Download or read book Daddy s Scrapbook written by Harriet Kimbro Hamilton and published by In Due Season Spiritual. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Kimbro was one of Negro League's best on the baseball field, and one of the so-called worst off the field. During his career, he was described as the bad boy of the Negro League, evil, a loner, and was even dubbed the Black Ty Cobb of the League. These perceptions followed him to his death. Afterwards, his daughter was given a tattered sixty-year-old scrapbook that he kept during his life and directed by her mother to do something with it. She did, she wrote Daddy's Scrapbook, Henry Kimbro of the Negro Baseball League, A Daughter's Perspective. This book is a journey through Henry Kimbro's life as a baseball player, a successful African-American businessman, and a father who sent four of his five children through college. Stories are shared about how cruel discrimination during his youth influenced the temperament he was known for as an adult, and how playing in the Cuban League changed his life when he met his Cuban-born wife of 48 years. It also details his post-League years as a father, grandfather, and an inductee into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. This book travels full circle to give insight to who Henry Kimbro was as seen by his daughter who loved and respected him.
Download or read book Maisie s Scrapbook written by Samuel Narh and published by Lantana Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joyful celebration of a mixed-race family and the love that binds them together. As the seasons turn, Maisie rides her bull in and out of Dada's tall tales. Her Mama wears linen and plays the viola. Her Dada wears kente cloth and plays the marimba.They come from different places, but they hug her in the same way. And most of all, they love her just the same. WINNER of the Family Category, Northern Lights Book Awards 2019. “Opens a window into what it can look and feel like to grow up in a biracial, multinational family that’s rich in story”—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED “When my four year old granddaughter spotted it, she exclaimed ‘That’s me and my mummy and daddy’!”—The Letterpress Project “We found a kindred spirit in Maisie. She will make a generation of mixed kids feel more visible”—The Tiger Tales
Download or read book Reading My Father written by Alexandra Styron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST— A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron’s youngest child explores the life of a fascinating and difficult man whose own memoir, Darkness Visible, so searingly chronicled his battle with major depression. Alexandra Styron’s parents—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. A drinker, a carouser, and above all “a high priest at the altar of fiction,” Styron helped define the concept of The Big Male Writer that gave so much of twentieth-century American fiction a muscular, glamorous aura. In constant pursuit of The Great Novel, he and his work were the dominant force in his family’s life, his turbulent moods the weather in their ecosystem. From Styron’s Tidewater, Virginia, youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best-known books and on through his spiral into depression, Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life, offering a ringside seat on a great literary generation’s friendships and their dramas. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written, with humor, compassion, and grace.
Download or read book The Ultimate Scrapbooking Book written by Rebecca Carter and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides ideas and techniques on creating scrapbooks for any occasion, and helps readers find the appropriate accessories and materials.
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Scrapbooker s Soul written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrapbooking is a labor of love for the millions who spend their spare time engrossed in new layouts and inspired ideas. For some it is a hobby that turned into their life's passion, while others see it as a way to uniquely record family history for generations to come.
Download or read book Award Winning Scrapbook Pages written by and published by Primedia Scrapbooking. This book was released on 2004 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-Winning Scrapbook Pages, 800+ page ideas & useful tips. Shows 75 winning designs from Creating Keepsakes' Scrapbook Hall of Fame contests.
