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Author: Caroline Preston
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1998-03-19
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0684838907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Josie, a literature student, is offered a well-paid job researching the life of Jackie Onassis for a writer working on an intimate biography. She takes the assignment and discovers that Jackie's stormy marriage to President Kennedy strangely resembled her own.
Author: Caroline Preston
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780340693049
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Josie Trask is a thirtyish graduate student whose husband is the pet of their American Civilization Department and whose three-year-old son is the apple of her eye. But Josie has two pressing problems. One, she's utterly bored by her unfinished dissertation on an obscure nineteenth-century poetess. Two, her husband Peter, whose career is zooming ahead, seems to be spending an awful lot of time with their fellow student and "friend" Monica. So when a celebrity biographer (think Kitty Kelley meets Nigel Hamilton) calls with an offer - namely, Mrs. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis has just died and the publisher needs a researcher fast - Josie decides to give it a whirl. What follows are Josie's hilarious adventures as she deals with the age-old dilemmas of love, marriage, and parenthood, and as she discovers some unexpected parallels between her life and that of our most enduring icon - none other than the queen of Camelot.
Author: Kelly Braffet
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780618441433
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Teenage siblings Josie and Jack are each other's whole world. Josie lives inside Jack's love and happily submits to his control, following him on his sociopathic path. When their father's erratic behavior finally drives them away, things get complicated, sinister, and interesting, in this contemporary Hansel and Gretel story.
Author: Caroline Preston
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2011-10-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780061966903
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie Pratt receives a scrapbook and her father’s old Corona typewriter. Despite Frankie’s dreams of becoming a writer, she must forgo a college scholarship to help her widowed mother. But when a mysterious Captain James sweeps her off her feet, her mother finds a way to protect Frankie from the less-than-noble intentions of her unsuitable beau. Through a kaleidoscopic array of vintage postcards, letters, magazine ads, ticket stubs, catalog pages, fabric swatches, candy wrappers, fashion spreads, menus, and more, we meet and follow Frankie on her journey in search of success and love. Once at Vassar, Frankie crosses paths with intellectuals and writers, among them “Vincent” (alumna Edna St. Vincent Millay), who encourages Frankie to move to Greenwich Village and pursue her writing. When heartbreak finds her in New York, she sets off for Paris aboard the S.S. Mauritania, where she keeps company with two exiled Russian princes and a “spinster adventuress” who is paying her way across the Atlantic with her unused trousseau. In Paris, Frankie takes a garret apartment above Shakespeare & Company, the hub of expat life, only to have a certain ne’er-do-well captain from her past reappear. But when a family crisis compels Frankie to return to her small New England hometown, she finds exactly what she had been looking for all along. Author of the New York Times Notable Book Jackie by Josie, Caroline Preston pulls from her extraordinary collection of vintage ephemera to create the first-ever scrapbook novel, transporting us back to the vibrant, burgeoning bohemian culture of the 1920s and introducing us to an unforgettable heroine, the spirited, ambitious, and lovely Frankie Pratt.
Author: Wilkinson B. Dunlace
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2017-11-03
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1532029659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wilkinson B. Dunlace married his wife, Jackie, without realizing the extent of her early-childhood abuse. He would learn that she was victimized from an early age, and she recorded a vast quantity of material intending to share her story to help others struggling to cope with the after-effects of abuse. Jackie died before she could write her personal history, but relying on her journals and his insights, her husband reveals her journey toward healing and empowerment. While Jackie did not know it at the time, her healing received a boost in May 1990 when she was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder. The diagnosis explained her feelings of low self-esteem, a sense of lost time and bouts of unexplained depression. Coping with the trauma of abuse, however, was not easy, as Jackie was frequently hospitalized and suffered from anxiety and severe depression. Many people have written books about multiple personality disorder in a clinical manner. This one brings readers into the family to highlight the highs and lows that those coping with the condition can expectand how they and their loved ones can persevere.
Author: Caroline Preston
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2007-05-23
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780618872619
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A historical novel based on the life and times of Ginevra King, F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love and muse, reflects on what her life would have been if she had chosen the writer instead.
Author: Josie Silver
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2022-01-25
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0593498275
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Two lives. Two loves. One impossible choice. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick One Day in December . . . “I read The Two Lives of Lydia Bird in a single sitting. What a beautiful, emotional gift Josie Silver has given us.”—Jodi Picoult Written with Josie Silver’s trademark warmth and wit, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is a powerful and thrilling love story about the what-ifs that arise at life’s crossroads, and what happens when one woman is given a miraculous chance to answer them. Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They’d been together for more than a decade and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On Lydia’s twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it’s just Lydia, and all she wants is to hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Jonah, and her sister, Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world, open to life—and perhaps even love—again. But then something inexplicable happens that gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie. A life where none of the tragic events of the past few months have happened. Lydia is pulled again and again through the doorway to her past, living two lives, impossibly, at once. But there’s an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie, alive, still owns her heart. Because there’s someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay.
Author: Julie Davenham
Publisher: Mello Publishing
Published: 2021-09-27
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unleash your inner detective and solve this interactive mystery! Immerse yourself in “Choose Your Own Way” style storytelling. By gathering clues and unravelling the truth, can YOU bring the culprit to justice? The circus has come to the village of Much Happening, but what initially seemed like a tragic accident involving Lola, the talented aerial acrobat, has taken a sinister turn – it’s now believed to be murder. Guided by Peggy, a trusted family friend with a knack for solving mysteries, you’ll travel to the diverse locales within the village. Engage in conversations with the circus troupe and members of the village to unearth the elusive pieces of the puzzle to unveil the truth. Step right up and investigate! Get ready for a satisfying journey of mystery, adventure, and logical decision-making. You, the Detective! This book follows British English spelling and usage. It has no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.
Author: Thomas Tessier
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 2018-12-02
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beware the Blade… Jackie is lost. A college student stuck in a loveless marriage, she feels she cannot escape the monotony of her life. Then along comes Brooks, a mysterious but successful lawyer with political ambitions. He’s passionate, a true lover. But someone else has come to town. Brooks, Jackie discovers, is tracking a serial killer known as The Blade, whose victims are exclusively teenage girls. The killer is on a rampage, pursuing several women. Soon, many turn up dead – brutally murdered by the Blade. As he goes on however, he begins to get carried away with the killings and makes mistakes. Soon, the situation rises above boiling point. As Jackie has a confusing encounter with the man who appears to be the murderer, she is forced to decide: With the intensity of both the murders and her relationship hotting up, will she be able to keep her head? Will she be able to control herself? Or will the Blade add Jackie’s name to his list?
Author: Barbara Seaman
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 1996-08-06
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9781888363371
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Barbara Seaman's pioneering biography of the author of Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine, and other mega-sellers examines the life of a woman who exhibited amazing strength in every aspect of her life-from getting her writing published and promoted to fighting her ultimate adversary, breast cancer.
