Showing results for "Betty" in Literary Fiction

"Ce livre est à la fois une danse, un chant et un éclat de lune, mais par-dessus tout, l'histoire qu'il raconte est, et restera à jamais, celle de la Petite Indienne." La Petite Indienne, c'est Betty Carpenter, née dans une baignoire, sixième de huit enfants. Sa famille vit en marge de la société car, si sa mère est blanche, son père est cherokee. Lorsque les Carpenter s'installent dans la petite ville de Breathed, après des années d'errance, le paysage luxuriant de l'Ohio semble leur apporter la paix.

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York...

""A rediscovered treasure."" — Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post From Betty Smith, author of the beloved classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes a poignant story of love, marriage, poverty, and hope set in 1920s Brooklyn. Tomorrow Will Be Better tells the story of Margy Shannon, a shy but...

Newlywed Bobby Atherton has barely had time to experience married life with her airman husband Charlie before war separates them. Bobby must face the challenge of marriage to a man mentally and physically scarred by his experiences. When Charlie resumes operational flying, Bobby's role as a WAAF plotter becomes a matter of life and death. Can the couple survive the war and heal the rift between them?

1955. Quatre ans se sont écoulés depuis la mort d'Olof Morin. Sa fille Martina, qui a désormais 17 ans, a quitté l'école pour se consacrer à plein temps aux débuts de sa brillante carrière de chanteuse lyrique. C'était sans compter son coup de foudre pour un jeune musicien de jazz américain qu'elle revoit à Venise. Mais le jour où tout bascule pour Martina, Betty doit affronter son passé et faire des choix.

Betty Smith, the beloved author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, weaves a riveting modern myth out of the experiences of her own life in this rediscovered classic. In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who...

Detective Easy Rawlins returns in a mystery set in 1961 Los Angeles as Easy accepts a job searching for a beautiful woman nicknamed Black Betty who works as a housekeeper in Beverly Hills.

January 1942. The new year brings heartache for Bobby Bancroft. Not only must she say goodbye to her fiance Charlie as he is called up, she must also leave behind her job at THE TYKE magazine to join the war effort, as conscription of women is rolled out across the country. But there are hopeful times ahead as Bobby's friends, Topsy and Teddy, get engaged. And when Bobby finally names a date for her own nuptials, the village is cheered by the prospect of weddings to lift the gloom of wartime.

"Barndommens gade i Brooklyn" kan man kalde klassikeren fra 1943 "Der vokser et træ i Brooklyn", der nu nyoversættes. Nogle bøger bliver bedre og bedre med årene. Den amerikanske klassiker DER VOKSER ET TRÆ I BROOKLYN er en af dem. Romanen, der er baseret på forfatteren Betty Smiths egen historie, handler om pigen Francies hårde opvækst i Brooklyn, om mod og kærlighed og kampen for et godt liv.

Despite the hardships of life during wartime, Bobby Bancroft has never been happier. Engaged to her airman sweetheart Charlie, living in the beautiful Dales village of Silverdale and gainfully employed at The Tyke magazine, her life seems to be going exactly the way she always hoped it would. As the festive season approaches, Bobby is recruited to help produce a Christmas pantomime for the evacuee children billeted in the village. The project introduces her to some new friends, including a handsome Canadian, Flying Officer Ernie King, and her friend Topsy's upper-crust cousin Archie Sumner.

Vicky, a writer in Vancouver in the early 1960s, doesn't consider herself the type of woman who would end up in a bad relationship. Struggling to come to terms with herself, she navigates an emotionally abusive relationship with Mik, a violent logger and ex-con. Mik and Vicky's physical, often violent affair offers an honest and unflinching look at relationships and female suffering. Crossings caused a furor when it was first published and was banned from some feminist bookstores.

Wednesdays for Mrs Taylor are sacrosanct. On Wednesdays, she escapes from unbearable reality into a fantasy world, a world to which she feels she rightly belongs. But to get to this place she has to travel by train. In The Undivided, Peggy Slater’s husband earns a great deal of money; this fact seems to affect the couple who live in the next street.

Barely five feet tall, suicidally courageous, obsessed with tigers, and sexually eccentric, Mabel Stark was the greatest female tiger trainer in history. Clad in her leather suits and married five times, she was the Mae West of tiger taming. In the 1910s and 1920s, when circus was the most popular entertainment in America, Mabel Stark was the biggest attraction for the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey circus.

In early 1800s Tennessee, two men find themselves locked in an intimate power struggle. Richardson, a troubled Revolutionary War veteran, has spent his life fighting not only for his country but also for wealth and status. When the pressures of westward expansion and debt threaten to destroy everything he’s built, he sets Washington, a young man he owns, to work as his breeding sire.

Through his imagined journals of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain wrote what has been called “one of the great love stories of all time.” Mandy Patinkin and Betty Buckley bring Adam and Eve to life, capturing the expected humor as well as the tender eloquence of Twain’s most personal, heartfelt writing. In one of his last recordings, Walter Cronkite provides an illuminating commentary on how the author came to reinterpret the Genesis story.