Download or read book Saving Akita written by M.M. Shapiro and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akira Watanabe’s greatest issue isn’t being a lesbian, but rather having a father with the maturity of a teenager. He’s a heavy drinker and hardly works, so she supports them both with a job at a local convenience mart. It’s there she befriends police sergeant Rosey Garatino, who frequents the store and lives in the same complex as the Watanabes. Akira has the hots for a Goth girl named Jade, but unfortunately, Jade likes guys, and she also drinks and smokes. One night when Jade comes into the store, drunk, and tries to steal some beer, Akira stops her. Jade gets sick, and Akira helps her outside. Sparks fly between them, but nothing happens. Later Akira hears rumors that Jade is a lesbian. The heat that smoldered between them now sparks into a fire, especially when Jade promises to quit drinking and smoking. Akira’s surprised to learn Jade is Rosey’s daughter. Growing up can be difficult in the best of situations, but the neighborhood where Akira and Jade live is dangerous, too. As their friendship deepens into love, will they be able to protect each other and find their happy ending?
Download or read book Hachiko written by Pamela S. Turner and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine walking to the same place every day, to meet your best friend. Imagine watching hundreds of people pass by every morning and every afternoon. Imagine waiting, and waiting, and waiting. For ten years. This is what Hachiko did. Hachiko was a real dog who lived in Tokyo, a dog who faithfully waited for his owner at the Shibuya train station long after his owner could not come to meet him. He became famous for his loyalty and was adored by scores of people who passed through the station every day. This is Hachiko’s story through the eyes of Kentaro, a young boy whose life is changed forever by his friendship with this very special dog. Simply told, and illustrated with Yan Nascimbene’s lush watercolors, the legend of Hachiko will touch your heart and inspire you as it has inspired thousands all over the world.
Download or read book One Big Ohana written by Tammy Lee Gale and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Big Ohana is about learning about life as a whole. Regardless of their background, their lifestyle, or where they were from, their life means something. Some were rich. Some have had hard times. Their ways of thinking are different. Some learned about other people. Some are Christians. Some have had bad experiences with religion. But somehow, some way, they grew to be the big ohana, which in Hawaiian language means family.
Download or read book Conversations with My Mother written by Darlene Machtan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darlene Machtan, author of Conversations With My Mother, shares heartfelt, intimate, and often humorous one-sided conversations with her deceased mother. The topics are so universal that grieving adult children will easily relate and find comfort. The issues of: carrying on new family responsibility and roles major conflicts among siblings a parent's remarriage and the decline and death of other significant individuals are all "discussed" between mother and daughter with such honesty and emotion the reader seems to be an integral part of that conversation. Stories of love, laughter, disagreements, dancing, friendships, and futures will leave readers answering Machtan's question "...or is it only in our family that such stories abound?" with a resounding, "No."
Download or read book Tattered Kimonos in Japan written by Robert Rand and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Japan's war generation--Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict Since John Hersey's Hiroshima--the classic account, published in 1946, of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of that city--very few books have examined the meaning and impact of World War II through the eyes of Japanese men and women who survived that conflict. Tattered Kimonos in Japan does just that: It is an intimate journey into contemporary Japan from the perspective of the generation of Japanese soldiers and civilians who survived World War II, by a writer whose American father and Japanese father-in-law fought on opposite sides of the conflict. The author, a former NPR senior editor, is Jewish, and he approaches the subject with the sensibilities of having grown up in a community of Holocaust survivors. Mindful of the power of victimhood, memory, and shared suffering, he travels across Japan, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki, meeting a compelling group of men and women whose lives, even now, are defined by the trauma of war, and by lingering questions of responsibility and repentance for Japan's wartime aggression. The image of a tattered kimono from Hiroshima is the thread that drives the narrative arc of this emotional story about a writer's encounter with history, inside the Japan of his father's generation, on the other side of his father's war. This is a book about history with elements of family memoir. It offers a fresh and truly unique perspective for readers interested in World War II, Japan, or Judaica; readers seeking cross-cultural journeys; and readers intrigued by Japanese culture, particularly the kimono.
