This new edition of her autobiography has been revised and combined with previous works to create the essential Eleanor Roosevelt. Now back in print, a candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt. […]
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
September 18th, 2014 · No Comments · Publishing News
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The Colorful World of London’s East End in the 1950s: Call the Midwife
March 10th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Incredibly moving, compassionate, shocking, funny, disturbing, and evocative of a time and place forever changed by the upheaval of post-World War II: Call the Midwife is Jennifer Worth’s memoir of her experiences as a midwife-in-training with an Anglican order of nuns in London’s Dockland slums in post-war 1950s. These dedicated nuns had worked amongst the poor […]
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Calling All Midwives
October 3rd, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News
I’m pleased to announce . . . I’m thrilled to announce . . . I couldn’t be happier to announce . . . Isn’t there any other way to say this? How about: I’m ‘eaven and ‘ell chuffed ter tell what HighBridge has picked up the bloody rights to produce audiobook editions of the remaining […]
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