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Author: Gina Dawson Publisher: ISBN: 1742031013 Category : Pregnancy Languages : en Pages : 32
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So That's Where I Came From makes explaining the difficult facts of life easy. The book is designed for parents and children to read together, opening up communication on this important topic. With accurate, up-to-date information and illustrations this book is an essential tool in helping adults and children openly discuss sexuality, including modern family structures, male and female body parts, natural and assisted conception, natural and caesarean birth and why each child is unique.
Author: Gina Dawson Publisher: ISBN: 1742031013 Category : Pregnancy Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
So That's Where I Came From makes explaining the difficult facts of life easy. The book is designed for parents and children to read together, opening up communication on this important topic. With accurate, up-to-date information and illustrations this book is an essential tool in helping adults and children openly discuss sexuality, including modern family structures, male and female body parts, natural and assisted conception, natural and caesarean birth and why each child is unique.
Author: Tim Parks Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 159017884X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 257
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Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I’m Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades of critical reading—from Leopardi, Dickens, and Chekhov, to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Bernhard, and on to contemporary work by Peter Stamm, Alice Munro, and many others—to upend our assumptions about literature and its purpose. In thirty-seven interlocking essays, Where I’m Reading From examines the rise of the “international” novel and the disappearance of “national” literary styles; how market forces shape “serious” fiction; the unintended effects of translation; the growing stasis of literary criticism; and the problematic relationship between writers’ lives and their work. Through dazzling close readings and probing self-examination, Parks wonders whether writers—and readers—can escape the twin pressures of the new global system and the novel that has become its emblematic genre.
Author: Jennifer De Leon Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1534438262 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 352
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“A funny, perceptive, and much-needed book telling a much-needed story.” —Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestseller Little Fires Everywhere First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school ramps up, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand. Liliana Cruz is a hitting a wall—or rather, walls. There’s the wall her mom has put up ever since Liliana’s dad left—again. There’s the wall that delineates Liliana’s diverse inner-city Boston neighborhood from Westburg, the wealthy—and white—suburban high school she’s just been accepted into. And there’s the wall Liliana creates within herself, because to survive at Westburg, she can’t just lighten up, she has to whiten up. So what if she changes her name? So what if she changes the way she talks? So what if she’s seeing her neighborhood in a different way? But then light is shed on some hard truths: It isn’t that her father doesn’t want to come home—he can’t…and her whole family is in jeopardy. And when racial tensions at school reach a fever pitch, the walls that divide feel insurmountable. But a wall isn’t always a barrier. It can be a foundation for something better. And Liliana must choose: Use this foundation as a platform to speak her truth, or risk crumbling under its weight.
Author: Charlotte Chandler Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439153221 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 386
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• The private Hepburn in her own words: Katharine Hepburn draws on a series of interviews Chandler conducted with the actress during the 1970s and 1980s. Chandler also interviewed director George Cukor; Hepburn co-stars Cary Grant and James Stewart; and Laurence Olivier, Ginger Rogers, and other screen luminaries. . • A Hollywood icon unveiled: Notoriously guarded, Katharine Hepburn talks candidly with Chandler about her marriage, her long affair with Spencer Tracy, co-stars and movies, and the seminal event in her life—the suicide of her brother, whom she adored, when they were both in their teens. With her unprecedented access to Hepburn, Chandler has written a biography completely different from all others, including Hepburn’s own guarded book about herself. .
Author: Michelle Dare Publisher: Daring Romance LLC ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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Astoria I’m not sure how I'll react when I see him after so many years. I planned on avoiding him, but our small town makes it impossible. My heart, which I thought had healed, is back to being in a million pieces. Now I'm right where I don't want to be—in front of him with tears in my eyes. Parker Not a day goes by when I don't think of her. When our paths cross again, I have to tell her the truth. Arguing is inevitable, but I’d rather fight for her than face another day without her. Where I am is standing in front of her—asking for another chance. Content warning for pregnancy loss, physical and emotional abuse, sexual assault, and rape.
Author: Amanda Holmes Publisher: Andrews UK Limited ISBN: 1783333227 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 315
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Opening in 1969 in New England, I KNOW WHERE I AM WHEN I'M FALLING is as rich in relationships as the colours and textures of the time. Ruby Lambert, is the eldest daughter in the eccentric Lambert family who get caught up in the life of Angus Aleshire, a charming, smart and athletic boy who they try to help and who shares Ruby's unconventional bent and love of the piano. Ruby and Angus fall in love but Angus has a dark side. His boyish charms start to wear thin losing him family and friends along the way and when his clever schemes and misbehavior get him in trouble, culminating with an art heist, he tries even Ruby’s love for him. The story spans thirteen years, and poses uncomfortable questions about the blindness of love, nurture versus nature and life through rose tinted glasses. Ruby struggles to square her vision of Angus’s potential with the unsettling and mounting reality.
Author: Raymond Carver Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1101970596 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 464
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The final story collection from “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) features classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier volumes. • “Among the masterpieces of American fiction." —The New York Times Book Review By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. Where I’m Calling From, his last collection, includes seven new works previously unpublished in book form. Together, these 37 stories give us a superb overview of Carver’s life work and show us why he was so widely imitated but never equaled.
Author: Andrew C. Garrod Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501708015 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 460
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"The organizing principle for this anthology is the common Native American heritage of its authors; and yet that thread proves to be the most tenuous of all, as the experience of indigeneity differs radically for each of them. While many experience a centripetal pull toward a cohesive Indian experience, the indications throughout these essays lean toward a richer, more illustrative panorama of difference. What tends to bind them together are not cultural practices or spiritual attitudes per se, but rather circumstances that have no exclusive province in Indian country: that is, first and foremost, poverty, and its attendant symptoms of violence, substance abuse, and both physical and mental illness.... Education plays a critical role in such lives: many of the authors recall adoring school as young people, as it constituted a place of escape and a rare opportunity to thrive.... While many of the writers do return to their tribal communities after graduation, ideas about 'home' become more malleable and complicated."—from the IntroductionI Am Where I Come From presents the autobiographies of thirteen Native American undergraduates and graduates of Dartmouth College, ten of them current and recent students. Twenty years ago, Cornell University Press published First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories, also about the experiences of Native American students at Dartmouth College. I Am Where I Come From addresses similar themes and experiences, but it is very much a new book for a new generation of college students.Three of the essays from the earlier book are gathered into a section titled "Continuing Education," each followed by a shorter reflection from the author on his or her experience since writing the original essay. All three have changed jobs multiple times, returned to school for advanced degrees, started and increased their families, and, along the way, continuously revised and refined what it means to be Indian.The autobiographies contained in I Am Where I Come From explore issues of native identity, adjustment to the college environment, cultural and familial influences, and academic and career aspirations. The memoirs are notable for their eloquence and bravery.
Author: Thomas KABDEBO Publisher: Phaeton Publishing Limited ISBN: 1908420057 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 192
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A gripping personal story that is also the dramatic story of 20th century Hungary, with foreword by the President of Hungary, Arpad Goncz.
Author: Gina Dawson
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