A 1950s Mother

A nostalgic look at what it was really like to be a 1950s mother and how the baby-boom generation was madePublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s)...

A nostalgic look at what it was like to be a housewife in the 1950sBeing a housewife in the 1950s was quite different than today. Women were expect...

Sheila Tofield grew up in Rotherham, daughter of an uncaring mother who made her believe she was useless, stupid and - most painfully of all - unlo...

Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start. As her mother moves from man to ma...

A photographer becomes a mother and photographs her children for 30 years with a 1950's Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera and color film. Carole Glauber...

Reducere. This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. It has a...

The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of b...

Judy Simons thought to leave her grandchildren a legacy of reminiscences about her Jewish upbringing in 1950s Sheffield. But when her mother died s...

A truly original story of life in and after care. A unique account of trans-racial fostering which focuses on identity, family history and loss. Ca...

Molly Bolt is a young lady with a big character. Molly figures out at a young age that she will have to be tough to stay true to herself in 1950s A...

A cinematic retelling of the classic fairytale set in a wonderfully imagined modern metropolis. Transports readers to a 1950s-style future, where J...

Liza Baker, a rising star in the burgeoning Abstract Expressionist era, finds herself sidelined when she gets pregnant, and decides to have the chi...

DescriptionThree strong women make their way in 1950s Canada English hairdresser, Ethel, alone after the deaths of her family and her wartime fianc...

Reducere. Award NameAlex AwardsAward categoryAdult/For Young AdultsDescriptionThe life of a young Chinese girl is torn apart by dark family secrets and divid...

Reducere. From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God, a mesmerizing story about the tangle...

Reducere. It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and...

The "graceful, loving, " (The New York Times Book Review), never-before-told story of Hollywood icon Natalie Wood's glamorous life, sudden death, a...

A mystery story full of intrigue and set in the early 1950s about a young girl finding her way in life.Riley, brought up as a Romany girl, having l...

Reducere. My Father and Mother one Earth and in Heaven is the 1st grade textbook in the Our Holy Faith series. It is an age-appropriate introduction to the b...

Reducere. Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Women's Studies. Essay. Hybrid Genre. 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, Fina...

A woman sets out on a cross-country road trip, unknowingly tracing in reverse the path her mother traveled thirty years before. "Tender, touching, ...

Reducere. By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in ...

Reducere. Growing Up in the ColonialThe Colonial Hotel was a landmark for fifty years in the southeastern Tennessee town, Copperhill. The Colonial, our famil...

Born near a dusty cement plant in the northeast Missouri village of Ilasco, close to Mark Twain Cave, Hannibal native Gregg Andrews draws on the vo...

Reducere. A buried secret and a lifetime of guilt born in the dark heart of Nazi GermanyEngland, 2001. Elizabeth has always suspected her mother habours a se...

Reducere. In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian...

Reducere. Rue Ordener, Rue Labat is a moving memoir by the distinguished French philosopher Sarah Kofman. It opens with the horrifying moment in July 1942 wh...

Reducere. Little known Molise and Abruzzo in central Italy was the home of my ancestors, the fearsome and proud ancient Samnites who came down from the Apenn...

Reducere. Jacqueline Anderson-Hutchings grew up in Ferndale, Michigan in the 1940's and 1950's. This rural setting inspired her mother, Lois Evelyn Tolbert-H...

Reducere. Wave Woman is the untold story of an adventurer whose zest for life and learning kept her alive for ninety-eight years. Betty Pembroke Heldreich Wi...

Reducere. Goodbye to Ribbons is a historical biography that follows the incredible true story of a remarkable woman growing up in rural Britain in the 1950s....

Reducere. New York, 1987: In a city torn apart by racial tension, Damien Cavalieri is an adolescent without a tribe. His mother-who pines for the 1950s Brook...

Reducere. Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exactin...

Agnes Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Today she is best known as th...

Imagine being nineyears old and walking to the market with your mother while tripping over the debris from WWII bombing. And then suddenly seeing a...

