older women

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Florence Gordon

While struggling with the drama surrounding her son and daughter-in-law's rocky marriage, seventy-five-year-old feminist activist Florence Gordon embarks on the long-deferred task of writing a memoir of her iconic life.

Our Auntie Rosa

the family of Rosa Parks remembers her life and lessons
Rosa Parks, "the lady who wouldn't give up her seat on the bus", is the mother of the Civil Rights Movement. She was also a nurturing mother to her family. Her courageous act on December 1, 1955, was just one moment in a life lived with great humility and decency. In this book her loved ones share their remembrances and reflections of Auntie Rosa to create a previously unpainted picture of the real woman behind the legend.

Cranford

2003
Presents the classic story by nineteenth-century English author Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell that reflects of lives of a group of spinsters and widows as they struggle to maintain their middle-class standards within an ever-changing society.

Snow flower and the secret fan

a novel
2011
Friends Snow Flower and Lily find solace in their bond as they face isolation, arranged marriages, loss, and motherhood in nineteenth-century China.

Seek my face

2003
While researching an article, Kathryn interviews an artist named Hope, and hears of her life and relationships with famous artists of postwar America.

The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

2004
Presents the life story of a black woman born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, who is freed at the end of the Civil War, and lives for one hundred more years.

The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

1994
Presents the life story of Miss Jane Pittman, who was born a slave on a Louisiana plantation before the Civil War and who lived to be 110 years old.

The little old lady who was not afraid of anything

1995
A little old lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with a pumpkin head, a tall black hat, and other spooky objects that follow her through the dark woods trying to scare her.

The Christmas Pearl

2009
Theodora is the matriarch of a family that has grown into "an insufferable bunch of truculent knuckleheads." While she's finally gotten them all together in South Carolina to celebrate, this Christmas looks nothing like the extravagant homey holidays of her childhood. Luckily someone shows up to help Theodora with pockets full of common sense and Gullah magic to make Theodora's Christmas the miracle it's meant to be. -- Publisher.

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