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Yeah, But Where Are You Really From?

A story of overcoming the odds

By: Marguerite Penrose

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Yeah, But Where Are You Really From?

A story of overcoming the odds

By: Marguerite Penrose

An engrossing, urgent, and entertaining read. I couldn't put it down' Roddy Doyle ______ Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the daughter of an Irish mother and a Zambian father. Severe scoliosis indicated a future of difficult medical procedures. She was a little girl who needed a break. And she got it at three when she was fostered - and later adopted - by a young couple, Mick and Noeline, and acquired a mam, dad, sister, Ciara, and loving extended family. Growing up, Marguerite's appearance was occasionally remarked on by strangers, but it wasn't until her teens that she understood that her skin colour was a provocation for some. The progressive city that she knew was revealed to have an unpleasant undercurrent. So, she became an expert in shaping her life around anything that marked her out as 'different'. Marguerite's story is one of facing some big questions - Who am I? How do I live in world made for people with bodies different to mine? Why does anyone care about my skin colour? - with intelligence, humour, courage and common-sense. She writes about coming to terms with the circumstances of her birth and, like so many in her position, looking for answers. About navigating the world as an active woman with a disability. About what it means to be both Irish and Black, particularly at a moment when the conversation is becoming mainstream in Ireland and she is thinking about it in new ways herself. Mostly, she writes about embracing life in a spirit of openness and positivity. Yeah, But Where Are You Really From? is a captivating, wise and inspiring memoir by a truly remarkable woman. ___________ 'Beautiful, moving, tender and informative' SINÉAD MORIARTY 'Wonderful' MIRIAM O'CALLAGHAN

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Random House

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1844885941

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9781844885947

Yeah, But Where Are You Really From?

A story of overcoming the odds

By: Marguerite Penrose

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By: Marguerite Penrose

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Morphology, Classification and Life Habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda)

By: Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood,Gustav Arthur Cooper

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Morphology, Classification and Life Habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda)

By: Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood,Gustav Arthur Cooper

Terminology; Preparation of specimens; Range and distribution of the productoidea; External mophology of the productoidea; Internal morphology of the productoidea; Life habits of the productoidea; Origin of the productoidea; Classification of the productoidea; Systematic descriptions.

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595

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Geological Society of America

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0813710812

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9780813710815

How Many Years

A Memoir

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

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How Many Years

A Memoir

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar, one of France's most celebrated authors, here continues the absorbing tale of her background and origins. The first volume of her autobiographical trilogy, Dear Departed, was devoted to her maternal forebears. The current book, originally published in 1977 under the title Archives du Nord and now making its first appearance in English, introduces us to her father's side of the family. Yourcenar takes us back in time, to relive the tumultuous history of northeastern France through the eyes of a remarkable gallery of ancestors: canonesses and matriarchs, statesmen and scoundrels, merchants and artists (the painter Peter Paul Rubens married into the family). But the central character in the narrative is the individual who had the greatest formative influence on Yourcenar: her father, Michel de Crayencour, who educated her, encouraged her literary ambitions, and fostered in her the intellectual breadth, originality, and subtlety that are so characteristic of her work.

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396

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Farrar Straus & Giroux

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0374524939

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9780374524937

Dear Departed

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

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Dear Departed

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

First published in French in 1974 under the title 'Souvenirs Pieux', DEAR DEPARTED is the first volume of a trilogy by Marguerite Yourcenar, one of the most celebrated French writers of the century, devoted to her own origins and background. Yourcenar describes the events surrounding her birth in 1903, then takes us back through the centuries to meet her mother's forebears: soldiers, essayists, idealists, heroines, even ambassadors. Throughout, the history of the family serves as a window on the history of a rapidly-changing Europe.Using memoirs, letters and momentos, Yourcenar richly evokes both the larger events on the European stage and the rhythms and textures of everyday existence. Though rarely visible, Yourcenar is everywhere present, her perceptions rendered in her unmistakable voice. The book is a tour-de-force of historical and literary imagination.

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346

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Virago Press

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1860493548

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9781860493546

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Yeah, But Where Are You Really From?

Yeah, But Where Are You Really From?

Yeah, But Where Are You Really From?

Yeah, But Where Are You Really From?

Morphology, Classification and Life Habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda)

Morphology, Classification and Life Habits of the Productoidea (Brachiopoda)

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How Many Years

Dear Departed

Dear Departed

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