Download or read book Daddy We Hardly Knew You written by Germaine Greer and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ferocious psychic need and volcanic energy drive this combined memoir, detective story and travelogue” from the author of The Female Eunuch (The New Yorker). After her father died, influential feminist writer and public intellectual Germaine Greer realizes how little she knows about him. She decides to track the life of her father, an Australian intelligence officer during World War II, to uncover the roots of his secrecy and distance. As she painstakingly assembles the jigsaw pieces of the past, Greer discovers surprising secrets about her father, her family, and herself. During her three-year quest, Greer travels from England to Australia, Tasmania, India, and Malta; searches through scores of genealogical, civil, and military archives; and delves into the memories of the men and women who may—or may not—have known Reg Greer. Yet the heart of her “lyrical but brutal elegy” is her own emotional journey, as the startling facts behind her father’s façade force her to painfully examine her own notions of truth and loyalty, family and obligation (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). “Anyone who has done this kind of search will identify with Ms. Greer’s frustration, admire her persistence, laugh at her accuracy and rejoice in her discoveries.” —The New York Times Book Review “The deeply affecting climax is a remarkable feat of family reconstruction.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book This Is My Story written by Deloris B. James and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In This Is My Story, Deloris B. James shares one woman's calling from God to write a testimony to her faith and the outcome of her walk with the Lord. From her birth, she has felt a strength of conviction that was implanted in her. Even as a child, her devotion to her father in addition to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, was evidence of her solid character and dedication. Although life has not been easy for Deloris, she has always been able to persevere in the safety of God's love and protection. Her story shows that God will guide you, if you only listen. In this case, He had to instruct her three different times to share her testimony with the world before she finally acquiesced."--Provided by publisher

Download or read book Daddy s Little Secret written by Denise Wallace and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true crime story of a father’s murder and a daughter’s discovery of his Jekyll-and-Hyde double-life in pursuit of his killer. Denise Wallace had spent years hiding deadly secrets about her enigmatic father, Wesley Wallace. Wes was a trusted security guard of the Ritz Carlton Palm Beach. He was supposed to protect those who found themselves in his care. But a closer look into his brutal murder revealed a split personality—one that his daughter may have seen but tried to ignore. However, detectives assigned to the case persuaded her to assist them in the capture of her father's killer. The trail would lead from the glitz of Palm Beach to the murky streets of Dixie Highway and end in a courtroom where her father's secret life, and his dangerous penchant for sex slaves, would be revealed. “An engrossing true story about alternative lifestyles, domination, hidden secrets and a late night murder.”—John Ferak, bestselling author of Failure of Justice

Download or read book Oh Dad Poor Dad Mamma s Hung You in the Closet and I m Feelin So Sad written by Arthur Kopit and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1960 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full Length, Black Comedy / Casting: 4m, 2f, extras / Scenery: 2 int. Wealthy, overbearing Madame Rosepettle with her stuttering, awkward son Jonathan at her heels, arrives at a posh hotel with a man-eating tropical plant, pirahna fish and coffin in tow. Rosalie, a voluptuous babysitter from the couple next door "who never come home" attempts to seduce Jonathan and proves a formidable opponent to Madame herself.

Download or read book Faith s Destiny 2 written by Q. Taylor and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith Hopkins has already seen way too much for a woman her age. She can hardly believe she has just attended the double funeral of her mother and grandmother. Death is no longer a tale of her past, but a cruel reality of her present. As she and her four-year-old daughter, Destiny, head home, they are involved in a tragic car collision. As Faith's eyes slowly close, the last thing she sees is a silhouette of an old man carrying away the body of a little girl. Six years later, Destiny is now ten-year-old Nina. Kidnapped after the car accident by Jamanny Durgen, the father of her mother's former rapist, she now lives in a Mississippi town where she struggles to remember anything from her past. Witness to countless acts of violence and incest, Nina knows it is hell living there and will be hell getting out. Even though she is used to being scared and abandoned, Nina cannot help but think about the person who left her. Little does she know that in a hospital room far away, memories of a lost child sustain life inside a paralyzed body. In this poignant novel, a girl and her mother separated by distance and a man's evil intentions struggle to find each other within the darkness of their tortured worlds.

Download or read book You Love Your Daddy Don t You written by Sarah Harrison and published by CCB Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mama, something terrible is wrong with me. There is blood in my panties!" Those were the words of seven-year-old Sarah. Mama told her she must have fallen or something and not to worry. Sarah went away feeling sad; her chance for help was gone! It was Sarah's alter, Susie, who had been sticking pencils and other items in her private place. Susie had come when Sarah was only four years old. Susie had become Daddy's 'special' little girl by sitting on his lap. In return he gave her a dollar for any change she had. Daddy played with Susie's pee pee and it was Susie that slept in the upstairs bedroom with her fourteen-year-old brother. Later in life, two other alters would appear. "You Love Your Daddy, Don't You?" is told through the memories of Sarah. It reveals a child's determination to survive despite profound emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. This was compounded by constant neglect from both parents. About the Author: Sarah Harrison has written several articles for the Women's Institute for Incorporation Therapy's monthly newsletter as well as articles for spiritual magazines. She also volunteers as a mentor in a local school system, helps with special group activities in an assisted living home, and provides guidance to troubled parents and teens on www.experts.com. After the death of her husband, Sarah Harrison moved from Atlanta, Georgia in 2007 to a suburb near Charlotte, North Carolina to be near her grandchildren. She has joined Harrison United Methodist Church and is active in Youth Group, Emmaus, Epiphany, and Faith Partners.

