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Great Britain: Bridge Publications. Paperback. Couple of very slight creases to cover. This is the true, moving story of the courage of a young girl whose family caught up in a world of s… Altro …

Great Britain: Bridge Publications. Paperback. Couple of very slight creases to cover. This is the true, moving story of the courage of a young girl whose family caught up in a world of sickness. John Cowan, Director of Muller Homes For Children in Bristol writes: 'Anyone who knows Thelma Hayman will immediately testify to her Christian commitment and her high resolve to share her faith with any who care to listen. Her life chould not be described as easy, far from it - orphaned in early childhood, she was dogged by ill health. Thelma spent many years in and out of hospital for treatment, and that she is still alive can only be due to the goodness and faithfulness of God. She has written here of her experiences in simple and straightforward terms with no attempt to embellish the facts.' This authobiography, beautifully told, shows a positive approach to the problem of suffering and pain. 118 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Paperback Edition. 1987., Bridge Publications, 1987, 3, Great Britain: Hodder & Stoughton. old bookstore stamp inside Ayla, the unforgettable heroine of The Clan of the Cave Bear sets out from her adoptive family on an odyssey of discover. Encountering a hostile world of awesome mystery, with survival alone a constant battle, she comes upon a hidden valley where she befriends a herd of steppe horses and with them builds a unique friendship. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 2002., Hodder & Stoughton, 2002, 3, "Set in a logging town on the lawless Pacific coast of Washington State at the turn of the twentieth century, this spell-binding novel tells the story of the Ellstrom family and the violent social and historical forces that tear them apart"--Set in a logging town on the lawless Pacific coast of Washington State at the turn of the twentieth century, a spellbinding novel of fate and redemption--told with a muscular lyricism and filled with a cast of characters Shakespearean in scope--in which the lives of an ill-fated family are at the mercy of violent social and historical forces that tear them apart.Keen to make his fortune, Jacob Ellstrom, armed with his medical kit and new wife, Nell, lands in The Harbor--a mud-filled, raucous coastal town teeming with rough trade pioneers, sawmill laborers, sailors, and prostitutes. But Jacob is not a doctor, and a botched delivery exposes his ruse, driving him onto the streets in a plunge towards alcoholism. Alone, Nell scrambles to keep herself and their young son, Duncan, safe in this dangerous world. When a tentative reunion between the couple--in the company of Duncan and Jacob's malicious brother, Matius--results in tragedy, Jacob must flee town to elude being charged with murder.Years later, the wild and reckless Duncan seems to be yet another of The Harbor's hoodlums. His only salvation is his overwhelming love for Teresa Boyerton, the daughter of the town's largest mill owner. But disaster will befall the lovers with heartbreaking consequences.And across town, Bellhouse, a union boss and criminal rabble-rouser, sits at the helm of The Harbor's seedy underbelly, perpetuating a cycle of greed and violence. His thug Tartan directs his pack of thieves, pimps, and murderers, and conceals an incendiary secret involving Duncan's mother. As time passes, a string of calamitous events sends these characters hurtling towards each other in an epic collision that will shake the town to its core., Harper Perennial, 2015-09, 6, In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America's premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings to life the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line in American history. The voices and stories of both famous people and ordinary citizens come together as Brokaw takes us on a memorable journey through a remarkable time, exploring how individual lives and the national mindset were affected by a controversial era and showing how the aftershocks of the Sixties continue to resound in our lives today. In the reflections of a generation, Brokaw also discovers lessons that might guide us in the years ahead. Boom! One minute it was Ike and the man in the grey flannel suit, and the next minute it was time to "turn on, tune in, drop out." While Americans were walking on the moon, Americans were dying in Vietnam. Nothing was beyond question, and there were far fewer answers than before.Published as the fortieth anniversary of 1968 approaches, Boom! gives us what Brokaw sees as a virtual reunion of some members of "the class of '68," offering wise and moving reflections and frank personal remembrances about people's lives during a time of high ideals and profound social, political, and individual change. What were the gains, what were the losses? Who were the winners, who were the losers? As they look back decades later, what do members of the Sixties generation think really mattered in that tumultuous time, and what will have meaning going forward? Race, war, politics, feminism, popular culture, and music are all explored here, and we learn from a wide range of people about their lives. Tom Brokaw explores how members of this generation have gone on to bring activism and a Sixties mindset into individual entrepreneurship today. We hear