Download or read book My Daddies written by Gareth Peter and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, heartfelt board book championing same-sex parents, inclusive families and the magic of reading! Set off on a series of incredible adventures with an adorable family as the stories they read burst into fantastical life. Battle dragons, dodge dinosaurs, zoom to the moon and explore the world in a hot-air balloon, before winding down in a wonderfully cosy bedtime ending. The bouncy, rhyming read-aloud text is brought to life by bestselling, award-winning illustrator Garry Parsons, illustrator of The Dinosaur that Pooped series. 'This rhyming picture book celebrating same-sex parents is a gentle and sweet read . . . a wonderful celebration of adoption and the different shapes a family can take!' BookTrust
Download or read book Adventure Time written by Martin Olson and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the weird, hilarious world of Adventure Time™ with this beautifully illustrated 2-in-1 book based on the hit Cartoon Network series. All-new, gorgeous, hilarious, and grotesque illustrations? Ancient wizard lore, spells, curses, and jokes? Memories and mementos from a cute demon girl’s childhood? Goofball commentary by Finn, Jake, Marceline, and the Ice King? Check, check, check, check please! A treasure for any fan of the series, this magical and mysterious tome takes a deep dive into the world of Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time™. Aspiring heroes and wizards will find invaluable information in The Enchiridion—the ancient book of Ooo—and true fans will learn everything they ever wanted to know about Marceline the Vampire Queen in her Super Secret Scrapbook. From the creative team behind the New York Times–bestselling Adventure Time Encyclopaedia, this in-world compendium of all things Oooian is a humor-, paradox-, and literary contrivance–filled book true to the imagination, innovation, and heart of Adventure Time™.
Download or read book Scrapbooking Made Easy written by Leisure Arts, Inc and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter if you are new to scrapbooking or have been at it for a while, this 288-page book will help you tell your stories and make this hobby a fun and fulfilling part of your busy life. Don't worry about using every photo, working chronologically, making every project a masterpiece, or spending lots of time and money. There's no right way to scrapbook ? just do what makes the most sense to you and enjoy it. This giant compilation presents more than 550 of the best projects and ideas from Simple ScrapbooksR magazine. LEARN: Our Fast, Friendly Formula for completing albums; blueprints for layouts; cropping photos; planning colors; making digital pages; fonts; handwriting; writing from the heart. USE: Workspaces; storage; patterned papers; accents; stickers; rubber stamping; bindings. DO: Step It Up on layouts with extra accents; make albums for weddings, babies, childhood, Christmas, family personalities, and more. SHARE: How 10 busy women find time to scrapbook. Scrapbooking Made Easy (Leisure Arts #15946)
Download or read book Simple Scrapbooks written by Stacy Julian and published by Primedia Scrapbooking. This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boxes of family photographs may invite conflicting feelings of joy and guilt--how to assemble all of those pictures in a meaningful way for the entire family to enjoy? Julian's new book will inspire the scrapbook enthusiast regardless of skill level to try something different: a simple scrapbook.
Download or read book Black Ball 10 written by Leslie A. Heaphy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre-Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black baseball; and the arts.
Download or read book Daddy s Girl written by Charlotte Vale-Allen and published by Island Nation Press LLC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Writing Daddy's GirlAfter I had been through many versions of the manuscript (written over almost a decade) I decided that for this book to have validity it would be necessary not only to show the past but also to give a picture of the present-illustrating how the events of my childhood affected me at the time, as well as later in life as an adult and a parent.Given that I wrote the book in the first place as a document that I hoped would be useful to others who'd suffered abuse and also to professionals, I felt it was very important to present detailed portraits of the child I was and the woman I grew to be (in large measure as a result of trying to cope with the long-term effects of the abuse.) As well, I thought it was vital to illustrate how fallout from the abuse can be felt down through the generations, if one fails to exercise awareness and caution.So the book weaves back and forth between past and present (the present being 1979, when the final version was completed). I also had to decide at the very start whether I was going to dole out snippets of truth or be completely truthful and address the issue as fully as I was able. There seemed no point to writing an autobiographical account of incest if I was going to be anything less than completely truthful. It was not difficult to tell the truth, nor was the writing of the book a cathartic experience, as many have imagined it to be. The fact is that I had long-since confronted my personal demons and had managed to relegate the past to the past-something exceedingly difficult for many victims of any/all forms of abuse to do.A few years ago in correcting the page proofs of a new British edition of the book, I reread DADDY'S GIRL, and was gratified by what I'd written. (Often, with my novels, I am not at all happy when I reread them.) I think that as an author I have little, if any, objectivity about my work once it's completed and so am not necessarily a good judge of it. But I am proud of DADDY'S GIRL. Since its publication in 1980 it has been of help to a lot of people. And, ultimately, it's my way of returning some measure of the kindness and attention people showed me when I was working my way along the rough roadway toward my future.
