Ann Hood
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An entertaining and fascinating memoir of "gifted storyteller" (People) Ann Hood's adventurous years as a TWA flight attendant. In 1978, in the tailwind of the Golden Age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world, Ann Hood joined their ranks. She carved chateaubriand in the first-class cabin, found romance on layovers in London and Lisbon, and walked more...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ava's twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out of sheer desperation for companionship. The group's goal throughout the year is for each member to present the book that matters most to them. Ava rediscovers a mysterious book from her childhood--one that helped her through the traumas of the untimely...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls. From her Italian American childhood through singlehood, raising and feeding a growing family, divorce, and a new marriage to food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmother's tomato sauce and dreamed of her mother's special-occasion Fancy Lady...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
After her father leaves and marries the glamorous Ava Pomme, Madeline blames her mother for their difficult new life, but in spite of the twelve-year-old's efforts to achieve sainthood, it takes a summer trip to Italy to put her family into perspective.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the spirit of How to Make an American Quilt and The Joy Luck Club comes this novel about friendship and redemption. After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her life. Alice, Scarlet, Lulu, Beth, Harriet, and Ellen welcome Mary into their circle despite her reluctance to open...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Reveals the personal stories behind the author's written works, describing her early years in a Rhode Island mill town and the books that shaped her love of literature, her political views, and her travel ambitions.
"Growing up in a mill town in Rhode Island, in a household that didn't foster a love of literature, Ann Hood discovered nonetheless the companionship of books. She learned to channel her imagination, ambitions, and curiosity by devouring...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the-century Italy, fourteen-year-old Josephine, sheltered and naïve, is forced into an arranged marriage to a man she doesn't know or love who is about to depart for America, where she later joins him. Bound by tradition, Josephine gives birth to seven children. The last, Valentina, is conceived in passion, born in secret, and given up for adoption. Josephine spends the rest of her life searching for her lost child, keeping her secret...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The painful and courageous journey toward adoption made by several of her clients forces Maya Lange, founder of The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families, to confront the lost daughter of her past.
Author
Language
English
Description
On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien...
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Libby woke up that morning and knew it was time to leave . . . Libby Harper, unsatisfied with her suburban life, abandons Massachusetts, her two teenage children, and Tom, her husband of eighteen years. Depressed and feeling trapped, she is determined to realize her fantasies of Hollywood fame before it is too late. Dana has been expecting her mother to walk out for years. Her older brother, Troy, who is always in trouble, has been struggling to get...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I involving a French artist and her baby, Nick Burns, with only months left to live, enlists Jenny, a college dropout, to help him unravel the mystery, forcing them both to reckon with regret, betrayal and the lives they've left behind.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Katie was Jude's favorite person in the world. And not many brothers say that about their sister and mean it. But to Jude, Katie was everything--the person who made him learn how to say "I love you" in every language, who performed dramatic readings of Romeo and Juliet, who obsessed over every item on the diner menu looking for the most authentic diner meal. The one who called him "Jude Banks, Superhero," because to her, Jude was the best. She was...
Author
Series
Treasure Chest volume no. 1
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their parents divorce, twelve-year-old twins Felix and Maisie move with their mother to live in the attic of a historic Newport, Rhode Island, mansion where they discover a hidden room that carries with it an intriguing secret.
Author
Series
Treasure Chest volume no. 8
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
177 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sent by Great-Uncle Thorne on a dangerous trip back in time, Felix, Maisie, and the Ziff twins are accidentally separated and land in early twentieth-century Kansas, where they meet a young Amelia Earhart.
15) Clementine
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two years after her sister's tragic death, fourteen-year-old Clementine still struggles with overwhelming guilt and grief and feels disconnected from the world around her.
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays about the transformative power of knitting from 27 contemporary authors, including Ann Patchett, Barbara Kingsolver, John Dufresne, and Joyce Maynard.