Book Description
Anatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love
& Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show
women oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories about love,
lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the delight of new lovers, and the
rediscovery of old friends, affirmed even across self-imposed color lines.
Customer Reviews:
Just Okay.......2005-08-26
This is only my second short story book ever reading and I can honestly say that I don't think that I would pick this one up and read it again. I mean it was okay and there were some good stories in it, but for it to be under 200 pages and for it to have taken me more than 2 weeks to read it is quite sad. I would only borrow it from a friend or check it out at a library. Unless you can get a good deal and get it for $1.50 or less.
A Good Read.......2004-09-24
Alice Walker is an excellent writer. Very thought provoking. Stories deal with a variety of issues and ideals. Excellent read.
Excellent short stories.......1999-06-10
This book was one of the first short story books that I've read. It has some awesome stories in them. I enjoyed and loved them tremendously. Alice, you are truly a gifted writer. I enjoyed reading all your books.
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You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down - Stories
Alice Walker
Manufacturer: Harvest/Hbj Book
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: B000IX4IV6 |
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OMNIBUS, YOU CAN\'T KEEP A GOOD WOMAN DOWN
ALICE WALKER
Manufacturer: GUILD PUBLISHING LIMITED
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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| African American
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ASIN: B000S2F5SM |
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The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker True Hand Signed Custom Bookplate
Alice Walker
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Cards
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Walker, Alice
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ASIN: B000N0ZXW2 |
Product Description
This is a custom made bookplate, in blue, with the title "The Temple of My Familiar" at the top and "Alice Walker May 1989" near the middle and a picture of a resting lion in the lower right of the bookplate. Bookplate is 4"X4" in size. It is signed in green magic marker by Ms. Walker and says, "Alice Walker". Mint condition.
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
Alice Walker
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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| African American
| United States
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ASIN: B000KBHHAA |
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
Alice Walker
Manufacturer: Womens Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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| United States
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ASIN: B000KR8YHO |
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
Alice WALKER
Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: B000OOZNPY |
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You Can't Keep a Good woman Down
Alice Walker
Manufacturer: The Women's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: B000M4WQXI |
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You Can`t Keep a Good Woman Down
Alice Walker
Manufacturer: The Womens Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: B000JOPGOC |
Book Description
Stepping back into everyday life after having faced a life-threatening illness is not as simple as it sounds. Now what? How do you pick up the pieces of your life and put them back together again? There are no guidelines to follow once treatment for cancer finishes--no bridge from hospital to home. How do you discuss the variety of changes you are experiencing when you may not even know how to describe them? All you know is that you are confused and that you feel out of sync with yourself and with others.
Picking Up the Pieces will guide you through this difficult time. Reassuring, realistic, and insightful, this book presents a unique four-phase process with useful daily practices to support you along your recovery journey. Drawing on the inspiring voices of cancer survivors, the authors give practical advice on how to design your own unique Healing Plan, including suggestions on ways to handle physical side effects and stress, and how to connect with yourself, with others, and with a higher power. They provide informational and educational resources and professional support services, and they suggest ways that you may find healing through your own contributions and creativity.
For the more than 11 million cancer survivors in North America who have spent months and, in many cases, years, battling disease, this book is essential for reclaiming mind, body, and spirit to move forward with recovery.
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Fiftysomething Kate Rendlesham has spent the majority of her life keeping up appearances for the sake of her family and her powerful, if philandering, husband. After his death, however, she feels herself stretching toward a new identity that has nothing to do with being the wife of the late Oliver Rendlesham. Armed with her embroidery skills and some newfound courage, Kate embarks on a new life.
Though convincing herself of her abilities is her first trial, nothing is as difficult as overcoming the skepticism of her peers and the misplaced resentment of her daughter, Joanna, and her granddaughter, Harriet. Having relied on Kate as an ever-available babysitter, Joanna sees her mother's actions as an ill-fated and selfish mid-life crisis. And while Harriet understands Kate's motivations, she aches for a nurturing intimacy that the stiff Joanna cannot provide. Struggling to defend her new independence, Kate finds inspiration in an enchanted observatory and its handsome owner, Jack Morley.
