Fannie Flagg
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Real estate agent Maggie Fortenberry works at Red Mountain Reality, that has been going downhill since the death of its founder, comes up with a plan to save the business. The rival of their company Babs is unscrupulous real estate agent who hates Maggie and is determined to put her out of business.
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"Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery. Among the colorful cast of characters are: Sookie, of Selma, Alabama,...
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In Fannie Flagg's high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she's "not doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade." When she leaves Shell Beach, Mississippi, in September 1959, she is packed up and ready for the Miss America Pageant, vowing "I won't come back until I'm somebody." But in our hearts she already is. Sassy and irreverent from the get-go, Daisy Fay takes us on a rollicking journey...
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After the tremendous success of her novel, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, and the beloved movie that followed, author Fannie Flagg received thousands of requests from all over the world asking for recipes from the little cafe of her Alabama childhood that was the model for the cafe in her novel. Now, she joyfully shares those recipes, in what may well be the first cookbook ever written by a satisfied customer rather than a cook! Inside...
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Stare dobre czasy, kiedy Maggie Fortenberry z dumą reprezentowała stan Alabama w konkursie Miss Ameryki, to już zamknięty rozdział w jej życiu. Wciąż jednak jest piękna i podziwiana. Odniosła też wiele zawodowych sukcesów. Mimo to w głębi serca czuje żal. Co stało się z jej marzeniami o kochającym mężu, gromadce dzieci i pięknym domu? Jako agentka nieruchomości sprzedaje je innym. Po śmierci Hazel Whisenknott, najdroższej przyjaciółki,...
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Jak dobrze wrócić do domu i uściskać starych znajomych! Otóż i oni: Idgie, Julian i jego żona, Opal; kucharka Sipsey; Duży George; szeryf Grady Kilgore; ich dzieci i wnuki. Po tym, jak kawiarnia w Whistle Stop zamknęła swoje podwoje, a stacja kolejowa przestała działać, miasteczko opustoszało. Dzięki świątecznym listom Dot Weems - żadnych plotek, same fakty! - sąsiedzka więź jednak przetrwała i znów wszyscy byli świetnie poinformowani....
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Literatura w Spódnicy volume 5
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Polish
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It's first the story of two women in the 1980s, of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth, who back in the thrities ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder....
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Return to Milton High School in this beloved '80s teen comedy. Shortly after high school student, Jeremy Capello goes on a hot date, he finds he can't stand garlic and can't see his reflection in mirrors, but he can make a delicious raw-steak shake. As maniac vampire hunter Professor McCarthy stakes him out, Jeremy just wants to pursue his high school crush.