Books with author Marjorie

This companion full-color workbook provides meaningful ways to help children participate in saying goodbye to an Orthodox Christian loved one. It also includes reinforcement of concepts presented such as vocabulary review and word searches, open ended questions and journaling space to help a child process their emotions, coloring pages, an icon to keep, recipes for traditional Slavic and Greek Orthodox funeral foods children can help prepare, and Bible verses to look up and discuss. Perfect for both grieving families to complete together or as a tool in the classroom to discuss the inevitable experience of death and the Orthodox response to it. Also useful for students of our multicultural society studying religions of the world or holding an interest in funeral rites and customs.Written by a funeral director and Certified Funeral Celebrant who has served thousands of families over twelve years, this title honors Church Tradition, Greek and Slavic cultural heritage, and evolving funerary practices.

“Our century has become marked by the distinct, bitter tinge of nomadism and emigration.” The sixteen essays in this book are by writers from diverse parts of the world recalling their experiences and emotions of what is meant by the concept of Home. Each essay is written with evocative and often lyrical tones of great beauty as well as lucidity. Many of the essays describe homes that exist no longer, and homes that have changed or disappeared through time. Yet the power of place is real: each author understands that Home belongs to the landscape of the imagination, with a power to recover and to transform. It is perhaps no coincidence that all of the contributors make their home in the USA, a nation that has defined itself by its emigrant imagination and a nation that has allowed its immigrants to be Americans while also holding on to who they were in the past. Through their experiences, the authors are both outsiders and insiders. They carry their dreams of homeland wherever they settle, for Home is never lost but real in its evocation and the power to remember. Marjorie Agosín, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Wellesley College, is a poet, human rights activist, literary critic with an interest in Jewish literature and literature of human rights in the Americas; women writers of Latin America; and migration, identity, and ethnicity.

"In Osorno, Chile, the Nazis were the great feudal lords of the south and being Jewish was like possessing a savage and dangerous scar." The author thus describes the backdrop for this memoir of growing up as the daughter of European Jewish immigrants to Chile in the years before and after World War II. Speaking through the voice of her mother, she says, "I write these sometimes intermittent and true memories with the voice of an adolescent and then of a woman. . . . I wish to talk about my life in an unseemly and noisy house in southern Chile and about a town with fifty Nazis and three Jewish families. Everything I tell you is true and this is why I write so that it will be even more certain."This beautifully written story offers glimpses of cultures and landscapes little known outside of Chile. The narrative weaves back and forth through time offering the stories of the narrator's family: her father who had to leave Vienna around 1920 because he fell in love with a Christian cabaret dancer, her paternal grandmother who came to Chile in 1939 with a number tattooed on her arm, her mother's family from Odessa, and numerous aunts and uncles. The narrator returns to Osorno in 1993 and notes how little has changed. The Germans still display portraits of Hitler in their homes and sell Hitler memorabilia.

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Michelle Brits is heading home to South Africa for the Christmas holidays. Finding no fulfillment in her New York job anymore, she wonders if it's time to move back to her home country for good. She misses her family and her best friend, Hazel—who is engaged to her brother, Johan.On the plane, Michelle bumps into a mysterious stranger who has an adventurous spirit she finds irresistible. When circumstances force Justin to join Michelle's family over Christmas, it becomes apparent that Michelle is falling hard for him. Yet Justin has been a wanderer all his life, with no plans to change anytime soon. As they experience Afrikaans Christmas traditions on an African farm, attend a Christmas service at the historic Klipkerk, and observe incredible wildlife, Michelle and Justin confront one question: Are either of them ready to come home to stay?When tragedy strikes on Christmas Day, Justin comes through. Has he found his purpose at last in helping the sick and injured? Could his wandering days be over? And what Michelle yearns to know the most: Is staying in South Africa a possibility for him? Enjoy this clean & wholesome inspirational Christmas romance, filled with adventure, faith, and true love—a perfect read for fans who like Brooke St. James and Delany Cameron.