Author: Billie Lett
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: heart
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1996-07-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0446603651
ISBN-13: 9780446603652
Oprah Book Club Selection, December 1998: A funny thing happens to Novalee Nation on her way to Bakersfield, California. Her ne’er-do-well boyfriend, Willie Jack Pickens, abandons her in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart and takes off on his own, leaving her with just 10 dollars and the clothes on her back. Not that hard luck is anything new to Novalee, who is "seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight--and superstitious about sevens.... For most people, sevens were lucky. But not for her," Billie Letts writes. "She’d had a bad history with them, starting with her sevent
Author: Nancy Crocker
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Keywords: standish, billie
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-06-05
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 141692423X
ISBN-13: 9781416924234
CAN ONE UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP SAVE A LIFE?Billie Standish has pretty much no one. Her parents are too caught up in their own lives, and the only two girls in town her age want nothing to do with her. When it looks like a nearby levee might break, and Billie’s elderly neighbor, Miss Lydia, is the only other person besides her family to stick around, a friendship is born out of circumstance. What happens during that time, in that empty town, is a tragedy that Billie can’t bear alone. Can the love of one woman nearing the end of her life save the life of a young woman just at the beginn
Author: Billie Lee Snyder Thornburg
Publisher: The Old Hundred and One Press
Keywords: miles, bertie
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-09-18
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0972161333
ISBN-13: 9780972161336
Billie won first place in the Nebraska Press Women’s Contest for Non-Fiction Books this year with her memoir, Bertie and Me. Her new book details home remedies, clothing of the early 1900s and the excitement of owning a "talking machine." Plenty of pictures add to the explanation of early roundups (now rodeos) and Model Ts. Billie tells how to get our tongue unstuck if you lick the "frosting" from a cold iron bolt in the middle of winter. The book also has an entertaining chapter on privies.
Author: Billie Lee Snyder Thornburg
Publisher: Old Hundred and One Pr
Keywords: ranch, kids, bertie
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-10-24
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0972161309
ISBN-13: 9780972161305
Memoir of a 90-year-old woman who grew up on an isolated ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska in the early 1900’s. Excellent historical information for both children and adults. A chuckle in every chapter.
Author: Billie Lee Snyder Thornburg
Publisher: Old Hundred and One Pre
Keywords: city, kid, sandhills
Number of Pages: 106
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0972161376
ISBN-13: 9780972161374
Starting at ninety Thornburg has written a book a year. This year she is ninety-two and hasn’t slowed a bit. Her third book takes us on a journey from the Sandhills of Nebraska to the big city of Salem Oregon. When she starts to come of age she moves back to North Platte NE and finds that she isn’t the only one who has grown up. So has the city!
Author: Joanne Lanni
Publisher: Lerner Publicatio
Keywords: lerner, biographies, trailblazer, tennis, jean, king, billie
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1999-08-01
List price: $27.93
ISBN-10: 082254959X
ISBN-13: 9780822549598
A biography of one of the first women to play tennis professionally.
Author: Farah Jasmine Griffin
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
Keywords: holiday, billie, search, mystery, free
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-04-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0345449738
ISBN-13: 9780345449733
More than four decades after her death, Billie Holiday remains one of the most gifted artists of our timeand also one of the most elusive. Because of who she was and how she chose to live her life, Lady Day has been the subject of both intense adoration and wildly distorted legends. Now at last, Farah Jasmine Griffin, a writer of intellectual authority and superb literary gifts, liberates Billie Holiday from the mythology that has obscured both her life and her art.An intimate meditation on Holidays place in American culture and history, If You Cant Be Free, Be A Mystery reveals Lady Day in
