Sarah Bird
Author
Language
English
Description
"Here's the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my Mama never let me forget it." Cathy Williams was born and lived a slave until the Union army came and destroyed the only world she had ever known. Separated from her family, she makes the impossible decision: to fight with the Buffalo Soldiers disguised as a man. With courage and wit, Cathy must not only fight for her survival and...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman-and a nation-struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She'd come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Set on the island of Okinawa today and during World War II, this deeply moving and evocative novel tells the entwined stories of two teenage girls-an American and an Okinawan-whose lives are connected across 70 years by the shared experience of both profound loss and renewal. Luz, a contemporary U.S. Air Force brat, lives with her no-nonsense sergeant mother at Kadena Air Base. Luz's older sister, her best friend and emotional center, has died in...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Bird authors brilliant, introspective novels of bittersweet reminiscence tempered with humor. The Yokota Officers Club is a tale both courageous and touching-a journey of the heart that speaks volumes of the transient, isolated lifestyle of military families. Having grown up at the Yokota Air Base in Japan, and having moved six times in the last eight years, Bernadette "Bernie" Root and her five siblings are quintessential military brats. It's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Blythe Young falls down the social ladder she had been climbing as a result of divorce, business failure, troubles with the IRS, and addictions to drugs and scamming people. She finds herself moving back into the co-op boardinghouse she lived in when she was a University of Texas student and reconnecting with people she rejected on her way up.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Bird's insightful, funny novels about love have won her high praise from critics and a loyal following. Booklist says she writes with "a voice that will resonate like a fine guitar." Rae's life falls apart when her father dies of cancer and her mother joins a religious cult. The only person who understands Rae is local bad girl Didi, who is experiencing a similar loss. Both girls fall in love with handsome flamenco guitarist Tomas Montenegro,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Step right up and join Sonja K. Getz - big hips, bigger brain, monster mouth - on her tour of the West that Was Suppressed. They say that all true Western heroes are outsiders; well, in Dorfburg, Texas, you can't get much farther out than a jumbo-sized, rabidly P.C. woman who won't shut up and doesn't give a warm cowpie whether you like it or not. Vowing to show all the hometown clods - starting with Tinka, her iron-willed, cutie-pie German single...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Collapse threatens a not-quite sorority house at the University of Texas and its residents' solidarity, as three Alamo House women--Mary Jo, Fayrene, and Collie--stage a madcap conterattack against the neighboring fraternity and other antagonists.
