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The Taxi Driver's Daughter

2004 Dysfunctional families
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Release : 2004
Genre : Dysfunctional families
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Book Rating : 612/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Taxi Driver's Daughter by : Julia Darling

Download or read book The Taxi Driver's Daughter written by Julia Darling. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother is sent to prison for three months for assaulting a policeman with a stiletto shoe, fifteen-year-old Caris goes gently off the rails. Whilst her taxi-driver father Mac attempts to keep the family together, Caris meets George, a boy from the other side of the vale and from a very different sort of family. Their relationship leads her away from school and what she has known, into a new and unnerving world - and looks set to throw the family into terrifying chaos. Julia Darling's acclaimed novel blends the gritty and the everyday with the evocative and the enchanting, to create an original, inventive and often moving portrayal of family ties, suburban life, love and growing up.

The Taxi Driver's Daughter

2003 Fiction
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Release : 2003
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Taxi Driver's Daughter by : Julia Darling

Download or read book The Taxi Driver's Daughter written by Julia Darling. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is late December and fifteen - year - old Caris is trying to hang an angel on a Christmas tree in a terraced house in Newcastle - upon - Tyne. She is interrupted by the arrival of the police who have come to announce that her mother, Louise, has been caught stealing a shoe in a department store in town. Caris's father, Mac, a taxi driver, struggles to keep the family together as Christmas looks set for disaster, especially when Louise's drunken, dishevelled mother moves in. While Mac finds solace talking to his passengers, Caris is drawn into the intriguing darkness of the nearby vale where she meets George, an unpredictable boy form a very different sort of family. Their relationship leads her away form school and what she has know, into a new an unnerving world.

The Cab Driver's Daughter

2016-02-20
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Release : 2016-02-20
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Book Rating : 724/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Cab Driver's Daughter by : Lynda Randle

Download or read book The Cab Driver's Daughter written by Lynda Randle. This book was released on 2016-02-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Those Bones Are Not My Child

2009-09-23 Fiction
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Release : 2009-09-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 619/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Those Bones Are Not My Child by : Toni Cade Bambara

Download or read book Those Bones Are Not My Child written by Toni Cade Bambara. This book was released on 2009-09-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This suspenseful novel portrays a community--and a family--under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who calls Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare. Having elected its first black mayor in 1980, Atlanta projected an image of political progressiveness and prosperity. But between September 1979 and June 1981, more than forty black children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered throughout "The City Too Busy to Hate." Zala Spencer, a mother of three, is barely surviving on the margins of a flourishing economy when she awakens on July 20, 1980 to find her teenage son Sonny missing. As hours turn into days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children just beginning to attract national attention. Growing increasingly disillusioned with the authorities, who respond to Sonny's disappearance with cold indifference, Zala and her estranged husband embark on a desperate search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions.

The Caretaker

2013-05-21 Fiction
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Release : 2013-05-21
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 835/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Caretaker by : A. X. Ahmad

Download or read book The Caretaker written by A. X. Ahmad. This book was released on 2013-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the caretaker hiding in the shadows of the Martha's Vineyard mansions he tends? Back in India, Ranjit Singh commanded an elite army squad. But that was years ago, before his Army career ended in dishonor, shattering his reputation. Driven from his homeland, he is now a caretaker on the exclusive resort island of Martha's Vineyard, looking after the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. One harsh winter, faced with no other choice, he secretly moves his family into the house of one of his clients, an African-American Senator. Here, his wife and daughter are happy, and he feels safe for the first time in ages. But Ranjit's idyll is shattered when mysterious men break into the house. Pursued and hunted, Ranjit is forced to enter the Senator's shadowy world, and his only ally is Anna, the Senator's beautiful wife, who has secrets of her own. Together, they uncover a trail of deception that leads from the calm shores of the Vineyard to countries half a world away. And when his investigation stirs up long forgotten events, the caretaker must finally face the one careless decision that ruined his life- and forced him to leave India. A gripping tale of hidden histories, political intrigue and dangerous attractions, A. X. Ahmad's The Caretaker introduces a new hero for our times: an immigrant caught between two worlds and a man caught between two loves.

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