stories of how this formative decade has led to a recalibrated perspectiveon business, the environment, politics, family, our national existence. Remarkable in its insights, profoundly moving, wonderfully written and reported, this revealing portrait of a generation and of an era, and of the impact of the 1960s on our lives today, lets us be present at this reunion ourselves, and join in these frank conversations about America then, now, and tomorrow., Random House, 2007, 2.5, London England: Pan. Paperback. Prime Time is the time when a woman has a chance to become truly herself, when the demands of being a wife and mother can take second place. Prime Time is a good time but it's not all that easy. How do you pick up those pieces of yourself that didn't have a chance to blossom ten or twenty years ago? How do you get over the fears and inadequacies caused by other people's ideas of middle age? This book is a compassionate, cogent and always honest look at the world of the mid-life woman toady. Sex, work, marriage, affairs, divorce, ageing, and the menopause....It you're a woman somewhere between your mid-thirties and your mid-fifties, this is a book about you. 222 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Paperback Edition. 1981., Pan, 1981, 3, London England: HarperCollins. Paperback. The number of serious crimes committed by children under 16 in Britain has soared by 54 per cent in the last ten years. School arson alone now costs the country three times more every year than is spent on buying books. But to blame these children, the author argues, is a way of evading blame ourselves. Chgildren are born innocent, both harmless and powerless. if they grow up confused and ignorant, destructive and self-destructive, then the society that produces them must be so too. Every day the children who do not get what they deserve become the adults that no society wants. And they can, with justice, turn to us and demand, 'What did we do to deserve this?'. So how have we let it come to pass? Where are we going wrong, and where and how are we getting it right? In a study as epic in scope as its subject, the author of The Women's History of the World investigates the worldwide crisis of parenting and asks what we can do to help children become the kind of people society wants, needs and can value. 305 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 1995., HarperCollins, 1995, 3, ***2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction***"What's more American than Corn Flakes?" Bing CrosbyFrom the much admired medical historian ("Markel shows just how compelling the medical history can be"Andrea Barrett) and author of An Anatomy of Addiction ("Absorbing, vivid"Sherwin Nuland, The New York Times Book Review, front page)the story of America's empire builders: John and Will Kellogg.John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a best-selling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which revolutionized the mass production of food and what we eat for breakfast.In The Kelloggs, Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of these two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet.The Kelloggs were of Puritan stock, a family that came to the shores of New England in the mid-seventeenth century, that became one of the biggest in the county, and then renounced it all for the religious calling of Ellen Harmon White, a self-proclaimed prophetess, and James White, whose new Seventh-day Adventist theology was based on Christian principles and sound body, mind, and hygiene rulesEllen called it "health reform."The Whites groomed the young John Kellogg for a central role in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and sent him to America's finest Medical College. Kellogg's main medical focusand America's number one malady: indigestion (Walt Whitman described it as "the great American evil").Markel gives us the life and times of the Kellogg brothers of Battle Creek: Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his world-famous Battle Creek Sanitarium medical center, spa, and grand hotel attracted thousands actively pursuing health and well-being. Among the guests: Mary Todd Lincoln, Amelia Earhart, Booker T. Washington, Johnny Weissmuller, Dale Carnegie, Sojourner Truth, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and George Bernard Shaw. And the presidents he advised: Taft, Harding, Hoover, and Roosevelt, with first lady Eleanor. The brothers Kellogg experimented on malt, wheat, and corn meal, and, tinkering with special ovens and toasting devices, came up with a ready-to-eat, easily digested cereal they called Corn Flakes.As Markel chronicles the Kelloggs' fascinating, Magnificent Ambersonslike ascent into the pantheon of American industrialists, we see the vast changes in American social mores that took shape in diet, health, medicine, philanthropy, and food manufacturing during seven decades, vintage books, 2018, 6, Dispatches from the new front lines of parenthoodWhen the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their four children at home, the news threatened to place her, she writes, "among the greats: the Kennedys, the McCaughey septuplets, the von Trapp family singers, and perhaps even Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev, who, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, gave birth to sixty-nine children in eighteenth-century Russia."Greene is best known for her books on the civil rights movement and the African HIV/AIDS