niña dispuesta a todo para desafiar las injusticias del mundo de los adultos.
Década de los setenta en una pequeña ciudad de California. «Bean» Holladay tiene doce años y su hermana Liz quince cuando su madre las abandona «para encontrarse a sí misma» y triunfar en la música. Aunque les deja dinero para subsistir un mes o dos, las pequeñas tienen...
Author
Publisher
SUMA
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
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El Castillo de Cristal es la historia conmovedora de una familia que ama y que también abandona, que es leal y al mismo tiempo decepciona. Su lectura no dejará indiferente a ningún lector que se atreva con ella.
Algunas pocas veces en la vida nos encontramos con libros excepcionales. Libros que se nos van imponiendo lentamente, que nos envuelven con su magia y que se instalan en nuestro corazón para no irse más.
Así es la historia que nos cuenta...
Author
Publisher
SUMA
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
Description
Si El Castillo de Cristal nos conmovió con la fortaleza y las ganas de vivir de los niños de la familia Walls, en esta precuela es Lily Casey Smith, su abuela, quien nos brinda su tenacidad y perseverancia ante las dificultades que atravesó en el camino de su vida.
Caballos salvajes nos descubre los orígenes de la disfuncional familia Walls.
Heroína y pionera en el Lejano Oeste americano, Lily Casey Smith vivió durante sus casi primeros diez...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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"Provocative and invariably entertaining" a #1 New York Times bestselling author "gives dishing the dirt its historical, social and political due" (Publishers Weekly).
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, now a major motion picture, comes an incisive study of our obsession with gossip.
Gossip. It's more than just hearsay, society columns, and supermarket tabloids. It has, like it or...
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, now a major motion picture, comes an incisive study of our obsession with gossip.
Gossip. It's more than just hearsay, society columns, and supermarket tabloids. It has, like it or...