Eyre, Linda:I DIDN'T PLAN TO BE A WITCH - and Other Joyful Surprises of a Joyful Mother
- Paperback 1999, ISBN: 9780684807850
Hardcover
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harlequin Books, 1999. Book. Near New. Soft cover. First Printing. A Christmas collection published by Silhouette, Copyright 1999, appears to be a 1st printing,with … More...
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harlequin Books, 1999. Book. Near New. Soft cover. First Printing. A Christmas collection published by Silhouette, Copyright 1999, appears to be a 1st printing,with raised lettering in near new condition. Appears unread, no reading creases Pages tight and clean but one page upper corner has been bent, no writing or stamps, cover bright and glossy.,.......WRAPPED IN A PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK........We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books sent in the same package, ...........Summary - A reprint of earlier published works by Linda Howard - BLUEBIRD WINTER - A baby is about to be born on the side of the road. The single mother's only hope rest in the strong arms of a dashing doctor..., and new ones by Joan Hohl - THE GIFT OF JOY - A bride was not what a Texas-Ranger-turned-rancher was expecting for the holidays. Will his quest for a lome lead to love?, Sandra Steffen - A CHRISTMAS TO TREASURE - A daddy is all two children want for Christmas. And the handsome man upstairs may be just the hero their mother needs!...., Harlequin Books, 1999, 6, Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Used. This diary is a love letter written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby son, Nicholas. In it she pours out her heart about how she and the boy's father met, about her hopes for marriage and family, and about the unparalleled joy that having a baby has brought into her life, Not listed, 0, Houghton Mifflin, 1964-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Press, 1964. Hardcover, 325 pp. Stated First Printing. Compiled and translated by Gabriella Azrael. Acceptable in acceptable dust jacket. Grey cloth covered boards with white design on front and white lettering on spine. Damp-staining to back cover with some bubbling to the fabric. Scuffing, fading and light soiling to edges of covers as well. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1" or less nicks and tears to edges and a few small holes near edges as well. Damp-staining to paper over back cover and light to moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From jacket flap] Going to Town affords a fresh, honest, moving insight into a world the West knows little about. It is a portrait of life on the collective farms and city streets, in the factories and the vast forests of contemporary Russia. Its stories are in the great tradition of Russian literature. From Chekhov and other masters Kazakov has inherited a deep sense of pessimism about the human condition along with a mystic reverence for the individual. He is the prose counterpart to the poet Yevtushenko, and resembles him also in being, at the moment, persona non grata in his homeland for his unorthodox presentation of Soviet society. What American readers will recognize as a technique not unlike Sherwood Anderson's in Winesburg, Ohio came as a shock in the Russian atmosphere of literary puritanism and political dogma. The characters in these stories include the lonely, the frightened, the outcast, the bitter, the foolish. The author knows the renegade, but his talent ranges much further afield. All his characters are whole men who move in the universal complexity of their good and bad qualities. He knows the ecstasy of love and the bitterness of parting. He knows the awkwardness of adolescence and the sharp contrast between youth and old age. He writes them with honesty and understanding and lyricism in the great classic tradition. [From New York Times review, Jan 12, 1964] PERHAPS the most revealing fact about good fiction in Russia today is that it is almost exclusively confined to the short story. Younger writers, like the 36-year-old Yuri Kazakov, look upon the novel as a "Stalinist" form, whose conventions thwart their strivings for expression. . . The most promising exponent of this new tendency in Soviet fiction is Yuri Kazakov, whose work is represented in Gabrella Azrael's excellent translation and selection. Here Kazakov has not only flouted every convention of Soviet literature; he has assailed the great myth of Soviet society which exalts the joys of "collective" living. His preoccupations and sympathies lie with the outcasts, the renegades, the lost souls of the collective. Among his heroes are drunkards, vagabonds, ugly and abandoned women, and, in one of his finest stories, "Adam and Eve," an abstract painter whose rejection by society ultimately alienates him from all of human life... Other Kazakov stories celebrate love between men and women, parents and children, and, perhaps most compellingly, man's love of nature. . . Kazakov's work has that singular quality of innocence which has somehow been preserved in Russian literature from Tolstoy through Pasternak into the present day., Houghton Mifflin, 1964-01-01, 2.5, New York: Simon and Schuster - Fireside Books, 1996. 190 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Terry Ravanelli. The Chapters are: Prologue: The Journey of Motherhood; I Didn't Plan to be a Witch; Childbirth Is Both Worse and Better than in the Movies; Preschoolers Are Horrible and Adorable; Your Mother's Role Is Bigger than You Think; Getting Work Done at Home is a Myth; The Practice of Patience is Perpetual; Children Fail and So Do Mothers - or, Will Herman and I Ever Amount to Anything; Dissonance and Sibling Rivalry Are Facts of Life; Witches Live with Warlocks; Teenagers Are Like Werewolves; Christmas Makes You Realize with Real Eyes; Learning Disabilities Can Be a Great Gift; Some Day's It's Hard to Tell if You're a Mother or a Martyr; There Is Speed in Going Slow; The Kid Is Always Right - from His/Her Perspective; Adversity Is Actually Good for You - or If Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries Hire a Wolf to Knock at Your Door; The Only Thing That's Always the Same Is That Every Child Is Different; A Sense of Humor Is Your Most Important Baggage - A Look at the Eyres' Funniest Home Videos; The Hardest Part of Taking Care of Yourself: To Eat or Not to Eat - That Is the Question; One of the Habits of a Highly Effective Mother Is Simplification; PMS Makes Witches - or I'm Not Okay You're Not Okay; You Have to Keep Reminding Yourself How Much Fun You're Having; What It Is Really Important to Worry About Is Often Not What You Think; Unconditional Love Is Easy - Not Counting Unconditional Like; Praise Is a Secret Weapon; You Can Change; You Must Watch for the Moments because Tomorrow They'll be Gone; What a Difference Five Years Makes; To Succeed in Your Career as a Mother You Need a Plan; and Mothering Is Harder Than You Can Imagine and More Joyful Than You Can Fathom; followed by a postscript: Poetry and Letters to Die For.. First Printing - First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good+. Illus. by Terry Ravanelli;. 8vo., Simon and Schuster - Fireside Books, 1996, 3<
