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Family Money |
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Nina Bawden |
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From Publishers Weekly
Bawden's second novel (after Circles of Deceit ) is pervaded by an acute sense of menace. Its frightened protagonist, Fanny Pye, is a London widow suffering from partial amnesia and agoraphobia after witnessing a violent crime. Strolling home from a neighborhood restaurant, Fanny sees an altercation among three young men which leaves one of them dead and another--called Jake--fleeing the scene. Knocked unconscious by the third man, Fanny comes to in the hospital with a sketchy memory of the episode; repeated prodding from her two grown children as well as the authorities does little to jog her recall. The son and daughter attempt to cope with their aging and now ailing mother when she comes home from the hospital full of talk about giving away great sums of money to an old family friend. Fanny herself must find a... |
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Ruffian on the Stair |
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Nina Bawden |
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From AudioFile
Bill Wallis brings his considerable talents to Nina Bawden's piercing scrutiny of one man's life and its effect on the lives of those around him. Silas Mudd is about to turn 100. His family plans an appropriately gala birthday celebration for him. Bawden develops her story largely through painfully perceptive interior monologues, which unmask deep resentments, forbidden attractions, hostilities, and genuine caring. Through these, we meet Effie, Silas's sickly first wife; his second wife, Bella, given to wearing flashy, too tight clothing; his always admirable aunt; and the other important women in his life. Wallis's voice quivers with rage, whispers dark secrets, and resounds with bravado as he undertakes the revelations of an unusual family, brilliantly reconstructed by one of Britain's master storytellers. S.J.H.... |
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Nice Change |
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Nina Bawden |
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Amy thinks that the Hotel Parthenon in Greece would be a nice change for her husband, Labour Minister Tom Jones, who is grumpily recovering from an operation for hemorrhoids. But once there, they run into Portia, Tom¹s redheaded ex-mistress. Then they receive a surprise visit from Tom¹s rakish father, Vic. Also at the hotel are Philip, an American publisher recovering from his wife¹s suicide; Prudence, a young doctor nursing a broken heart and waiting for her Granny; and Mr. and Mrs. Boot, who have decided it best to steer clear of the London police for a little while. Completing the cast are the elegant, gray-haired twins, Jane and Trish. Reminiscent of A Midsummer¹s Night Dream, where the most unlikely people fall in and out of love, A Nice Change is classic Nina Bawden.
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Off the Road |
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Nina Bawden |
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0395913217 |
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A divided America in the year 2040 is the setting for this novel filled with "imaginative details," said PW. "For sci-fi buffs not yet ready to tackle Orwell's 1984, Bawden here introduces many of the same provocative issues for middle readers." Ages 10-14. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8-A novel set in Wales in 2036. Tom Jacobs, 11, and his family are celebrating his grandfather's birthday with an outing to the Memory Theme Park, that is, until Gandy goes AWOL. In this orderly, high-tech society, people reside in neat communities called Urbs, surrounded by fortifications to "hold back the Wild." Children are brought up to fear anything beyond... |
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Off the Road |
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Nina Bawden |
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0613359933 |
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From Publishers Weekly
A divided America in the year 2040 is the setting for this novel filled with "imaginative details," said PW. "For sci-fi buffs not yet ready to tackle Orwell's 1984, Bawden here introduces many of the same provocative issues for middle readers." Ages 10-14. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8-A novel set in Wales in 2036. Tom Jacobs, 11, and his family are celebrating his grandfather's birthday with an outing to the Memory Theme Park, that is, until Gandy goes AWOL. In this orderly, high-tech society, people reside in neat communities called Urbs, surrounded by fortifications to "hold back the Wild." Children are brought up to fear anything beyond... |
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Granny the Pag |
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Nina Bawden |
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Cat's granny, a leather-wearing, motorcycle-riding, chain-smoking psychiatrist, has raised Cat since she was little. But will Cat's TV-star parents take her away? "Bawden maintains a light touch throughout, though never at the expense of characterization," said PW. Ages 10-14. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 4-7?Catriona (Cat) Brooke, 12, has always longed for a normal life. Her classmates think it must be glamorous to have famous actors for parents (though she rarely sees them and finds them insufferable). They also think her motorcycle-riding guardian and grandmother, Dr. Halina Lubonirska, is totally cool, if a little eccentric. Cat, who in her early childhood... |
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Humbug |
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Nina Bawden |
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From Publishers Weekly
A victim of adult convenience, eight-year-old Cora is temporarily boarded with a very unpleasant girl named Angelica and her equally disagreeable mother, "Aunt Sunday." The only saving grace is the bond she forms with another unhappy boarder, Sunday's invalid mother, Ma Potter. But when Angelica frames Cora as a diamond thief, even Ma Potter's brand of no-nonsense grandmothering is scant consolation. Cora's ultimate solution to her problem is to run away, but, through the wisdom of Ma Potter, she (and the reader) receive a tool to put painful and confusing experiences in perspective. Ma Potter, meanwhile, gaining some overdue insight into her own life, offers the priceless and humorous comfort of experience to Cora by saying at a particularly uncomfortable moment, "Cheer up. They can't shoot us." Well-rounded,... |