pandemic. She's been praised for her "historian's urge for accuracy," her "sociologist's sense of social nuance," and her "writerly passion for the beauty of language."But Melissa and her husband have also pursued a more private vocation: parenthood. "We so loved raising our four children by birth, we didn't want to stop. When the clock started to run down on the home team, we brought in ringers."When the number of children hit nine, Greene took a break from reporting. She trained her journalist's eye upon events at home. Fisseha was riding a bike down the basement stairs; out on the porch, a squirrel was sitting on Jesse's head; vulgar posters had erupted on bedroom walls; the insult niftam (the Amharic word for "snot") had led to fistfights; and four non-native-English-speaking teenage boys were researching, on Mom's computer, the subject of "saxing.""At first I thought one of our trombone players was considering a change of instrument," writes Greene. "Then I remembered: they can't spell."Using the tools of her trade, she uncovered the true subject of the "saxing" investigation, inspiring the chapter "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, but Couldn't Spell."A celebration of parenthood; an ingathering of children, through birth and out of loss and bereavement; a relishing of moments hilarious and enlighteningNo Biking in the House Without a Helmet is a loving portrait of a unique twenty first-century family as it wobbles between disaster and joy., Sarah Crichton Books, 2012-04, 5, A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs a healthy, happy thirty-nine-year-old mother with no family history of breast cancer, being diagnosed with the disease rocked Hollye Jacobs's world. Having worked as a nurse, social worker, and child development specialist for fifteen years, she suddenly found herself in the position of moving into the hospital bed. She was trained as a clinician to heal. In her role as patient, the healing process became personal.Exquisitely illustrated with full-color photographs by Hollye's close friend, award-winning photographer Elizabeth Messina, The Silver Lining is both Hollye's memoir and a practical, supportive resource for anyone whose life has been touched by breast cancer. In the first section of each chapter, she describes with humor and wisdom her personal experience and gives details about her diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and recovery.The second section of each chapter is told from Hollye's point of view as a medical expert. In addition to providing a glossary of important terms and resources, she addresses the physical and emotional aspects of treatment, highlights what patients can expect, and provides action steps, including:What to do when facing a diagnosisHow to find the best and most supportive medical teamWhat questions to askWhat to expect at medical testsHow to talk with and support childrenHow to relieve or avoid side effectsHow to be a supportive friend or family memberHow to find Silver Linings Looking for and finding Silver Linings buoyed Hollye from the time of her diagnosis throughout her double mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation, and recovery. They gave her the balance and perspective to get her through the worst days, and they compose the soul of the book.The Silver Lining of Hollye's illness is that she can now use the knowledge gleaned from her experience to try to make it better for those who have to follow her down this difficult path. This is why she is sharing her story. Hollye is the experienced girlfriend who wants to help shed some light in the darkness, provide guidance through the confusion, and hold your hand every step of the way.At once comforting and instructive, realistic and inspiring, The Silver Lining is a visually beautiful, poignant must-read for everyone who has been touched by cancer., Atria Books, 2014-03-18, 3, From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Amnesty, a "ferociously brilliant" (Slate) novel about two brothers coming of age in a Mumbai slum, raised by their crazy, obsessive father to be cricket champions.*A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES * AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOKManjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricketif not as good as his older brother, Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling, and is fascinated by curious scientific facts and the world of CSI. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that he doesn't know. Sometimes it even seems as though everyone has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself. When Manju meets Radha's great rival, a mysterious Muslim boy privileged and confident in all the ways Manju is not, everything in Manju's world begins to change, and he is faced by decisions that will challenge his sense of self and of the world around him.Filled with unforgettable characters from across India's social stratathe old scout everyone calls Tommy Sir; Anand Mehta, the big-dreaming investor; Sofia, a wealthy, beautiful girl and the boys' biggest fanSelection Day "brings a family, a city, and an entire country to scabrous and antic life" (Chicago Tribune)., Scribner, soon and schuster, 2017-06, 3, London England: Harper Coillins. Very Good. 2012. 2nd Impreesion. