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Anniversaries, Volume 1: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, August 1967–April 1968
by Uwe JohnsonThe first volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics.Published to great acclaim as a two-part boxed set in 2019, Anniversaries will now be available as two individual volumes. It is August 1967, and Gesine Cresspahl, born in Germany the year that Hitler came to power, a survivor of war, of Soviet occupation, and of East German Communism, has been living with her ten-year-old daughter, Marie, in New York City for six years. Mother and daughter find themselves caught up in the countless stories of the world around them: stories of work and school and their neighborhood, with its shifting and varied cast of characters, as well as the stories that Gesine reads in The New York Times every day—about Che Guevara, racial violence, the war in Vietnam, and the US elections to come. Now, with Marie growing up, Gesine has decided to tell her daughter the story of her own childhood in a small north German town in the 1930s and &’40s. Amid memories of Germany&’s criminal and disastrous past and the daily barrage of news from a world in disarray, Gesine, conscientious, self-scrutinizing, with a sharp sense of humor, struggles to describe what she has learned over the years and what she hopes to pass on to Marie. Marie, articulate, quizzical, with a perspective that is very much her own, has plenty of questions, too.Uwe Johnson&’s intimate portrait of a mother and daughter is also a panorama of past and present history and the world at large. Comparable in richness of invention and depth of feeling to Joyce&’s Ulysses and Proust&’s In Search of Lost Time, Anniversaries is one of the world&’s great novels.
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968–August 1968
by Uwe JohnsonThe second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics.Anniversaries, Volume 2 begins on April 20, 1968. Before long Marie will be devastated by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, even as the news of the Prague Spring has awakened Gesine&’s long-dashed hopes that socialism could be a humanism. Meanwhile, her boss at the bank has his own ideas about Czechoslovakia, and Gesine faces the prospect of having to move there for work. Continuing the story of her past from Anniversaries, Volume 1, Gesine describes the Soviet occupation of her hometown, Jerichow, where her father was installed as mayor and ended up in a brutal prison camp. Gesine herself charts a rebellious course through school, ever more bitterly conscious of the moral ugliness of life behind the Iron Curtain. As the year of the novel comes to its end, past and present converge and the novel circles back to its beginnings: Gesine tells Marie about her father, Jakob, dead before she was born, about leaving East Germany, and, as history threatens to take them away from New York, about the beginning of their life together in the city that they have both come to love.
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl
by Damion Searls Uwe JohnsonA landmark of 20th Century literature about New York in the late 1960s, now in English for the first time.Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter for every day of the ongoing year. It would be the tale of Gesine Cresspahl, a thirty-four-year-old single mother who is a German émigré to Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and of her ten-year-old daughter, Marie—a story of work and school, of friends and lovers and the countless small encounters with neighbors and strangers that make up big-city life. An everyday tale, but also a tale of the events of the day, as gleaned by Gesine from The New York Times: Johnson could hardly foresee the convulsions of 1968, but some of the news—the racial unrest roiling America, the escalating war in Vietnam—was sure to be news for some time yet to come. Finally, it would be a tale told by Gesine to Marie about Gesine’s childhood in a small north German town, of her independent and enterprising father, of her troubled mother, of Nazi Germany (Gesine was born the year Hitler came to power) and World War II and Soviet retribution and the grimly regulated realities of Communist East Germany. An ambitious historical novel as well as a wonderfully observed New York novel, Anniversaries would take in the unsettled world of the present along with the twentieth century’s disastrous past, while vividly depicting the struggle of a loving, though hardly uncomplicated mother and a bright, indomitably curious girl to understand and care for each other and to shape a human world.Gesine and Marie are among the most memorable and engaging characters in literature, and Anniversaries, at once monumental and intimate, sweeping and full of incident, stylistically adventurous and endlessly absorbing, is quite simply one of the great books of our time.
Anny and Allie
by Nicole RubelThe author of the popular Rotten Ralph series &“spotlights a common identical-twin dilemma: when people can&’t tell you apart&” (Kirkus Reviews). Even though identical twins Anny and Allie are different in many ways, there is much confusion as to who&’s who. Anny and Allie come to the rescue with humorous results. Young readers follow the twins as they dream up a series of imaginative and hilarious plans to help teachers, friends, and family tell them apart—and discover how lucky they are to have each other along the way! Children&’s author Nicole Rubel—an identical twin herself—knows a lot about being a twin. Anny and Allie explores the subject of treating twins as individuals in a humorous new way, creating twice the fun for twins and non-twins alike! Children and parents chuckle through this imaginative story that helps teachers, friends, and family tell twins apart.
Anochece en los parques
by Ángela ArmeroAnochece en los parques de Ángela Armero es la novela ganadora del Premio Jaén de Narrativa Juvenil 2016. «Lo que vas a leer ahora es la historia de lo que salió mal. No solo recientemente, después de la cena de Nochebuena, sino de todo lo que ha salido mal en mi vida, que en los últimos años ha sido todo. Vivía bajo la impresión de que podía escaparme de ello pero al final no ha sido así.» La vida de Laura no es fácil. Cuando su hermano murió súbitamente dos años atrás, su mundo se hizo añicos. Entonces empezaron las visitas al psicólogo, las píldoras, la sobreprotección de sus padres y, lo peor de todo, el bullying en la escuela. Sin más amigos que Javier, el mejor amigo de su hermano, ni ganas de volver a una casa que se le cae encima, Laura se refugia en la biblioteca cada día después del colegio. Los libros se han convertido en la mejor compañía hasta que, un día, Laura coincide con un chico en la biblioteca y se enamora perdidamente de él. Alexei parece el chico perfecto: es guapo, es hijo de diplomáticos, estudia para ser piloto de avión, le apasionan los libros tanto como a Laura y, sobretodo, parece que también se ha fijado en ella. Sin embargo, Alexei guarda un secreto que no se atreve a compartir con Laura...
Anoitecer no Paraíso
by Lucia BerlinDepois de Manual para mulheres de limpeza, chegam novas histórias de Lucia Berlin, uma das mais importantes redescobertas literárias dos últimos anos. Há um par de anos, o panorama literário mundial foi sacudido por uma colectânea de contos de uma escritora desaparecida e quase esquecida. Era Manual para mulheres de limpeza. A autora, Lucia Berlin, conquistou então o lugar que justamente lhe deveria ter pertencido antes: colocando-se entre os favoritos da crítica e dos leitores e ganhando comparações a Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, Anton Chekhov, Charles Bukowski. A singular capacidade de Berlin para representar a beleza e a dor da rotina, a sua desarmante honestidade, o seu irresistível magnetismo, a sua subtil mas inquietante melancolia, as suas personagens tão próximas da vida. Tudo isto se encontra com grande intensidade em Anoitecer no paraíso,uma colectânea que é um deleite para os todos os leitores que se apaixonaram por Lucia Berlin ou um convite aos que ainda não o fizeram. Do Texas ao Chile, do México a Nova Iorque, Lucia Berlin vislumbra beleza nos lugares mais sombrios e pressente escuridão quando tudo parece ser cristalino. Volume indispensável da obra de Lucia Berlin, Anoitecer no paraíso foi preparado pelo filho da autora, e está recheado de pequenos tesouros da literatura, inéditos em português. Os elogios da crítica: «Não fica em nada atrás de Manual para mulheres de limpeza. São histórias sedutoras, fulgurantes, histórias muito próximas da vida da autora, nas personagens, nos lugares e nas situações, inspiradas pela sua biografia atribulada. (#) Nenhum autor desaparecido ganha tanta vida na página como Berlin: divertida, negra, e tão apaixonada pelo mundo.»Kirkus Reviews «Não há sentidos nem emoções em sossego quando se lê Lucia Berlin. (...) Tudo é acção, tumulto, respiração a todos os ritmos na escrita