Download or read book Broken Glass Behind the China Cabinet written by Pamela Kaye and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamela Kayes mother, Anneliese, was seventeen years old when she left Germany, the Fatherland, the only place she had ever known, in 1956. She was anxious for the chance to reinvent herself in the United States after World War II had devastated her country. In this memoir, she tells of her journey to America and how she discovered the truth about her Russian-Jewish heritage. Broken Glass behind the China Cabinet narrates how she began her new life in the United States as a paid servant for a family in Kansas City, Missouri; how she struggled as a young immigrant girl to find her place in this new world; and how she became a citizen in 1961. She shares the story of the people who impacted her journey and how she accidentally discovered the real story about who she is. Based on the diary of Anneliese, Broken Glass behind the China Cabinet shares a story of perseverance and communicates how one womans look into the past impacted her future.
Download or read book Salt and Peppered to Death written by Laurie Perkins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norah Fitzpatrick was thrilled when she inherited her grandmother's salt and pepper collection. It led to a new hobby, new friends, and a treasure hunt. What she wasn't expecting was murder and her own brush with death.
Download or read book A Crocodile in the Pool written by Janet Ruddock and published by GeneralStore PublishingHouse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vaudeville and Other Nightmares written by Greg Chapman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this UPDATED AND ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION Australian horror author Greg Chapman will take you deeper in the recesses of the psyche and introduce you to abominations that only hell would welcome.
Download or read book Brandy written by Heather Conrad and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brandy is a sweet sixteen year-old whose best friend is her beautiful horse, Gray. Suddenly at school she has a new best friend, Dina, an émigré from New York City. Dina is an out lesbian with a style unique to the small ranching town where she has arrived. Brandy's mother, a widowed working woman, is uneasy about Brandy's new friendship although she is relieved when Brandy starts dating an Indian boy, Quinn. Innocent and naive about sex, Brandy becomes frightened after an unsettling encounter and runs away from home. Her mother is distraught, blames Dina, and seeks out Laura and Jerry, owners of the stable where Gray is kept, for help. There she meets Pat, a therapist from San Francisco who has come for a visit. They all join together with Dina and Quinn and become a new kind of "family" as the launch an all out search for Brandy.
Download or read book Beautiful Music written by Michael Zadoorian and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] eight-track flashback of a novel set in 1970s Detroit” from the international bestselling author of The Narcissism of Small Differences (O, the Oprah Magazine, Summer 2018 Reading List). Set in early 1970s Detroit, a divided city still reeling from its violent race riot of 1967, Beautiful Music is the story of one young man’s transformation through music. Danny Yzemski is a husky, pop radio–loving loner balancing a dysfunctional homelife with the sudden harsh realities of freshman year at a high school marked by racial turbulence. But after tragedy strikes the family, Danny’s mother becomes increasingly erratic and angry about the seismic cultural shifts unfolding in her city and the world. As she tries to hold it together with the help of Librium, highballs, and breakfast cereal, Danny finds his own reason to carry on: rock and roll. In particular, the drum and guitar-heavy songs of local legends like the MC5 and Iggy Pop. In the vein of Nick Hornby and Tobias Wolff, yet with a style very much Zadoorian’s own, Beautiful Music is a touching story about the power of music and its ability to save one’s soul. “A sweet and endearing coming-of-age tale measured in album tracks.” —The Wall Street Journal “For Danny, cracking the seal on a fresh piece of wax and dissecting cover art and liner notes are acts of nigh religious experience that unveil to him a community of fellow rockers across Detroit . . . It’s in these small moments—a lonely boy experiencing premature nostalgia—that Zadoorian shines.” —The Washington Post “A disturbing yet humorous tale of beleaguered adolescence in 1970s Motor City.” —Steve Miller, author of Detroit Rock City
Download or read book Sweet Home Jamaica written by Claudette Beckford-Brady and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle Freeman: Strong-willed and opinionated: feisty, determined and independent. Knows what she wants and goes after it. Mavis: Michelles stepmother: lacks formal education but possesses a sharp intelligence and innate common sense. Grandma Miriam: Michelles maternal grandmother and matriarch of the Campbell family. Richard Armstrong: Tall, good-looking; dreadlocked. Entirely too sure of himself in Michelles opinion, but captures her heart anyway. Michelle Freeman, affectionately known as Shell or Shellie, was born in Jamaica but migrated to England with her parents at the age of three. At age thirteen her life is thrown into turmoil when she accidentally discovers that her fathers wife, whom she had always taken for granted as being her mother, is in fact, not. This shocking discovery leads her to begin a search for her biological mother. The search eventually takes her to Jamaica where she finds a large extended maternal family and develops a deep and abiding love for the island of her birth. After leaving school and university in London, where she studied journalism, Shellie decides to leave the UK and practise her profession in Jamaica. However, all is not plain sailing, as she encounters culture shock, prejudice and jealousy and comes to the realisation that her beloved island is not the idyllic paradise she had supposed it to be. Set in South London and on the beautiful island of Jamaica, the story spans seventeen years, following the fiery and feisty young woman through her teenage years, young love and tragedy, and into adulthood and more conflicts and clashes.
