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Author
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Susie is a four-year-old determined child born in the UK, whose parents have come to the UK from the Caribbean during the Windrush years in the late 1950s to help with rebuilding the country after the Second World War. A battle of wills ensues between the diminutive, wiry and strong-willed Susie and her overbearing and towering father who commands obedience from not only Susie and her siblings, but also her mother. Although tender in years, Susie...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Tough, funny, moving fiction from the New York Times -bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Jimmy Breslin was not only "the biggest, the baddest, the brashest, the best columnist in New York City," he was also an outstanding New York Times -bestselling novelist, equally comfortable with comedy and tragedy, often intermixing the two ( New York Daily News ). Collected here are four of his best-loved novels, including three New York...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From the Nobel Prize winning author of The Good Earth : These three novels are fascinating portraits of women in China . In 1938, Pearl S. Buck became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for The Good Earth , which had already earned her the Pulitzer Prize. Upon choosing Buck's novel for her book club in 2004, Oprah Winfrey said: Reading Pearl Buck's writing feels like reading poetry to me. I just love the quiet rhythm of the words....
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Language
English
Description
A daughter of Jewish refugees searches for love and a spiritual home in this novel by the National Book Award–nominated author of Difficult Women.
Brought up in a secular household on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Nancy Green knows suspiciously little about her parents’ past. She knows they escaped Germany, avoiding the fate of so many of their fellow Jews during World War II, but the few family heirlooms...
Brought up in a secular household on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Nancy Green knows suspiciously little about her parents’ past. She knows they escaped Germany, avoiding the fate of so many of their fellow Jews during World War II, but the few family heirlooms...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A gorgeous, haunting and captivating novel of a century-long family mystery in the wilds of Scotland, and one woman's hunt for the truth.
Scotland, 1949: Caroline Gillan and her new husband Alasdair have moved back to Kelly Castle, his dilapidated family estate in the middle of nowhere.
Stuck caring for their tiny baby, and trying to find her way with an opinionated mother-in-law, Caroline feels adrift, alone and unwelcome. But when she is...
Author
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Most Polish Jews who survived the Second World War did not go to concentration camps, but were banished by Stalin to the remote prison settlements and Gulags of the Soviet Union. Less than ten percent of Polish Jews came out of the war alive'the largest population of Jews who endured'for whom Soviet exile was the main chance for survival. Ellen G. Friedman's The Seven, A Family Holocaust Story is an account of this displacement. Friedman always knew...
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Four of the most important and enduring American slave narratives together in one volume. Until slavery was abolished in 1865, millions of men, women, and children toiled under a system that stripped them of their freedom and their humanity. Much has been written about this shameful era of American history, but few books speak with as much power as the narratives written by those who experienced slavery firsthand. The basis for the film of the same...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Liverpool has been the birthplace or home to literally hundreds of extraordinary men and women. In this book Christine Dawe features a great many of them, from all eras and walks of life. Locally noteworthy figures, such as Kitty Wilkinson, who started the first public wash-houses in the city, Father Nugent, who rescued hundreds of starving orphans after the Irish Potato Famine, and Teddy Dance, who played a grand piano outside Marks & Spencers for...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Set at the crossroads of Turkish, Persian and Russian cultures under the red flag of Communism in the late 1970s, The Orphan Sky reveals one woman's struggle to reconcile her ideals with the corrupt world around her, and to decide whether to betray her country or her heart. Leila is a young classical pianist who dreams of winning international competitions and bringing awards to her beloved country Azerbaijan. She is also a proud daughter of the Communist...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Deeply involving ... .Rings so true. -- Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room From the international bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden Son comes a poignant, unforgettable novel about a family's growing apart and coming back together in the wake of tragedy. The Shape of Family is a novel about race and culture, parents and siblings, marriage and love, but most of all, it's about finding hope after darkness. Shilpi Somaya Gowda...
11) Legacy
Author
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Simone Harlowe is young and clever, an Aboriginial lawyer straddling two lives and two cultures while studying at Harvard. Her family life back in Sydney is defined by her complex relationship with her father, Tony, a prominent Aboriginal rights activist. As Simone juggles the challenges of a modern woman's life - career, family, friends and relationships - her father is confronting his own uncomfortable truths, as his secret double-life implodes....
Publisher
IRB
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This is a Summary & Analysis of A Spool of Blue Thread. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler is the poignant story of four generations of the Whitshank family living in Baltimore. They are an ordinary family like any other, but they are also special in their own quirky ways. The members of the family love and care for each other, but they also harbor jealousies, rivalries, and carry secrets. This companion to A Spool of Blue Thread includes: •...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Booker T. Washington believed that every man and woman deserved a chance, regardless of their skin color. This classic work of literature relays the story of a man born into slavery who, once freed, pursued education and racial equality. Originally published in 1901, the new edition of Booker T. Washington's autobiography features a foreword from media personality and advocate for the advancement of African Americans, Mychal Massie. In his story,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Walk barefoot and the thorns will hurt you... -Iraqi-Turkmen proverb A riveting story of hope and despair, of elation and longing, Barefoot in Baghdad takes you to the front lines of a different kind of battle, where the unsung freedom fighters are strong, vibrant-and female. An American aid worker of Arab descent, Manal Omar moves to Iraq to help as many women as she can rebuild their lives. She quickly finds herself drawn into the saga of a people...
Author
Series
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the...
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The narrator is a spunky young woman striving to escape from the social customs and cultural restraints that have spanned three political regimes: in a privileged childhood spent in the Czechoslovakian countryside prior to World War II, as a schoolgirl during the Nazi occupation, and as an adolescent and young adult witnessing the diminishing promise of communist rule.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Buffalo Bill lives deep in American legend. A Kansas-bred farm boy, he went on to become a renowned trapper and hunter, army scout, Indian fighter, and finally a world showman and celebrity. As a man of the Wild West, he became known as a larger-than-life buffalo hunter. As an army scout, he earned the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action. But Bill was unsatisfied. Setting his sights higher yet, he traveled the country performing in Wild West stage...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story of how courage, a dream, and some needle and thread can change a life forever ... Since she was young, Tala Raassi knew her fate lay in fashion. But growing up in her beloved homeland of Iran, a woman can be punished for exposing her hair in public, let alone wearing the newest trends. Despite strict regulations, Tala developed a keen sense of style in backroom cafes and secret parties. She never imagined her behavior would...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Australian bestselling novelist Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this breathtaking novel set in 17th century London -- a lush, fascinating story of the beautiful woman who is drawn into a world of riches, power, intrigue ... and chocolate. Damnation has never been so sweet ... Rosamund Tomkins, the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman, spends most of her young life in drudgery at a country inn. To her, the Restoration under Charles...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A bestseller throughout the Arab world, this novel about female pleasure and personal liberty "unwinds sinuously as a veiled dancer" ( Booklist ). A Syrian scholar working in Paris is invited to contribute to a conference on the subject of classic erotic literature in Arabic. The invitation provides occasion for her to evoke memories from her own life, to exult in her personal liberty, her lovers, her desires, and to revisit moments of shared intimacy...
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