Liverpool Forgotten Landscapes, Forgotten Lives
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1500s to 1900s
Forgotten Landscapes… Despite the proud boast of the Liverpudlians of today that there has always been a Liverpool and always will be a Liverpool, the truth is that for many centuries the world got on quite well without us,...
- Location(s): Liverpool
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Pre WW2
The second volume of Helen Forrester’s powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression. The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival. But fourteen-year-old Helen’s personal battle is to...
- Location(s): County Clare, Boston, Martha's Vineyard, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1800s to 1926
LIVES APART tells the story of young Johanna McNamara, who, in 1877 leaves her quiet life on the family farm in County Clare and emigrates to America to join her successful businessman brother Hugh. Full of hope, she is...
- Location(s): Boston, County Clare, County Wexford
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1838 to 1978
LIVES WITHOUT END An emotional tale of family secrets spanning three generations. Mary Ann survives the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s and lives on to become matriarch of the McNamara family. This solid rock of a woman is...
Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context
- Location(s): Varanasi
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1990s
By focusing on contemporary popular religious traditions, the book represents a substantial contribution to the study of modern religious practices in Banaras, holy city of India. This book offers in-depth, ethnographic views of many contemporary popular religious practices that...
Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Twenty stand-alone short stories, essays, poems, and more from celebrated and award-winning authors make up this YA anthology that explores the Mexican American experience. With works by Francisco X. Stork, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, David Bowles, Rubén Degollado, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo,...
- Location(s): Cyprus
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Cyprus ticks all the boxes. Sun. Sea. Cheap food and drink. Friendly, smiling people. How would you like to live there? Is this island heaven too good to be true? Surely there can be no darker side? Is there...
Living the Dream – in the Algarve, Portugal
- Location(s): The Algarve
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Could you leave everything behind and start a new life in the sun? Have you ever been on holiday abroad and wondered what it would be like to live there? Alyson and Dave Sheldrake did. They fell in love...
Living the Quieter Algarve Dream
- Location(s): The Algarve
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Have you ever longed for a quieter life? Ever wanted to escape the crowds, walk on deserted beaches, and experience all that a different country has to offer? Alyson and Dave Sheldrake moved to the western Algarve, far away...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
n the vein of Happiness Falls and Family Lore, a gripping story of family history and political upheaval centered around a Chinese family-owned restaurant in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and its impact on the neighborhood’s Jewish and Black residents over the...
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