Download or read book Do U Know Who Your Daddy Is written by Robert Montgomery and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-01-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DoYou Know Who Your Daddy Is? is a painfully realistic look into the psyche of those individuals scarred by not enjoying a loving relationship with their father. If youve ever wondered why daddy never comes around or are still hoping to one day experience the joy of knowing a father that youve never seen, then this book will absolutely guide you on your quest. It also explores the damaging effects of divorce, violence, & death thus providing eye-opening solutions to overcome those problems. After reading DoYou Know Who Your Daddy Is? not only will you find your long lost daddy, your life also will never be the same! Dont let daddys bags destroy your life----

Download or read book Daddy s Special Little Girl written by Jody Lynn Enders and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Is it possible to describe the confusion and shame I felt every time daddy came to my bedroom and used me to fulfill his sexual perversion? Is it possible to describe the fear that consumed me when I thought I was pregnant with my dad’s baby?” Daddy’s Special Little Girl is a heart-on-your-sleeve memoir about growing up in an abusive home with five siblings, an alcoholic father, and a courageous mother—about desperate attempts to cope with unbearable pain, about surviving the betrayal and devastation of incest and the rejection of divorce, about God’s forgiveness and healing. The author bares her soul as she takes you on an inconceivable journey that includes graphic scenes of her abuse, honest exposure of her own sin, paralyzing anguish and sorrow she endures, and raw emotions as she accepts her dad’s prison sentence and death. You will weep as you read about the heartbreaking encounters and effects of the hideous crime of incest. You will rejoice as you experience the forgiveness, love, and support this family had for their dad and each other. In Daddy’s Special Little Girl, Jody reveals the lingering devastation of a family crime no one wants to talk about. Her transparency is disarming, her case compelling, and her focus on healing. For the thousands who have experienced the pain of incest, the book points the way to help. For those who would like to believe that “these things don’t happen in Christian homes,” Daddy’s Special Little Girl will explode the myth. —Gary D. Chapman, Ph.D Author of The Five Love Languages

Download or read book Buryin Daddy written by Teresa Nicholas and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A descendant of Lebanese Catholic immigrants on her father's side and Baptist sharecroppers on her mother's, Teresa Nicholas recounts in Buryin' Daddy a southern upbringing with an unusual inflection. As the book opens, the author recalls her charmed early childhood in the late 1950s, when she and her family live with her grandparents in a graceful old bungalow in Yazoo City, Mississippi. But when the author is five, her eccentric father—secretive, penurious, autocratic, hoarding—moves his growing family into a condemned duplex nearby. Separated from her beloved grandmother and chafing under her father's erratic discipline, the girl longs to flee from the awful decrepit house. When she's a teenager, she and her father find themselves on conflicting sides of the civil rights movement and their arguments grow more painful, until a scholarship to a northeastern college provides the means of her escape. Two decades later, Nicholas has built a successful career in book publishing in New York. When her father dies suddenly, she returns to Mississippi for the funeral and to spend a month in the hated duplex as her mother comes to terms with her husband's passing. But as she sorts through the strange detritus of her father's life, the author comes to understand that he was far more complex than the angry man she thought she knew. And as she draws closer to her surprisingly resilient mother, affected by stroke but full of blunt country talk, she finds that her mother is also far from the naïve, helpless creature she remembers. Through a series of surprising and oddly humorous discoveries, the author and her mother will begin to unravel her father's poignant secrets together in this graceful and generous exploration of the intermingling of shame and love that lie at the heart of family life.

Download or read book Daddy s War written by Irene Kacandes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she was very young, Irene Kacandes knew things about her father that had no plot, no narrator, and no audience. To her childhood self these things resembled beings who resided with her family, like the ancestresses who’d thrown themselves off cliffs rather than be taken by the Turks, or the forefathers who’d fought the Trojans. For decades she thought of these cohabitants as Daddy’s War Experiences and tried to stay away from them. When tragedy touched the adult life she had constructed for herself, however, she realized she had to confront her family’s wartime past. Kacandes begins with what she did know: that her immigrant grandmother returned to Greece with four young children—and without her husband—only to get trapped there by the Nazi occupation. Though still a child himself, her father, John, helped feed his younger siblings by taking up any task possible, including smuggling arms to the Resistance. Kacandes painstakingly uncovers a complex truth her father chose not to tell, a truth inextricably entwined with the Holocaust, discovering, too, a common but little-told story about how the telling of such memories is negotiated between survivors and their children. Daddy’s War brings new understanding to how trauma, like the revenge of Greek gods, can visit each generation and offers a model for breaking the cycle.