Download or read book Pelavin v Misner 241 MICH 209 1928 written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25
Download or read book PELAVIN V MISNER ON REHEARING 243 MICH 516 1928 written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25
Download or read book Deadfall written by Bill Pronzini and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Deadfall Bill Pronzini's popular "Nameless Detective" returns in his most baffling-and harrowing-case to date. While staked out on a routine car repossession, Nameless all but witnesses the shooting of a San Francisco lawyer, Leonard Purcell. He arrives on the scene in time to hear Purcell's dying words, one of which is "deadfall." But Purcell dies in Nameless's arms before the cryptic word can be explained. The mystery deepens when Nameless discovers that Leonard's brother, Kenneth, fell to his death six months earlier. Is Purcell's death linked to the apparent accidental "deadfall" of his brother? Leonard's housemate thinks so, and he hires Nameless to prove it. The detective's search takes him into a labyrinth of bizarre relationships involving Kenneth's promiscuous widow, his unattractive daughter, her drug-addicted boyfriend, a shrewd society matron with a passion for antique snuff bottles, a bisexual Filipino, and a missing Mexican deliveryman. Before Nameless can learn the truth behind the demise of the Purcell brothers, the case takes a number of turns that leave his own life hanging in the balance.
Download or read book Facets of a Miracle written by Robert Pelster and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he heads eastbound in the skies above Wyoming, Bud La Grande is looking forward to spending Thanksgiving with friends. But when the weather turns deadly, Bud must land his plane in icy conditions outside Green River. Unfortunately, an emergency landing is not the worst of his troubles. As an unexpected event complicates his dilemma, Bud is left struggling for survival as his plane rests in a howling blizzard. Fortunately for Bud, a rescue team soon reaches him and transports him to the hospital. After his father-in-law, Daniel, travels to reach his bedside, Bud has no idea that Daniel is there not just to provide comfort, but to serve as God's emissary. As Daniel unveils secrets he hopes will orchestrate a reunion between Bud and the daughter who mysteriously disappeared years earlier, life comes full circle as Bud opens his heart to receive God's grace, love, and forgiveness. This book is a testament to the power of God's love as a plane lands in a blizzard and brings a lost soul back home again.
Download or read book Risen written by Jan Strnad and published by Jan Strnad. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as a Pinnacle Book under the pseudonym J. Knight. Synopsis: The residents of a small town find that the secret to immortality is murder. Welcome to Anderson. It's quiet here and that's how we like it. Except.... Madge Duffy sliced her husband's throat last week. Thought she killed him, but then John walked out of the morgue none the worse for wear. The new preacher's calling it a "miracle," but I don't know. It isn't right. I think there might be other people coming back, too. Like Deputy Haws, for one. He's got a bullet hole in his one good shirt and he won't talk about it. You know Peg Culler down at the diner...the one with the little girl on life support? Well, she's talking about pulling the plug, and nobody ever thought she'd do that, not in a million years. She thinks it might be the only way to get her back. Then there's that gang of kids that hangs around the reservoir...not one of them can look you in the eye without breaking into a cold sweat. They're keeping a secret, and it's got them all on edge. Something's going on in this town of ours, something that makes your skin crawl and your teeth grind in the night. I don't know what it is, but I know this: It scares me. NOTE: Contains some profanity, violence. No explicit sex. Keywords: resurrection, afterlife, dead, murder, serial killer, supernatural
Download or read book Priests in the Attic written by Elaine A. Small and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Little Elaine Sawchuk, a minister's daughter who grew up in the north end of Winnipeg with a need for attention and a love for singing, could see only the magic in show business. She pursued it after becoming an X-ray technician, she pursued it after becoming a wife and a mother, but as Elaine Steele, one of the best supper club singers in Canada, ... she had to pay a high price for the little bit of glamour and those moments of applause --Canadian Weekly, Toronto Star, May 8-14, 1965 Priests in the Attic, cast in Toronto during the tumultuous `60s through late`70s is a confessional story of lost faith, redemption and hope. This memoir is written through the power of reverie, a unique concept of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard--the driving force behind this work. In The Poetics of Reverie, Bachelard describes his use of reverie to unearth emotional truth. All of us possess our own emotional truth and thus, each of us has a unique story to tell--but who am I, that anyone should be interested in my story? Let my book tell you: I'm everyone who has ever taken a breath and marveled at the wonder and miracle of life. I'm everyone who has discovered their own finitude and shuddered at the concept of one day, being no more. I'm everyone who has suffered the pain of loss, the torment of regret, the desolation of loneliness, misgivings of the past and a fear of the future. I'm everyone who, through an anguished cry for help, receives the possibility of a new beginning and a miracle of new life through God's immeasurable grace. Who am I? I am one with you--and all of us have a story to tell. This is mine.
Download or read book San Fernando California Earthquake of February 9 1971 Geological and geophysical studies written by Environmental Research Laboratories (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children s Literature and Capitalism written by C. Parkes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important writers of children's and young-adult texts in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
Download or read book Memory Fever written by Ray Gonz‡lez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For poet Ray Gonzalez, growing up in El Paso during the 1960s was a time of loneliness and vulnerability. He encountered discrimination in high school not only for being Latino but also for being a non-athlete in a school where sports were important. Like many young people, he found diversion in music; unlike most, he found solace in the desert. In these vignettes, Gonzalez shares memories of boyhood that tell how he discovered the natural world and his creative spirit. Through 29 storylike essays, he takes readers into the heart of the desert and the soul of a developing poet. Gonzalez introduces us to the people who shaped his life. We learn of his father's difficulties with running a pool hall and of his grandmother's steadfast religious faith. We meet sinister Texas Rangers, hallucinatory poets, illegal aliens, and racist high school jocks. His vivid recollections embrace lizard hunts and rattlesnake dreams, rock music and menudo making—all in stories that convey the pains and joys of growing up on the border. As Gonzalez leads us through his desert of hope and vision, we come to recognize the humor and sadness that permeate this special place.
