Mother Country

  • Mother Country
    Mother Country
    By Peggy Leon

    ... of the back seat ten miles out of Parker. I nodded. Family Crime. Clean up as soon as we get home. In the rearview mirror I saw her smiling to herself. Five miles later, as we passed the Yellow Bird Halfway Diner, she began again, ...

  • Mother Country: A Novel
    Mother Country: A Novel
    By Jacinda Townsend

    "A transnational feminist novel about human trafficking and motherhood."--

  • Mother Country: A Novel
    Mother Country: A Novel
    By Jacinda Townsend

    Mother Country is a bone-deep and unsparing portrayal of the ethical and emotional claims we make upon one another in the name of survival, in the name of love.

  • Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution
    Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution
    By Marilynne Robinson

    At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one ...

  • Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front, 1939-45
    Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front, 1939-45
    By Stephen Bourne

    ... Learie Constantine, cricketer and politician, was born in 1901 in Petit Valley, Diego Martin, Trinidad. 21 Learie Constantine interviewed by the South African writer Lewis Nkosi in the BBC television documentary Calypso for Constantine ...