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Fortune s Children
Author | : Arthur T. Vanderbilt |
Publsiher | : William Morrow |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography |
ISBN | : UVA:X001610411 |
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An account of a bygone world of privilege, money, power, and self-indulgence set in monumental mansions and country estates.
Fortune s Children
Author | : Arthur T. Vanderbilt, II |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780062288370 |
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Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Fortune's Children tells the dramatic story of all the amazingly colorful spenders who dissipated such a vast inheritance.
Children of Uncertain Fortune
Author | : Daniel Livesay |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781469634449 |
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By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters--the very people who decided Britain's colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes--rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.
Fortune Cookie Fortunes
Author | : Grace Lin |
Publsiher | : Perfection Learning |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0756977673 |
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After a young Chinese American girl opens fortune cookies with her family, she notices that the fortunes seem to come true, in a story which includes brief notes on the history of the fortune cookie.
Fortune s Favorite Child
Author | : Christopher Maurer |
Publsiher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1578065399 |
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In this new biography, Maurer explores the troubled life of one of America's most prolific and idiosyncratic artists.
Fortune s Magic Farm
Author | : Suzanne Selfors |
Publsiher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2009-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780316040952 |
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Everything changes when Isabelle discovers that she is the heir to Fortune's Farm, a wondrous place where the final remnants of magic grow. For as long as she can remember, ten-year-old Isabelle has dreamed of escaping her home in Runny Cove, a gray village where it never stops raining, and where she is forced to work at Mr. Supreme's Umbrella Factory. Journeying across the ocean, Isabelle finds a sunny new home filled with magical delights, including Curative Cherry trees that can heal all kinds of sickness, and Floating Fronds that make her fly. But Isabelle still feels the call to return to Runny Cove and use the secrets of the farm to stop the rain. With the magic of Fortune's Farm behind her, will Isabell be strong enough to bring back the sun and stop the despicable Mr. Supreme? From the author of Smells Like Dog comes a magical journey about loyalty, family, and the magic within.
Fortune s Daughter
Author | : Alice Hoffman |
Publsiher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2014-09-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781497652422 |
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An “intimate, lovely novel, most of whose concerns swirl about the pain and joys of motherhood,” from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Rules of Magic (People). Rae Perry has been in love with Jessup since high school. Two weeks before her eighteenth birthday, they ran away from Boston together and have been moving ever since—five states in seven years. Now they are in Southern California in what they call “earthquake weather,” a time when anything can happen, and Jessup is restless again. This time, Rae fears, he plans to leave without her. Lila Grey is a fortune-teller. More than a quarter century ago, on a cold and icy night in New York City, she gave birth to a daughter she never saw again. Lila is determined to find her lost child, even if it means an end to her happy life with Richard, the loving husband she refuses to let into her past. It is Lila who tells Rae she is pregnant—but the other symbol she reads in Rae’s tea leaves, she refuses to reveal. From that moment forward, their fates are inextricably linked. While Rae searches for the strength to navigate an uncertain future alone, Lila sets out to resolve her history once and for all. This luminous novel, a New York Times Notable Book, is an enthralling tribute to the profound mysteries of motherhood and childbirth from a writer who, in the words of Amy Tan, “takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel extraordinary things.”
Every Summer After
Author | : Carley Fortune |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2022-05-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780735243767 |
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of spending summers in cottage country, on the glittering lakeshore of her childhood, she stays in a stylish apartment in Toronto, keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until Percy receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers during their youth, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm nights working in his family’s restaurant, Percy and Sam had been inseparable. And when Percy returns to the lake, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until she can confront the decisions she made, they’ll never know whether their love is bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past. Told over the course of six years in the past and one weekend in the present, Every Summer After is a gorgeously romantic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.