desta mulher nómada que morreu demasiado longe do lugar onde merecia estar quando se fala de literatura.»Isabel Lucas, Público «Lucia Berlin ergueu-se com este livro ao Olimpo das letras americanas. (...) Para Lucia Berlin, a vida é como é, e ela conta-a com crueza e nitidez, com observações atentas, inusitadas, minúcias que não se inventam, e uma linguagem conversada, inesperada, natural.»Pedro Mexia, Expresso «Ser comparada a escritores como Raymond Carver ou Tchékhov é um elogio e sinal do talento de Berlin, mas ela é única e, em alguns momentos, superior a qualquer um deles.»Helena Carneiro, Observador «As histórias de Lucia Berlin fazem-nos ficar maravilhados perante as contingências da nossa existência.»The New York Times «Uma força literária única e avassaladora.»Booklist «Lucia Berlin pode ser a melhor escritora de sempre.»Publishers Weekly «Quem ainda não teve a sorte de conhecer a escrita de Lucia Berlin que se prepare para um prazer extraordinário.»The Washington Post
Another Brooklyn: A Novel
by Jacqueline WoodsonThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything--until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant--a part of a future that belonged to them.But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where ghosts haunted the night, where mothers disappeared. A world where madness was just a sunset away and fathers found hope in religion. Like Louise Meriwether's Daddy Was a Number Runner and Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Jacqueline Woodson's Another Brooklyn heartbreakingly illuminates the formative time when childhood gives way to adulthood--the promise and peril of growing up--and exquisitely renders a powerful, indelible, and fleeting friendship that united four young lives.
Another City: Poems
by David KeplingerWINNER OF THE UNT RILKE PRIZEHow does it feel to experience another city? To stand beneath tall buildings, among the countless faces of a crowd? To attempt to be heard above the din?The poems of Another City travel inward and outward at once: into moments of self-reproach and grace, and to those of disassociation and belonging. From experiences defined by an urban landscape—a thwarted customer at the door of a shuttered bookstore in Crete, a chance encounter with a might-have-been lover in Copenhagen—to the streets themselves, where &“an alley was a comma in the agony&’s grammar,&” in David Keplinger&’s hands startling images collide and mingle like bodies on a busy thoroughfare.Yet Another City deftly spans not only the physical space of global cities, but more intangible and intimate distances: between birth and death, father and son, past and present, metaphor and reality. In these poems, our entry into the world is when &“the wound, called loneliness, / opens,&” and our voyage out of it is through a foreign but not entirely unfamiliar constellations of cities: Cherbourg, Manila, Port-au-Prince.This is a rich portrait of the seemingly incommunicable expanses between people, places, and ideas—and the ability of a poem to transcend the void.
Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders
by Mary PipherA study of aging and the elderly, this book was written for middle-aged people, to help them better understand what their parents are going through.
Another Day as Emily
by Eileen Spinelli Joanne Lew-VriethoffEleven-year-old Suzy just can't win. Her brother is a local hero for calling 911 after seeing their elderly neighbor collapse, and only her best friend was able to win a role in the play they both auditioned for. Feeling cast aside from all angles, Suzy sees a kindred spirit in Emily Dickinson, the subject of her summer project. Suzy decides to escape from her disappointments by emulating the poet's life of solitude: no visitors or phone calls (only letters delivered through her window), no friends (except her goldfish, Ottilie), and no outings (except church, but only if she can wear her long white Emily dress).But being a recluse is harder than Suzy predicted. Will she find a way to fold Emily into her life while also remaining true to herself?
