Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: brooklyn, motherless
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 2000-10-24
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0375724834
ISBN-13: 9780375724831

From America’s most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna’s limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks h

Author: Hope Edelman
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: shapes, parent, mother, losing, mothers, motherless
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0060532467
ISBN-13: 9780060532468

When Hope Edelman, author of the New York Times bestseller Motherless Daughters, became a parent, she found herself revisiting the loss of her mother in ways she had never anticipated. Now the mother of two young girls, Edelman set out to learn how the loss of a mother to death or abandonment can affect the ways women raise their own children. In Motherless Mothers, Edelman uses her own story as a prism to reveal the unique anxieties and desires that these women experience as they raise their children without the help of a living maternal guide. In an impeccably researched, luminously writt

Author: Eileen McDonagh
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: american, democracy, leadership, political, state, women, motherless
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2009-05-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226514552
ISBN-13: 9780226514550

American women attain more professional success than most of their counterparts around the world, but they lag surprisingly far behind in the national political arena. Women held only 15 percent of U.S. congressional seats in 2006, a proportion that ranks America behind eighty-two other countries in terms of females elected to legislative office. A compelling exploration of this deficiency, The Motherless State reveals why the United States differs from comparable democracies that routinely elect far more women to their national governing bodies and chief executive positions.Explaining tha