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Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 37 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1996–2025, suosituimpiin kuuluu Tracy Beaker Gets Real. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.

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Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1996–2025.

The River Queen: A Memoir

The River Queen: A Memoir

Mary Morris

Picador USA
2008
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This story of a middle-aged woman's odyssey down the Mississippi River is a funny, beautifully written, and poignant tale of a journey that transforms a life. In the fall of 2005 acclaimed writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi River in a battered old houseboat called The River Queen, with two river rats named Tom and Jerry and an ailing, irascible rat terrier named Samantha Jean. Her father had just died. Her daughter had gone off to college. Lost and uncertain, Morris returned to the river of her youth, to the waterside towns where her father had once lived. In this poignant and often humorous memoir, Morris reclaims the world of her childhood as she gets a bearing on her future. She describes traveling down stream through the Midwest, living like a pirate as she survives a tornado and infestation of mayflies, bivouacs on beaches, and ties up to paddleboats in the dark of night. As she learns to pilot the River Queen through these fabled waters, Morris delivers a memoir that "deserves to be both a best-seller and a classic" (The Courier-Journal).
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Acts of God

Acts of God

Mary Morris

Picador USA
2001
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From the award winning short story writer and author of the acclaimed travel memoir Nothing to Declare comes Mary Morris's evocative novel, Acts of God. When Tess Winterstone returns to her suburban childhood home after almost 30 years to attend a high school reunion, memories flood back, firmly shut doors open, and the betrayal by her father decades earlier comes to rest. Masterfully weaving the complexities of familial love and rosy 1950s suburban life with the dark underside of such a reality, Mary Morris movingly portrays a woman coming to terms with a warm and charming father's duplicity.
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The Lifeguard: Stories

The Lifeguard: Stories

Mary Morris

Picador USA
1998
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The Lifeguard is a powerful collection of ten short stories that shows Mary Morris's great sensitivity to men and women at moments of turbulence, uncertainty, and crisis. Morris's short story collection combines her consummate craft as a storyteller with her gift for dramatic travel writing. In the title story, a teenage lifeguard sees his mystique among the girls on the beach dissolve in a panicked moment when he cannot save a child. In "The Glass-Bottom Boat," a mother on her first trip abroad learns about trust from a solicitous stranger. "A superb collection . . . A magnificent writer." --The Washington Post Book World
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Voluntary Work in the Welfare State

Voluntary Work in the Welfare State

Mary Morris

Routledge
1998
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First Published in 1998. This is Volume XVII of eighteen of a series on the Sociology of Public Policy, Welfare and Social Work. Voluntary work is undertaken for three main reasons; first, there are jobs to be done which cannot be or at least will not be done by paid personnel; second, the opportunity to give service meets a personal need felt by individual people; and third, voluntary action is a powerful force for social progress. These three reasons provide the explanation and the justification for the existence of voluntary work. The purpose of this book is to examine the present position and future role of voluntary work in the United Kingdom and to analyse its value to the individual and to the community. Its limitations as well as its achievements will be considered and criticism as well as praise will be recorded.
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The Night Sky

The Night Sky

Mary Morris

St Martin's Press
1997
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"The" "Night Sky "is a moving novel about the solitary moral courage of a women raising a child alone and the complex resilience of family. Ivy Slovak is a jewelry designer and artist whose days are absorbed by the struggle to make an unreliable paycheck cover the needs of her infant son. Hungry for the freedom of the world outside her window, Ivy is haunted by the memory of her mother, who abandoned her when she was seven years old. She recalls the years spent with her loving but itinerant father, wandering the desert, hoping somehow to find the troubled, beautiful woman who had left them both. With quiet eloquence and deep compassion, "The Night Sky "establishes Morris as one of contemporary American literature's foremost chroniclers of the secrets and strengths of the human spirit.
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House Arrest

House Arrest

Mary Morris

Picador USA
1997
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Mary Morris, called "a marvelous storyteller" by The Chicago Tribune, returns with House Arrest--a vividly etched, engrossing story of a nation, two remarkable women, and the meaning of freedom. House Arrest tells the gripping tale of two women from different cultures whose lives intersect at a point that promises freedom to one and disaster to the other. Maggie Conover, a travel writer on assignment in the Caribbean Island nation known only as la isla, is being held under house arrest at her hotel. The authorities are suspicious of her friendship with the island's revolutionary leader's fiery daughter, Isabel Calderon, who has disappeared. As Maggie is interrogated, bullied, and brought to a fever pitch of anxiety, she recalls Isabel's courage, her own troubled past, her longing for home, her daughter and family. Balancing personal and political intrigue, House Arrest unflinchingly explores meanings of freedom and imprisonment, of parenthood and childhood, and the boundaries of friendship and love.
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Blabbermouth: the play

Blabbermouth: the play

Morris Gleitzman; Mary Morris

Currency Press Pty Ltd
1996
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Rowena Batts has no voice, but she is the world's biggest blabbermouth. She's just started at a new school so life's a bit of a challenge, her new friend Amanda is Pretty cool, but that Darryn Peck is a total pest.
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