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Daughters of Tunis: Women, Family, and Networks in a Muslim City (Westview Case Studies in Anthropology)

by Paula Holmes-Eber

Published: 2002-08-14

Paperback: 192 pages

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Daughters of Tunis is an innovative ethnography that carefully weaves the words and intimate, personal stories of four Tunisian women and their families with a statistical analysis of women's survival strategies in a rapidly urbanizing, industrializing Muslim nation. Delineating three dist...

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Daughters-in-Law

by Joanna Trollope

Published: 2011-04-05

Paperback: 336 pages

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As Anthony and Rachel Brinkley welcome their third daughter-in-law to the family, they don’t quite realize the profound shift that is about to take place. For different reasons, the Brinkleys’ two previous daughters-in-law hadn’t been able to resist Rachel’s maternal control and An...

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A Daughter's Diary: One Woman's Journey With Her Mother's Dementia

by Julie Hayden

Published: 2012-06-18

Paperback: 132 pages

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An epidemic is about ready to break out in our nation - Alzheimer's and dementia are attacking Baby Boomers like never before. This is my story of walking this path with my mother. I?m part of the sandwich generation. We are 'sandwiched? between caring for our children and caring for our parents....

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Daughter's Keeper

by Ayelet Waldman

Published: 2004-10-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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How much would you sacrifice to save someone you love?When Olivia, wild-haired and headstrong, makes a terrible mistake, she must turn to the person least likely to help--her mother, Elaine. Motherhood was a role that Elaine never embraced and her best never amounted to much. But now Olivi...

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The Daughter's Walk: A Novel

by Jane Kirkpatrick

Published: 2011-04-05

Paperback: 400 pages

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A mother's tragedy, a daughter's desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives.   In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in an effort to earn $10,000. Bringing alo...

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David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2004-12-28

Paperback: 1024 pages

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Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, David Copperfield is edited with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling in Penguin Classics. David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy...

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David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)

by Stephen Burn

Published: 2003-04

Paperback: 96 pages

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David Golder

by Irene Nemirovsky, Sandra Smith (Translator)

Published: 2007-03-06

Paperback: 176 pages

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In 1929, 26-year-old Ir�ne N�mirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her first novel David Golder. At the time, only the most prescient would have predicted the events that led to her extraordinary final novel Suite Fran�aise and her death at Auschwitz. Yet the clues are th...

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David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

by Irene Nemirovsky

Published: 2008-01-15

Hardcover: 363 pages

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Ir�ne N�mirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Fran�aise. But Suite Fran�aise was only the coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, magnificent no...

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David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)

by Jennifer Anne Haytock

Published: 2002-05

Paperback: 96 pages

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This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from `The Remains of the Day' to `White Teeth'. A team of contemporary...