The Lemon Tree And Yes Mama Omnibus

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Condition: Very Good

The Lemon Tree --> This story describes the life of Helena Al-Khoury who escapes with her parents from Turkish repression in the Lebanon in 1860 and tries against enormous odds to establish a life in America...Yes Mama -->From the author of four bestselling autobiographies and a number of equally successful novels comes another moving tale. A triumph of innocence over hypocrisy... Alicia Woodman was born into a home that should have been filled with comfort and joy. Her mother Elizabeth was bright and vivacious; Humphrey Woodman was a prosperous businessman. But Alicia was not Humphrey's child and he would have nothing to do with her and before long Elizabeth too turned her back on her daughter. It was left to Polly Ford widow of a dock labourer to bring Alicia up to teach her to say 'Yes Mama' and to give the child the love she so desperately needed. In a hypocritical society full of thin-lipped disapproval Alicia would learn that the human spirit can soar over adversity and that though blood may be thicker than water love is the most powerful relationship of all...