Linda Grant
1) The Mash-Up
Author
Language
English
Description
A short story by Linda Grant from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. In 'The Mash Up', a woman recalls the strain of juggling opposing cultures at her wedding. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë's game-changing novel and its...
Author
Language
English
Description
World War II is over, a new decade is beginning but for an East End teenage brother and sister living on the edge of the law, life has been suspended. Sent away to a tuberculosis sanatorium to learn the way of a patient, they find themselves in the company of army and air force officers, a car salesman, a mysterious German woman and an American merchant seaman. They discover that a cure is tantalizingly just out of reach, and only by inciting wholesale...
Author
Series
Catherine Sayler mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Maxwell Macmillan International
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
11) Lethal genes
Author
Series
Catherine Sayler mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Ivy Books
Pub. Date
1997, ©1996
Language
English
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chapter 38 of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre, opens with the line "Reader, I married him." Now twenty women authors have spun original stories using that line as inspiration for this collection of unique, inventive, and poignant stories.
This collection of original stories by today's finest women writers--including Tracy Chevalier, Francine Prose, Elizabeth McCracken, Tessa Hadley, Audrey Niffenegger, and more--takes inspiration from the opening...
Publisher
Virago Press, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dragon. Tygress. She-devil. Hussy. Siren. Wench. Harridan. Muckraker. Spitfire. Vituperator. Churail. Termagant. Fury. Warrior. Virago. For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words that have defined and decried us. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood; words that tell a story. In this blazing cauldron of a book, fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the award-winning Autism Friendly Training Program created by the non-profit organization Stars for Autism, this book empowers the everyday professional to a better understanding and skill in working with, interacting with, serving, and teaching children and adults who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD). After a thorough explanation of ASD and how it affects children, adults, families, and communities, this guide describes the Autism Friendly...
