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A Gathering Lightby Jennifer DonnellyISBN 074756888X (0-7475-6888-X)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Gathering Light'Book summary:It's 1906 and 16-year-old Mattie Gokey is at a crossroads in her life. She's escaped the overwhelming responsibilities of helping to run her father's brokedown farm in exchange for a paid summer job as a serving girl at a fancy hotel in the Adirondacks. She's saving as much of her salary as she can, but she's having trouble deciding how she's going to use the money at the end of the summer. Mattie's gift is for writing and she's been accepted to Barnard College in New York City, but she's held back by her sense of responsibility to her family--and by her budding romance with handsome-but-dull Royal Loomis. Royal awakens feelings in Mattie that she doesn't want to ignore, but she can't deny her passion for words and her desire to write.
At the hotel, Mattie gets caught up in the disappearance of a young couple who had gone out together in a rowboat. Mattie spoke with the young woman, Grace Brown, just before the fateful boating trip, when Grace gave her a packet of love letters and asked her to burn them. When Grace is found drowned, Mattie reads the letters and finds that she holds the key to unraveling the girl's death and her beau's mysterious disappearance. Grace Brown's story is a true one (it's the same story told in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and in the film adaptation, A Place in the Sun), and author Jennifer Donnelly masterfully interweaves the real-life story with Mattie's, making her seem even more real.
Mattie's frank voice reveals much about poverty, racism, and feminism at the turn of the twentieth century. She witnesses illness and death at a range far closer than most teens do today, and she's there when her best friend Minnie gives birth to twins. Mattie describes Minnie's harrowing labor with gut-wrenching clarity, and a visit with Minnie and the twins a few weeks later dispels any romance from the reality of young motherhood (and marriage). Overall, readers will get a taste of how bitter--and how sweet--ordinary life in the early 1900s could be. Despite the wide variety of troubles Mattie describes, the book never feels melodramatic, just heartbreakingly real. (14 and older) --Jennifer Lindsay [via]
More editions of A Gathering Light:
- A Gathering Light: ISBN 0747570639 (0-7475-7063-9)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - A Gathering Light: ISBN 0747587418 (0-7475-8741-8)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - A Gathering Light: ISBN 0713678887 (0-7136-7888-7)
Hardcover, A & C Black - A Gathering Light: ISBN 0747563047 (0-7475-6304-7)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - A Gathering Light: ISBN 074756888X (0-7475-6888-X)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- A Gathering Light: ISBN 0747570639 (0-7475-7063-9)
Humble Pieby Jennifer Donnelly , Stephen GammellISBN 0689844352 (0-689-84435-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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A Northern Lightby Jennifer DonnellyISBN 0152053107 (0-15-205310-7)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Northern Light'Book summary:It's 1906 and 16-year-old Mattie Gokey is at a crossroads in her life. She's escaped the overwhelming responsibilities of helping to run her father's brokedown farm in exchange for a paid summer job as a serving girl at a fancy hotel in the Adirondacks. She's saving as much of her salary as she can, but she's having trouble deciding how she's going to use the money at the end of the summer. Mattie's gift is for writing and she's been accepted to Barnard College in New York City, but she's held back by her sense of responsibility to her family--and by her budding romance with handsome-but-dull Royal Loomis. Royal awakens feelings in Mattie that she doesn't want to ignore, but she can't deny her passion for words and her desire to write.
At the hotel, Mattie gets caught up in the disappearance of a young couple who had gone out together in a rowboat. Mattie spoke with the young woman, Grace Brown, just before the fateful boating trip, when Grace gave her a packet of love letters and asked her to burn them. When Grace is found drowned, Mattie reads the letters and finds that she holds the key to unraveling the girl's death and her beau's mysterious disappearance. Grace Brown's story is a true one (it's the same story told in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and in the film adaptation, A Place in the Sun), and author Jennifer Donnelly masterfully interweaves the real-life story with Mattie's, making her seem even more real.
Mattie's frank voice reveals much about poverty, racism, and feminism at the turn of the twentieth century. She witnesses illness and death at a range far closer than most teens do today, and she's there when her best friend Minnie gives birth to twins. Mattie describes Minnie's harrowing labor with gut-wrenching clarity, and a visit with Minnie and the twins a few weeks later dispels any romance from the reality of young motherhood (and marriage). Overall, readers will get a taste of how bitter--and how sweet--ordinary life in the early 1900s could be. Despite the wide variety of troubles Mattie describes, the book never feels melodramatic, just heartbreakingly real. (14 and older) --Jennifer Lindsay [via]
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The Tea Roseby Jennifer DonnellyISBN 0007155565 (0-00-715556-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tea Rose'Book summary:East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams.[via]
But Fiona's life is shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Fearing her own death, she is forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit propels her rise from a modest West Side shop-front to the top of Manhattan's tea trade. But Fiona's old ghosts do not rest quietly, and to silence them, she must venture back to the London of her childhood, where a deadly confrontation with her past becomes the key to her future.More editions of The Tea Rose:
- The Tea Rose: ISBN 0007161166 (0-00-716116-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - The Tea Rose: ISBN 0007208006 (0-00-720800-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - The Tea Rose: ISBN 0312378025 (0-312-37802-5)
Softcover, Griffin - The Tea Rose: ISBN 0007161174 (0-00-716117-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - The Tea Rose: ISBN 0312993560 (0-312-99356-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - The Tea Rose: ISBN 0312288352 (0-312-28835-2)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press - The Tea Rose: ISBN 0007155565 (0-00-715556-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
- The Tea Rose: ISBN 0007161166 (0-00-716116-6)
The Wild Roseby Jennifer DonnellyISBN 0007191332 (0-00-719133-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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The Winter Roseby Jennifer DonnellyISBN 0007221878 (0-00-722187-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Winter Rose'Book summary:This is another strong, satisfying novel, full of rich storytelling, by the author of the favourite "The Tea Rose". Set in London and Africa in the early days of the twentieth century, "The Winter Rose" introduces some remarkable new characters. India Selwyn-Jones is one of the rare new breed: a lady doctor. Her family, her eligible, ambitious fiance, the male medical establishment all object, but, she insists on defying convention and finds a post in London's East End. There, she meets a gangland boss called Sid Malone. Criminal, he may be, but, he also has a hidden charm, and a devastatingly attractive personality, and when India is called to treat him after a dockside brawl, their friendship becomes more intense. But, Sid Malone is not his real name: he has a past and enemies by the score, including India's determined and ruthless fiance whose intention is to marry into the family money as well as becoming a leading political figure. The stormy, noisy, brawling docklands are a natural home to the political fight as the fledgling Labour Party gets underway, and the struggle for the women's vote becomes more strident. But the East End is also a place for those who have a past to hide, a new beginning to find. And so the complicated strands of betrayal and pretence, of ambition and family, are woven again into a new drama, in a new country. Jennifer Donnelly, author of "A Gathering Light" as well as "The Tea Rose", has a wonderful gift for sweeping storytelling, with a lively cast of vivid characters, rich and detailed backgrounds. Her writing has a warmth and energy that takes all readers completely into her world. [via]
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