Download or read book Wisdoms from Big Momma s Porch written by Tammy Loraine Crowder and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories dealing with life experiences. Stories that individuals can identify with whether it is reality or your wildest dreams based on emotions of fear, peace, joy, passion, anger, and love.
Download or read book Big Momma s Porch written by Patterson and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the essence of these life-changing quotes from some of the greatest minds. Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Zig Ziglar, Albert Einstein, C. S. Lewis, Madam C. J. Walker, Eleanor Roosevelt, E. E. Cummings, Rosa Parks, and My {Big Momma}, Willie Bell Hammond, and many more of my favorite quotes. These influencers' and many more have been a part of my life in my younger years and even today.For those who want to enhance their brains with provoking Words of Wisdom, this is the book for you. These quotes hold tremendous power; they can and will inspire and motivate you to move forward with a better mindset in life.
Download or read book Stories from written by Stephonia Roberts and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscence with the author and live out her childhood experiences with her grandmother. The woman that taught her compassion and gave her the belief that she could do and be anything she set her mind too. Going back down memory lane with relatives and friends that also cultivated her experiences in rural life exploring the depths of what she became today. An herbalist, gardener and naturalist using mother nature to explain every day life complexities.
Download or read book When Hurricane Katrina Hit Home written by Gail Langer Karwoski and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chazz Cohen lives with his grandmom in the Garden District of New Orleans. In his family, money is no problem. But money won't buy Chazz what he wants--a "real" home with his mom. Across town in the Ninth Ward, Lyric Talbert wishes her mom didn't expect so much from her, especially when her little brother gets sick. It seemed like the storm would blow over as so many had. But Katrina burst the levees, and the world turned to chaos for Chazz and Lyric and their families. They quickly learn that, though their worlds were different before the storm, it was their courage and compassion that would help them make it through. Through the alternating stories of Chazz and Lyric, acclaimed children's author Gail Langer Karwoski chronicles the disaster that forever changed New Orleans and its people.
Download or read book Big Momma Makes the World written by Phyllis Root and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Mamma, with a baby on her hip and laundry piling up, makes the world and everything in it and, at the end of the sixth day, tells the people she has made that they must take care of her creation.
Download or read book The Hills written by P.A. Nelson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hills is a true story experienced and told to me over the years by my mother, Beth. This story about my mothers childhood began in Lepanto, Arkansas and ended in Concrete, Washington. There was a lot of pathos, happiness, and learning about life that we dont see in our families today. Mothers fi rst seven years were spent in a little 2 bedroom house in Arkansas where she learned family values. The second part of her journey in growing up was three weeks spent in a Model A crossing the United States in a move to improve the quality of their lives. Upon arrival in Concrete, Washington, her family settled into a situation where they had a much nicer lifestyle for a time. It is a true story of how families were making it in the Big Depression.
Download or read book Place Race and Identity Formation written by Ed Douglas McKnight and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work of curriculum theory, Ed Douglas McKnight addresses and explores the intersections between place (with specific discussion of Kincheloe’s and Pinar’s conceptualization of place and identity) and race (specifically Winthrop Jordan’s historical analysis of race as an Anglo-European construction that became the foundation of a white mythos). To that end, he employs a form of narrative construction called curriculum vitae (course of life)—a method of locating and delineating identity formation which addresses how theories of place, race and identity formation play out in a particular concrete life. By working through how place racializes identity and existence, the author engages in a long Southern tradition of storytelling, but in a way that turns it inside out. Instead of telling his own story as a means to romanticize the sins of the southern past, he tells a new story of growing up within the "white" discourse of the Deep South in the 1960s and 70s, tracking how his racial identity was created and how it has followed him through life. Significant in this narrative is how the discourse of whiteness and place continues to express itself even within the subject position of a curriculum theorist teaching in a large Deep South university. The book concludes with an elaboration on the challenges of engaging in the necessary anti-racist complicated conversation within education to begin to work through and cope with heavy racialized inheritances.
Download or read book A Conformation of Family written by Bobby C. Jones and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-12-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a work of fiction. It is written from a seven year old, African-American boy's point of view. It's a nine month snapshot of life growing up in a southern farming community, during the early nineteen sixties, prior to integration. This work of fiction characterizes the language, culture and traditions of that era.
Download or read book Bitter Roots written by Reginald Lawrence Wyatt and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining and emotionally passionate new novel, by this first time author, reveals the dark and sinister events that surround a Louisiana family as it struggles to overcome a voodoo curse that has tormented the love life of its beautiful women since the days just after slavery. In 1949 Elizabeth Lafayette, the family s matriarch sets off a chain of tragic events after she tampers with an erotic fragrance the community root doctor has concocted to protect her naive daughter and granddaughter from deadly effects of the curse. Explicit and shockingly bold, Reginald Wyatt skillfully touches on the social and cultural realities that have intimately affected all of our lives.
Download or read book The Mysterious Treasure of Jerry Lee Thorton written by Mike Thomas and published by Mike Thomas. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a guy do when his best friend starts doing things that are completely out of character? In the case of Luke McAllister, you can't do anything - until you figure out exactly what it is that is different. The fact that his best friend is a girl complicates matters a heap. Nothing makes sense when RaeNell Stephens, the girl that has "the best curve ball he's ever seen," starts blushing and acting like a durned female. All of this at the beginning of the summer to end all summers' too. This is the summer that Luke, RaeNell, and their friend Farley Midkiff set out to locate, and cash in on a rogue Civil War soldier's stolen one million dollar Union payroll. Undaunted by thousands of scholars and fortune seekers having looked unsuccessfully for the treasure for a hundred years, the three 12 year-old friends search diligently for themselves. What they find is an adventure - though maybe not what, or where, they expected!
