Memories
- Where Hummingbirds Come From Bilingual Japanese English
- Adele's memories of her grandmother are filled with warmth, happiness and love. "My Grandma Tony was one of those story-book grandmas. She was cheerful and loving and her house always smelled like fresh baked bread. She had a 'snuggle up' lap and plenty of affection to go around for all of her grandchildren", Adele comments.
- The Dance of the Caterpillars Bilingual Portuguese English
- Adele's memories of her grandmother are filled with warmth, happiness and love. "My Grandma Tony was one of those story-book grandmas. She was cheerful and loving and her house always smelled like fresh baked bread. She had a 'snuggle up' lap and plenty of affection to go around for all of her grandchildren", Adele comments.
- Making an Elephant: Writing from Within
- Chapter 1Santa's ClinicCroydon, 1955I have two memories of childhood which have become per-manently entangled with each other. One is of being taken when I was very small to have my polio inoculation, an event anticipated with a mounting dread which the actual procedure did nothing to dispel.
- The Flamboya Tree: Memories of a Mother's Wartime Courage
- Chapter 1Holland, 1946"Why didn't you try to escape?"That was all she said. Not "Thank God you made it. Now you are safe.""Why didn't you try to escape?"Why was she saying that? She was supposed to be so happy to see us. I saw again in my mind's eye the barbwire fences and the soldiers with their glistening bayonets, and felt once more that excruciating fear in the pit of my stomach.
- Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Convent Life
- “The most full and honest book that I’ve read on this subject.”—Mary McCarthy, author of Memories of a Catholic Girlhood“A scrupulous record of one woman’s spiritual journey, excellently written and profoundly moving."—Cosmopolitan“An emotive, spiritually intimate, and often quite moving memoir .