Download or read book Sit Stay Love written by Debbie Burns and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debbie Burns combines all your favorite romance tropes with cuddly rescue pups, but if you need another reason to fall into this cozy romance with heart, we've got plenty! An ex-military dog handler whose heart of gold is buried deep The sunny shelter volunteer who sees the way he bears his heart to the dogs he trains A million never-ending projects that keep throwing them together And a pile of puppies so adorable you'll want one for your very own For devoted no-kill shelter worker Kelsey Sutton, rehabbing a group of rescue dogs is a welcome challenge. Working with a sexy ex-military man who needs some TLC himself? That's a different story. The distance between them seems nearly impossible to cross, but she's never met a puppy who couldn't put a smile on Mr. Grumpy's face, so he can't be all that bad. Kurt Crawford keeps his heart locked away from everyone. Well, everyone except the dogs who need his help...and always have his back. As he works tirelessly to turn a house generously donated to the shelter into a sanctuary for the dogs who have helped him heal, he gets to know the compassionate, beautiful woman he's been assigned to work with. And the more he sees her do everything she can to protect their four-legged friends, the more he realizes that what he feels for her is a lot like love...
Download or read book Childless by Marriage written by Sue Fagalde Lick and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First you marry a man who does not want children. He cheats and you divorce him. Then you marry the love of your life and find out he does not want to have children with you either. The three he has are more than enough. Although you always wanted to be a mother, you decide he is worth the sacrifice, expecting to have a long happy life together. But that's not what happens. This is the story of how a woman becomes childless by marriage and how it affects every aspect of her life. This is the book of my heart, the one I had to write. Ever since I realized I was not going to have children, I have felt recurring grief and an emptiness in my heart. I am different from most women, but I have found that I am not alone. There are many of us childless women, and I think it's important to share our stories about what it's like when you don't have children in a world where most girls grow up to become mothers. I hope this book offers comfort to those who are childless and understanding to those who are not. If it makes you smile here and there, even better.
Download or read book Nevada Gunsmoke written by Elmer D. McInnes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1860 to 1900, many towns in Nevada sprang up to serve the mining camps in the area. These towns provided the breeding ground for a unique character known as "the mining camp gunman." This book delves into the violent and gritty lives of various Nevada characters, including gunfighting miner Dick Prentice, lawman and politico Leslie Blackburn, peace officer William McKee, ruthless killer Hank Parrish, outlaw escape artist John Burke and other characters.
Download or read book The Familiar Volume 1 written by Mark Z. Danielewski and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BEST SELLER The Familiar Volume 1 Wherein the cat is found . . . From the author of the international best seller House of Leaves and National Book Award–nominated Only Revolutions comes a monumental new novel as dazzling as it is riveting. The Familiar (Volume 1) ranges from Mexico to Southeast Asia, from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, with nine lives hanging in the balance, each called upon to make a terrifying choice. They include a therapist-in-training grappling with daughters as demanding as her patients; an ambitious East L.A. gang member contracted for violence; two scientists in Marfa, Texas, on the run from an organization powerful beyond imagining; plus a recovering addict in Singapore summoned at midnight by a desperate billionaire; and a programmer near Silicon Beach whose game engine might unleash consequences far exceeding the entertainment he intends. At the very heart, though, is a twelve-year-old girl named Xanther who one rainy day in May sets out with her father to get a dog, only to end up trying to save a creature as fragile as it is dangerous . . . which will change not only her life and the lives of those she has yet to encounter, but this world, too—or at least the world we think we know and the future we take for granted. (With full-color illustrations throughout.) THE FAMILIAR continues... The Familiar Volume 2 Wherein the cat is hungry . . . The Familiar Volume 3 Wherein the cat is blind . . . The Familiar Volume 4 Wherein the cat is toothless . . . The Familiar Volume 5 Wherein the cat is named . . .
