A collection of letters, arranged by decade, that reveal the personal and public sides of key events in American life. Contributors include Ethel Rosenberg, Jackie Kennedy, Lillian Hellman, and an American soldier in Vietnam.
These letters offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women's lives. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, "Women's Letters" is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived--and made--history.
In this novel about the pleasures and pains of a woman's midlife crisis, Sally Farber finds herself unmoored as she searches for definitions of happiness from Aristotle, Freud, Charles Schulz, her mother, and others.
Part contemporary family drama, part ghost story, this engrossing novel dramatizes the difficult process of letting go of one's childhood to embrace one's new chosen family. This is the story of twin sisters, their children, and an accident that claims the life of one, and leaves the others to find their way away from, and back to each other.
A brilliant physicist is about to reveal his theory that unites all scientific theories. Despite all his professional success, Alexander's life is unravelling--until he makes a mystical journey and comes to terms with the two most important women in his life: the guardian angel who evades his touch and the girlfriend who longs for it.
Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women's singular correspondences--often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington's ...
They're an extraordinary family . . . Milo, husband and father, is a sculptor, and Lulu, wife and mother, is his model and protectress. Their daughters, Hillary and Jennifer, are beautiful, precocious young women already starting careers of their own. They spend their summers on an island off Cape Cod, but this may be Lulu's last. And now her ...
"Following a little girl from sunrise to bedtime, this picture book shows the meanings of now, soon, and later....The artwork is fresh and charming....Young children will enjoy the depiction of simple, familiar activities while they learn from the book's concrete presentation of time concepts."--Booklist.
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