04357cam a2200385 4500 233649271 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781481563963 1481563963 f918706c-aeca-42ee-baf0-949f8efe4bc5 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 708505 OverDrive (Product ID) 9781982514112 708505 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Moriarty, Laura, 1970- The Chaperone [Libby] : A Novel. Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2012. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 364MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 364MB. Fiction. Literature. "It's impossible not to be completely drawn in by The Chaperone. Laura Moriarty has delivered the richest and realest possible heroine in Cora Carlisle, a Wichita housewife who has her mind and heart blown wide open and steps—with uncommon courage—into the fullness of her life. What a beautiful book. I loved every page.". Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife. HTML:<p>Inspired by the real-life relationship between the fifteen-year-old future movie star Louise Brooks and the thirty-six-year-old woman who chaperoned her to New York City for a summer, The Chaperone is the story of an unlikely friendship between two women who couldn't be more different and the way it changes both their lives.</p> <p>In the summer of 1922, only a few years before she became a famous actress of the silent screen and an icon for her generation, fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks left Wichita to make it big in New York. Much to her annoyance, she was accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone who was neither mother nor friend. Little is known about this real chaperone, but Laura Moriarty's novel imagines her as Cora Carlisle, a complicated but very traditional woman with her own reason for making the trip. Of course, Cora has no idea what she's in for: young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her black bob with bangs, was known for her arrogance, her lack of respect for convention, and her keen intelligence. Cora is hardly a stranger to adversity, but by the time their train pulls into Grand Central Station, she fears that supervising and protecting her cunning young charge will be at best exhausting and, at worst, impossible. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will change one, if not both, of their lives forever.</p> <p>For Cora, New York holds the promise of discovery that might provide solace to a lifetime of yearning, and so even as she does her best to endure and watch over Louise in a strange and bustling city, she secretly perseveres on her own mission. She does indeed make a great discovery, and though it isn't the one she anticipates, it liberates her in a way she could not have imagined. The United States has been steadily moving out of the Victorian era and into the modern world, but the pace has been so much quicker in New York. Over the course of the summer, Cora's eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century, and she returns to Kansas with a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:11. McGovern, Elizabeth, 1961- http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=f918706c-aeca-42ee-baf0-949f8efe4bc5 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/708505-TheChaperone.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/708505-TheChaperone.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F918706C-AECA-42EE-BAF0-949F8EFE4BC5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/0887-1/708505-TheChaperone.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/708505-TheChaperone.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F918706C-AECA-42EE-BAF0-949F8EFE4BC5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)