[PDF] Spring Came On Forever eBook

Author : Bess Streeter Aldrich
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Domestic fiction
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Two German-American families come to Nebraska in covered wagons.

Author : Bess Streeter Aldrich
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 37,38 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803259072

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Acclaimed for her 1928 novel A Lantern in Her Hand, Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer experience. In 1935, she published her masterpiece, Spring Came on Forever, a novel of two Nebraska pioneer families from settlement to the 1930s. Elsewhere an artist of the romance, here Aldrich turns romance on its head. The heroine is Amalia Holmsdorfer, one of a band of German immigrants who settle on the prairie. From her late teens to her mid-eighties she confronts and defeats the forces of nature and society that discourage or ruin others. Her life might be a modest triumph but for one detail: she married the wrong man. Quickly paced and precisely drawn, this novel is Aldrich's greatest tribute to the complexity, humor, endurance, and intelligence of the people who settled the prairie. Whatever its sentiments, it has as many cutting edges as a buzz saw.

Author : Joan Hohl
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1488745226

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Now was the winter of discontent for Paul Vanzant. His children were grown, the wife he'd once loved–but who'd bitterly betrayed him–was gone. He felt rudderless on a chillingly cold sea... Then he met Karen Mitchell–a woman in the autumn of her life. Though she found passion in Paul's embrace, Karen claimed a momentary interlude was all they'd ever share. But Paul wanted more than a brief affair. He'd finally found true love, and he was determined to keep Karen–and the warmth of spring–forever in his life.

Author : Bess Streeter Aldrich
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781500367879

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Bess Streeter Aldrich (February 17, 1881 - August 3, 1954) was an American author. Streeter was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She went on to become one of the highest-paid women writers. Her stories often concerned Midwestern pioneer history and were very popular with teenage girls and young women. Aldrich's first novel, Mother Mason, was published in 1924. She was the author of about 200 short stories and thirteen novels, including Miss Bishop. The latter novel was made into a movie Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941), which starred Martha Scott and Edmund Gwenn and premiered in Lincoln, Nebraska. Aldrich was named into the Nebraska Hall of Fame in 1973. In this book: Mother Mason, A Lantern in her Hand, A White Bird Flying, Miss Bishop, Spring Came on Forever, Mother's Excitement Over Father's Old Sweetheart, Last Night When You Kissed Blanche Thompson, A Long-Distance Call From Jim

Author : Kristin Hannah
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2008-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429927844

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From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series! In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test. Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.