Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir

✍ Tucker, Neely 📂 Fiction 📅 2004 🏛 Crown Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 259 KB

✍ Neely Tucker 📂 Fiction 📅 2004 🏛 Crown/Archetype 🌐 English ⚖ 171 KB 👁 1 views

Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afte

Love in the Driest Season

✍ Tucker, Neely 📂 Fiction 📅 2004 🏛 Crown/Archetype 🌐 English ⚖ 201 KB

Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afte

The shiniest jewel: a family love story: a memoir

✍ Marian Henley 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Grand Central Publishing;Springboard Press 🌐 en-US ⚖ 5 MB

At 49, cartoonist Marian Henley hasn't committed to marrying the man with whom she has been dating for seven years. But as the Big 5-0 looms, she realizes that above all else she wants a child. Her story follows the heartbreaking ups and downs of going through the international adoption process; d

A Season in Hell: A Memoir

✍ French, Marilyn 📂 Fiction 📅 1998 🏛 Virago Press Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 731 KB

Marilyn French, author of *My Summer with George*, *The Women's Room*, and *Her Mother's Daughter*, learns at the beginning of this memoir that she has esophageal cancer. (A smoker for 46 years, she had ignored friends and doctors who implored her to quit.) She is told that one survives metastasized

Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found

✍ Huston, Allegra 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Simon & Schuster 🌐 English ⚖ 779 KB

When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterward, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke -- the legendary film director John Huston -- with the words, "This is your father. "So began an extraordinary odyssey: from the magical Hus