The Autobiography of My Mother, Paperback - Jamaica Kincaid

Poetic, stirring, and disturbing, this novel is a powerful and unforgettable statement of one woman's struggle for identity against a hostile backd...

Reducere. For this absorbing portrait of his mother, David Chandler drew on hundreds of letters that she sent and received, on his own warm memories, and the...

Reducere. One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves.Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There,...

DescriptionIn rural Ireland in 1950, a respectable widow has an affair with a visiting stranger. To conceal her pregnancy, she travels to Belfast, ...

For readers of Hideous Kinky, Dadland and Bad Blood; the astonishing, beguiling story of Sarah Aspinall's harum scarum childhood, and a love letter...

The first short-story collection from Jamaica Kincaid, this is a stunning evocation of life as a young Afro-Caribbean woman.Publisher: Pan Macmilla...

Reducere. It's happened again and again: Somebody we know is diagnosed with cancer, they undergo surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy - and then they die. ...

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Jamaica Kincaid's engrossing account of a three-week trek through the Himalayas with fellow horticulturalists, intertwining mediations on the stunn...

Reducere. Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River ... inspired, lyrical short storiesReading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of s...

Reducere. Jamaica Kincaid's Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya is the classic travel memoir about a master novelist's journey to the Himalaya in search of...

Reducere. From "The Talk of the Town, " Jamaica Kincaid's first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New YorkTalk Pieces is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's ori...

A classic coming-of-age story from Jamaica Kincaid, following a young woman as she enters adulthood against the backdrop of a strange and unfamilia...

Reducere. DescriptionMary G. Harris Jones (baptized 1837; died 1930), known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who beca...

The classic coming-of-age story of a precocious young girl's deteriorating relationship with her mother, as she enters adolescence and leaves her c...

DescriptionMary G. Harris Jones (baptized 1837; died 1930), known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who beca...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 2015, my mother was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Overnight, I went from being her daughter to serving as her caregiver, all while tr...

This epic masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris' centena...

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Reducere. In her memoir Too Afraid to Cry, published in 2013, Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann related how she had been tricked away from her mother as a ...

Reducere. The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: ``Kincaid's most poetic and affecting novel to date`` (Robert Antoni, The Washington Post ...

Reducere. This classic and award-winning picture book was written and illustrated by the celebrated Vera B. Williams and was named a Caldecott Honor Book by ...

The inspirational life story of the trailblazing nurse born to an Irish mother and a Nigerian father during the 1940s, and raised by nuns at the Na...

A funny and frank memoir about a long distance mother-daughter relationship.Publisher: Sandstone Press LtdAuthor(s): Cynthia RogersonNumber of page...

Reducere. "A story that lingers in the heart long after the last page is turned." --HOPE EDELMAN, bestselling author of Motherless Daughters and The Possibil...

Reducere. 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 initia...

Everything I Couldn't Tell My Mother is a coming-of-age story for any woman who has ever questioned her sexual maturity and readiness, stayed silen...

Reducere. Andrew Carnegie, the great steel-baron-turned-philanthropist, was an industrialist unlike any other. His famous dictum, that he who dies rich dies ...

Reducere. Can a mother be both loving and selfish? Caring and thoughtless? Deceitful and devoted? These are the questions that fuel psychologist Dr. Judy Rab...

Reducere. With ROCKET slugged up and unable to retaliate on his enemies, it's up to his man TRAP, and his rude gal, JAE, to show the streets that he is still...

This cookbook was assembled for my children. My old Davidis cookbook is printed in German Fraktur font, the pages have yellowed, and the terms are ...

This cookbook was assembled for my children. My old Davidis cookbook is printed in German Fraktur font, the pages have yellowed, and the terms are ...

Reducere. A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and...

ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision Brow...

Reducere. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to ...

Reducere. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to ...

Reducere. "It's either a genuine confession by Jack the Ripper, or it's an extraordinary novel...Only you can decide."--Paul Begg, author of Jack the Ripper:...

Some of the most striking passages in The Story of My Heart are descriptions of the controlled chaos of London, which represented for Jefferies the...

Reducere. "Mother. Some get the warm curve of the 'mo, some get the pointy end of the er'. I got the whole word..." Learning Burney is a series of stories in...

Reducere. Truth is stranger than fiction. And nowhere in literature is it so apparent as in this classic work, The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest. This aut...

Reducere. "The progressive development of man is virtually dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain." Nikola Tesla, unc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Benjamin FranklinUnabridged student-sized 8.5"x11" value reproduction of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. This class...

Reducere. Poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African A...

Reducere. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to ...

Reducere. My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, Hardcover

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Reducere. "Zig Ziglar epitomizes determination, perseverance, excellence, and a loving Christian spirit more than anyone I know! The world would be a better ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Randy PoeAuthor: Buck Owens(Book). Born in Texas and raised in Arizona, Buck Owens eventually found his way to Bakersfield,...

Reducere. An Unabridged Edition with All 6 Chapters to include: My Early Life - How Tesla Conceived the Rotary Magnetic Field - The Discovery of the Tesla Co...

Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can...