The Nana

Alice Taylor

Casa editrice: Brandon

Sinossi

The Irish nana is a repository of family history, memory and lore. Sometimes, like the Italian nonna, she is also a 'walking cookbook', carrying the old knowledge of how things were best done.
Alice's own grandmothers, Nana Taylor and Nana Ballyduane, were the first generation after the Great Famine, born in the 1860s. These women taught their families the Irish traditions and habits of homemaking that survived for centuries, and are now almost gone.
Now Alice herself is a nana too, and this book takes us through three generations and almost a century and a half. She explores the old and the new, the 'then' and 'now', the nana of yesteryear and of today, with her characteristic empathy and love.

Disponibile da: 03/10/2022.

Lunghezza di stampa: 240 pagine.

Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

The Reward of Enterprise - From...

Ward Muir

The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Ward Muir.

Mostra libro

Bear Witness - The Pursuit of...

Ross Halperin

As young men, Kurt Ver Beek, an American sociologist, and Carlos Hernández, a Honduran schoolteacher, devoted their lives to helping the poor. But it wasn't until they moved to an extraordinarily dangerous neighborhood in Honduras that they came to a radical conclusion: The charity world was combating poverty incorrectly. 
 
 
 
In gripping prose, journalist Ross Halperin chronicles how these two best friends became quasi vigilantes and charged into a series of life-and-death battles: first with the gang that terrorized their community, then with a notorious tycoon who commanded about a thousand-armed men, and finally with a police force whose corruption and brutality defied credulity. Their efforts made some of the most violent neighborhoods on earth safer and arguably improved the functioning of a national government, but in the process of pulling that off, they compromised their principles, precipitated collateral damage, and acquired their share of outraged critics. 
 
 
 
A remarkable and dangerous feat of reportage, Bear Witness is a thrilling account of an unorthodox mission to establish justice in a place thought to be beyond the reach of the law.

Mostra libro

Peaches and the 19 Cobras

Paula Bailey

Peaches & the 19 Cobras is a thrilling and heartwarming children's adventure that will captivate young readers with its blend of excitement and friendship. Follow Peaches, a spirited puppy with a nose for adventure, as she embarks on an epic journey!  
 This high-quality picture book, filled with vibrant colors and real photos, takes readers on a journey that blends action and moral lessons in an enchanting way. Perfect for ages 5 to 8, Peaches & the 19 Cobras will delight and inspire children while sparking their imaginations and encouraging them to embrace adventure with a kind heart.  
 Peaches, a young rescue dog. She tells readers how she and her family coped with the challenges of COVID-19 (19 Cobras) and the Pandemic of 2020 as seen through her eyes Peaches hears COVID-19 as 19 Cobras and talks about the adventures and antics she and her brother, Jake, get into trying to keep everyone safe from those sneaky snakes.

Mostra libro

Ongoingness - The End of a Diary

Sarah Manguso

"[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn't realize we needed." ―The New Yorker 
In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. "I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened," she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice. 
Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time. 
Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary―it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us. 
"Bold, elegant, and honest . . . Ongoingness reads variously as an addict's testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy." ―The Paris Review

Mostra libro

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol 025

Various

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain.  The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, science, humor, travel, philosophy, nature, slavery, the U. S. Civil War, and politics. (summary by J. M. Smallheer)

Mostra libro

Embracing the Journey - :...

Sarah Styf

Before Sarah Styf turned eighteen, she was moved across the country four times, living in five states in four different time zones before she left her parents' home in Michigan for four years of college in Nebraska. As an adult, she and her husband started their family in Indiana, then chose to spend six years in Southeast Texas, before a significant life-changing event sent them back to the Midwest. There have been two constants throughout Sarah's life: faith and change. 
  
One of the ways she coped with change over the years was writing. After nearly a decade of blogging, Sarah noticed a common theme throughout her writing: life is a series of unexpected events, a blind journey through the challenges of being a human, raising children, maintaining a career, and getting older. In her first book, she processes her own journey of leaning into the unexpected and learning how to build a home when everything blows up in your face.

Mostra libro