Jeanette Winterson Libros

Meet two heroes of Pakistan who stood up for the rights to freedom and education in these inspirational nonfiction tales Jeanette Winter.

As a young girl growing up in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees. But years later when she returns home, she is shocked to see whole forests being cut down, and she knows that soon all the trees will be destroyed. So Wangari decides to do something - and starts by planting nine seedlings in her own backyard. And as they grow, so do her plans.

A powerful retelling of the traditional Nativity Story. In this beautifully evocative retelling of the story of the very first Christmas, the humble donkey is chosen above all the other animals to carry Mary to Bethlehem. As his journey unfolds, he is touched by the magic and mystery of the Nativity ... With sparkles of originality, humour and warmth, the Christmas story is born.

Henri Had A Passion For Napoleon And Napoleon Had A Passion For Chicken. From Boulogne To Moscow Henri Butchered For His Emperor And Never Killed A Single Man. With A De-Frocked Priest And A Midget Groom, Henri Witnessed The Scourge Of Europe. In Venice, The City Of Chance And Disguises, A Great Beauty Was Born With The Webbed Feet Of Her Boatman Father. In The Casino, Villanelle Learned That What People Risk Reveals What They Value - She Gambled Her Heart And Lost. For Eight Years The Soldier-Chef Watched Young Men Die And His Love For Napoleon Turned To Hate. Passion Does Not Take Disappointment Well. He Found The Venetian Beauty Whose Heart Was Lost And Together They Fled Frozen Russia To The Canals Of Darkness And Paradox.

Written on the Body is a love story; the narrator a vulnerable and subversive Lothario, gender undeclared. Generous in scope, sumptuous in detail, Jeanette Winterson has fused mathematical exactness and poetic intensity and made language new

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't. Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, painting, the future of fiction, in two essays on Virginia Woolf, and more intimately in pieces where she describes her relationship to her work and the books that she loves.

The incredible variety of Acker's body of work has been distilled into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-20th century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular culture, the classics of Western civilization, current events, and the raw material of her own life.

A Sunday TelegraphBook of the Year'Winterson?s winter tales unfailingly succeed in their endeavor to leave you aglow? - Guardian For years Jeanette Winterson has written a new story at Christmas time and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny, and bold tales, along with twelve delicious recipes for the twelve days of Christmas.