Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings
9 best books like Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings (Mary Henley Rubio): She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, Emily Climbs, The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook, Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life, An Experiment in Criticism, Thee, Hannah!, Maud, Extraordinary Canadians: L.M. Montgomery, Empire of Lies
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
| Author | Jodi Kantor |
| ISBN | 0525560343 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement
For many years, reporters...
| Author | L.M. Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0553262149 |
Emily Starr was born with the desire to write. As an orphan living on New Moon Farm, writing helped her face the difficult, lonely times. But now all her friends are going away to high school in nearby Shrewsbury, and her old-fashioned, tyrannical aunt Elizabeth will only let her go if she promises to stop...
| Author | Joyce Lankester Brisley |
The stories of Milly-Molly-Mandy and her family and friends have charmed generations of children since they first appeared in 1925. This collection of twenty-one classic tales about this resourceful and thoughtful little girl reflect with accuracy the dilemmas and challenges of a child's world....
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life
| Author | Caleb Wilde |
| ISBN | 0062465244 |
The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director—what Time magazine called a "must read"—reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with...
An Experiment in Criticism
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0521422817 |
Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C.S. Lewis's classic analysis springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. Crucial to his notion of judging literature is a commitment to laying aside expectations...
| Author | Marguerite de Angeli |
| ISBN | 0385075251 |
A quick read about a Quaker family living in Philadelphia just before the civil war. We look into the day to day life of this family and meet the people who come to sell door to door. I have heard of a muffin man but had not come across a pepper pot lady before and still can't quite imagine what she was selling,...
| Author | Melanie J. Fishbane |
Fourteen-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery—Maud to her friends—has a dream: to go to college and, just like her idol, Louisa May Alcott, become a writer. But living with her grandparents on Prince Edward Island, she worries that this dream will never come true. Her grandfather has strong opinions...
Extraordinary Canadians: L.M. Montgomery
| Author | Jane Urquhart |
| ISBN | 0670066753 |
New material about the private life of Lucy Maud Montgomery has prompted a searching look at the beloved author of Anne of Green Gables. While her fictional characters inhabited a world where love and close community bonds overcame all tribulations, Montgomery's real life was marked by grief and loneliness....
| Author | Raymond Khoury |
| ISBN | 1250210968 |
A sweeping thriller in the tradition of The Man in the High Castle, Fatherland and Underground Airlines from New York Times bestselling author Raymond Khoury.
"The best what-if thriller for a long, long time -- makes you think, makes you sweat, and makes you choose, between what...
