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Book A Father s Journey  a Daughter s Voyage

Download or read book A Father s Journey a Daughter s Voyage written by Leonard Harris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating and instructive look at a father and daughter's relationship and the emotional strategies the family used while confronting a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The story is told through edited entries from a journal maintained by the father, poetry written by the daughter, and discussions of how to manage a family while confronting the uncertainty created by breast cancer.

Book August Gale

Download or read book August Gale written by Barbara Walsh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist’s voyage into her family history and her quest to face the storms she encounters there. In August Gale, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barbara Walsh—who has interviewed killers, bad cops, and crooked politicians in the course of her career—faces the most challenging story of her lifetime: asking her father about his childhood pain. In the process, she takes us on two heartrending odysseys: one into a deadly Newfoundland hurricane and the lives of schooner fishermen who relied on God and the wind to carry them home; the other, into a squall stirred by a man with many secrets: a grandfather who remained a mystery until long after his death. Sixty-eight years after the hurricane that claimed several of her ancestors, Walsh searches for memories of the August gale and the grandfather who abandoned her dad as a young boy. Together, she and her father journey to Newfoundland to learn about the 1935 storm, and along the way her dad begins to talk about the man he cannot forgive. As she recreates the scenes of the violent hurricane and a small boy's tender past, she holds onto a hidden desire: to heal her father and redeem the grandfather she has never met.

Book Best Seat in the House  A Father  a Daughter  a Journey Through Sports

Download or read book Best Seat in the House A Father a Daughter a Journey Through Sports written by Christine Brennan and published by Japanime Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the best-known and most widely read woman sports columnist in the United States comes a remarkable memoir of a father and a daughter, the story of a girl who would turn her love for sports into a trailblazing career. Christine Brennan grew up in Toledo, Ohio, spending her summers playing with the boys on her block, memorizing baseball statistics, accompanying her dad to countless baseball and football games, and falling in love with everything about sports. While other girls were playing with Barbie dolls, Chris was collecting baseball cards and listening to the radio for the play-by-play accounts of her favorite teams. The eldest of four children, Chris was her father's daughter from the beginning. For a girl growing up in the 1960s and '70s, in the days before Title IX changed the playing fields of America, there were few opportunities to play organized sports. But Jim Brennan encouraged his daughter to believe she could play anything she wanted to, and when she couldn't be on the field, he was by her side in the stands -- she always thought the seat next to her father was the best seat in the house -- usually cheering for the underdog, and making sure Chris knew there was a place for her in the world of sports. In her warm and inspiring memoir, the first of its kind by a female sports journalist, Brennan takes readers from her neighborhood ball fields to the press boxes and locker rooms of stadiums around the world. Guided by her father's unfailing sense of loyalty, honor, and fairness, at the age of twenty-two she became the first female sportswriter for The Miami Herald, and in 1985 was the first woman to cover the Washington Redskins as a staff writer for The Washington Post. Over the past quarter century, Brennan has reported on many of the biggest stories in sports, and led the coverage of both the 1994 Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan saga and the pairs figure-skating scandal at the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics. Her USA Today column on Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters, triggered a nationwide debate about the club's lack of female members. Told in the spirited, friendly voice that readers of her column have come to love, Best Seat in the House is the heartwarming chronicle of a girl who came of age as women's sports were coming of age, encouraged every step of the way by her beloved father.

Book Maiden Voyages

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catharina Purwani Williams
  • Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
  • Release : 2007-04-02
  • ISBN : 9812303944
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Maiden Voyages written by Catharina Purwani Williams and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2007-04-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizes how travel situates Eastern Indonesian women at the intersection of ethnicity/place, class and gender politics. Investigates theoretical issues of travel within feminist geography frameworks. Field research focuses on contemporary rural women and was conducted mainly in parts of East Nusa Tenggara and while travelling on boats in the region.

Book Daughter of the Sea

Download or read book Daughter of the Sea written by Hiep Thi Le and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable Voyage... Memoir of an 8-year old "boat person" who fl ees post-war communist Vietnam in search of a father and brother rumoured to have escaped to the West. Braving sea storms and pirates in a overloaded fi shing boat, Hiep and her younger sister are rescued by British sailors and interned in a series of horrifi c Hong Kong refugee camps. Surviving by their wits, these displaced children of the sea create their own primitive society amid the dispirited and desperate adults awaiting sponsors in the U.S. At the age of eight in 1979, the Vietnam-born actress and her seven-years-old sister were separated from their parents and left their village in central Vietnam as boat people. Their mother and older brother stayed behind with her other children. The sisters lived in refugee camps in Hong Kong for three months, where they were reunited with their father. They then immigrated to California before reuniting with their fi ve other siblings. Her mother fi nally reunited with the family four years later. Hiep was a premed student at UC-Davis, majoring in physiology, when she came to the open casting call with one of her sisters for the Oliver Stone fi lm Heaven & Earth (1993) that was being held at San Jose State University because several of her friends were doing it for fun. She was one of the sixteen thousand Vietnamese Americans seen by casting scouts for the fi lm and was the one, out of the thousands, who got the starring role of Le Ly Hayslip. Despite having no acting experience, she had half-dozen callbacks before she was fi nally chosen to play the role of Le Ly Hayslip between the ages of thirteen to thirty-eight. Since that time, She acted in several fi lms and television shows. She has graduated from college. She was the owner and operator of the China Beach Vietnamese Bistro in Venice, California. She is now owner and Chef of Le Cellier Restaurant Wine Bar in Marina Del Rey, California. complications from stomach cancer on Dec. 19, 2017 in Los Angeles Hiep passed away. She was 46. Above all, Hiep is the proud mother of two. Author Hiep Thi Le Co-founder Jill Powell "Since I've know her from, Hiep always turned something negative into a positive. As a child, she faced her dangers, adversities and self doubts with an innocence and sense of adventure which refl ects the true resilience of refugee children separated from their families and left to fend for themselves." -Le Ly Hayslip (Heaven and Earth ) "Most of us 'come-of-age' not just once, but many times as we navigate life's passages. Hiep's harrowing, true-life journey from innocent village girl to street-wise refugee--told with charm, humor, and precocious wisdom--turns a boat-person's Lord of the Flies into a true Vietnamese Exodus: the portrait of a blossoming young American painted with a bamboo brush. Like a river fl owing to the sea, Hiep's story sweeps us past many amazing people, places, and events that most of us can scarcely imagine. It's a voyage you won't want to miss." - Jay Wurts, coauthor of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

