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Sarah Bird (born 1949) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. Biography She was born in 1949 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her father was an officer in the US Air Force, and her family (a "Catholic family of eight"), including her mother, Colista Bird, travelled with him around the US and the world during her childhood. Sarah's mother recognized signs of her daughter's creative storytelling talent as young as kindergarten. She attended the University of New Mexico, earning a BA there in 1973. Moving to the University of Texas at Austin, she went on to receive an MA in journalism there in 1976. She is married to George Jones, and has one son, Gabriel Bird-Jones, born in 1989. The family lives in Austin, Texas. During the mid-1980s, Bird was a founding contributing-editor to Austin's Third Coast Magazine, for which she wrote numerous feature and humor articles. Bird's first published novel was Do Evil Cheerfully, a mystery (as Sarah McCabe Bird). In 1986, her comic novel Alamo House was published based on her experience as a graduate student at the University of Texas. She published five contemporary romance novels with Silhouette under the pseudonym "Tory Cates". Bird wrote the screenplay for the movie Don't Tell Her It's Me (1990, starring Shelley Long and Steve Guttenberg), adapting the Boyfriend School novel. The Boyfriend School and The Mommy Club, published by Ballantine in 1989 and 1991, respectively, were both humorous novels drawing on Bird's life experiences. In addition to novels, Bird has written screenplays for television and magazine articles for national women's magazines. She writes a column for Texas Monthly. Virgin of the Rodeo was published in 1999. Bird was named Austin's best author in 2001 by the Austin Chronicle, the year she also published The Yokota Officers Club, a novel that draws on her experiences as military brat. She has also written screenplays for the National Geographic Channel and Hallmark, as well as the CBS movie Yesterday's Children. Another novel, The Flamenco Academy, came out in 2006. A new novel, How Perfect Is That, was published by Knopf in June 2008. Bibliography Novels Do Evil Cheerfully, 1983 (as Sarah McCabe Bird) Alamo House, 1986 The Boyfriend School, 1989, Doubleday The Mommy Club, 1991 Virgin of the Rodeo, 1999 The Yokota Officers Club, 2001 The Flamenco Academy, 2006 How Perfect Is That, 2008 The Gap Year, 2011 Above the East China Sea, 2014 Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen, 2018 Last Dance on the Starlight Pier, 2022 Nonfiction A Love Letter to Texas Women, 2016, University of Texas Press References External links Sarah Bird - and interview with author Military brat calls a truce Bird's Words. Discover the Sarah Bird popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Sarah Bird books.
Best Seller Sarah Bird Books of 2024
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Bird and Sword
Amy Harmon & Corinna WiejaEin Mädchen ohne Stimme. Ein König in Ketten. Ein Fluch, der sie vereint. Mit fünf Jahren musste Lark mit ansehen, wie ihre Mutter vor ihren Augen hingerichtet wurde. Mit dem letzt...
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More Taste Than Time
Annie BellThis is the essential cookery book for the host or hostess who wishes to entertain in style, using the freshest and best seasonal produce, but who doesn't want to spend long in...
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The Flamenco Academy
Sarah BirdFrom the author of the widely praised The Yokota Officers Club, a superbly alive novel about two young American women caught up in the fevered excitement of the flamenco revival sw...
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How To Write It
Anthony AnaxagorouHow to Write It: Tell Your StoryThis book is a masterclass in the craft of writing and poetry from one of Britain's most celebrated poets and educators, T.S. Eliot Prize nominee An...
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Grandma Bird
Benji DaviesA tender and heartwarming story about the growing relationship between a boy and his grandmother, set in the world of The Storm Whale by bestselling picture book creator, Benj...
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Sarah and the Big Bird
Adamo GiraldoThis rhyming children’s book tells the story of a young girl who befriends a giant bird that lives at the edge of town. When Sarah tries to introduce the townspeople to the bird, t...
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Never Seen Again
Paul Finch'Finch is a born storyteller' PETER JAMES'Guaranteed to elevate your heart rate' DAVID JACKSONA GRIPPING AND EXPLOSIVE NEW THRILLER FROM THE MILLION COPY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA m...