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Humbug |
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Nina Bawden |
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From Publishers Weekly
A victim of adult convenience, eight-year-old Cora is temporarily boarded with a very unpleasant girl named Angelica and her equally disagreeable mother, "Aunt Sunday." The only saving grace is the bond she forms with another unhappy boarder, Sunday's invalid mother, Ma Potter. But when Angelica frames Cora as a diamond thief, even Ma Potter's brand of no-nonsense grandmothering is scant consolation. Cora's ultimate solution to her problem is to run away, but, through the wisdom of Ma Potter, she (and the reader) receive a tool to put painful and confusing experiences in perspective. Ma Potter, meanwhile, gaining some overdue insight into her own life, offers the priceless and humorous comfort of experience to Cora by saying at a particularly uncomfortable moment, "Cheer up. They can't shoot us." Well-rounded,... |
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Afternoon of a Good Woman |
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Isis Press |
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0753155877 |
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Penelope has always done her best to be a good wife, a good mistress, a good mother ‹ and a good magistrate. Today, she is more conscious than usual of the thinness of the thread that separates good from bad, the law-abiding from the criminal. Sitting in court, hearing a short, sad case of indecent exposure and a long, confused theft, she finds herself simultaneously examining her own sex life (how would all that sound in court?), her own actions and intentions. A tour de force, Nina Bawden¹s ingeniously constructed novel counterpoints public appearance with private behavior. The result is a marvelous picture of a not always admirable but engagingly complex, very human heroine.
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A Little Love, a Little Learning |
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Nina Bawden |
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From AudioFile
The three Boyd children are living with their mother and stepfather in a suburb of London, dealing with the issues that provide all children with the stumbling blocks of growing up. Joanna is wounded by love; Kate toys with the dramas of life, while Poll plays the detective. Their stepfather is a loving guide for them all...but why does no one tell them about their real father? Although the plot is simple, the action of the book would be well served by a narrator who is excited by its contents. Julia Sands has excellent diction. She sometimes changes her tone for different characters. But her reading is aimed more at expressing the sentence than remembering the story and pushing it forward to a climax. As she tells it, nothing much happens. J.P. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile,... |
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Afternoon of a Good Woman |
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Nina Bawden |
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0753158787 |
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Book Description
Penelope has always done her best to be a good wife, a good mistress, a good mother ‹ and a good magistrate. Today, she is more conscious than usual of the thinness of the thread that separates good from bad, the law-abiding from the criminal. Sitting in court, hearing a short, sad case of indecent exposure and a long, confused theft, she finds herself simultaneously examining her own sex life (how would all that sound in court?), her own actions and intentions. A tour de force, Nina Bawden¹s ingeniously constructed novel counterpoints public appearance with private behavior. The result is a marvelous picture of a not always admirable but engagingly complex, very human heroine.
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A Little Love, a Little Learning |
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Nina Bawden |
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From AudioFile
The three Boyd children are living with their mother and stepfather in a suburb of London, dealing with the issues that provide all children with the stumbling blocks of growing up. Joanna is wounded by love; Kate toys with the dramas of life, while Poll plays the detective. Their stepfather is a loving guide for them all...but why does no one tell them about their real father? Although the plot is simple, the action of the book would be well served by a narrator who is excited by its contents. Julia Sands has excellent diction. She sometimes changes her tone for different characters. But her reading is aimed more at expressing the sentence than remembering the story and pushing it forward to a climax. As she tells it, nothing much happens. J.P. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile,... |
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The Real Plato Jones |
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Nina Bawden |
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Familiar Passions |
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Nina Bawden |
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Audio Cassette - Unabridged |
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0754000982 |
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From AudioFile
No dramatic performance dazzles the listener in this story of a middle-aged British woman who embarks on a journey of self-discovery after her husband leaves her. Instead, Sheila Mitchell's pleasant voice, subtly suggesting distinctions between male and female, young and old, has the relaxed appeal of a traditional storyteller. It's almost as if she's chatting over a neighborly cup of coffee as she describes Bridie's loving adoptive parents, her beastly husband, and her motley relatives and friends. (How fortunate that one of these just happens to be male, charming, and eligible!) When a book is this good, six cassettes are nowhere near enough. J.C. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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After an expensive dinner party on their 13th wedding anniversary, James calmly... |
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