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| Hansen, Jane: Three Seasons
Book Number: 41268
Pan Macmilan 2007 Trade paperback. 297pp. I wanted it all, and had no reason to expect that I couldn't have it: education, success, adventure, the capacity to make a difference. And I wanted a family... Eventually! I was a lucky girl; the first bits – a good education, a career in broadcast journalism – came easily enough and I assumed motherhood would just happen for me when I was ready. It simply didn't occur to me that it might not all fall into place."
As a journalist and foreign correspondent, Jane Hansen interviewed coup leaders, irritated the Taliban and slept rough in war zones with the sound of artillery fire in the background. She lived and breathed this exciting life before she decided it was time to become a mother. And it was this struggle that would come to affect her most deeply... In this courageous, moving and powerful memoir, Jane writes about her journey to motherhood, and the heartbreaking plight of her son Jackson, born too early, too small, with unflinching honesty.
Keywords: prenancy, premature birth, death of a baby, misscarriage.
Price: $17.00 |
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| Lorimer, Jean: Pilgrim Children
Book Number: 41303
London: Frederick Muller, 1942 Small 8vo. hardcover. 154pp. b/w illus. very good, owner's name on fep. / fair, chipped d/w. In 1941 nearly 4000 children sailed from the UK to America to live with fster parents.
Keywords: children america pilgrins orphans british
Price: $22.00 |
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| Hughes, Patricia: Daughters of Nazareth: A remarkable story of loss, hope and discovery
Book Number: 41322
Pan Macmillan 2002 8vo softcover 193pp very good. Story of the author's growing up in the Catholic orphanage called Nazareth House, her fostering, making a new life, and finding her sister.
Keywords: Daughters of Nazareth A remarkable story of loss hope and discovery Hughes Patricia
Price: $12.00 |
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| Levi, Peter: The Life and Times of William Shakespeare
Book Number: 41634
Macmillan 1998 8vo hardcover 391pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: The Life and Times of William Shakespeare Levi Peter
Price: $22.00 |
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| O'Connor, Garry: William Shakespeare
Book Number: 41638
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1991 8vo hardcover 337pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: William Shakespeare O'Connor Garry
Price: $18.00 |
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| Marnham, Patrick: Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley
Book Number: 41663
Vintage Books July 3, 2007 8vo softcover 304pp very good. Marnham has disentangled truth from rumour, clarified the many connections between Wild Mary's rackety life and Mary Wesley's fiction. The authorized, and astonishing, biography of Mary Wesley. Descended from the Duke of Wellington, Mary Wesley grew up a rebel, believing that she was her mother's least favourite child. Like many girls of her background, she married for escape, although her first marriage (to Lord Swinfen) was conventional. Her second husband, Eric Siepmann, a writer who never managed to make any money at all, was feckless and bohemian. In between Swinfen and Siepmann, she had a love affair with Czech war hero, Heinz Ziegler - and possibly with his brother at the same time; and in her later years enjoyed a torrid relationship with screenwriter Robert Bolt. At the outbreak of the Second World War she was, as she put it, "roped into intelligence," where she worked on breaking codes. Her experiences in MI5, and her many wartime love affairs, which form the core of this biography, also formed the cores of her novels. She wrote about the atmosphere of the home front and how war dislocates families, and how a sense of the imminence of death loosens the inhibitions. Through hours of interviews with Mary and access to her personal papers, Patrick Marnham discovered her story. It is a story of near-suicide and reckless courage, and tells of how a passionate and headstrong woman turned her back on her privileged position and succeeded in living life on her own uncompromising terms.
Keywords: Wild Mary The Life of Mary Wesley Marnham Patrick
Price: $16.00 |
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| Ferrari, Gabriella De: Gringa Latina: A Woman of Two Worlds + Peru Recipes
Book Number: 41676
Houghton Mifflin Company April 1995 8vo softcover 176pp very good. Born in Peru of Italian immigrant parents, curator and novelist De Ferrari (A Cloud on Sand) here offers a memoir "saturated with powerful echoes and profound longings for a place I can never leave behind." The author writes elegantly about a local culture she first learned through black-clad neighbors and Indian maids. She recalls her dignified, decent father, her mother's passage from an Italian convent to become a wife in Peru and her parents' roles as unofficial Italian ambassadors in the town of Tacna. She recounts grade school alienation and the enthusiastic college roommate who taught her Americanisms. Though De Ferrari tells little of her adulthood, in some chapters she contrasts past and present: Tacna has become a city and, like so much of Peru, is now a place of drugs and fear. And De Ferrari observes that she has gained an American openness that differs markedly from the behavior of cousins she meets in Italy. A neat postscript to this sensitive trek across boundaries includes some of her mother's Peruvian-Italian recipes. Author tour.
Keywords: latino sociology Gringa Latina A Woman of Two Worlds Ferrari Gabriella De
Price: $12.00 |
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| Glendinning, Victoria: Leonard Woolf
Book Number: 41725
Pocket Books 2007 8vo softcover 528pp index, b/w illus. very good+.
Keywords: Leonard Woolf bloomsbury Glendinning Victoria
Price: $18.00 |
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| Koestler, Arthur and Cynthia: Stranger on the Square
Book Number: 41766
Abacus Books April 25, 1985 8vo softcover 242pp good, po name and iscription on feb. Not long after their deaths, Harold Harris found the third unfinished volume of Koestler's autobiography, written with Cynthia, covering much of their life together. Its pages revealed and extraordinarily symbiotic relationship which explained Cynthia's suicide, a decision which shocked so many of her friends and associates.
Keywords: Stranger on the Square Koestler Arthur
Price: $15.00 |
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| Pevitt, Christine.: Madame de Pompadour : mistress of France / Christine Pevitt Algrant.
Book Number: 41799
Pymble, N.S.W. Flamingo 2002 8vo softcover 339pp index, colour illus. very good.
Keywords: Madame de Pompadour mistress of France
Price: $15.00 |
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