Posing as the groundskeeper, Jack invites Kate to live in the observatory in exchange for her managing its renovation. Kate discovers in Jack someone "with whom it was so easy to communicate that she felt as if they shared their thoughts before they had even put them into words." But the intensity of their feelings makes her discovery of Jack's secret past deeply painful. Grappling with her mixed emotions, Kate offers little support to Joanna as her fragile marriage Crumbles and to Harriet before she drifts into angry estrangement. As Kate, Joanna, and Harriet each face broken relationships, they must learn to pick up the pieces and create a new future.
From the navel-piercing teenager to the exotic grande dame, Mary Sheepshanks shows a keen eye for human behavior in Picking Up the Pieces. Rich description and dialogue make the rural English setting feel familiar, even for those of us who don't own cottage farms or drink afternoon tea. Readers of all ages will be able to empathize with these three women as we follow them through life transformations, and the wit and humanity of this multi-generational story will endure through multiple readings. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien
Book Description
Kate is in her fifties, recently widowed, and coping with the difficulties--and occasional pleasures--of flying solo. But when her daughter Joanna's husband walks out, and Joanna instantly assumes that Kate will step into the supporting Granny role while she goes career and man-hunting, Kate realizes it is time to step outside her family's preconceived expectations--with devastating results. What follows is a delightful story of the relationships and unspoken power struggles between four generations of women.
Customer Reviews:
WOW!.......2007-01-10
My sister and I both read this book , not just once but twice and in the future would read it again, it really is that good. No wonder it is listed as being on Rosamund Pilcher's bookshelf. Super Read!
A Nice, Easy Read.......2001-06-10
"Picking Up the Pieces" is an unashamedly romantic novel set in modern-day England. There are a good variety of characters who all have their hidden secrets which the author uses to keep the reader turning the pages. I particularly enjoyed the main theme of the novel - that being that too many families assume that once a women is widowed, her life is basically over. Kate's family have a hard time dealing with the fact that a year after the death of her husband (who we learn has been far from the ideal spouse) she is out and about socially, has discovered a talent which she can translate into a profitable business, decides to move house and meets and falls in love with a wonderful man who can fill all the emptiness that is inside her. Kate really comes into her own at a time when others believe she should be sitting by the fireside with her knitting. This was a light read but a very, very enjoyable one.
Cozy English Novel of a Family Falling Apart.......2001-05-14
"Picking Up The Pieces" is a delightfully engrossing book about a 50ish widow named Kate whose life has fallen apart after the death of her husband Oliver. She is living in a woman's world where everyone including her hardnosed and uncompromising daughter Joanna, her sadly vulnerable granddaughter Harriet, and her delightfully wicked mother-in-law Cicely seems dependent on her.
What do you do when your life falls apart, Joanna asks her mom at one point. You pick up the pieces, Kate replies, and if the most important bit is missing you pick up what's left, reshape it, and make something new of it, like a patchwork quilt. And the reshaping of Kate's life is what this irresistible novel involving four generations of women is about. Kate first discovers her needlework skills can lead to a profitable business and then discovers that the handsome new millionaire in town is the love of her life.
This is a wonderful tale of a woman who was stronger than she ever realized, and of how she overcomes self-doubt and low self-esteem to become the woman she was destined to be.
Adding spice to this cozy English tale is a long-held secret involving paternity, a strained marriage on the brink of divorce, a car accident victim in America, and a teenager who shaves her head for attention. But it is the flawless writing of Mary Sheepshanks, her witty dialogue and wonderful characterizations, that will keep you reading to the satisfying conclusion.
Sheepshanks at Her Best.......2001-01-30
What is it about Mary Sheepshanks that makes it impossible to put her books down? It must be the enchanting blend of reality and humor that gets me every time. Like her other heroines, Sheepshanks' Kate is a no-nonsense, "let's get on with it and cope with life" typical British character. But beneath that strength lies a vulnerability that grabs the reader's heart.