Another Encyclopedia of Theme Activities for Young Children: Over 300 Favorite Activities Created by Teachers
by Kathy Charner Stephanie Roselli Brittany RobertsMore than 300 theme activities written by teachers for teachers!Actively engage children's imaginations with more than 300 activities for young children organized into a variety of popular themes - from the alphabet to the weather.The result of a nationwide contest among teachers, the classroom-tested activities in Another Encyclopedia of Theme Activities for Young Children provide many months of learning fun!Each activity is complete with learning objectives, materials list, related children's book suggestions, step-by-step instructions of what to do, teacher-to-teacher tips to expand on children's learning, assessment strategies, and related songs, poems, and fingerplays.Themes:*All About Me*Alphabet*Animals*Art*Building & Construction*Celebrations*Colors*Five Senses*Health & Nutrition*Insects & Bugs*Kindness*Math*Music & Movement*My Community & Neighborhood*My Family & Friends*My School*Numbers*Our Earth*Plants*Science & Technology*Seasons*Shapes*Time*Transportation*Water*Weather
Another Forgotten Child
by Cathy GlassEight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her five older siblings were taken into care many years ago. So no one can understand why she was left at home to suffer for so long. It seems Aimee was forgotten. The social services are looking for a very experienced foster carer to look after Aimee and, when she reads the referral, Cathy understands why. Despite her reservations, Cathy agrees to Aimee on - there is something about her that reminds Cathy of Jodie (the subject of 'Damaged' and the most disturbed child Cathy has cared for), and reading the report instantly tugs at her heart strings. When she arrives, Aimee is angry. And she has every right to be. She has spent the first eight years of her life living with her drug-dependent mother in a flat that the social worker described as 'not fit for human habitation'. Aimee is so grateful as she snuggles into her bed at Cathy's house on the first night that it brings Cathy to tears. Aimee's aggressive mother is constantly causing trouble at contact, and makes sweeping allegations against Cathy and her family in front of her daughter as well. It is a trying time for Cathy, and it makes it difficult for Aimee to settle. But as Aimee begins to trust Cathy, she starts to open up. And the more Cathy learns about Aimee's life before she came into care, the more horrified she becomes. It's clear that Aimee should have been rescued much sooner and as her journey seems to be coming to a happy end, Cathy can't help but reflect on all the other 'forgotten children' that are still suffering...
Another Marvelous Thing: Stories
by Laurie ColwinThe poignant and perceptive tale of an affair, from intoxicating first kiss to bittersweet good-bye Josephine "Billy" Delielle and Francis Clemens are sleeping together. Both are economists and both are married to other people, but the similarities end there. He is fastidious; she is a slob. He delights in good food and fine wine; her refrigerator is always empty. He is old and sentimental; she is young and tough minded. This is not his first extramarital dalliance; she never imagined it was possible to love anyone but her husband. The desire that Billy and Francis feel for each other is as inexplicable as it is undeniable, and the moments they steal together are electrifying, tense, and reassuring all at once. Told from the alternating perspectives of two adulterous lovers, Another Marvelous Thing is an exquisitely crafted story collection that tackles the thorniest of subjects with honesty, grace, and humor. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Laurie Colwin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.
Another Mother
by Amanda JamesA woman tracks down her birth mother—but the past she&’s awakened may be more dangerous than she knows… For years, Lu has secretly dreamt of finding her birth mother. But her confidence suffers as a result of childhood bullying, and she&’s been afraid to make the leap. Then, a tragic accident changes her life forever, and sets her on a mission to get in contact and find out the reasons behind her adoption.When she tracks down her mother in Cornwall, on the English coast, there is an emotional reunion and the pair begins to form a relationship. But is everything as wonderful as it appears—or has Lu walked into a nightmare?
Another Mother's Son
by Janet Davey‘We’re lucky to have such an intelligent chronicler of our present' Tessa Hadley on Janet DaveyLorna Parry lives with her three sons, each one lurching into adulthood. Lorna struggles in the claustrophobic loneliness of her home; she’s still angry at her ex-husband, uncomfortable around her father’s new girlfriend and finds it difficult to talk to her sons. Life seems precariously balanced. Then a shocking event occurs at the boys’ school and her world threatens to implode.
