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You'll love joining in the adventures of The Glass Castle, brand-new from Trisha White Priebe and Jerry Jenkins, where the setting from The Chronicles of Narnia Meets the action from Alice in Wonderland. The king is growing old and is concerned about who will replace him. His new wife wants to produce an heir to the throne. The only problem? The king's first wife gave birth to a son, and no one knows for sure what happened to him. Rumors swirl...
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“The Glass Castle” features explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols...
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This book summary and analysis is created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version. Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle is a memoir of unbreakable spirit and salvation: an account of the life of a dysfunctional yet oddly vivacious family. When sober, Jeannette's father was...
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Summary of Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle chronicles all the heartbreak, deprivation, humor, and love of her childhood in The Glass Castle, a memoir of growing up dirt-poor on a cross-country odyssey with her charismatic, but alcoholic, father and her codependent mother.
Jeannette began thinking of her childhood after spotting her mother, Rose Mary, rummaging through trash in New York City.
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls - Book Summary - Abbey Beathan
(Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book.)
The story of Jeannette Walls, a woman who had to escape from her family in order to achieve true happiness.
Jeannette Walls definitely lived with an unconventional family. It was a double edged sword. On one hand, her parents were talented and smart, but on the other one, they were also dysfunctional people who slowly but surely,...
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With their greatest foe seemingly defeated, Inuyasha and his friends return to normal lives. But their short period of peace is once again shattered as a new enemy begins to emerge. Kaguya, the self-proclaimed Princess from the Moon of legend, plots to plunge the world into a perpetual night of the full moon. Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo must once again unite to face a new threat.
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"In the vein of The Liar's Club and The Glass Castle, Jenny Forrester's memoir perfectly captures both place and a community situated on the Colorado Plateau between slot canyons and rattlesnakes, where she grew up with her mother and brother in a single-wide trailer proudly displaying an American flag. Forrester's powerfully eloquent story reveals a rural small town comprising God-fearing Republicans, ranchers, Mormons, and Native Americans. With...
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Television writer Tracy McMillan's comic literary road trip into the heart and soul of her relationship with her father-a convicted pimp, drug dealer, and felon-and what it has meant for her relationships with men. Like a cross between The Glass Castle and Hypocrite in a Poufy White Dress, I Love You and I'm Leaving You Anyway is funny, inspiring, and truly unique.
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Jim Henson's Beneath the Dark Crystal volume 12
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The Glass Castle, home of the Firelings and their final protection, is under siege-and Thurma cannot defend it alone. But as her former rival, Nita, and the rest of her people come together, Thurma realizes that she has never been alone, and that working together is the only way to defeat The Fire That Stays.
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Empty Promise Places follows a boy and his family as they attempt to survive the life they are given. He knows nothing different until modest glimpses of others' lives show him a vast world apart from his own. This story is sure to appeal to fans of The Glass Castle and will ring true for many in Appalachia. It will perhaps astonish readers who are unfamiliar with the everyday lives of those growing up in poverty.
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Paul Hamilton's narrative on family dysfunction is in the tradition of Jeanette Wall's 'The Glass Castle'. Hamilton uncovers secrets about his family's past after he places his father in a dementia care facility.
Hamilton sorts through his father's belongings and discovers documents revealing his father's immorality.
FATHERS, MONSTERS AND SONS explores the perplexities of the father/son relationship. Hamilton reviews the relationship by looking at...
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“Never Summer” is about my family, mother, father and three sisters who for a period of 13 years spent the entire summer months as migrant fruit harvesters in the Pacific Northwest, traveling in old Chevy's equipped with a car-top camper unit in which we lived on and off throughout the summer season. The book is a reflection of those years and the 70 some years hence with some social analysis of societal expectations and comparisons to current...
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During the long farewell of her mother's dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her Midwestern girlhood. Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entrée to St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale, Hampl remained, primarily and passionately, a daughter well into adulthood. She traces the arc of faithfulness and struggle that comes with that role-from the postwar years past the turbulent...
17) Vessel: A Memoir
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An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time.
Cai Chongda spent his childhood in a rural fishing village in Fujian province. When his father-a former communist gang leader turned gas station owner-has a stroke that partially paralyzes him, his responsibilities fall to Cai, his only son.
Assuming his new role...
18) Autumn Imago
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In this poignant spiritual novel that echoes the emotional resonance of The Glass Castle and Running with Scissors, an unexpected reunion at a remote lakeside camp in the Maine woods offers the possibility of reconciliation and healing for a man and his fractured family.
For years, Paul Strand has been estranged from his family. But when his mother's escalating Alzheimer's disease creates a crisis that calls him home, he's pressured into hosting...
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Belonging on the shelf with Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle and Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone, Leaving Breezy Street-the stunning account of Brenda Myers-Powell's brutal and beautiful life-is a critical addition to the American canon.
Fourteen years old, poor, Black, mother dead, two babies to feed and clothe, and a grandmother who is not full of motherly kindness, to put it mildly. What money-making options are open to a girl like Brenda Myers?
When...
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"The night the trailer burned down, I think Daddy was the one who set it on fire...." For a long time, Edie thought she had escaped. It started in an Appalachian trailer park, where a young girl dreamed of becoming a doctor. But every day, Edie woke up to her reality: a poverty-stricken world where getting out seemed impossible. Where, at twelve years old, she taught herself to drive a truck so she could get her drunk daddy home from the bar. Where...
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