Book Steered by the Falling Stars

Download or read book Steered by the Falling Stars written by Daniel Spurr and published by Tab Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts his experiences sailing south to Florida along the Atlantic Coast with his family

Book Popular romances  consisting of imaginary voyages and travel      To which is prefixed an introductory dissertation  by Henry Weber  Esq

Download or read book Popular romances consisting of imaginary voyages and travel To which is prefixed an introductory dissertation by Henry Weber Esq written by Henry William WEBER and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jessie Benton Fr  mont

Download or read book Jessie Benton Fr mont written by Ilene Stone and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chronicles the life of Missouri native Jessie Benton Frâemont--firm opponent of slavery and writer of such works as A Year of American Travel and Souvenirs of My Time, daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton, and wife of army explorer and first Republican Party nominee John Charles Frâemont"--Provided by publisher.

Book Popular Voyages and Travels Throughout the Continents and Islands of Asia  Africa  and America

Download or read book Popular Voyages and Travels Throughout the Continents and Islands of Asia Africa and America written by Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular Voyages and Travels throughout the continent and islands of Europe  Asia  Africa  and America      With engravings

Download or read book Popular Voyages and Travels throughout the continent and islands of Europe Asia Africa and America With engravings written by afterwards JAMIESON THURTLE (Frances) and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voyages and Travel Accounts in Historiography and Literature  Volume I

Download or read book Voyages and Travel Accounts in Historiography and Literature Volume I written by Boris Stojkovski and published by Trivent Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling is one of the most fascinating phenomena that has inspired writers and scholars from Antiquity to our postmodern age. The father of history, Herodotus, was also a traveller, whose Histories can easily be considered a travel account. The first volume of this book is dedicated to the period starting from Herodotus himself until the end of the Middle Ages with focus on the Balkans, the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic world, and South-Eastern Europe. Research on travellers who connected civilizations; manuscript and literary traditions; musicology; geography; flora and fauna as reflected in travel accounts, are all part of this thought-provoking collected volume dedicated to detailed aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the end of the sixteenth century. The second volume of this book is dedicated to the period between Early Modernity and today, including modern receptions of travelling in historiography and literature. South-Eastern Europe and Serbia; the Chinese, Ottoman, and British perception of travelling; pilgrimages to the Holy land and other sacred sites; Serbian, Arabic, and English literature; legal history and travelling, and other engaging topics are all part of the second volume dedicated to aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the contemporary era.

Book Letters from a Father to His Daughter

Download or read book Letters from a Father to His Daughter written by Jawaharlal Nehru and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a memoir of Dr C. Rangarajan, an Indian economist, a former Member of Parliament, and the 19th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. The book includes his journey as an economist and RBI Governor and brings to light some of the hidden truths surrounding India's economic history.

Book Father and Daughter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fredrika Bremer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Father and Daughter written by Fredrika Bremer and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine

Download or read book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quest for Eternal Sunshine

Download or read book Quest for Eternal Sunshine written by Mendek Rubin and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quest for Eternal Sunshine chronicles the triumphant, true story of Mendek Rubin, a brilliant inventor who overcame both the trauma of the Holocaust and decades of unrelenting depression to live a life of deep peace and boundless joy. Born into a Hassidic Jewish family in Poland in 1924, Mendek grew up surrounded by extreme anti-Semitism. Armed with an ingenious mind, he survived three horrific years in Nazi slave-labor concentration camps while virtually his entire family was murdered in Auschwitz. After arriving in America in 1946—despite having no money or professional skills—his inventions helped revolutionize both the jewelry and packaged-salad industries. Remarkably, Mendek also applied his ingenuity to his own psyche, developing innovative ways to heal his heart and end his emotional suffering. After Mendek died in 2012, his daughter, Myra Goodman, found an unfinished manuscript in which he’d revealed the intimate details of his healing journey. Quest for Eternal Sunshine—the extraordinary result of a posthumous father-daughter collaboration—tells Mendek’s whole story and is filled with eye-opening revelations, effective self-healing techniques, and profound wisdom that have the power to transform the way we live our lives. An inspirational biography of a Holocaust survivor overcoming depression and PTSD. An essential new addition to Jewish Holocaust history.