Historical Collection
(2024)(A book in the Alydia Rackham's Collections series)
A collection of stories by Alydia Rackham
STARDUST: THE TIGHTROPE
Edith Ambrose’s life shatters in three days. Her father has run away with another woman, and her fiancé has broken their engagement. Now, Edith feels like a stranger in her own little town. Every pursuit that used to bring her joy—tennis, singing, and playing the piano at the movie theatre—brings a flood of painful memories. In an effort to escape, she moves to Hollywood to live with her eccentric and wealthy aunt, and begins taking stenographer classes. But one fateful evening at an ice-cream parlor, she meets Charlie Carnivall: a brilliant young actor/director for silent films. And to Edith’s shock, he invites to sign her on as his next leading lady. As she is swept up into this burgeoning, circus-like universe of motion pictures, will Edith’s past haunt and sabotage her future? Will Charlie’s hidden wounds and insecurities destroy everything they are trying to work for? Or will the magic and unlimited possibilities of motion picture—along with the strength of their dreams—set them both free?
THE TAILOR OF SEMENOV: RETELLING THE LEGEND OF ANASTASIA
After days of starvation, her footsteps haunted by wolves, this once-grand-duchess finds her way to the remote Jewish village of Semenov in Siberia. She conceals her name, and the truth, from the kind tailor and his niece and nephew, hoping to start a new life away from the turmoil of the rising new regime. But the fingers of Lenin’s Red Terror are long, and she may not remain safe, even here. Especially when Soviet soldiers come to Semenov...
And among them is the man who secretly saved her life.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Edith Ambrose’s life shatters in three days. Her father has run away with another woman, and her fiancé has broken their engagement. Now, Edith feels like a stranger in her own little town. Every pursuit that used to bring her joy—tennis, singing, and playing the piano at the movie theatre—brings a flood of painful memories. In an effort to escape, she moves to Hollywood to live with her eccentric and wealthy aunt, and begins taking stenographer classes. But one fateful evening at an ice-cream parlor, she meets Charlie Carnivall: a brilliant young actor/director for silent films. And to Edith’s shock, he invites to sign her on as his next leading lady. As she is swept up into this burgeoning, circus-like universe of motion pictures, will Edith’s past haunt and sabotage her future? Will Charlie’s hidden wounds and insecurities destroy everything they are trying to work for? Or will the magic and unlimited possibilities of motion picture—along with the strength of their dreams—set them both free?
THE TAILOR OF SEMENOV: RETELLING THE LEGEND OF ANASTASIA
After days of starvation, her footsteps haunted by wolves, this once-grand-duchess finds her way to the remote Jewish village of Semenov in Siberia. She conceals her name, and the truth, from the kind tailor and his niece and nephew, hoping to start a new life away from the turmoil of the rising new regime. But the fingers of Lenin’s Red Terror are long, and she may not remain safe, even here. Especially when Soviet soldiers come to Semenov...
And among them is the man who secretly saved her life.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
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