Author: Marian Sandmaier
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN: 9780452273771
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Original Kin makes a stirring and provocative case for our need for - and our capacity to develop - sustaining emotional ties with our sisters and brothers throughout our lives.
Original Kin
Author: Marian Sandmaier
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN: 9780452273771
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Original Kin makes a stirring and provocative case for our need for - and our capacity to develop - sustaining emotional ties with our sisters and brothers throughout our lives.
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN: 9780452273771
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Original Kin makes a stirring and provocative case for our need for - and our capacity to develop - sustaining emotional ties with our sisters and brothers throughout our lives.
Original Kin
Author: Marian Sandmaier
Publisher: Penguin Press
ISBN: 9780525935261
Category : Adulthood
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
She also shares her own deeply personal search for the meaning of her bonds with her two brothers and her sister - a search triggered by the sudden death of one of her brothers at age thirty-three.
Publisher: Penguin Press
ISBN: 9780525935261
Category : Adulthood
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
She also shares her own deeply personal search for the meaning of her bonds with her two brothers and her sister - a search triggered by the sudden death of one of her brothers at age thirty-three.
Kin
Author: Miljenko Jergovic
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1939810523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 929
Book Description
Kin is a dazzling family epic from one of Croatia's most prized writers. In this sprawling narrative which spans the entire twentieth century, Miljenko Jergović peers into the dusty corners of his family's past, illuminating them with a tender, poetic precision. Ordinary, forgotten objects - a grandfather's beekeeping journals, a rusty benzene lighter, an army issued raincoat - become the lenses through which Jergović investigates the joys and sorrows of a family living through a century of war. The work is ultimately an ode to Yugoslavia - Jergović sees his country through the devastation of the First World War, the Second, the Cold, then the Bosnian war of the 90s; through its changing street names and borders, shifting seasons, through its social rituals at graveyards, operas, weddings, markets - rendering it all in loving, vivid detail. A portrait of an era.
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1939810523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 929
Book Description
Kin is a dazzling family epic from one of Croatia's most prized writers. In this sprawling narrative which spans the entire twentieth century, Miljenko Jergović peers into the dusty corners of his family's past, illuminating them with a tender, poetic precision. Ordinary, forgotten objects - a grandfather's beekeeping journals, a rusty benzene lighter, an army issued raincoat - become the lenses through which Jergović investigates the joys and sorrows of a family living through a century of war. The work is ultimately an ode to Yugoslavia - Jergović sees his country through the devastation of the First World War, the Second, the Cold, then the Bosnian war of the 90s; through its changing street names and borders, shifting seasons, through its social rituals at graveyards, operas, weddings, markets - rendering it all in loving, vivid detail. A portrait of an era.
Our Beloved Kin
Author: Lisa Tanya Brooks
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300196733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. In reading seventeenth-century sources alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history, Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England."--Jacket flap.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300196733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. In reading seventeenth-century sources alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history, Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England."--Jacket flap.
The Kin
Author: Peter Dickinson
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504001397
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the night the murderous strangers came, speaking an unfamiliar language and bringing violence to the peaceful Moonhawk tribe. Determined not to die in the desert, Suth and Noli slip away with Ko and Mana. Suth, the eldest, leads them; Noli’s dreams of the future guide them. Ko gives them courage; Mana gives them peace. Their search for a new Good Place, one of food and safety, will take them across the valleys and plains of prehistoric Africa and bring them together as a tribe and as a family.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504001397
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the night the murderous strangers came, speaking an unfamiliar language and bringing violence to the peaceful Moonhawk tribe. Determined not to die in the desert, Suth and Noli slip away with Ko and Mana. Suth, the eldest, leads them; Noli’s dreams of the future guide them. Ko gives them courage; Mana gives them peace. Their search for a new Good Place, one of food and safety, will take them across the valleys and plains of prehistoric Africa and bring them together as a tribe and as a family.
Tomorrow's Kin
Author: Nancy Kress
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 0765390299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Follows the arrival of alien embassies who meet with the United Nations amid human fear and speculation before obscure scientist Dr. Marianne Jenner is secretly invited to visit the aliens and prevent an imminent disaster.
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 0765390299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Follows the arrival of alien embassies who meet with the United Nations amid human fear and speculation before obscure scientist Dr. Marianne Jenner is secretly invited to visit the aliens and prevent an imminent disaster.
The Affectionate Pair, Or the History of Sung-Kin
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Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Pages : 114
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Shadow Kin
Author: M.J. Scott
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101543973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
On one side, the Night World, rules by the Blood Lords and the Beast Kind. On the other, the elusive Fae and the humans, protected by their steadfast mages... Born a wraith, Lily is a shadow who slips between worlds. Brought up by a Blood Lord and raised to be his assassin, she is little more than a slave. But when Lily meets her match in target Simon DuCaine, the unlikely bond that develops between them threatens to disrupt an already stretched peace in a city on the verge of being torn apart...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101543973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
On one side, the Night World, rules by the Blood Lords and the Beast Kind. On the other, the elusive Fae and the humans, protected by their steadfast mages... Born a wraith, Lily is a shadow who slips between worlds. Brought up by a Blood Lord and raised to be his assassin, she is little more than a slave. But when Lily meets her match in target Simon DuCaine, the unlikely bond that develops between them threatens to disrupt an already stretched peace in a city on the verge of being torn apart...
The Affectionate Pair, Or the History of Sung-kin. A Chinese Tale [from the Chin Ku Ch'i Kuan]. Translated ... by P. P. Thoms
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Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Pages : 118
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Claiming Kin
Author: Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466871822
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A touching story of a woman's search for her family roots in the wake of the sudden death of her father. Claiming Kin is a powerful and compelling story about a woman's quest to search out her roots upon the death of the father she barely knew. A former journalist hungry for the truth, her search into the past leads her from her hometown in Nashville, Tennessee, back to the birthplace of the Scruggs in nearby Williamson County. There she traces the family back to 1847 and the Scruggs Farm where her ancestors were once slaves. Her journey soon becomes spiritual and emotional, forcing her not only to examine her own beliefs in the importance of family, but also her religious beliefs as she turns toward honoring her ancestors. This is a tale that will capture the heart and mind.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466871822
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A touching story of a woman's search for her family roots in the wake of the sudden death of her father. Claiming Kin is a powerful and compelling story about a woman's quest to search out her roots upon the death of the father she barely knew. A former journalist hungry for the truth, her search into the past leads her from her hometown in Nashville, Tennessee, back to the birthplace of the Scruggs in nearby Williamson County. There she traces the family back to 1847 and the Scruggs Farm where her ancestors were once slaves. Her journey soon becomes spiritual and emotional, forcing her not only to examine her own beliefs in the importance of family, but also her religious beliefs as she turns toward honoring her ancestors. This is a tale that will capture the heart and mind.