![]() ![]() Libros Literatura En otros idiomas Literatura en ingles She lives in Essex with her husband and their three children. Her previous novels have all been critically acclaimed and include The Ship of Brides, Foreign Fruit, The Last Letter From Your Lover, winner of Spring 2012's most popular Richard and Judy Book Club title Me Before You and top ten bestseller The Girl you Left Behind. She worked at the Independent for ten years before leaving to write full time. Jojo Moyes is a novelist and a journalist. ![]() ![]() "Raw, funny, real and sad, this is storytelling at its best". "An uplifting, charming, life-affirming tale that you won't want to put down". "A heartbreaking, laugh-out-loud, roller coaster". Equals a chance encounter.Ed doesn't want to save anyone and Jess doesn't want saving, but could Jess and Ed add up to something better together? Praise for The One Plus One: "A beautifully written love story I relished". He had it all, then one stupid mistake cost him everything. Plus one lost stranger.Ed Nichols is the good guy gone bad. But no one told her it's okay to ask for help. And when life knocks her down she does her best to bounce right back. One eternal optimist.Jess Thomas, with two jobs and two kids and never enough money, wears flip flops in the hope of spring. Number one bestseller The One Plus One is the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel by the internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes. ![]()
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She is buried beside Lewis in a Jaffrey, New Hampshire plot.Ĭather achieved recognition as a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience. She spent the last 39 years of her life with her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, before being diagnosed with breast cancer and dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. At the age of 33, she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. Shortly after graduating from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Cather moved to Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. The family later settled in the town of Red Cloud. Willa Cather and her family moved from Virginia to Webster County, Nebraska, when she was nine years old. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I. ![]() Willa Sibert Cather ( / ˈ k æ ð ər/ born Wilella Sibert Cather Decem – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is a bereaved widower and seeks out silence and loneliness to be with his grief and despair. As the reader soon grasps, there are reasons apart from monetary gain why Cave has taken up the challenge. The long months of utter isolation and privation are recorded in his journal and by the author as narrator. Cave accepts a wager that he would be able to survive an Arctic winter alone and is left behind by his ship with provisions and shelter as the summer conditions begin to give way to the icy temperatures of winter. ![]() Thomas Cave is a whaler on Arctic expeditions collecting whale oil and associated products, which in the early 1600s was a highly hazardous though lucrative occupation. Set in the first half of the 17th century, this is a poetic and highly literate novel that has as its themes the nature of mankind and our impact on the environment. ![]() ![]() Marshall wrote a biography of her husband, A Man Called Peter, published in 1951. He later also became a minister and author. Her husband died in 1949 of a heart attack, leaving her to care for their nine-year-old son, Peter John Marshall. She spent nearly three years recovering from the illness. In 1940, Marshall contracted tuberculosis, for which at that time no antibiotic treatment was available. The couple moved to Washington, D.C., where her husband served as pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and Chaplain of the United States Senate. ![]() While a junior at Agnes Scott College, she met Peter Marshall, marrying him in 1936. ![]() From the age of nine until her graduation from high school, Marshall was raised in Keyser, West Virginia, where her father served as pastor of a Presbyterian church from 1924 to 1942. ![]() She was the daughter of the Reverend John Ambrose Wood and Leonora Whitaker Wood. Marshall was born in Johnson City, Tennessee. She was the wife of well-known minister Peter Marshall. Christy (1967), A Man Called Peter (1955)Ĭatherine Sarah Wood Marshall LeSourd (Septem– March 18, 1983) was an American author of nonfiction, inspirational, and fiction works. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The whole experience is dramatic, tasty and a lot of fun. 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