Author: R. A. Lafferty
Publisher: Borgo Press
Keywords: grandmothers, hundred, nine
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1970-12-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1880448971
ISBN-13: 9781880448977

Author: GiftBooksLittle
Publisher: Little Bks.,2001
Keywords: grandmothers, tribute
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2001
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0836267990
ISBN-13: 9780836267990

Author: Geoff Dench
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: culture, changing, grandmothers
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2001-11-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0765808935
ISBN-13: 9780765808936

Over the past few years there has been a surge of interest in Britain on grandparenting - although it is still a long way behind the USA and several European countries in research in the area. The driving impetus for research is coming from parenting organizations and government departments concerned about the effects on female employment of shortages in nursery places, and about the effect of "parenting deficits" on children. Greater involvement of grandmothers in caring for children has seemed to offer a solution to many related problems. It promises to improve care within the family, and en

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: novels, short, four, grandmothers
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0060530103
ISBN-13: 9780060530105

With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition. The Grandmothers Two women, close friends, fall in love with each other’s teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, promising a respectable old age. Victoria and the Staveneys A poor black girl has a baby with the son of a liberal middle-class family and finds that her little girl is slowly being absorbed into the world of white privilege and becoming estranged from her. The Reaso

Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novels, short, four, grandmothers
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060530111
ISBN-13: 9780060530112

In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other’s teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enlightening modern resonances. A Love Child features a World War II soldier who believes he has fathered a love child during a fleeting wartime romance

Author: Grandmothers Against the War
Publisher: Grandmothers Against the War
Keywords: write, activists, grandma, love
Number of Pages: 91
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 1435701968
ISBN-13: 9781435701960

Cultural Writing. Letters. LOVE, GRANDMA is a moving collection of letters to grandchildren telling the stories of how their grandparents have come to their anti- war beliefs. With warmth, sadness, fear, anger, courage, and hope, they tell of experiences that led to their life-long activism against the futility of war. Family stories present young readers with a moral stand against war and promote multi-generational conversations about peace, violence, and justice. Honest accounts of the realities of deadly conflict encourage younger people to question prevailing cultural attitudes of "the ene

Author: Beverly Hungry Wolf
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: grandmothers, ways
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1998-11-04
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0688004717
ISBN-13: 9780688004712

Writing with love and respect, a young Indian woman records the ancient ways of the women of her tribe, the Blood People of the Blackfoot nation. Beverly Hungry Wolf recounts personal history, tribal history, legends and myths, along with domestic crafts such as beading, quilling, and preparation of foods. Includes many rare photographs.