My Mother`s Daughter: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph, Felicien Perdita
Автор: Patrick W. Galbraith Название: Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan ISBN: 1478006293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478006299 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 24200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From computer games to figurines and maid cafes, men called “otaku” develop intense fan relationships with “cute girl” characters from manga, anime, and related media and material in contemporary Japan. While much of the Japanese public considers the forms of character love associated with “otaku” to be weird and perverse, the Japanese government has endeavored to incorporate “otaku” culture into its branding of “Cool Japan.” In Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan, Patrick W. Galbraith explores the conflicting meanings of “otaku” culture and its significance to Japanese popular culture, masculinity, and the nation. Tracing the history of “otaku” and “cute girl” characters from their origins in the 1970s to his recent fieldwork in Akihabara, Tokyo (“the Holy Land of Otaku”), Galbraith contends that the discourse surrounding “otaku” reveals tensions around contested notions of gender, sexuality, and ways of imagining the nation that extend far beyond Japan. At the same time, in their relationships with characters and one another, “otaku” are imagining and creating alternative social worlds.
Автор: Astrid Lindgren Название: Ronja the Robber`s Daughter Illustrated Edition ISBN: 0192764020 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192764027 Издательство: Oxford Education Рейтинг: Цена: 11980.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Ronja, the robber`s daughter, causes mayhem by befriending the son of her father`s sworn enemy. Together Ronja and Birk explore the magical forest they have fled to and must fend for themselves in the hope that one day they can return home.
Автор: Harrison Harry H. JR., Harrison Melissa Название: Father to Daughter, Revised Edition: Life Lessons on Raising a Girl ISBN: 0761174893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780761174899 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 10110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Filled with short, sweet, inspirational words of wisdom, this is a book of guidance for Dads on loving, shaping - and learning to comprehend - their inscrutable little girls. Divided into stages from infancy on up, it offers a pithy lesson on every page.
Автор: Warnecke Grace Kennan Название: Daughter of the Cold War: A Memoir ISBN: 0822965895 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822965893 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Grace Kennan Warnecke`s memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. This compelling and evocative memoir allows readers to follow Grace`s amazing path through life - a whirlwind journey of survival, risk, and self-discovery through a kaleidoscope of many countries, historic events, and fascinating people.
Автор: Wang, Lixiong, Название: The struggle for Tibet / ISBN: 1844670430 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844670437 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 26390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Presents a debate on the occupation of Tibet and the movement for independence. This title offers a dialogue between a dissenting Chinese intellectual and Tibet`s outstanding national historian breaks taboos on both sides of the decades-long conflict. It considers some of the bitter paradoxes of Tibet`s history under Communist rule.
Автор: Taylor Laini Название: Daughter of Smoke & Bone ISBN: 0316459186 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316459181 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Цена: 13790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The first book in the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war.
Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.
When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past.
But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?
Автор: Felicien Perdita Название: My Mother`s Daughter: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph ISBN: 0385689969 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385689960 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 24780.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: NATIONAL BESTSELLER A phenomenal, human story. . . . I could not put this book down. --CLARA HUGHES An instant national bestseller, this raw and affecting memoir is the story of a mother and daughter who beat the odds together. Decades before Perdita Felicien became a World Champion hurdler running the biggest race of her life at the 2004 Olympics, she carried more than a nation's hopes--she carried her mother Catherine's dreams. In 1974, Catherine is determined and tenacious, but she's also pregnant with her second child and just scraping by in St. Lucia. When she meets a wealthy white Canadian family vacationing on the island, she knows it's her chance. They ask her to come to Canada to be their nanny--and she accepts. This was the beginning of Catherine's new life: a life of opportunity, but also suffering. Within a few years, she would find herself pregnant a third time--this time in her new country with no family to support her, and this time, with Perdita. Together, in the years to come, mother and daughter would experience racism, domestic abuse, and even homelessness, but Catherine's will would always pull them through. As Perdita grew and began to discover her preternatural athletic gifts, she was edged onward by her mother's love, grit, and faith. Facing literal and figurative hurdles, she learned to leap and pick herself back up when she stumbled. This book is a daughter's memoir--a book about the power of a parent's love to transform their child's life.
As CEO and visionary of the Heritage School of Interior Design--the premier interior design school on the west coast--Stephanie Thornton Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret.
No one outside her immediate family would ever have guessed that her childhood was fraught with every imaginable hardship: a mentally ill mother who was in and out of jails and psych wards throughout Stephanie's formative years, neglect, hunger, poverty, homelessness, truancy, foster homes, a harrowing lack of medical care, and ongoing sexual abuse.
Stephanie, in turn, knew very little about the past of her mother, from whom she remained estranged during most of her adult life. All this changed with a phone call that set a journey of discovery in motion, leading to a series of shocking revelations that forced Stephanie to revise the meaning of almost every aspect of her very compromised childhood.
American Daughter is at once the deeply moving memoir of a troubled mother-daughter relationship and a meditation on trauma, resilience, transcendence, and redemption. Stephanie's story is unique but its messages are universal, offering insight into what it means to survive, to rise above, to heal, and to forgive.
Автор: Degl Jennifer Название: From Hope to Joy: A Memoir of a Mother`s Determination and Her Micro Preemie`s Struggle to Beat the Odds ISBN: 061584443X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615844435 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18380.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: If you enjoy memoirs, this book is a must-read.In this gripping memoir, Jennifer Degl brings her readers on an emotional roller coaster: from the decision to get pregnant despite warnings from her doctors-and nearly dying four times during her pregnancy-to the birth of her daughter, Joy, seventeen weeks early, and this tiny baby's fight to survive. On the night her daughter was born, Jennifer started a journal on a sheet of paper given to her by a nurse. Once she was discharged from the hospital, a little blue notebook-in which she wrote everything-became Jennifer's constant companion. Five months after the birth of her daughter, Jennifer went to write in her notebook; instead, she sat down and read her journal cover to cover. That's when she knew she had to tell this story. A remarkable story, "From Hope to Joy" is filled with love, determination, strength, hope-and finally Joy. Scroll up and grab your copy today
Автор: Patterson Amy C. Название: Dreaming of a Daughter: A Michigan Mother`s Memoir of Miracles ISBN: 1548284726 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781548284725 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Separated literally a world apart, this mother and daughter were each brokenhearted from different forms of abandonment by their biological mothers. Similarly, each have (or had) to face life-threatening diseases as well. Joined through a series of miracles to become adoptive mother and daughter, they were each made emotionally whole again. The two now live happily together in paradise with their large, loving family. This is the true story of their journey to find one another. It describes the tale of how they ended up on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, halfway between each of their respective birthplaces of China and Michigan.