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0007916396 Paperback Paperback Michael Morpurgo .The heart-lifting, heartbreaking new story by Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller. In the Imperial War Museum is a wooden Dachshund, carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British family with which he stayed after the fighting ended. This is the story of how it got there...When the Bismarck sinks, one of the only German survivors is taken on board a British ship as a prisoner of war. Sent to live with a host family, Walter must adapt to a new way of life, in the heart of an enemy country. Gradually, though, he finds a friend in ten-year-old Grace. So when the time finally comes to go back to Germany, it's an emotional parting, with Walter leaving Grace with only a carved wooden dog to remember him by. The question is, will Walter and Grace ever meet again? In 1966, with the World Cup coming to Britain, that opportunity may just have come along... (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) ., Harper Coillins, 2012, 3, London England: Senate. Paperback. Creases to cover. There are those of us who, while professing not to believe in ghosts, are strangely fearful of the dark and ascribe the most innocent and natural of sounds to ghostly intruders. While apparitions have not yet been scientifically accounted for, and while no alleged spirit has yet come forth and explained itself to the material world, few of us are willing to admit that 'there is nothing in it' when discussing the haunting of houses by disembodied spirits. This fascinating book is a remarkable guide to the stories and family legends that surround the haunting of many castles, houses and sites in the British Isles. From the Tower of London to Glamis Castle in Scotland the author takes the reader on a ghostly journey through the proven (and unproven) evidence suggesting that 'we are not alone'. This book is an intriguing account of what is, for the time being, inexplicable. Illustrations. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Good. Soft cover. 1st Senate Edition. 1994., Senate, 1994, 2.5, London England: London City Mission. Paperback. 'These prayers aand meditations are based on long experience through the London City Mission. Joy Whyte continues and extends her earlier much used Prayers for a City. In this new book her concern is forcues on the needs of urbanchildren, their family and upbrining, their education and recreation, and the harsher realities of growing up in today's world. With spiritual discernment the book guides our thoughts to be informed by Scripture and the insights of experience, and so to intercession for the young city dwellers of our day who are tomorrow's adult citizens, tomorrow's parents, and - please God - tomorrow's Christian leaders in their own communities'. (Timothy Dudley-Smith). 123 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Paperback Edition. 2004., London City Mission, 2004, 3, London England: Harper Coillins. Very Good. 2011. 1st Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Duodecimo 0007916396 Paperback The heart-lifting, heartbreaking new story by Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller. In the Imperial War Museum is a wooden Dachshund, carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British family with which he stayed after the fighting ended. This is the story of how it got there...When the Bismarck sinks, one of the only German survivors is taken on board a British ship as a prisoner of war. Sent to live with a host family, Walter must adapt to a new way of life, in the heart of an enemy country. Gradually, though, he finds a friend in ten-year-old Grace. So when the time finally comes to go back to Germany, it's an emotional parting, with Walter leaving Grace with only a carved wooden dog to remember him by. The question is, will Walter and Grace ever meet again? In 1966, with the World Cup coming to Britain, that opportunity may just have come allast (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) ., Harper Coillins, 2011, 3, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.: Lerner Publishing Group, The. 1990. 3rd Printing, First Edition Landscape Format. S Illustrated Hard Cover. Near Fine., Lerner Publishing Group, The, 1990, 4, -: HarperCollins, 2002. None. Paperback. Good. -. Tony Parsons` second bestseller: a new novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the ""Book of the Year"", ""Man and Boy"" Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life, and then lost her He doesn`t believe you get a second chance at love Returning to the England, he left behind during the brief, idyllic time of his marriage, Alfie finds the rest of his world collapsing around him He takes comfort in a string of pointless, transient affairs with his students at Churchill`s Language School, and he tries to learn Tai Chi from an old Chinese man, George Chang Will Alfie ever find a family life as strong as the Changs`? Can he give up meaningless sex for a meaningful relationship? And how do you play it when the woman you like has a difficult child who is infatuated with a TV wrestler known as The Slab? Like his runaway bestseller, ""Man and Boy"", Tony Parsons`s new novel is full of laughter and tears, biting social comment and overwhelming emotion --> Genre: Romance General, HarperCollins, 2002, 2.5, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.: Lerner Publishing Group, The. 1996. F First Edition Landscape Format. H Hard Cover. Near Fine., Lerner Publishing Group, The, 1996, 4, Routledge. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. 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