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A Love Story for Bewildered Girls
Emma Morgan'An utterly gorgeous novel. It will forever hold my heart in its pages' Pandora Sykes, cohost of The HighLow podcastGrace loves a woman. Annie loves a man. Violet isn't quite sure....
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Battle for the Bird
Kurt WagnerAn expertly reported investigation into Twitter’s messy corporate historyincluding Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022, its outsized cultural impact, and its significant role in shaping h...
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The Prawn Cocktail Years
Lindsey Bareham & Simon HopkinsonWhile Lindsey Bareham was helping Simon Hopkinson put together his bestselling book, Roast Chicken and Other Stories, the two of them began to reminisce about hotel and restaurant ...
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A Fire So Wild
Sarah Ruiz-GrossmanZibby Mag, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and She Reads Most Anticipated Book of the Year“RuizGrossman balances the social and political, the emotional and physical, with insight...
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A Soul Untamed
Yvy KaziKann die Magie ihnen helfen, ihr Happy End zu finden?In der Hoffnung, ihre Fähigkeiten als Sirene besser zu verstehen und eine Lösung für den Fluch zu finden, der sie tötet, wenn s...
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Black Bird Academy - Liebe den Tod
Stella TackDer TikTokTrend Dark Academia trifft auf fesselnde FantasyRomance! Das explosive Finale der »Black Bird Academy«Trilogie! Mit farbigem Buchschnitt nur in limitierter Auflage.Eine g...
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Last Dance on the Starlight Pier
Sarah BirdSet during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one womanand a nationstruggling to be reborn from the ashes.July 3. 1932. Shivering ...
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Bright Burning Stars
A.K. SmallNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE: BIRDS OF PARADISE, STARRING KRISTINE FROSETH AND DIANA SILVERS. “A compulsively readable story. I was breathless and battling tears up until ...
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The Birds and the Bees
Milly JohnsonFrom the Sunday Times bestseller comes a warm, tender and utterly hilarious story about love and betrayal ‘The feeling you get when you read a Milly Johnson boo...
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Recent Studies Indicate
Sarah Bird“These essays are a pleasure; Bird makes her readers feel smart, urbane, and in on the joke, and that their own stories are worth sharing too.” Publishers Weekly When Sarah ...
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A Song Unnamed
Yvy KaziWenn sie ihr Herz verschenkt, wird sie sterben ... Als Hazel Birds erfährt, dass sie eine Sirene ist, liegen ihre Träume und Hoffnungen plötzlich in Scherben. Denn sie wirkt dadurc...
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A Bird in Winter
Louise DoughtyOVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD'Psychologically acute. Terrific.' Daily Mail'A pageturning read. Kept me reading well past bedtime!' VAL McDERMID 'Pacey and prop...
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Perfect Too
Felicity CloakeHaving rigorously tried and tested recipes from all the greats Elizabeth David and Delia Smith to Nigel Slater and Simon Hopkinson Felicity Cloake has pulled together the best po...
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Der Ruf der Rache
Mary E. Pearson & Michael KrugEndlich müssen sich Kazi und Jase nicht mehr verstecken. Sie fühlen sich stärker als jemals zuvor, bereit für ein neues Leben. Doch auf dem Weg nach Hause geraten sie in einen Hint...
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City of Ghosts
Bali RaiIt's 1919 and Amritsar is a city on the brink of rebellion. Riots, violence and tension spill onto the streets . . . Bissen Singh fought bravely for the British Empire during World...
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Queen and Blood
Amy Harmon & Corinna Wieja"Kein Geheimnis, kein Kummer, nichts verborgen und verlor’n. Sahen nicht, was sein würde oder was war sahen nur das Jetzt und Hier. Sie sah ihn. Er sah sie. Und nichts außerdem." ...
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Cemetery Birding
Jennifer L. BristolIt might seem unlikely that a place designed for the departed could be teeming with life. Cemeteries have a long history of serving the dual purpose of honoring the deceased while ...
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Quinn
Em StrangA piercingly original debut about the limits of forgiveness, from an awardwinning Scottish poet A Scotsman 'Best Book of 2023' From an awardwinning Scottish poet, an unforgettable ...