The Great Big Book of Families

The Great Big Book of Families
Author: Mary Hoffman
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781847805874

What is a family? Once, it was said to be a father, mother, boy, girl, cat and dog living in a house with a garden. But as times have changed, families have changed too, and now there are almost as many kinds of families as colours of the rainbow - from a mum and dad or single parent to two mums or two dads, from a mixed-race family to children with different mums and dads, to families with a disabled member. Mary Hoffman takes a look through children's eyes at the wide varieties of family life: from homes, food, ways of celebrating, schools and holidays to getting around, jobs and housework, from extended families, languages and hobbies to pets and family trees - and she concludes that, for most people, their own family is the best one of all! With Ros Asquith's delightful pictures, this book takes a fresh, optimistic look at families of today.

Grace and Family

Grace and Family
Author: Mary Hoffman
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781847803955

To Grace, family has always meant her Ma, her Nana and her cat Paw-Paw, but in all her school reading books families have a mother and a father, a boy and a girl, and a dog and a cat. So when Papa invites her to visit him in the Gambia, she dreams of finding a family straight out of one of her story books. But, when she arrives, she finds that her father has a new family. She has a little sister and a baby brother, and even a dog, but the mother is the wrong one she thinks. Although she has a lovely time, she feels as though there isn't enough of her to go around and that she can't manage two families. It is her Nana who helps Grace realise that families are what you make them, just like stories. A warm and delightful follow-up to the international bestseller and modern classic, Amazing Grace, this is an important story for all families and children today.

The Marriage of Opposites

The Marriage of Opposites
Author: Alice Hoffman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1451693613

“A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism. Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel’s salvation is their maid Adelle’s belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle’s daughter. But Rachel’s life is not her own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her father’s business. When her older husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frédérick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France. “A work of art” (Dallas Morning News), The Marriage of Opposites showcases the beloved, bestselling Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. “Her lush, seductive prose, and heart-pounding subject…make this latest skinny-dip in enchanted realism…the Platonic ideal of the beach read” (Slate.com). Once forgotten to history, the marriage of Rachel and Frédérick “will only renew your commitment to Hoffman’s astonishing storytelling” (USA TODAY).

Lies about My Family

Lies about My Family
Author: Amy Hoffman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781625340030

This well-crafted family memoir is about the stories that are told and the ones that are not told, and about the ways the meanings of the stories change down the generations. It is about memory and the spaces between memories, and about alienation and reconciliation. Because of the luck, hard work, and resourcefulness of her immigrant grandparents, Hoffman and her five siblings grew up in a middle-class home, healthy, well fed, and well educated. An American success story? Not quite-or at least not quite the standard version. The Hoffman children grew up as observant Jews in a heavily Catholic New Jersey suburb, as political progressives in a town full of Republicans, as readers in a school full of football players and their fans. As a young lesbian, Hoffman distanced herself from her parents, who didn't understand her choice, and from the Jewish community, with its organization around family and unquestioning Zionism. However, both she and her parents changed and evolved, and by the end of this engaging narrative, they have come to new understandings, of themselves and one another. Book jacket.

The Story Sisters

The Story Sisters
Author: Alice Hoffman
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2010-05-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007374992

A haunting and emotionally satisfying novel from a much-loved and critically acclaimed author, which weaves fairy tale and gritty realism together to dazzlingly effect.

Magic Lessons

Magic Lessons
Author: Alice Hoffman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982108851

In the 1600s, Maria was abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, who recognizes that Maria has a gift, she learns about the 'Unnamed Arts.' When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. She invokes a curse that will haunt her family for generations. And she learns the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life: Love is the only thing that matters.

The Book of Magic

The Book of Magic
Author: Alice Hoffman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982189460

Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger—the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love. The Book of Magic is a breathtaking conclusion that celebrates mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and anyone who has ever been in love.

Genealogy of the Hoffman Family; Descendants of Martin Hoffman, with Biographical Notes

Genealogy of the Hoffman Family; Descendants of Martin Hoffman, with Biographical Notes
Author: Eugene Augustus Hoffman
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230344775

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...Martinus3, Nicholas4, Martin5), third child of Martin Hoffman (232) and Beulah Murray, was born in New York City, September 26, 1795. He was in business with his father and brother. He married, October 28, 1830, at New Haven, Conn., Elizabeth Hale Oilman, daughter of Benjamin Ives Oilman and Hannah Robbins, and granddaughter of the Rev. Chandler Robbins, of Plymouth, Mass. She was born at Marietta, Ohio, April 3, 1800, and died at West Farms, Westchester Co., N. Y., October 22, 1874. Martin Hoffman and Elizabeth Hale Oilman had seven children; 850 Lindley Murray, born 1832; mar. Margaret Leggett (Mott) Ring. 851 Emily, bor n 1834; mar. John H. Stevens. 852 Martin, born in New York, July 2, 1836; died January 5, 853 Arthur Gilman, born 1839; mar. Katherine Stuart. 854 Matilda, born July 5, 1840; died May 28, 1842. 855 Leighton, born December 13, 1841; died July 2, 1857. 856 Serena, born March 21, 1843; died September 15, 1852. Martin Hoffman died at " Linwood," Mamaro-neck, N. Y., May 17, 1857, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. 507 Anna MARIA6 (Martin1, Nicolaes2, Martinus3, Nicholas4, Martin5), fourth child of Martin Hoffman (232) and Beulah Murray, was born March 5, 1797. She married, April 27, 1818, Anthony R. Livingston, son of John Livingston, of Oakhill, N. Y., and had seven children: 857 Beulah Murray Livingston, born 1819; mar. Edward J. C. Atterbury. 858 Mary Frances Livingston, born January 18, 1823; mar. June 2, 1852, Henry Rogers; no issue. 859 Lindley Hoffman Livingston, born 1826; mar. Alice Theresa Whittlesey. 860 Serena Livingston, born 1828; died young. 861 Athenia Livingston, bor n 1829; mar. i. James Bowen; no issue, ii. July 31, 1889, Judge Charles A. Peabody; no issue. 862 Albert Livingston, born at Athens, N. Y., ...