Download or read book Father s Gypsy Child written by Helen Carol Burianek and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the author's experiences growing up in Queens, NY, in the 1940s and 50s. It poignantly illustrates the difficulties she and her family faced because of her physical challenges. It also tells of her life as an adult, showing how the author has been able to overcome multiple barriers in order to achieve her goals. She has earned two degrees, and has become a fierce advocate of rights for the disabled. In 1990 she went to Washington D.C. to help get the Americans with Disabilities Act passed.
Download or read book Gypsy Boy written by Mikey Walsh and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH** 'It was a revelation. Moving, terrifying, funny and brilliant. I shall never forget it - an amazing achievement' STEPHEN FRY 'Brash and frightening and funny' NEW YORK TIMES * * * * * * The Sunday Times bestselling Gypsy Boy was the first commercial memoir written by someone on the inside of the notoriously secretive culture of the Romany Gypsies. MIKEY WAS BORN into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a closeted community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of outsiders and if you choose to leave you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows only too well. Growing up, he rarely went to school, and seldom mixed with non-Gypsies. The caravan and camp were his world. But although Mikey inherited a vibrant and loyal culture, his family's legacy was bittersweet with a hidden history of grief and abuse. Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonising decision - to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere he could truly belong. Mikey's amazing story is continued in the sequel Gypsy Boy on the Run.
Download or read book Gypsy Boy written by Mikey Walsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of a Romany Gypsy champion bareknuckle boxer shares the story of his upbringing in England, his realization of his sexual orientation, and how his circumstances were shaped by his culture's absolute beliefs.
Download or read book Little Gypsy written by Roxy Freeman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1979, Roxy Freeman grew up travelling around Ireland and England in a traditional horse-drawn wagon with her mother and father and six siblings. Life was harsh but it was a childhood of freedom spent in harmony with nature. Roxy didn't know her times-tables but she could milk a goat, ride a horse and cook dinner for the whole family on an open fire before she was ten. Early life was idyllic but when her father brought the family to England, they faced prejudice and hostility and Roxy found herself receiving the very unwelcome attentions of a family friend - which she endured in secret. Despite all of the difficulties she faced, she developed a passion for flamenco and traditional music and developed a career as a dancer, which took her around the world. Her beautifully written story is a frank portrait of what life is really like for women and girls of traveller communities.
Download or read book The Runaway Gypsy Boy written by Brina Brady and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-year-old Daniel Serban loses his dancing job and threats of being outed to his family force him to flee Limerick, Ireland. Daniel fears his father and the other gypsy men will force him to marry his betrothed, or bring bodily harm to him for being gay. As chance would have it, he ends up in Cleary's Pub, a gay leather bar in Galway where he meets the grouchy, ginger-bear Ronan O'Riley. Daniel had no idea how much meeting the Dom would transform his life. Ronan O'Riley has been unable to move on since the death of his sub a year ago, that is until a troubled gypsy boy steps into Cleary's. Ronan's lonely existence is about to change. Can Ronan convince Daniel to trust him or will Daniel's fears of his past ruin any chance of a relationship? Unexpected heated attraction in the barn ignites their relationship to move forward. Though the two men have many of the same dreams, Daniel's secrets and Ronan's need to gain Daniel's trust are just a few of the many challenges they must overcome if they are to be together.
Download or read book Gypsy Boy on the Run written by Mikey Walsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English man struggles to define himself and his sexuality outside the bounds of traditional Romany culture in this intimate memoir. “Funny, touching, and heartbreaking in equal measures . . . a coming-of-age tale like no other.” —Grazia magazine Mikey Walsh didn’t know what life was like beyond his Gypsy community. But after fleeing home at age fifteen, he had no choice but to find out. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose to leave, you can never come back. Torn between his family and his heart, Mikey struggled to come to terms with the Gypsy culture and its violent, conservative traditions. At last, he decided to set out on his own. He soon discovered the outside world wasn’t all that he expected, and his life would never be the same again. A shocking yet ultimately triumphant memoir, Gypsy Boy on the Run follows Mikey as he comes to terms with himself, his family, and his past—and builds a new life for himself. “A great-hearted book of tenderness and brutality.” —Kirkus Reviews “Every bit as stellar as its predecessor. If you’re searching for something for vacation, weekending or just because, Gypsy Boy on the Run is the best escape.” —The Washington Blade
Download or read book The diary of a superfluous man Fathers and children written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Traveller Gypsies written by Judith Okely and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-02-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first monograph to be published on Gypsies in Britain using the perspective of social anthropology.
Download or read book Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering written by Lyudmila Nurse and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to mothering from international perspectives. This edited collection engages with changing attitudes and approaches to mothering from women’s individual biographical experiences, illuminating how socially anticipated tasks of mothering shaped through interlinking state, media, religious beliefs and broader society are reflected in their identities and individual life choices. Considering trust, rapport, reflexivity and self-care, this collection advances methodological practice in the study of mothers, carers and childless women’s lives.
Download or read book The British Film Catalogue written by Denis Gifford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Actress in Spite of Herself The Life of Anna Cora Mowatt written by Mildred Allen Butler and published by Sylvia Engdahl. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Cora Mowatt, married in 1834 at age 15, lived in luxury until her husband's health failed and he lost his money, forcing her to find a way to support them. She was the first woman to give public poetry readings; she wrote the first social satire for the stage; and, having become a star overnight without previous acting experience, she was the first American to make acting a respectable profession for women--proving that a lady could be an actress and an actress a lady.
Download or read book The Vicar s Daughter written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Provision for Ethnic Minorities written by Jean-Pierre Liégeois and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new edition of the highly influential 'Synthesis Report' (School provision for Gypsy and Traveller children) commissioned by the European Commission & first published in 1986 which led to the adoption of the Resolution on school provision for Gypsy and Traveller Children by the Council & Ministers of Education, 22 May 1989.
Download or read book Motion Picture News written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The A to Z of the Gypsies Romanies written by Donald Kenrick and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The A to Z of the Gypsies (Romanies) seeks to end such prejudice by clarifying the facts about this nomadic people. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics, the history of the Gypsies and their culture is told.
Download or read book Child Life in Literature written by Etta Austin Blaisdell McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
