Shocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, these stories reaffirm Doris Lessing’s unequalled ability to capture the truth of the human condition In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enlightening modern resonances. A Love Child features a World War II soldier who believes he has fathered a love child during a fleeting wartime romance and cannot be convinced otherwise.

With 200 thought-provoking and lighthearted writing prompts and exercises organized into chapters based on her life, My Grandmother’s Life guides your grandmother to begin her life’s memoir and create a fully realized record of her adventures, stories, and wisdom for you and your family to cherish for future generations.

Give Your Grandmother the Gift of Love, Memories, and Legacy. Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story is the perfect place for your Grandmother to tell her life story while also creating a cherished legacy. Imagine reading your Grandmother's words as she shares her journey. Imagine sitting with your children, her grandchildren, and reading her story to them. Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story uses prompts and questions to guide your Grandmother to tell the stories of her childhood, her teens, and her adult years. This will be her tale, her triumphs, her challenges. Bestselling author Jeffrey Mason has created a guided journal that will give your Grandmother the gift of legacy and you and everyone she loves, the gift of memories. Buy Grandmother, I Want to Hear Your Story and give your Grandmother a unique gift that will continue to give as the years go by.

When Heena came out of her house, Rainbow was waiting in her garden, glowing like a pearl in the light of the Blessing Moon.

Key Selling Points Based on a true story from Phangane village in India’s Maharashtra state, where grandmothers attend the Aajibaichi Shala (school for grandmothers). For many of them, this has been their first time in a classroom. Explores how important education is, especially for girls and women who have historically been left behind. Ellen Rooney’s bright and vivid illustrations shine as this book moves through the effects that the opportunity for education has had on one grandmother. The author dedicated this book to her own grandmother, who never had the chance to go to school. This book encourages readers to think critically about why education has historically been withheld from women and about gender inequality overall, as well as to consider what basic human rights and needs are. Grandmother School was the winner of the 2021 Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize.

Create a cherished family keepsake with this grandmother's journal Grandmothers have an entire lifetime of unique memories and perspectives that can help younger generations discover where they came from and offer wisdom to guide them. Stories From Grandma is full of questions and prompts that help grandmothers organize the story of their life into a beautiful journal that families can share and pass down for generations to come. The prompts on each page will give your family a glimpse into where grandma came from, what she experienced, and her hopes for the future. It's her opportunity to reflect and open up about her past and things she wished she had learned from her own grandmother. The questions and activities are designed to trigger memories, highlight personal insights, and help grandma connect with the younger members of your family. A lifelong keepsake—This grandma journal can be saved and shared with children, grandchildren, and beyond. No rules—Grandma can open the book and pick any prompt, go through them in sequence, or have someone else write while she dictates—it's up to her. Time for everything—The prompts are grouped by themes and ideas, with sections for grandma's childhood, jobs, favorite things, big events, friends, and more. Preserve grandma's legacy for your family to treasure forever, with this grandparent journal.

"Grandma, Tell Me Your Life Story" is a guided journal with questions on every page for a grandmother to answer for her grandchildren. This large, 8.5x11 book offers plenty of lined space for grandmas to write about their childhoods, their likes and dislikes, and memories along with their hopes and dreams. Each page provides space to write the date; and most pages included several prompts to really help draw out answers. Makes a great gift and a lasting keepsake!

Written as told by a "Grandmother" and couched in terms of interest to young people, these anecdotes span the period of time from the U.S. Revolution to Civil War days and after and include tales of many well-known people of Georgia, South Carolina and other southern states. The author has put into story form "some illustrative events and true traditions of the historic South"--Introduction

A historical narrative of the Bloomfield Academy, its impact on educational development of the Native women who attended the school, and how it related to the education of the general Native population.