Bøker av Jenny Robertson

Karina's Song is an unrelenting and awe inspiring true story, of a young mothers heartbreaking battle to try and save the life of her two year old daughter, who had been given just three weeks to live, but also to save her own life and sanity. Forced to confront the harsh realities of years of a horrific past, which had left her broken and disillusioned, the author takes you on a deeply emotional rollercoaster ride of her life. Distraught by the possibility of losing her daughter she is also confronted by an unseen world beyond her comprehension that begins to terrify her. Karina introduces her mother to her "friends" with whom she communicates with on a daily basis and tries to get her to open her mind to the world "beyond the veil." This pushes her mother's sanity and beliefs to a new level and inevitably makes her question her whole existence, the idea of fate and destiny and the concept of life after death.When time had run out for this mother and daughter Karina made a heartfelt request. She wanted Whitney Houston's song "The Greatest Love of All" played "On her big day when she went up in the sky" She called it "Karina's Song" because she wanted everyone to love everyone and everyone to love kids.Karina's message would ultimately leave a legacy so profound, that is has changed the lives of thousands of people around the world for over three decades.So began her mother's journey to Search for The Greatest Love of All.This book is a powerful message of hope for anyone who has fallen so deep, and lost so great that they believe they will never recover.

Cher Bebe manages the dance floor and flogs patrons at a nightclub while his estranged father takes his last breaths back home; a Michigan tornado spotter grieves the end of his marriage; Maggie Pancake returns to her Minnesota hometown, jilted by her fiancée, a professional clown; and the titularnovella follows fourteen-year-old Sadie and her Finnish immigrant mining family in Iron Range Minnesota in the months leading up to the Milford Mine disaster of 1924. With power and compassion, Jenny Robertson weaves tales that explore the precarity of immigrant life, worker exploitation, the tensions and dangers inherent in growing up, and the ephemeral nature of the American Dream.

The Polish novelist Zofia Nalkowska was witness to two world wars and Poland's struggle for independence. Her most renowned work, 'Medallions', is considered a masterpiece of anti-fascist world literature. This is her only biography in the English language.