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Author: Mary Helen Stefaniak Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393326993 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 337
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As mysterious, complicated, and improbable as any real family, four generations are brought to vivid life in pages spanning the entire twentieth century, from the outer reaches of Siberia to the heartland of America.
Author: Mary Helen Stefaniak Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393326993 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 337
Book Description
As mysterious, complicated, and improbable as any real family, four generations are brought to vivid life in pages spanning the entire twentieth century, from the outer reaches of Siberia to the heartland of America.
Author: Mary Helen Stefaniak Publisher: W. W. Norton ISBN: 9780393059243 Category : Children of immigrants Languages : en Pages : 0
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Every family has its secrets. But toward the end of his life, George decides to tell his daughter the story of his mother and the Turk. This initial revelation leads to a narrative tour de force that follows a family through four generations and around the world—through love, marriage, and betrayal, through illness, death, and war. Mary Helen Stefaniak's charming and flawed characters and the warmth of her prose will stay with readers long after they close the book. Reading group guide included.
Author: Sonya Sones Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442493836 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 279
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Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
Author: Mary Helen Stefaniak Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393080447 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
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A hidden history of the South emerges when a worldly teacher leads Threestep, GA, to reinvent itself, setting in motion events that lead to triumph and tragedy for the black teenager who happens to be the smartest person in Piedmont County, Georgia, in 1938–39. As an epigraph from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois reminds us at the start of this novel, "Throughout history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness." Protagonist Theo Boykin is a genius, an artist, an inventor, a Leonardo DaVinci–type, whose talents are sought after by local blacks and whites alike, but even this is not enough to save him. He falls victim to "the tragedy of ignorance and the damage caused by fear," in the words of poet Rita Dove—the first African American to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate and a member of the jury that conferred on The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award for books that "make a significant contribution to our understanding of racism and our appreciation for the diversity of human cultures." You won't forget Theo Boykin, nor will you forget his friends the Cailiffs, especially Gladys, who tells this story with love and bewilderment, and the teacher, Miss Spivey, who changes all their lives.
Author: Elizabeth Benedict Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1616202688 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 233
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In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one original pieces include Pulitzer Prize winners, perennial bestselling novelists, and celebrated broadcast journalists. Whether a gift was meant to keep a daughter warm, put a roof over her head, instruct her in the ways of womanhood, encourage her talents, or just remind her of a mother’s love, each story gets to the heart of a relationship. Rita Dove remembers the box of nail polish that inspired her to paint her nails in the wild stripes and polka dots she wears to this day. Lisa See writes about the gift of writing from her mother, Carolyn See. Cecilia Muñoz remembers both the wok her mother gave her and a lifetime of home-cooked family meals. Judith Hillman Paterson revisits the year of sobriety her mother bequeathed to her when Paterson was nine, the year before her mother died of alcoholism. Abigail Pogrebin writes about her middle-aged bat mitzvah, for which her mother provided flowers after a lifetime of guilt for skipping her daughter’s religious education. Margo Jefferson writes about her mother’s gold dress from the posh department store where they could finally shop as black women. Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides: outpourings of lightness and darkness; joy and grief; mother love and daughter love; mother love and daughter rage. In these stirring words we find that every gift, ?no matter how modest, tells the story of a powerful bond. As Elizabeth Benedict points out in her introduction, “whether we are mothers, daughters, aunts, sisters, or cherished friends, we may not know for quite some time which presents will matter the most."
Author: Jennette McCurdy Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982185821 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 320
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A memoir by American former actress and singer Jennette McCurdy about her career as a child actress and her difficult relationship with her abusive mother who died in 2013
Author: Evan Turk Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1481435213 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 54
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This cinematic picture book from critically acclaimed author and illustrator Evan Turk follows the life of a baby whale from birth, to song, to silence, to a new song of compassion and hope for a brighter future. Two hearts, one song. A young whale and her mother sing together. Heartbeat. Then the mother is gone. One heart, one song. The young whale swims, alone and lonely, for days and years and decades… until one day a little girl hears her and joins her song. Together, they sing of hope for a brighter future. One world, one song, one heartbeat.
Author: Donna Marie Seim Publisher: Publishingworks ISBN: 9781933002736 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 30
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Every day Sandy the donkey helps her owner, Simon, to take his pails into town to get water from the well, but everyone is concerned when she comes to town one day without Simon.
Author: Sherry Nieting Publisher: Christian Art Kids ISBN: 1432104977 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 17
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GOOD MORNING, GOD gently reminds kids that God is with His children every minute of every day. What better way to start the day than to recognize this amazing truth! Toddlers will enjoy the bright colors and simple rhymes, while parents will appreciate the messages that are being taught. Some of the rhymes in the book include: • We could go to the mall and shop in the stores, or just stay home and do the chores. • We could go to the zoo – the lions are best! Or watch the robins build their nest. • We could pray for those who are sad today, You could give them smiles and show them the way.
Author: Mary Helen Stefaniak
Author: Mary Helen Stefaniak
Author: Mary Helen Stefaniak
Author: Mary Helen Stefaniak
Author: Sonya Sones
Author: Mary Helen Stefaniak
Author: Elizabeth Benedict
Author: Jennette McCurdy
Author: Evan Turk
Author: Donna Marie Seim
Author: Sherry Nieting