Kate's reactions to her lovely son and daughter-in-law, her strong-minded, bird-watching mother-in-law, her difficult and sometimes nasty daughter Joanna, and her enchanting granddaughter Harriet, all reveal different sides of her complicated personality.
Just when we think she's a typical dull countrywoman, Kate reveals her penchant for design, and a strong artistic talent that makes her needlework highly prized. Just when we think she's something of a prude, whose sexual feelings died with her philandering husband, she becomes strongly attacted to Jack, a newcomer with his own secrets.
The mixture of pathos, romance, good old British common sense, and sometimes uproarious humor (I found myself laughing aloud on the commuter train home one night) make this a good, comforting, and delightful read, especially if one is feeling too beleagured to tackle something heavier.
A Delightful Piece of Fluff.......2000-01-13
This is a one of those truly enjoyable light novels -- especially for those who love stories about English "society" -- with lots of distinctive characters, juicy plot lines, and happy endings all around. While the genre is somewhat like that of Rosamunde Pilcher or Maeve Binchy, overall I'd say Sheepshanks' writing is livelier and fresher than some of her cohort. I definitely recommend this book for a fun, upbeat read.
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Cyclone Tracy: Picking up the pieces
Bill Bunbury
Manufacturer: Fremantle Arts Centre Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
Australia | Australia & Oceania | History | Subjects | Books
General | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1863681124 |
Book Description
After the Civil War ended in April 1865, the country needed to rebuild itself. Yet putting the country back together was not a simple task: Too much blood had been shed and too much hatred lingered between the North and the South. Many questions remained: How could the loyalty of former Confederates be assured? What would become of the thousands of freed slaves? Though President Abraham Lincoln had prepared plans for the restoration of the country, he was assassinated before he could begin them.
Rebuilding a Nation: Picking Up the Pieces tells the story of a period of great change for the United States. Discover the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson and its roots in his disagreements with Congress about Reconstruction. Explore the three constitutional amendments that became law during this period, giving all Americans new rights. Meet the African American men who were elected during Reconstruction, as well as Booker T. Washington, who, as a freedman, was able to realize his dreams of getting an education.
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Picking Up The Pieces
Denny McCartney
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
Canadian | Historical | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
Aviation | Transportation | World | History | Subjects | Books
Repair & Maintenance | Aviation | Transportation | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 1553696026
Release Date: 2006-06-30 |
Book Description
The book documents the history, experiences and hardships of an intrepid aircraft engineer in salvaging damaged aircraft in the wilderness of Northern Canada. It describes the difficult and hazardous situations demanding ingenuity, resourcefulness and a lot of difficult hard work. Within the book covers are the stories of the retrievals, temporary repairs and rescues of aircraft from Artic, Tundra, remote areas of Western Canada, lake bottoms, glaciers and trees. It shows the nature of the nothern people, their willingness to provide and unreservedly to help in order to finish the job successfully. Denny's over 50 years experience in the aviation field demonstrates a lesser known side of aviation that is from the engineers' and accident investigators' perspective. This book is the first of its' kind and once started, compels the reader to continue to the last page.
Customer Reviews:
Very good IR (bw/wm)!!!.......2007-03-04
Barbara Gale wrote an excellent story of love lost and found. Harry & Althea fell in love but Althea had secrets. But they rediscover the love they once had! Excellent story and highly recommended by this IR reader!
DO NOT BUY.......2005-06-20
This book was extremely boring and made absolutely no sense. the characters were disjointed and unappealing. I gave it 1 star because I had to, it doesn't deserve any. If you can find it in your local library read it there, because this one is a definite DO NOT BUY
A Waste of Time.......2005-06-15
This book was so boring. Is Barbara Gale and Eva Rutland the same person? If so, then I can understand why this book is soooooo boooooring! I threw it in the trash-where it definitely belongs!
Picking up the Pieces....Well...Ummm...let me hanging........2005-04-02
I don't know what to exactly say abou this particular book. Picking up the Pieces left me wanting more. Althea Almott was a model that got divorced from her rich husband and came back home to run straight into her ex-lover Harry Benson at the airport.
Harry Bensen had never stopped loving Althea and wanted to find a way to get her back into his life when he finds out about her divorce.