Another Mother: 'An absolute belter of a page-turner' HEAT (Karen Pirie #78)
by Susan Spindler'An absolute belter of a page-turner' HEAT'A fantastic book club choice' PRIMAWould you have a baby for your daughter?Ruth has the life she always wanted - stellar career, loving family, beautiful home - but now, with an empty nest, and heading towards 55, she feels restless. Then her daughter is told that she will never be able to conceive, and Ruth discovers that, with the right dose of hormones, she could carry a child for her daughter. At first Ruth is buoyed with a new sense of purpose, but her daughter can't contain her corrosive envy, and then long-buried secrets from the past resurface. What begins a simple gift becomes something darker and more complicated - and something for which Ruth is willing to risk everything...'Gripping' COSMOPLITAN'Full of drama . . . as much about womanhood as it is about motherhood' GUARDIAN'Compulsive' KATE HAMER'Clever and compelling. I loved it' JANE SHEMILT
Another Piece of My Heart: A Novel
by Jane Green“A powerful and moving story of a family on the edge of emotional wreckage” by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Beach House (Dani Shapiro, New York Times–bestselling author of Signal Fires).Andi has spent much of her adult life looking for the perfect man, and at thirty-seven, she’s finally found him. Ethan—divorced with two daughters, Emily and Sophia—is a devoted father and even better husband. Always hoping one day she would be a mother, Andi embraces the girls like they were her own. But in Emily’s eyes, Andi is an obstacle to her father’s love, and Emily will do whatever it takes to break her down. When the dynamics between the two escalate, they threaten everything Andi believes about love, family, and motherhood—leaving both women standing at a crossroad in their lives . . . and in their hearts.“Peopled with nuanced, sympathetic characters.” —Booklist“Compelling . . . it will keep readers on edge.” —Library Journal (starred review)“Paints a clear-eyed portrait of the challenges of stepparenting, while offering hope that in even the most damaged relationships, dreams can come true.” —People“You will laugh and cry as you read . . . It’s that good.” —Adriana Trigiani, New York Times–bestselling author of The Good Left Undone
Another Place at the Table: a Story of Shattered Childhoods Redeemed by Love
by Kathy HarrisonA foster mother shares her story and that of the children she has loved and cared for over the years.
Another Shot at Forever
by Hana SheikIn Hana Sheik&’s latest Harlequin Romance, a married couple&’s breakup night comes with consequences, and soon they must decide if a divorce is what they really want… REUNITED BY THEIR UNEXPECTED MIRACLE… When Zaynab shows up at her estranged husband&’s door, clutching divorce papers, she doesn&’t expect their goodbye to result in one final dazzling night of passion. But the bigger shock? She&’s pregnant! Determined to support Zaynab, Ara offers a convenient solution: move back in together until the baby&’s arrival. Only, being back in such tempting proximity to each other reignites the unresolved feelings they&’d tried desperately to suppress… With just six months until Zaynab&’s due date, can they find a way to undo past mistakes—and give their marriage another shot?From Harlequin Romance: Be swept away by glamorous and heartfelt love stories.
Another Us
by Kirsten HeskethWhen her son is diagnosed with autism, a mother loses her grip on reality in this hilarious and heartfelt debut novel about love and family. What if Emma isn&’t the person she thought she was? Her younger son has just been diagnosed with autism. She&’s accidentally quit her job. The marriage she was dedicated to suddenly seems like a sham. She&’s pretty sure that she is going to have an affair with a hot new dad at the school. The only thing that stays the same is everyone else. Emma realizes it&’s not them—it&’s her. But if she&’s not who she thought she was, can her old life fit in with the new Emma? Compassionate, funny and poignant, Another Us is perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Fiona Gibson. Praise for Another Us: &“Painfully real and at times painfully funny. Another Us is the warm and witty novel you need in your beach-bag this year.&” —Chrissie Manby, bestselling author of Seven Sunny Days&“A real page-turner, with a wonderfully relatable main character. Kirsten has such a fresh new voice and I'm so excited to read whatever she writes next!&” —Christina Pishiris, author of Love Songs for Sceptics&“Delightful action-packed read that will break your heart only to glue the pieces back together, albeit in a slightly different order.&” —Jenny O&’Brien, author of Silent Cry &“What may, at first, seem a light-hearted portrayal of playground politics becomes something brave and brilliant, which both entertains and informs. Kirsten Hesketh&’s writing is assured, and the pace never falters . . . a total must-read debut.&” —Claire Dyer, author of The Moment &“This accomplished debut is gripping, at times heart-breaking and wonderfully well-written. It sheds a piercing light on the choices and difficulties experienced when Asperger&’s is a part of family life, but also shows the strength and power of courage, love and persistence. A searing and honest look at a family reaching breaking point.&” —Maddie Please, author of The Summer of Second Chances
Another View
by Rosamunde PilcherA brilliant, timeless novel by the much-loved Rosamunde Pilcher.Emma Litton can't get on with her life until she finds out just what place she has in her father's heart. She'd been at school in Europe since she was fourteen, then found a job in Paris, always wondering what her famous artist father was doing in Japan or America or at their cottage in Cornwall. Even after she meets Robert Morrow, the handsome gallery owner, and rediscovers her step-brother, Christo, she still feels compelled to probe into the truth about her past. But Emma might learn too late that it is the truth about herself she has to find and that letting go is the first step to keeping love.
