The Age of Martha
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Author | : Marjana Gaponenko |
Publisher | : New Vessel Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1939931177 |
“Vividly drawn characters, history, music, birds, love, loneliness, and wisdom . . . A brilliant book, rich and satisfying as a Viennese torte” (Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology). In this poignant yet rollicking novel, ninety-six-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski forgoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savoring music in a gilded concert hall. Levadski was born in 1914, the same year that Martha—the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeons—died. Levadski too has an acute sense of being the last of a species. He may have devoted much of his existence to studying birds, but now he befriends a hotel butler and another elderly guest, who also doesn’t have much time left, to share in the lively escapades of his final days. This gloriously written tale is “a book like a fantastic party, as unshakeable as a child’s faith [that] astonishes to the very end” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung).
Author | : Martha Holstein |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2015-03-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1442222883 |
Contemporary old age is fraught with contradiction and complexity—women portrayed either as incompetent and cuddly grandmothers or as young women trapped in old bodies, images that rarely reflect how women actually see themselves. Women in Late Life explores the thorny issues related to gender and aging, including prevailing but problematic cultural expectations, body image, ageism, the experience of chronic illness, threats to Social Security and the very possibility of a secure retirement while challenging a long-term care system that disadvantages women. Author Martha Holstein writes from a critical feminist perspective, drawing on her many years of experience in gerontology, as well as interviews and personal experience as a woman now in her seventies. The book highlights how women’s experience of late life is shaped by the effects of lifelong gender norms, by contemporary culture—from gender stereotypes to ageism—and by the political context. The book blends critique with proposals aimed at resisting damaging inequities resulting from being simultaneously old and a woman. She focuses on changes needed on multiple levels—societal, cultural, political, and individual. This interdisciplinary look at key questions around gender and aging is nuanced and beautifully written.
Author | : Jan Fearnley |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
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Martha is tired of being in the middle--until a wise frog points out its benefits--in a funny story sure to reassure children that being in the middle of things is a choice spot after all. Full color.
Author | : Samantha Berger |
Publisher | : Orbit Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Brothers and sisters |
ISBN | : 9780316126359 |
Martha has a new favourite word.And that word is 'MINE!'Martha has officially mastered apologizing. Unfortunately, she still has a lot to learn about sharing. And while I can't say she learns to love it, she does learn that having all the toys to yourself means you have to play all by yourself, too. Not so much fun!The good news is that readers learn the importance of sharing as they observe Martha's stubbornness, her (ultimate) regret and her decision to do the right thing. Martha isn't perfect but she's learning. And that's what matters most.
Author | : Susan Meddaugh |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2012-02-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547770472 |
Martha worries that her recent bouts of bad luck might be contagious! Uh-oh. Martha walked under a ladder—and then she broke a mirror—so now she thinks she’s jinxed! Helen tries to explain that all the accidents are just coincidence. But when a nearby toddler stumbles and a waiter takes a clumsy spill, Martha worries that her bad luck might be rubbing off on everybody else. Will Martha be spreading bad luck for seven whole years? Includes a "Test Your Knowledge" activity on common superstitions.
Author | : Patricia Brady |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2006-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101118814 |
With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated the youthful George Washington. Here are the able landowner, the indomitable patriot (who faithfully joined her husband each winter at Valley Forge), and the shrewd diplomat and emotional mainstay. And even as it brings Martha Washington into sharper and more accurate focus, this sterling life sheds light on her marriage, her society, and the precedents she established for future First Ladies.
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Publisher | : HMH Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
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One night when she has to go to bed without her cat Sophie, Martha worries about all the things she sees and hears in the dark. But little Martha is brave. Warm, cozy and colorful illustrations help youngsters who are afraid to fall asleep.
Author | : Greg Benchwick |
Publisher | : Black Rose Writing |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2019-12-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1684334497 |
Based on the real-life events that triggered the greatest mass extinction in modern history – the end of the passenger pigeon – Martha takes budding readers on a grand adventure through a magical world complete with mystic owls, tom-fooling mice and a little straw-haired boy who protects the last living passenger pigeon on the planet from the evil Patsy Brothers. Born with a bum leg, Martha is pushed out of her nest just minutes after her birth. It’s all part of the Seven Cycles of Nature. But since the arrival of the Iron Horse, the Seven Cycles of Nature have been disrupted and the Great Owls know they need to do something to restore balance to their world. They decide to save Martha. Little do they know that Martha may one day, in her small way, save humanity.
Author | : Rebecca C. Jones |
Publisher | : Dutton Juvenile |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
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A young girl cannot watch television, dance, or play with the dog because her parents think that a visiting great-aunt needs her rest.