If I'd grown up in Jamaica I'd be all for taking life easy. ... saysJenkins, to whom this thought has obviously never occurred. ... Larry decides not to tell Jenkins that he was in India at the time of partition.
He was like Padma Lakshmi and Justin Timberlake, one of those people whose fame eventually surpassed their famous exes'. He wasn't a bad person, but she was starting to think he was a bit of an idiot. “I saw your movie,” Rebecca said.
As Hosking has noted, "What they had diagnosed ... was the continued dominance of Russian imperial over Russian ethnic and civic priorities" (Hosking, 2001, p. 567). Great Russia (Rossiya) had superseded Russian national interests and ...
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PRAISE FOR MOTHERLAND: A core of spiritual knowledge resides in the poems of Sally Thomas’s Motherland- knowledge that might seem strange to the poet herself, in fact, though it definitely resides in her, and radiates throughout this ...
Rita Goldberg recounts the extraordinary story of her mother, Hilde Jacobsthal, a close friend of Anne Frank’s family who was fifteen when the Nazis invaded Holland.
Furthermore, while 19% said that they would “not like to see the USSR to be completely restored,” only 4% stated that ... its restoration.10 With regard to feelings on a return to Communist Party rule, 25% said that they would “fully ...
In a deeply moving second-generation Holocaust memoir, Goldberg introduces the extraordinary story of Hilde Jacobsthal, a close friend of Anne Frank's family who was fifteen when the Nazis invaded Holland.
This book tells the story of my mother's dramatic life before, during and after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. "I wrote Motherland because I wanted to understand a story which had become a kind of family myth.
A core of spiritual knowledge resides in the poems of Sally Thomas's MOTHERLAND-- knowledge that might seem strange to the poet herself, in fact, though it definitely resides in her, and radiates throughout this collection.
Krimi. Student Zena Dahl, the daughter of a Swedish millionaire, has gone missing in St Petersburg after a night out with a friend.
Motherland tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. From Lenin's virtual coup in November 1917 to Boris Yeltsin's ruthless takeover of power in 1991, the book culminates with a new view of the Yeltsin years.
A moving account of a mother and daughter who visit Germany to face the Holocaust tragedy that has caused their family decades of intergenerational trauma, from the author of Brothers, Sisters, Strangers Finalist for the National Jewish ...
Inspired by the stories told by her father about his German childhood and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years, Motherland is a novel that attempts to reckon with the paradox of the author's ...
Pamela Marin was fourteen when her mother died of breast cancer. After keeping her illness a secret from her daughter, Mildred Marin left her home in Evanston, Illinois, to spend her last months alone and without treatment in California.
In this quiet but engaging debut novel, an American teenager spends the summer with her relatives in southern India and gains new insight into her past, her family and her heritage.
Extraordinary stories, ordinary lives. This powerful and moving drama shares the stories of women whose everyday lives have been touched by the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
... a little more flour or water to the batter accordingly, if need be. Cook the rest of the batter in the same way, re ... free crumpets: Swap in gluten-free bread flours (white and brown) for the standard flours used in the recipe and make ...
The writings in this collection, fiction and nonfiction, are written from the perspectives of Irish American mothers and daughters.
A moving account of a mother and daughter who visit Germany to face the Holocaust tragedy that has caused their family decades of intergenerational trauma, from the author of Brothers, Sisters, Strangers Finalist for the National Jewish ...