Reducere. The fourth book of poetry by this New York City poet, Walter Holland's Reconstruction is a work of poetic reconciliation with his boyhood in Lynchb...

Reducere. My first attempt at writing was based on the fact that I had collected over the years about 500 quotations from Catholic spiritual authors and I se...

Reducere. Description"We wear Aran Sweaters and Lederhosen. We are forbidden from speaking English. We are trapped in a language war. We are the Speckled Peo...

Reducere. First published in hardcover to vigorous praise, Colm Toibin's New York Times bestselling novel is about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the...

DescriptionDecorative 'bread-platters' were hugely popular in Victorian times, firstly among the elite who commissioned custom-made items featuring...

A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its matriarch as they negotiate sharing a home.Eleano...

Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a firecracker, a cult figure, a wild child, a writer, a go-go dancer, a mother and a queer icon. A child of suburban...

Now available in the US--the dark horse literary novel that has taken Britain by storm! In the best tradition of Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, and ...

DescriptionSince the publication of Stitches a decade ago, David Small has emerged as one of the seminal authors in the genre of graphic literature...

In 1950s France, Camille struggles to figure out who she is and where she fits in the world of her coastal working-class neighborhood. Her mother h...

Frankenstein lives200 years of the book, the movies and the monster in pop culture and beyondOn New Year's Day 1818, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenst...

Reducere. Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing history of the Balkans in...

Reducere. DescriptionTo mark Philip Jos Farmer's 100th Birthday, Meteor House is proud to present a mammoth collection worthy of the Grand Master. With over ...

Written in the 1950s and discovered by family members years after her death, Margaret Brown Kilik's shocking coming-of-age novel of the emotional a...

It is the early 1950s. Lionel Spote, a young London publisher, has just discovered that he has inherited a Scottish estate. He is also a rather bem...

Reducere. A hypnotizing coming-of-age novel set in 1950s Italy that stares into the heart of longing and at the friendships that have the power to save and d...

Reducere. A sweeping debut novel that explores the intimate struggle for independence and success of a young descendant of Indian indentured laborers in Maur...

A 2021 Publishers Weekly Black History Month pick This inspirational picture book reveals what is was like for a young black mother of three to nav...

Reducere. When Maria returns to Nicaragua for her beloved grandfather's funeral, she brings with her a mysterious package from her grandmother's past. She al...

Reducere. Colm Toibin's New York Times bestselling novel--now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards in...

Reducere. The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and pro...

Rowen Hart has been raised as the pampered son and only child of a prominent family in the small community of White Rock, North Carolina. It's the ...

Few drinks have been more vilified than gin. From its birth in 17th-century Holland to the class-conscious London suburbs of the 1950s gin has been...

Reducere. A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story in the tradition of the novel...

A sweeping saga in the vein of Ask Again, Yes following a foster family through almost a decade of dazzling triumph and wrenching heartbreak--from ...

A sweeping saga in the vein of Ask Again, Yes following a foster family through almost a decade of dazzling triumph and wrenching heartbreak--from ...

Reducere. A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story in the tradition of the novel...

DescriptionA darkly comic and deeply moving memoir of a New York City lost to time From the final days of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the mid-1950s to ...

This is the story of the Tomlinson family's journey in Kingston, Jamaica, between the 1950s and 1970s. The Tomlinson family's dream becomes reality...

A summer of fun at a Catskills resort comes to an abrupt end when a guest is found murdered, in this new 1950s set mystery series. It's the summer ...

Reducere. In 1977, Jeanne's German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he's gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-yea...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1921 a Pennsylvania preacher hauled his four teen-agers from a prosperous Pennsylvania farm to a bleak and arid spot on the Saskatche...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Magnificent: a dizzying tale of drama, intrigue and passion' MAIL ON SUNDAYAs a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among ...

In the latest novel from a master of European crime fiction, past, present, and future collide on a breathtaking journey from 1950s Morocco to mode...

Reducere. For decades starting in the 1950s, Raymond Patriarca ran the New England Mafia out of a storefront in Providence, Rhode Island. By 1980 he was seve...