The Lost Mother

• Author : Joon Kim,Dona M. Dietz
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 01 February 2008

The Lost Mother is the memoir of Iltang, an acclaimed Korean/Japan painter whowas born in 1922. His Korean mother, Ilyeopwas a well-known feminist poetwho, after his birth, renounced the worldto enter into Buddhist monastic life. Iltang's father was the scion of an aristocratic Japanese family. Their relationship was romantic but ultimatelydoomed. In a life marked by war and disruption; Iltang finally attained both theartistic success he craved, and the spiritualenlightenment he sought in later life. The longing for his "real"

• Author : Anne Summers
• Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
• Release : 21 May 2022

My mother had just turned ten in mid-1933 when a young woman approached her as they were both leaving Mass at St Joan of Arc's in Brighton...The woman was an artist and she would like to paint her portrait... After her mother's death in 2005, Anne Summers inherits a portrait of her mother as a child. Mesmerised by this image, she finds herself drawn into the story of how the portrait was painted and eventually found its way into her

• Author : Catherine Hokin
• Publisher : Bookouture
• Release : 28 January 2021

She looked at the empty cradle where her baby had been. Her heart felt tattered and empty, like the hollow streets of Berlin after its people began to live in fear. Berlin, 1934. Homes once filled with laughter stand empty as the Nazi party’s grip on the city tightens. When Anna Tiegel’s beautiful best friend catches Reich Minister Goebbels’ special attention, an impulsive act to save her brings Anna under his unforgiving scrutiny. First, she loses her job, then

• Author : Mary McGarry Morris
• Publisher : Open Road Media
• Release : 12 December 2017

Abandoned by his wife, a man tries to protect his family during the Great Depression, in this “powerful” novel by the bestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time (Publishers Weekly). During the Great Depression, rural Vermont suffers along with the rest of the country, and Henry Talcott, with only occasional work as a butcher, is reduced to moving into a tent on the edge of Black Pond with his two children. Their beautiful but unreliable mother has left them, and

• Author : Françoise Duval
• Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
• Release : 26 November 2014

Sarah is a little girl of five. She is precocious and her parents don't know always what to do when faced with the predicaments she gets them all into. And others, finding her sometimes difficult to understand, often treat her as an adult, since her behavior tends to be quite adult-like. That is how Sarah found herself at the police station one day reporting « a lost mother », for according to her, her mother had got lost. This story ushers young

• Author : EVA ACHENBACH
• Publisher : Trafford Publishing
• Release : 13 June 2014

This is a story of what happens to a woman when her life is turned upside down. The town, her so-called friends, and even the courts turn against her. All because of one person that lies, steals, cheats, or whatever it takes to get money or whatever else he thinks that is his. While she is so stressed out, she needs someone to talk to besides her mom. She found him, her first love, and he is back in the

• Author : Jane Ellice Hopkins
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 1874

• Author : Sara Payne
• Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
• Release : 13 July 2017

'It has been seventeen years since you went missing, princess. It has been twenty-five years since you were born. There have been too many Christmases without you . . . ' In the summer of 2000, schoolgirl Sarah Payne went missing from a beach where she played with her siblings. The nation waited with her whole family as the search for the little girl touched the hearts of everyone in the country. After Sarah's body was found, abducted and murdered by convicted paedophile Roy

• Author : Leslie Swartz
• Publisher : NYU Press
• Release : 01 March 2021

How I Lost My Mother is a deeply felt account of the relationship between a mother and son, and an exploration of what care for the dying means in contemporary society The book is emotionally complex – funny, sad and angry – but above all, heartfelt and honest. It speaks boldly of challenges faced by all of us, challenges which are often not spoken about and hidden, but which deserve urgent attention. This is first and foremost a work of the heart,

• Author : Eliza Crosby Allen,Ira M. Allen,Elizabeth Sewell,Darius Mead,Myron Finch,Mary G. Clarke,Carolina Orme Hiscox
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 1872

• Author : Ms Jennifer Heller
• Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Release : 28 May 2013

Using printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Jennifer Heller defines the genre of the mother's legacy as a distinct branch of the advice tradition in early modern England that takes the form of a dying mother's pious counsel to her children. Reading these texts in light of specific cultural contexts, social trends, and historical events, Heller explores how legacy writers used the genre to secure personal and family status, to shape their children's beliefs and behaviors, and to intervene

• Author : Andrew Smith
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 19 August 2016

The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts. Theoretically informed but accessibly written, this volume relates Frankenstein to various social, literary, scientific and historical contexts, and outlines how critical theories such as ecocriticism, posthumanism, and queer theory generate new and important discussion in illuminating ways. The volume also explores the cultural afterlife of the novel including its adaptations in various

• Author : Dinah Maria Murock Craik
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 1890

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 21 May 1880

• Author : Jill Shalvis
• Publisher : Harlequin
• Release : 01 March 2018

Discover a classic story of redemption from New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis. Single mom Jenna Loggins came from the wrong side of the tracks, but she’d vowed to give her beloved baby a better life. So ten years ago desperate Jenna fled, leaving her daughter in the care of Stone Cameron, the child’s father and the son of the richest family in town. But a near-fatal car crash has given Jenna a second chance to make