Another View
by Rosamunde PilcherOne of Rosamunde Pilcher's classic stories. Emma Litton can't get on with her life until she finds out just what place she has in her father's heart. She'd been at school in Europe since she was fourteen, then found a job in Paris, always wondering what her famous artist father was doing in Japan or America or at their cottage in Cornwall. Even after she meets Robert Morrow, the handsome gallery owner, and rediscovers her step-brother, Christo, she still feels compelled to probe into the truth about her past. But Emma might learn too late that it is the truth about herself she has to find and that letting go is the first step to keeping love.(P) 2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Another Woman
by Penny VincenziFamily secrets and a shattering scandal emerges when a dream wedding becomes a nightmare - and the bride disappears. 'Like a glass of champagne: bubbly, moreish and you don't want it to end' Daily Express The night before her lavish wedding to Oliver Bergin, Cressida Forrest went to bed serene and happy. By morning she had vanished - without apparent cause, and without trace. Shocked, anxious and uncomprehending, the two families face a long and painful day of revelations, as a complex, fragile web of sexual, marital and financial secrets is ripped apart by Cressida's disappearance. And the question they are all forced to ask is who really was the woman they thought they knew - perfect daughter, sister, lover and wife never to be?'Deliciously readable' Mail on Sunday
Another Woman
by Penny VincenziFamily secrets and a shattering scandal emerges when a dream wedding becomes a nightmare - and the bride disappears. 'Like a glass of champagne: bubbly, moreish and you don't want it to end' Daily Express The night before her lavish wedding to Oliver Bergin, Cressida Forrest went to bed serene and happy. By morning she had vanished - without apparent cause, and without trace. Shocked, anxious and uncomprehending, the two families face a long and painful day of revelations, as a complex, fragile web of sexual, marital and financial secrets is ripped apart by Cressida's disappearance. And the question they are all forced to ask is who really was the woman they thought they knew - perfect daughter, sister, lover and wife never to be?'Deliciously readable' Mail on Sunday
Another Woman's Daughter
by Fiona SussmanSet against the tumultuous background of apartheid South Africa, a powerful and moving debut about family, sacrifice, and discovering what it means to belong... Celia Mphephu knows her place in the world. A black servant working in the white suburbs of 1960s Johannesburg, she's all too aware of her limitations. Nonetheless, she has found herself a comfortable corner: She has a job, can support her faraway family, and is raising her youngest child, Miriam. But as racial tensions explode, Celia's world shifts. Her employers decide to flee the political turmoil and move to England--and they ask to adopt Miriam and take her with them. Devastated at the prospect of losing her only daughter, yet unable to deny her child a safer and more promising future, Celia agrees, forever defining both their futures. As Celia fights against the shattering violence of her time, Miriam battles the quiet racism of England, struggling to find her place in a land to which she doesn't belong--until the call of her heritage inexorably draws her back to Africa to discover the truth behind her mother's choices and uncover a heartbreaking secret from long ago...READERS GUIDE INSIDEFrom the Trade Paperback edition.