Download or read book One Day She ll Darken written by Fauna Hodel and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the TNT TV series I Am the Night. The Black Dahlia Murder is near-legend in the annals of true crime. But behind the shocking case of a young actress’s gruesome slaying lies the story of another woman. Was Fauna Hodel the child of incest, and the catalyst for a sensational trial that left her well-to-do family scarred by scandal, even as the accused sexual predator walked free? Taken as an infant from her teenage mother, Fauna was placed in the care of a working-class black woman, who raised the white child as her own. Together, as a close-knit mother and daughter, they weathered years of poverty and bigotry, alcoholism and sexual abuse, pregnancy and even death—until the time came for Fauna to seek out her real mother, and uncover her lost past. But as Fauna will learn, some truths don’t want to be told. Now includes an 8-page photo insert from Fauna's personal collection.
Download or read book Wildwood and Hickory written by Allen T. Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two small towns, two big mysteries. Up and coming author, Allen T. Smith, knows how to tell a story. His charachters come alive in these stories as murder surprises and horrifies the good folk of Hemphill, Texas and Hickory, Arkansas.
Download or read book A Song I Knew by Heart written by Bret Lott and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a cold Massachusetts winter, a tragic car accident leaves a mother childless and her daughter-in-law a widow. Naomi and Ruth are now each other's only comfort. Naomi lost her own husband eight years ago, and now she has lost her son. Carrying a deep secret in her soul, Naomi decides to return to her childhood home in coastal South Carolina. When she tells Ruth her plan, she receives an unexpected reply: "Where you go, I will go." So the two women plan the journey together, arriving at a place that is flooded with a love they are nearly too fragile to accept. Surrounded by the warmth of their newfound family, Naomi and Ruth begin to find themselves reawakened-and open to the possibility of redemption.
Download or read book From Light to Pitch Black written by C. A. Cooper and published by LULU. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A promising grad student's life turns from one filled with blissful wedding planning to life on the run. Is she the victim of circumstances ... or the mastermind behind it all?
Download or read book Life of Rileigh written by LL Eadie and published by Dolly Dimple Ink. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born a bastard at a county hospital. When most girls of sixteen were getting their driver licenses my mother was getting herself a baby. As a child I spent a lot of time in an orphanage called the Margaret Lloyd Stansel’s Children’s Asylum. My mother preferred to call it a boarding school or summer camp depending upon the time of year I was visiting. Most every child who lived there had a parent, a grandparent, an aunt, uncle, or some other family member – somewhere or other. Including me. I don’t blame my mother though – she had herself a hard-knock life, too. Let me explain, when I was born in 1954, things were different. Unwed mothers were treated in a spiteful manner – including being excluded from social settings, and even family circles. I guess I should count my blessings that my mother tried her best to raise me. I’m sure my life is different from yours. There are not many orphanages operating today. Well, the long and the short of it is – that this is my story – about when things were a wee bit different. My name is Rileigh Ophelia Horton, I think. This was my life – The Life of Rileigh
Download or read book written by Carolyn Boyd and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Langston was four when his parents died and he went to live with his Aunt Sophie. He met Ben Dunn and Ellie Sorenson And The three forged friendships that would last their lifetimes. Charles and Ben fought with General Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, and when they returned home it was with script awarding them a tract of land in Mississippi. They set about turning that wild land into a beautiful and productive plantation. Charles and Ellie married and had a son, Charles Matthew, Jr. (Matt). Ben married a beautiful woman from New Orleans and they had a daughter named Megan. In due time, Megan and Matt married and life was idyllic until the Civil War intervened to destroy an entire way of life. The South was stripped of its wealth and dignity And The Langstons faced losing everything they owned To The carpetbaggers. Matt went to Texas to look for land, and Megan managed to sell cotton that her father-in-law, Charles, had stored up before the War. She then sold the plantation and moved with their sons, Charles Matthew, III (Trey) and Patrick (Bubba), To the ranch Matt had purchased in Texas. During this time Megan met Salem McCord, and was drawn to him so strongly that she was terrified of the intensity of her feelings, and that she might do something to dishonor her family. Salem was a man of honor, and though he was very much in love with Megan, he, too, understood that they could only be friends.
Download or read book The Rose Rustlers written by Greg Grant and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Rose Rustlers, Greg Grant and William C. Welch offer a personal, in-depth, and entertaining account of some of the great stories gathered during their years as participants in one of the most important plant-hunting efforts of the twentieth century—the quest to save antique roses that disappeared from the market in a notoriously trend-driven business. By the 1950s, almost exclusively, modern roses (those with one compact bloom at the top of a large stem) were grown for the cut-flower market. The large rounded shrubs and billowy fence climbers known to our grandparents and great-grandparents in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had been reduced to this rather monotonous single style of plant. Yet those roses of old still grew, tough and persistent, in farmyards, cemeteries, vacant lots, and abandoned fields. The rediscovery of these antiques and the subsequent movement to conserve them became the mission of “rose rustlers,” dedicated rosarians who studied, sought, cut, and cultivated these hardy survivors. Here, the authors chronicle their own origins, adventures, and discoveries as part of a group dubbed the Texas Rose Rustlers. They present tales of the many efforts that have helped restore lost roses not only to residential gardens, but also to commercial and church landscapes in Texas. Their experiences and friendships with other figures in the heirloom rose world bring an insider’s perspective to the lore of “rustling,” the art of propagation, and the continued fascination with the world’s favorite flower.