Download or read book They Said I Was Leaving at Eight written by Carole McMechan Davis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A telling story that recounts a mother fighting for her life, while her daughter supports her journey of denial to acceptance of having to let go. The author recounts her mother’s undying love for her first husband Lieth, who was killed 50 years prior in WWII. In the final year, Leith returned from the other side to take her home. Recording her incredible mother’s near death experience, the author describes what to expect on the other side; we are never alone, we are surrounded and guided by beings of light, and our loved ones who have already passed over are waiting there for us. “This is a wonderful, wonderful book. It really opened my heart to my own grieving process and I could not put it down.” —Karin Jefferies, R.N “I could not put this book down from the first page. It opened my eyes to so much more than this physical world we live in.” —Hannah Louise, London, UK “Riveting! I couldn’t put this book down. The story reveals that the cycle of life and death is beyond amazing!” —Merle Hetherington, R.N.
Download or read book Picking Bones from Ash written by Marie Mutsuki Mockett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts lurk in the bamboo forest outside the tiny northern Japanese town where Satomi lives with her elusive mother, Atsuko. A preternaturally gifted pianist, Satomi wrestles with inner demons. Her fall from grace is echoed in the life of her daughter, Rumi, who unleashes a ghost she must chase from foggy San Francisco to a Buddhist temple atop Japan's icy Mount Doom. In sharp, lush prose, Picking Bones from Ash - by Marie Mutsuki Mockett - examines the power and limitations of female talent in our globalized world.
Download or read book The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society written by Manchester Geographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Mothers Daughters written by Amy Newmark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is something truly magical about the bond between mothers and daughters... and grandmothers, too! Mothers, daughters, grandmothers... these special relationships are explored and celebrated in this new collection of stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul’s library. You will be inspired and entertained by these 101 stories, arranged in these fun chapters: • Mom to the Rescue • You Just Have to Laugh • Mom Knows Best • Role Models • A Magical Bond • Isn’t Life Grand? • In-laws and Outlaws! • Across the Generations • Mother-Daughter Adventures • Like Mother, Like Daughter Chicken Soup for the Soul books are 100% made in the USA and each book includes stories from as diverse a group of writers as possible. Chicken Soup for the Soul solicits and publishes stories from the LGBTQ community and from people of all ethnicities, nationalities, and religions.
Download or read book Communicating Women s Health written by Annette Madlock Gatison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the conditions under which women are empowered, and feel entitled, to make the health decisions that are best for them. At its core, it illuminates how the most basic element of communication, voice, has been summarily suppressed for entire groups of women when it comes to control of their own sexuality, reproductive lives, and health. By giving voice to these women’s experiences, the book shines a light on ways to improve health communication for women. Bringing together personal narratives, key theory and literature, and original qualitative and quantitative studies, the book provides an in-depth comparative picture of how and why women’s health varies for distinct groups of women. Organized into four parts—historical influences on patient and provider perceptions, breast cancer the silence and the shame, make it taboo: mothering, reproduction, and womanhood, and sex, sexuality, relational health, and womanhood—each section is introduced with a brief synthesis and discussion of the key questions addressed across the chapters.
Download or read book The Big Bad Wolf Had Blue Eyes written by Anne Mackey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Patricia was abandoned by her mother and left in the care of her father and grandmother. Her father is called to war in the jungles of New Guinea, and her grandmothernot the most loving womanrefuses to care for the young girl. Patricia is put into foster care, under the watchful eye of a kind, elderly couple. Her life in the Haggerty home is one of peace and gardening. At eight years old, she is happy there and would have remained so if not for the arrival of her cruel mother. Her mother suffers from a violent temper. Patricias safe, stable life with the Haggertys is gone forever, and her trials are increased as the years go by. She has to meet them alone; a trial; a marriage; raising her kids alone. Then the challenge of her own well being has to be met and conquered. How will she meet all the obstacles? When will it all end?
Download or read book The Queen of Tears written by Chris McKinney and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Queen of Tears' a former Korean movie star unravels the tangled lives of her family in Hawaii. Chris McKinney is also the author of 'The Tattoo'.
