Author: Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 0358006082
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
A young British -Brazilian woman from South London navigates growing up between two cultures and into a fuller understanding of her body, relying on signposts such as history, family conversation, and the eyes of the women who have shaped her: mother, grandmother, and aunt. During her trips to Brazil, sometimes alone, often with family, our narrator accesses a different side of herself that is as much of who she is as anything else. -- adapted from back cover
Stubborn Archivist
Author: Yara Rodrigues Fowler
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 0358006082
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
A young British -Brazilian woman from South London navigates growing up between two cultures and into a fuller understanding of her body, relying on signposts such as history, family conversation, and the eyes of the women who have shaped her: mother, grandmother, and aunt. During her trips to Brazil, sometimes alone, often with family, our narrator accesses a different side of herself that is as much of who she is as anything else. -- adapted from back cover
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 0358006082
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
A young British -Brazilian woman from South London navigates growing up between two cultures and into a fuller understanding of her body, relying on signposts such as history, family conversation, and the eyes of the women who have shaped her: mother, grandmother, and aunt. During her trips to Brazil, sometimes alone, often with family, our narrator accesses a different side of herself that is as much of who she is as anything else. -- adapted from back cover
The Stubborn Old Woman
Author: Clyde Robert Bulla
Publisher: Harpercollins
ISBN: 9780690039467
Category : Obstinacy
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An old woman, so stubborn she won't leave her house and farm which are crumbling into the river, meets an equally stubborn little girl who wants her to leave.
Publisher: Harpercollins
ISBN: 9780690039467
Category : Obstinacy
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
An old woman, so stubborn she won't leave her house and farm which are crumbling into the river, meets an equally stubborn little girl who wants her to leave.
Traditional Storytelling Today
Author: Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135917140
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Traditional Storytelling Today explores the diversity of contemporary storytelling traditions and provides a forum for in-depth discussion of interesting facets of comtemporary storytelling. Never before has such a wealth of information about storytelling traditions been gathered together. Storytelling is alive and well throughout the world as the approximately 100 articles by more than 90 authors make clear. Most of the essays average 2,000 words and discuss a typical storytelling event, give a brief sample text, and provide theory from the folklorist. A comprehensive index is provided. Bibliographies afford the reader easy access to additional resources.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135917140
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Traditional Storytelling Today explores the diversity of contemporary storytelling traditions and provides a forum for in-depth discussion of interesting facets of comtemporary storytelling. Never before has such a wealth of information about storytelling traditions been gathered together. Storytelling is alive and well throughout the world as the approximately 100 articles by more than 90 authors make clear. Most of the essays average 2,000 words and discuss a typical storytelling event, give a brief sample text, and provide theory from the folklorist. A comprehensive index is provided. Bibliographies afford the reader easy access to additional resources.
Second-class Citizen
Author: Buchi Emecheta
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435909918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"Adah, a woman from the Ibo tribe, moves to England to live with her Nigerian student husband. She soon discovers that life for a young Nigerian woman living in London in the 1960s is grim. Rejected by British society and thwarted by her husband, who expects her to be subservient to him, she is forced to face up to life as a second-class citizen."--Back cover
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435909918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"Adah, a woman from the Ibo tribe, moves to England to live with her Nigerian student husband. She soon discovers that life for a young Nigerian woman living in London in the 1960s is grim. Rejected by British society and thwarted by her husband, who expects her to be subservient to him, she is forced to face up to life as a second-class citizen."--Back cover
Author:
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Girls of '64
Author: Emilie Benson Knipe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Story Girl
Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page, 1911 (Boston : Colonial Press)
ISBN:
Category : Cousins
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Beverly and Felix King have to leave their home in Toronto while their father takes a job in South America for the summer. Since they can not go with their father, they stay with their cousins at the King family farm on Prince Edward Island. The boys meet their enchanting cousin Sara Stanly, known to everyone as the Story Girl. The Story Girl has a story for every occasion in this prequel to the Golden Road.
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page, 1911 (Boston : Colonial Press)
ISBN:
Category : Cousins
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Beverly and Felix King have to leave their home in Toronto while their father takes a job in South America for the summer. Since they can not go with their father, they stay with their cousins at the King family farm on Prince Edward Island. The boys meet their enchanting cousin Sara Stanly, known to everyone as the Story Girl. The Story Girl has a story for every occasion in this prequel to the Golden Road.
The Other Side of Divine
Author: Vanessa Davis Griggs
Publisher: Dafina Books
ISBN: 0758273606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Full of crazy church politics and a huge cast, Griggs keeps this on-going story alive by addressing the challenges of living by Biblical rules with homespun humor. --Publishers Weekly Paris Simmons-Holyfield is finally pregnant with the baby she's dreamed of for so long. There's just one complication: she's not sure who the father is. Apparently, after a night of drinking with her ex-coworker and ally Darius Connors, it could be him. Considering her husband's track record, chances are it is. Still, Paris prays it's not Darius, and decides to keep quiet about her worries. Especially because Darius isn't ready to give up on his crumbling marriage. . . Meanwhile, after a battle to keep her adopted daughter and an ugly confrontation with Paris's family, Gabrielle Mercedes has finally found love and happiness. But when her father shows up, paroled from prison, she fears she's in for another round of trouble. As all three navigate the path from sin to redemption, can they forgive their way to the other side? "I absolutely love Vanessa's unique writing style." --Mary Monroe, New York Times bestselling author
Publisher: Dafina Books
ISBN: 0758273606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Full of crazy church politics and a huge cast, Griggs keeps this on-going story alive by addressing the challenges of living by Biblical rules with homespun humor. --Publishers Weekly Paris Simmons-Holyfield is finally pregnant with the baby she's dreamed of for so long. There's just one complication: she's not sure who the father is. Apparently, after a night of drinking with her ex-coworker and ally Darius Connors, it could be him. Considering her husband's track record, chances are it is. Still, Paris prays it's not Darius, and decides to keep quiet about her worries. Especially because Darius isn't ready to give up on his crumbling marriage. . . Meanwhile, after a battle to keep her adopted daughter and an ugly confrontation with Paris's family, Gabrielle Mercedes has finally found love and happiness. But when her father shows up, paroled from prison, she fears she's in for another round of trouble. As all three navigate the path from sin to redemption, can they forgive their way to the other side? "I absolutely love Vanessa's unique writing style." --Mary Monroe, New York Times bestselling author
Your Majesty, I'll Not Be With You
Author: Pan SiXiaoYao
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1636457452
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
A strange wedding, a arranged marriage. Her wolf-like husband had actually taken a wife for her younger brother. In order to avenge her brother, he had wantonly mistreated her. As for her, a concubine of the family, she was a victim of the snake and scorpion's direct sister. She had suffered the wrath of revenge for nothing. Until I met him. A deal had tied her to an ancient ghost.
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1636457452
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
A strange wedding, a arranged marriage. Her wolf-like husband had actually taken a wife for her younger brother. In order to avenge her brother, he had wantonly mistreated her. As for her, a concubine of the family, she was a victim of the snake and scorpion's direct sister. She had suffered the wrath of revenge for nothing. Until I met him. A deal had tied her to an ancient ghost.
The portrayal of the child in children's literature
Author: Denise Escarpit
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311155533X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The Portrayal of the Child in Children's Literature (Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Irscl Bordeaux, 1983).
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311155533X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
The Portrayal of the Child in Children's Literature (Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Irscl Bordeaux, 1983).