But what confused me about the book is I never knew why they exactly broke up. Was it a racial issue from her side or his side. Did Althea want her career more than him? How did they become lovers in the first place?
I could never really grasp the characters inside the story at all. They kept me wanting more, but I never get it. The concept of how the two got back together confused me too. Harry gets sick in the airport and Althea can't stand the sight of him and doesn't want him around her, but she tells the hospital she'll nurse him back to health? Why would she do that?
Harry loves her, but doesn't want to stay and fight for her after overhearing a small portion of a private converstion with her ex-husband. Instead he storms out and make Althea track him down and explain her feeling more?
I really never felt the love between the characters in the book and I wished I had.
Maybe I'm not use to reading Silhouette Romance books and that the reason the characters and plot didn't grab me, but I did't fall in love with the hero and heroine in this book.
bbeauty59.......2005-03-03
Good story, good characters and believable. The chemistry was good and the bi-racial issue was evident but not the main theme of the story. The fact that Harry was white and Althea black did not over shadow the story, which from my point of view, is that relationships between men and women are hard to get right and it takes commitment and determination to make it work. Light reading,I read this book in one night and it satisfied my romantic soul.
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- wonderful,breathtaking
- not that great
- This is a 10 star book, Sungee is a true Inspiration
- alright
- Love and Turmoil
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Picking up the Pieces
Sungee ,
Ericka Johnson ,
Lisa Martin , and
Luis Gonzalez Palma
Manufacturer: Celestial Sun Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
General | Contemporary | Romance | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 096673310X |
Book Description
Join this Atlanta-based crew entwined in a story of second chances - of opening hearts and eyes. Each individual learns some hard lessons about love and loyalty, and the harsh reality that things don't always go your way teaches them to pick up the pieces and move on
Customer Reviews:
wonderful,breathtaking.......2002-03-24
I'VE ENJOYED THIS BOOK, I LAUGHED, I CRIED AND I SHARED IT WITH OTHERS. I LOOK FOREWARD TO HEARING FROM HER AGAIN,IT'S ONE OF THE BEST BOOK I'VE READ THIS YEAR. KEEP THEM COMING
not that great.......2001-11-21
From the reviews on this page I special ordered this book hoping it would be good and I was very dissapointed. The writing is choppy made it hard to get involved in the story line which I will admit is very creative. If you too are tired of every popular black author you read writing about what people are wearing, driving, how their hair looks like, and what club they went this book is not for you. This is an ok first effort but not 5 star material.
This is a 10 star book, Sungee is a true Inspiration.......2001-10-10
I Absoulty loved the book, could not put it down, Sungee is a true Inspiration and Motivation to me, i would love to see Picking up the Pieces in a BET Special, The way the book grabs your attention, is out of sight. Sungee is a Talented Woman, i would love to see her write scripts for movies and Films one day. 10 Stars, do your thing girl, i'm proud of you.
Ray
alright.......2001-08-22
i didnt even finish this book because it was blah blah blah. i am a person who love books that will keep my attention, i like novels that has drama and twist to them, if you ae that kind of person this book is not for you. it didnt hold my attention long enough to finish the book
Love and Turmoil.......2001-06-18
I could not give this book five stars not because it wasn't an excellent book but because the ending did not satisfy me very much. I believe that this is the first book by Sungee and I feel that she did an exceptional job in telling the story of young black people coming into their own. It was a mixture of sadness, happiness, and love, also a little animosity. She also didn't forget what happens to a woman scorned. I could not put this book down. It was an enjoyable read.
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- interesting, i liked it, fun to read, you should read it!
- Toching Life Story
- Toching Life Story
- Just Another Summer
- Realistic,Informative and very interesting!!
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Picking Up the Pieces
Patricia Calvert
Manufacturer: Simon Pulse
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Fiction | Special Needs | Social Issues | People & Places | Children's Books | Subjects | Books
Fiction | Self-Esteem & Self-Respect | Social Situations | People & Places | Children's Books | Subjects | Books
Being a Teen | Social Issues | Teens | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0689824513 |
Book Description
She only agreed to accept a ride home. She never suspected it would mean she'd never play basketball again. Swim again. Dance again with a boy she liked. It wasn't supposed to mean she'd spend the rest of her life being someone she'd never intended to be.
