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| Author | : Marian Sandmaier |
| Publisher | : Plume Books |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 9780452273771 |
Original Kin makes a stirring and provocative case for our need for - and our capacity to develop - sustaining emotional ties with our sisters and brothers throughout our lives.
| Author | : Miljenko Jergovic |
| Publisher | : Archipelago |
| Total Pages | : 929 |
| Release | : 2021-06-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1939810523 |
Kin is a dazzling family epic from one of Croatia's most prized writers. In this sprawling narrative which spans the entire twentieth century, Miljenko Jergović peers into the dusty corners of his family's past, illuminating them with a tender, poetic precision. Ordinary, forgotten objects - a grandfather's beekeeping journals, a rusty benzene lighter, an army issued raincoat - become the lenses through which Jergović investigates the joys and sorrows of a family living through a century of war. The work is ultimately an ode to Yugoslavia - Jergović sees his country through the devastation of the First World War, the Second, the Cold, then the Bosnian war of the 90s; through its changing street names and borders, shifting seasons, through its social rituals at graveyards, operas, weddings, markets - rendering it all in loving, vivid detail. A portrait of an era.
| Author | : Peter Dickinson |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 441 |
| Release | : 2015-05-26 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1504014774 |
Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the night the murderous strangers came, speaking an unfamiliar language and bringing violence to the peaceful Moonhawk tribe. Determined not to die in the desert, Suth and Noli slip away with Ko and Mana. Suth, the eldest, leads them; Noli’s dreams of the future guide them. Ko gives them courage; Mana gives them peace. Their search for a new Good Place, one of food and safety, will take them across the valleys and plains of prehistoric Africa and bring them together as a tribe and as a family.
| Author | : Lisa Tanya Brooks |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2018-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300196733 |
"With rigorous original scholarship and creative narration, Lisa Brooks recovers a complex picture of war, captivity, and Native resistance during the "First Indian War" (later named King Philip's War) by relaying the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity of Mary Rowlandson. Through both a narrow focus on Weetamoo, Printer, and their network of relations, and a far broader scope that includes vast Indigenous geographies, Brooks leads us to a new understanding of the history of colonial New England and of American origins. In reading seventeenth-century sources alongside an analysis of the landscape and interpretations informed by tribal history, Brooks's pathbreaking scholarship is grounded not just in extensive archival research but also in the land and communities of Native New England."--Jacket flap.
| Author | : Nancy Kress |
| Publisher | : Tor Books |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2017-07-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0765390299 |
Follows the arrival of alien embassies who meet with the United Nations amid human fear and speculation before obscure scientist Dr. Marianne Jenner is secretly invited to visit the aliens and prevent an imminent disaster.
| Author | : Marian Sandmaier |
| Publisher | : Penguin Press |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Adulthood |
| ISBN | : 9780525935261 |
She also shares her own deeply personal search for the meaning of her bonds with her two brothers and her sister - a search triggered by the sudden death of one of her brothers at age thirty-three.
| Author | : Rilla Askew |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 2013-01-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062198815 |
In Kind of Kin by award-winning author Rilla Askew, when a church-going, community-loved, family man is caught hiding a barn-full of illegal immigrant workers, he is arrested and sent to prison. This shocking development sends ripples through the town—dividing neighbors, causing riffs amongst his family, and spurring controversy across the state. Using new laws in Oklahoma and Alabama as inspiration, Kind of Kin is a story of self-serving lawmakers and complicated lawbreakers, Christian principle and political scapegoating. Rilla Askew’s funny and poignant novel explores what happens when upstanding people are pushed too far—and how an ad-hoc family, and ultimately, an entire town, will unite to protect its own.
| Author | : Shawna Kay Rodenberg |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2021-06-08 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1635574560 |
"Explores the richness and dignity of Appalachian life ... [Rodenberg's] stories of lives that are generally overlooked make for essential reading."--The Washington Post “Kin moved me, disturbed me, and hypnotized me in ways very few memoirs have." –Rosanne Cash A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrepresented people, from Rona Jaffe Writer's Award winner Shawna Kay Rodenberg. When Shawna Kay Rodenberg was four, her father, fresh from a ruinous tour in Vietnam, spirited her family from their home in the hills of Eastern Kentucky to Minnesota, renouncing all of their earthly possessions to live in the Body, an off-the-grid End Times religious community. Her father was seeking a better, safer life for his family, but the austere communal living of prayer, bible study and strict regimentation was a bad fit for the precocious Shawna. Disciplined harshly for her many infractions, she was sexually abused by a predatory adult member of the community. Soon after the leader of the Body died and revelations of the sexual abuse came to light, her family returned to the same Kentucky mountains that their ancestors have called home for three hundred years. It is a community ravaged by the coal industry, but for all that, rich in humanity, beauty, and the complex knots of family love. Curious, resourceful, rebellious, Shawna ultimately leaves her mountain home but only as she masters a perilous balancing act between who she has been and who she will become. Kin is a mesmerizing memoir of survival that seeks to understand and make peace with the people and places that were survived. It is above all about family-about the forgiveness and love within its bounds-and generations of Appalachians who have endured, harmed, and held each other through countless lifetimes of personal and regional tragedy.
| Author | : Ruth Beechick |
| Publisher | : Pollock Pines, CA : Arrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Bible |
| ISBN | : 9780940319073 |
Drawing on linguistics, archeology, astronomy, the Bible, and other history, Dr. Ruth Beechick writes an enlightening and entertaining history of Adam and his offspring.
| Author | : Ceridwen Dovey |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2008-02-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101202734 |
Rarely does a debut novel attract the sweeping critical acclaim of Ceridwen Dovey's Blood Kin. Shortlisted for two prestigious awards, this tale centers around a military coup in an unnamed country, with characters who have no names or any identifying physical characteristics. Known simply as the ex-President's chef, barber, and portrait painter, these three men perform their mundane tasks and appear unaware of the atrocities of their employer's regime. But when the President is deposed, the trio are revealed as less than innocent. A deeply chilling yet sensual novel, Blood Kin illustrates Lord Acton's famous quip, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely," and marks the beginning of an illustrious literary career.
