Mother Tongue

  • Mother Tongue: Poems
    By Rebecca Mcclanahan

    Mother Tongue: Poems

  • Mother Tongue
    Mother Tongue
    By Julie Mayhew

    Based on the shocking Beslan school siege in 2004, this is a brave and necessary story about grief, resilience, and finding your voice in the aftermath of tragedy.

  • Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language
    Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language
    By Bill Bryson

    The author of the acclaimed The Lost Continent now steers us through the quirks and byways of the English language.

  • Mother Tongue
    Mother Tongue
    By Emine Sevgi Özdamar

    Four stories on the lives of Turkish immigrants in Germany. One of them, Blackeye in Germany, is narrated by a man's donkey, while A Charwoman's Career draws on the author's...

  • Mother Tongue: How Humans Create Language
    Mother Tongue: How Humans Create Language
    By Joel Davis

    Davis examines the various aspects of language in this engrossing and informative book. Specifically, he charts the rise of our language from its Proto-Indo-European origins and then summarizes the mechanics...

  • Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy
    Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy
    By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

    In Mother Tongue, Wilde-Menozzi offers stories of far-sighted lives, remarkable Parma men and remarkable women, including the Renaissance abbess Giovanna Piacenza, the fighting Donella Rossi Sanvitale, and her own indefatigable mother-in ...

  • Mother Tongue
    Mother Tongue
    By Demetria Martínez

    " --Barbara Kingsolver "Demetria Martínez has pulled out all the stops: here is truth to arouse any hardened heart; here is the 'insanity' of a woman in love calling forth a revolutionary lucidity. Read it. Get angry. And act.

  • Mother Tongue
    Mother Tongue
    By Chaelee Dalton

    "Mother Tongue is a recipe book which continually challenges the limits of what a recipe can be: a time machine, mutating from generation to generation; a connection to family and culture; a testament to women's labor and care for each ...

  • Mother Tongue: My Family's Globe-Trotting Quest to Dream in Mandarin, Laugh in Arabic, and Sing in Spanish
    Mother Tongue: My Family's Globe-Trotting Quest to Dream in Mandarin, Laugh in Arabic, and Sing in Spanish
    By Christine Gilbert

    Gilbert was a young mother when she boldly uprooted her family to move around the world, studying Mandarin in China, Arabic in Lebanon, and Spanish in Mexico, with her toddler son and all-American husband along for the ride.Their story ...

  • Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation
    Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation
    By Gurdeep Loyal

    WINNER OF THE JANE GRIGSON TRUST AWARD ‘Amazing, original, boundary breaking.’ Diana Henry ‘One of the most gleeful cookbooks of 2023.’ Stylist Magazine ‘His recipes have a dynamism that is genuine, personal and flavour-led... ...

  • Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
    Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
    By Tania Romanov

    For Tania Romanov there are three different answers to those questions. Did you speak your mother tongue with anyone except your mother? That is the most bizarre question of all. But for Tania Romanov, the answer is no.