Deborah Roberts

The Teacher Who Changed My Life

Lessons Learned and Cherished

Mr. Otagiri's Promise is a lyrical and poetic story of a father's quest to return to his family their lost laughter, forgotten happiness, slumbering smiles and drowsy dreams. Set in Japan at the end of the Second World War, this story illuminates the powerful transitions required when moving from colourless places of life to the brilliant spaces of re-awakened hope, dreams, desires and joy. It is a universal story told with beautiful, poignant imagery and hopeful, positive sentiment.

Mr. Otagiri's Promise

Al Roker

Laura Morton

Life lessons from New York Times bestselling author and Today show personality Al Roker and his wife, globetrotting ABC news journalist Deborah Roberts. Al Roker and Deborah Roberts have sixteen Emmy Awards between them. They have covered everything from the Olympics and the Gulf War to natural disasters and the AIDS crisis in Africa. Now these two married journalists and parents have collaborated on the most personal and important “story” of their lives. Been There, Done That is a funny, heartfelt, and empowering collection of life lessons, hard-won wisdom, and instructive family anecdotes from Al and Deborah’s lives, from their parents and grandparents, and from dear friends, famous and not. Here, Al and Deborah candidly share childhood obstacles like obesity and growing up in the segregated south; the challenges and blessings that come from raising very different kids; hard-won truths about marriage and career; the illuminating “little things” that adults can learn from children; and the genuine wisdom that the elderly can share with a younger generation. These are real-life stories told from every perspective—from parent, spouse, daughter, son, and friend, stories that every reader can relate to, appreciate, and share.

Family Wisdom For Modern Times

Been There, Done That

Stephen Harrison

Elizabeth Vandiver

Lorna Hardwick

Christopher Stray

Amanda Wrigley

Sheila Murnaghan

Leanne Hunnings

Ruth Hazel

This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published texts considered, the usual range of genres dealt with elsewhere is extended by chapters on books for children, and those in which childhood and memories of childhood are informed by antiquity; and also by a multi-genre case study of a highly unusual subject, Spartacus. "Remaking the Classics" also goes beyond books to dramatic performance, and beyond the theatre to radio - a medium of enormous power and influence from the 1920s to the 1960s, whose role in the reception of classics is largely unexplored. The variety of genres and of media considered in the book is balanced both by the focus on Britain in a specific time period, and by an overlap of subject-matter between chapters: the three chapters on twentieth-century drama, for example, range from performance strategies to post-colonial contexts.The book thus combines the consolidation of a field with an attempt to push it in new and exciting directions.

Literature, Genre and Media in Britain 1800-2000

Remaking the Classics

Deborah Roberts

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