Download or read book Fast Scrapbooking with 4x6 Photos written by and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ingenious book from the editors of Creating Keepsakes scrapbook magazine encourages readers to scrapbook their layouts with 4" x 6" photos straight from the printer--with minimal or even no, cropping required. And best of all, with no time-consuming photo resizing or expensive photo enlargements! This ground-breaking approach helps readers speed up their scrapbooking process and get caught up with their always-growing stack of photos. The book is organized by the number of photos on each layout, which helps readers quickly identify the layouts that will be most helpful to them. Also included are ideas for using 4" x 6" photos to create mini albums, photo gifts for the family, and home décor items.
Download or read book Digital Scrapbooking written by Maria Given Nerius and published by Lark Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the next phase in the scrapbooking craze! And this creative resource is the first of its kind—the first to focus on the use of computer hardware and software to unlock an exciting range of creative possibilities. Crafters will explore the many ways digital elements can add pizzazz to their scrapbooks: they’ll learn to manipulate pictures with photo/image editing software, use scanners to create themed background papers, and draw on clip art for decorative accents. Going even further into the brave new world, there’s information on creating all-digital pages, putting together a slideshow on computer, and pooling various techniques to stage a “digital family reunion.”
Download or read book Scrapbooking for Baby Better Homes and Gardens written by Better Homes and Gardens and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to make the ultimate scrapbooking keepsake for baby The arrival of a new baby is the perfect time to start scrapbooking. Better Homes and Gardens Let's Start Scrapbooking for Baby gives you tons of ideas, advice, and inspiration on how to capture precious moments of your baby's first year and turn them into timeless scrapbook layouts that you (and your baby) will cherish for a lifetime. Better Homes and Gardens Let's Start Scrapbooking for Baby takes the guesswork out of scrapping and gives you expert guidance on everything you need to make the ultimate scrapbook for baby, from the supplies you need now and what you can add later to tips of preserving baby memorabilia to the best ways to apply fun and functional paper crafting applications and embellishments. More than 200 fresh scrapbooking ideas for the first year of baby's life Includes "Let's Get Started Scrapbooking Step-by-Step Guide" Bonus ideas and advice on how to photograph newborns Whether you're a seasoned scrapper or are just venturing into paper crafting, Better Homes and Gardens Let's Start Scrapbooking for Baby shows you how to create a priceless and irreplaceable family keepsake you'll turn to again and again. Now get scrapping!
Download or read book Defending the Spirit written by Randall Robinson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randall Robinson's Defending The Spirit is a personal account of his rise from poverty in the segregated south to a position as one of the most distinguished and outspoken political activists of our time. In 1977, Robinson founded TransAfrica, the first organization to lobby for the interests of African and Caribbean peoples. TransAfrica was instrumental in the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in South Africa and the reinstatement of President Aristide in Haiti. Robinson's thoughtful and provocative memoir paints a vivid picture of racism in the hallowed halls of Harvard, where he went to law school, as well as the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. He also recounts in fascinating detail his trips to troubled African and Caribbean nations; more than anyone else, he has raised awareness of the problems in those countries. Defending The Spirit also gives a devastating commentary on America's foreign policy endeavors in African and Caribbean nations, and an impassioned call to African-Americans for new leadership and activism to fight racism all over the world.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Scrapbooking Tools Techniques written by Susan Pickering Rothamel and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This A-to-Z encyclopaedia contains every technique, every major designer, every scrapbook possibility - and it's all described in glossary style, complete with photos and tips that no scrap booker can do without. Exciting page layouts with how-to instructions, offer inspiration, while dozens of projects come from the most creative minds in the field, including Andrea Grossman (Mrs. Grossman's Paper Company); Rhonda Anderson (Creative Memories); Bridgette Server (Making Memories); and, Dee Gruenig. Eye-opening studio set shots present decorations and accessories, while charts and graphs supply necessary information.
