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  • NEW FUTURES
    MARY HUGHES / MARY KENNEDY
    Originally published in 1985. This book explores issues around education for women and uses the British experience as an example of what adult education in its variety can offer to women in breaking traditional moulds. The text raises questions about where women are, where they might be, and how education as a whole can be used by women, for women. The critique of adult educati...

    $460.00

  • IMPROVING PRIMARY LITERACY
    ANTHONY FEILER / JANE ANDREWS / PAMELA GREENHOUGH / MARTIN HUGHES / DAVID JOHNSON / MARY SCANLAN / WAN CHI
    Parents can play an immensely important role in supporting their children's literacy learning at home, but how can primary teachers enlist the support of parents in helping children learn literacy? With a focus on improving children's literacy skills, this book provides practical answers to key questions that are directly relevant to all primary teachers and to many parents. It...

    $860.00

  • THE OCEAN HOUSE
    MARY-BETH HUGHES
    A stunning story cycle that explores the fractured lives of families in a Jersey Shore beach town from the bestselling, New York Times Notable author. Faith, a mother of two young children, Cece and Connor, is in need of summer childcare. As a member of a staid old beach club in her town and a self-made business consultant, she is appalled when her brother-in-law sends her an u...

    $251.00

  • THE LOVED ONES
    MARY-BETH HUGHES
    A novel of a wealthy family in midcentury America and the flaws beneath the surface, from "a writer of dexterity and imagination." ( New York Times  Book Review). As the 1960s draw to a close, the Devlin family lead almost-perfect lives. Dashing father Nick is a successful businessman long married to sweetheart Jean, who upholds the family home and throws dinner parties while d...

    $229.00

  • DOUBLE HAPPINESS
    MARY-BETH HUGHES
    Short stories about the universal need to be loved, from "a quietly gorgeous writer" (The New York Times Book Review).   In "Pelican Song," a thirty-year-old modern dancer who moonlights as a movie ticket taker visits her parent's picturesque home to discover that her stepfather has begun mistreating her too-accommodating mother. "Horse" follows maladjusted honeymooners in Atla...

    $179.00

  • WAVEMAKER II
    MARY-BETH HUGHES
    In this New York Times Notable novel, a New Jersey mother struggles as her husband goes to jail to protect Roy Cohn: "This is a beautiful book."— Booklist (starred review) "It's the summer of 1964, and the once-privileged Clemens family is in tatters. Husband Will is serving time at Woeburne penitentiary for refusing to testify against Roy Cohn, who acted as Sen. Joseph McCarth...

    $149.00