Download or read book The Six Liter Club written by Harry Kraus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ELUSIVE WHISPERS, A DARK CLOSET, STRONG ARMS... DOES SHE EVEN WANT TO REMEMBER? Camille Weller has arrived as the first African-American attending in the trauma service of the Medical College of Virginia. Never mind that the locker rooms are labeled "doctors" and "nurses" rather than "men" and "women" or that her dark skin communicates "incapable" to many of her white male colleagues in the OR. Camille has battled prejudices her entire career, but those battles were small spats compared to what she faces now. When a colleague discovers a lump in her breast, she believes Dr. Camille Weller is the best doctor for her. Together, they decide on a course of treatment that bucks the established medical system, keeping Camille firmly in the crosshairs of male surgeons already riddled with skepticism and suspicion. Her success as a surgeon is jeopardized further when dark whispers from her childhood in Africa plague Camille’s thoughts. Bewildering panic attacks instill fear in a surgeon bent on maintaining the control, pace, and direction of her own life. Unable to shake the flashes of memory, Camille is forced to face a past she has not acknowledged since the death of her father on an African mission field. Who was he? Who was she? And why would either of those answers affect her present?

Download or read book My Fakebook Father written by Side 2 Side and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in a two parent Christian family home feeling unloved and rejected by the one man she loved the most, her father. Never truly experiencing the unconditional love of a father altering not only her perspective but her relationships with men and with God. Her self-worth being low, she could always find a reason to laugh and she loved making people laugh, especially her father because his laughter felt like approval. Tired of not being seen, heard or listened to she reaps the support of her father's aunt who seemed to gaze into her soul. Along with the support of her favorite Aunt Pretty, she was able to successfully fight her causes with her father only later to experience pain like never before. Deciding not to become a product of her environment she used every obstacle placed in front of her to change the trajectory of her life that she just so happened to be born into. She speaks the truth at all times and will make you laugh out loud. There is worth behind the masks and today this book will become your favorite Aunt Pretty inspiring you to emerge as your most beautiful butterfly.

Download or read book Park Rose written by Tiffaney Dulaney and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Park Rose is a story based on actual events that occurred in my life growing up. I titled the book Park Rose because Park Rose was a street I lived on in Duarte, California, a very nice, quiet neighborhood in the Monrovia area. Our house wasn't right in the middle of the neighborhood, but I'm sure all the screams and sounds coming from that house made it the center of the neighborhood attention. I will never forget the things that occurred on Park Rose and in my life thereafter. God has brought me a might long way. Without God, I know I would not be here being able to share my testimony with you all. I also wanted to make awareness to mental illness. Enduring through years of abuse, my mother was not able to care for us appropriately anymore. She is not able to care for herself today. Abuse doesn't just end when the abuse stops; it continues for years without the proper help.

Download or read book Cardiff by the Sea written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Grove Atlantic. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four brand-new novellas by the #1 New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning “grand mistress of ghoulishness” (Publishers Weekly). An academic in Pennsylvania discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from someone she has never heard of. A pubescent girl, overcome with loneliness, befriends a feral cat that becomes her protector from the increasingly aggressive males that surround her. A brilliant but shy college sophomore is distraught to discover that she’s pregnant, and the professor who takes her under his wing may not have innocent intentions. And a woman who marries into a family shattered by tragedy finds herself haunted by her predecessor’s voice, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive attraction to a garage that took two lives. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, the author of We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde writes about women facing threats past and present, once again cementing her reputation for “great intelligence and dead-on imaginative powers” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

Download or read book The Wiloby Estates written by HF Beaumont and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiloby’s are customers of Stockdale Landscape Construction, who have requested their backyard to become as magical as the Albright’s yard featured in six issues of Remodeling Magazine. Upon completion of their backyard the Wiloby’s through a Luau for family, friends, neighbors and the Governor of the state, shown live on seven cable networks. There is a Governor’s ball, grand opening of a new location for Stockdale Landscape, a western wear outfitter event, new office locations in three different states, criminal investigation expands, a major event which puts the daily routine of the family into turmoil. If you enjoyed reading, Descending Down the Spiral Staircase, the Stockdale’s and Albright’s enlighten this book to its fullest. All of your emotions will be challenged from cover to cover.

Download or read book Family Stories written by James C. McMillan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-06-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family stories are typically passed down by word of mouth, and thus over the generations much our family history is lost forever. This anthology collects letters and stories actually written down by various people so that future generations can read them and have some inkling of what people were like. Included in the anthology are stories of what it was like growing up in the 1930’s, 1950’s, and 1960’s. Also included are detailed stories of actual events that had significant impact on the individuals who wrote them done, including: • taking a grandmother to church on a sled pulled by an ox • a best friend killed in action during World War I • a tragic car accident that left a man paralyzed • a cattle round-up • a father’s suicide

Download or read book Up Up Over the Hill Beyond written by Tony Barone and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: