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Mary

A Novel

By: Janis Cooke Newman

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A dramatic tale filled with passion and depression, poverty and ridicule, infidelity and redemption, this is the unforgettable story of Mary Todd Lincoln–one of history’s most enigmatic and misunderstood women. Writing from Bellevue asylum–where the shrieks of the other inmates keep her awake at night–a famous widow finally shares the story of her life in her own words. From her tempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family through the opium clouded years after her husband’s death, we are let into the inner, intimate world of this brave and fascinating woman. Intelligent and unconventional–and, some thought, mad–she held séances in the White House, ran her family into debt with compulsive shopping, negotiated with conniving politicians, and raised her young sons during the Civil War. She was also a political strategist, a comfort to wounded soldiers, a supporter of emancipation, the first to be called First Lady, and a wife and mother who survived the loss of three children and the assassination of her beloved husband.

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Anchor Canada

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0385673043

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9780385673044

The Russian Word for Snow

A True Story of Adoption

By: Janis Cooke Newman

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The Russian Word for Snow

A True Story of Adoption

By: Janis Cooke Newman

Janis Cooke Newman first saw the baby who would become her son on a videotape. He was 10 months old and naked, lying on a metal changing table while a woman in a white lab coat and a babushka tried to make him smile for the camera. Four months later, the Newmans traveled to Moscow to get their son. Russia was facing its first democratic election, and the front-runner was an anti-American Communist who they feared would block adoptions. For nearly a month, the Newmans spent every day at the orphanage with the child they'd named Alex, waiting for his adoption to be approved. As Russia struggled with internal conflict, the metro line they used was bombed, and another night, the man who was to sign their papers was injured in a car-bombing. Finally, when the Newmans had begun to consider kidnapping, their adoption coordinator, through the fog of a hangover, made the call: Alex was theirs. Written with a keen sense of humor, The Russian Word for Snow is a clear-eyed look at the experience of making a family through adoption.

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242

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St. Martin's Press

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1466852356

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9781466852358

A Master Plan for Rescue

A Novel

By: Janis Cooke Newman

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A Master Plan for Rescue

A Novel

By: Janis Cooke Newman

Named a Best Book of 2015 by the San Francisco Chronicle From the bestselling author of Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln, a magical novel about the surprising acts we are capable of in the name of love. Set in 1942 New York and Berlin, A Master Plan for Rescue is an enchanting novel about the life-giving powers of storytelling, and the heroism that can be inspired by love. In essence, it is two love stories. It is the story of a child who worships his parents, then loses his father to an accident and his mother to her resulting grief. And it is the story of a young man who stumbles into the romance of his life, then watches her decline, forever changing the arc of his future. Each is propelled by the belief that if he acts heroically enough, it will restore some part of what—or whom—he has lost. But when they meet, this boy and this man, their combined grief and magical thinking will allow them to dream the impossible. Sharing stories of the people they have lost, they are inspired to join forces and act in their memory. To do something so memorable that it might actually bring their loved ones back—even if only in spirit. A Master Plan for Rescue is a beautiful tale, propelled by history and imagination, that suggests people’s impact upon the world doesn’t necessarily end with their lives, and that, to some degree, we are the sum of the stories we tell.

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Penguin

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039918502X

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9780399185021

The Russian Word for Snow

A True Story of Adoption

By: Janis Cooke Newman

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A True Story of Adoption

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A Master Plan for Rescue

A Novel

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Mary, Mrs. A. Lincoln

A Novel

By: Janis Cooke Newman

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Mary, Mrs. A. Lincoln

A Novel

By: Janis Cooke Newman

A novel about the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, narrated by the First Lady herself, a USA Today choice for Best Historical Fiction of the Year. The wife of Abraham Lincoln is one of history’s most misunderstood and enigmatic women. She was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three children and the assassination of her beloved husband. She also ran her family into debt, held seances in the White House, and was committed to an insane asylum—which is where Janis Cooke Newman’s debut novel begins. From her room in Bellevue Place, Mary chronicles her tempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family and takes readers through the years after her husband’s death, revealing the ebbs and flows of her passion and depression, her poverty and ridicule, and her ultimate redemption, in a novel that is both a fascinating look at a nineteenth-century woman’s experience and “an old-fashioned pleasure to read” (The Plain Dealer). A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

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HMH

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0544148959

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9780544148956

The Russian Word for Snow

A Moving True Story of Adoption

By: Janis Cooke Newman

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A Moving True Story of Adoption

By: Janis Cooke Newman

It wasn't until her mother died that successful writer Janis Cooke Newman felt the urge to have a child. When she and her husband, Ken, had difficulty conceiving, they went to a meeting about adoption only vaguely interested in the idea. But from the moment they saw the videotape of a little Russian boy - whose name was the Russian word for snow - they knew he was the one. Their struggle to adopt this little boy with his huge eyes and uncertain smile plunged them into the bureaucratic and often heartbreaking world of international adoption against a backdrop of political tension.

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232

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Penguin Books

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0143000454

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9780143000457

Mrs Lincoln

A Novel

By: Janis Cooke Newman

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Mrs Lincoln

A Novel

By: Janis Cooke Newman

Mary Todd Lincoln the 'First Lady' is a figure of some notoriety in the USA. She is incarcerated in an insane asylum after committal proceedings instigated by her own son. This book tells her own story.

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1905802218

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9781905802210

Mrs Lincoln

By: Janis Cooke Newman,Myrmidon Books

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Mrs Lincoln

By: Janis Cooke Newman,Myrmidon Books

Incarcerated in an insane asylum after committal proceedings instigated by her own son, Mary Lincoln resolves to tell her own story in order to preserve and to prove her own sanity. This fictional autobiography of the original 'First Lady' presents a fascinating, complex heroine of history.

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1905802110

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