How to Be an American Housewife
Title | How to Be an American Housewife PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Dilloway |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2010-08-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 110118924X |
A mother-daughter story about the strong pull of tradition, and the lure and cost of breaking free of it. When Shoko decided to marry an American GI and leave Japan, she had her parents' blessing, her brother's scorn, and a gift from her husband-a book on how to be a proper American housewife. As she crossed the ocean to America, Shoko also brought with her a secret she would need to keep her entire life... Half a century later, Shoko's plans to finally return to Japan and reconcile with her brother are derailed by illness. In her place, she sends her grown American daughter, Sue, a divorced single mother whose own life isn't what she hoped for. As Sue takes in Japan, with all its beauty and contradictions, she discovers another side to her mother and returns to America unexpectedly changed and irrevocably touched.
American Housekeeper
Title | American Housekeeper PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 646 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Home economics |
ISBN |
Trials and Confessions of an American Housekeeper
Title | Trials and Confessions of an American Housekeeper PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Shay Arthur |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1854 |
Genre | Home economics |
ISBN |
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers
Title | Beyond Nature's Housekeepers PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy C. Unger |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2012-10-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199735077 |
This book highlights the unique and complex role women have played in the shaping of the American environment from pre-Columbian Native Americans to present day environmental justice activists.
Early American Cookery
Title | Early American Cookery PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Josepha Hale |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2012-04-30 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 0486136930 |
Engagingly written volume not only provided the mid-19th-century housekeeper with recipes for scores of nutritious dishes but also offered wide-ranging suggestions for frugal and intelligent household management. Includes advice on selecting and preparing foods, health tips, cleaning domestic accessories, dealing with hired help, and much more.
Housekeeper at His Beck and Call
Title | Housekeeper at His Beck and Call PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Stephens |
Publisher | Harlequin |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1426822766 |
Lieutenant Cade Grant is rugged and gorgeous, but his heart is as hard as they come. Innocent Liv needs work fast; if she has to be housekeeper to the brooding lieutenant then so be it! Soon Cade wants his virginal maid between his sheets, not washing them. The job vacancy's now in his bed—and Cade'll teach her all she needs to know….
Housekeeping
Title | Housekeeping PDF eBook |
Author | Marilynne Robinson |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2015-11-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1250060656 |
"The story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town "chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience."--