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At fourteen, Megan's life is changed forever in the blink of an eye. One second, she was riding on the back of a cute boy's motorcycle. The next, she was in a wheelchair -- paralyzed from the waist down.
Now, nothing will ever be the same. And being with her family out at the summer house only reminds Megan of that more. Until she meets her new neighbor, Harris, and everything begins to change. Maybe the past can't ever be recaptured, but Megan's about to learn that new beginnings are always possible.
Customer Reviews:
interesting, i liked it, fun to read, you should read it!.......2005-04-04
This book is about a girl named Megan, who's about 13 years old, having to bounce back from a motorcycle accident she has a lot of problems along the way. One involves her having to learn every thing over again because she is in a wheelchair, and paralyzed from the waste down. Another is that she hasn't heard from the boy who was driving the motorcycle when they crashed.
Toching Life Story.......2001-11-11
This book brought a realization to me. It touched my Heart to see how megan coped with her disability. It teaches a great life's lesson, about accepting who you are. It shows you just how hard a diability is. Unlike movies, where everything is perfect in a disabled person's life. That's just not how it is. Harris shows that it doesn't matter that a person is disabled they're still people. All the people in this heart warming story will teach you things you never thought of before, or have and have forgotten. This book will warm your heart and bring a smile to your face.
Toching Life Story.......2001-11-11
This book brought a realization to me. It touched my Heart to see how megan coped with her disability. It teaches a great life's lesson, about accepting who you are. It shows you just how hard a diability is. Unlike movies, where everything is perfect in a disabled person's life. That's just not how it is. Harris shows that it doesn't matter that a person is disabled they're still people. All the people in this heart warming story will teach you things you never thought of before, or have and have forgotten. This book will warm your heart and bring a smile to your face.
Just Another Summer.......2000-12-18
Megan was a normal girl. Happy, and carefree. Until the terrible accident that left her in the wheelchair, and shaped the rest of her life with a spinal cord injury. Determined to help her get on with her life. Megans family plans a trip to the lake cottage where they have vacationed every summer. Megan is reluctant to go, believing that nothing will ever be the same again. The trip starts out just as Megan had planned, bringing back painful memories of what had been. That's is until she meets Harris. Him and his Aunt Julia, a bitter actress, and her husband have rented the cottege next door. Megan is determined not to like Harris, but unknowingly, she begins to fall for him. Together they get throughout their problems, and figure out that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. This, by far is the best book I've read as far as tragedy goes. The Book, "Out of the blue." by Sarah Ellis, was similar yet different to this story. In this book, a young girl, also named Megan, finds out that her mother has another daughter. This is also about a life changing experience, and both characters are very stubborn to accept the change. I think that Megan is a powerful character, and strong role model for young girls everywhere. She is lost in deep depression but with the help of Harris, they pull each other out. I think the budding romance going on between the two is adorable. This book is for people who like to sit down by the fire and cozy up to a good book. There isn't much action, and it is definitely a female book. Even so I think that any audience of young readers would appreciate it.
Realistic,Informative and very interesting!!.......1997-02-16
Realistic, it gives you an insight to the thoughts and feelingsof a physically handicapped person. It does not glorify paralysisunlike some movies. Brings up the problems that a physically handicapped person faces.
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Picking Up the Pieces: Finding Inner Peace When Your World Falls Apart
O. Sonny Acho
Manufacturer: Crossway Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General | Self-Help | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
General | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
General | Christian Living | Christianity | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0891079130 |
Books:
- You Remind Me of Me: A Novel
- A Cab at the Door & Midnight Oil
- A Factory of Cunning
- Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture (S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies)
- After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel
- And Quiet Flows the Don
- Artemisia: A Novel
- As Tough as Necessary: Countering Violence, Aggression, and Hostility in Our Schools
- Atticus: Novel, A
- Bad Land: An American Romance
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