Download or read book Finding Nana written by Wendy Christoffel and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-09-23 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a cold, rainy October morning. As Alice is driving to work, she is drawn to a curious looking dog walking along the railroad tracks. Once they look into each other's eyes, their journey begins...

Download or read book Finding written by David Hill and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the fortunes of two families – their triumphs and disasters, losses and discoveries – in this enthralling novel by a bestselling author. A family boards a ship bound for New Zealand. What will they find there? Tests lie ahead – war, earthquakes, protest marches, brushes with death. And so do some thrilling discoveries . . . Master storyteller David Hill traces the fortunes of two New Zealand families, through seven generations and over 130 years of fast-flowing change, in this exciting and richly rewarding novel for intermediate readers.

Download or read book Finding Celia s Place written by Celia Morris and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most women who came of age in the 1950s, and particularly for a smart, attractive, and ambitious girl from Houston, life as a single woman was unthinkable. Marriage was a woman's destiny, and everyone expected her to choose well and live happily ever after. For Celia Morris and many women like her, this set of assumptions proved to be misguided. In this wrenching but ultimately uplifting memoir, she describes how marriage and conformity to received notions of "woman's place" ate away at the selfrespect, dignity, and even sanity of her generation. Busy, bright, and athletic, young Celia Buchan had a hectic schedule that masked an emotional void at home, where an adored father dominated and a depressed but dutiful mother drank. As a star student at the University of Texas, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and crowned University Sweetheart, she studied hard and eagerly supported fights against injustice. A year after graduating, she took what seemed the logical next step by marrying fellow student Willie Morris, a hardhitting, controversial campus newspaper editor and Rhodes scholar. In the years that followed, amidst exhilarating intellectual circles at Oxford, graduate studies in California and New York City, and the heady life she shared with Morris during his celebrated tenure as editorinchief of Harper's magazine, her life was a baffling mixture of high times and misery. During these years, through psychoanalysis, she began a journey that strengthened her emotionally even as it made the inequities of marriage harder to tolerate. As tumultuous events and fundamental changes transformed American society, she divorced Morris, went to work while raising their son David, and eight years later married Texas Congressman Bob Eckhardt, another liberal hero. Deepening friendships and her immersion in professional work that she believed in and could do well sustained her when, after ten years, that marriage, too, foundered. In Finding Celia's Place, Morris unflinchingly weighs her own experiences and the unconventional lives of several close college friends and reflects on the tangled relationships of women and men in their generation. Coming to terms with what their sixtysomething years have taught them, she offers four defining principles they hope to pass on to a younger generation. Finding Celia's Place is a candid, gripping story that will ring true to everyone in this bridge generation. It should also appeal to their children and grandchildren, who can learn how hard the fight has been for the precarious freedoms women now enjoy.

Download or read book Finding Zero written by Amir D. Aczel and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding Zero is an adventure filled saga of Amir Aczel's lifelong obsession: to find the original sources of our numerals. Aczel has doggedly crisscrossed the ancient world, scouring dusty, moldy texts, cross examining so-called scholars who offered wildly differing sets of facts, and ultimately penetrating deep into a Cambodian jungle to find a definitive proof. Here, he takes the reader along for the ride. The history begins with the early Babylonian cuneiform numbers, followed by the later Greek and Roman letter numerals. Then Aczel asks the key question: where do the numbers we use today, the so-called Hindu-Arabic numerals, come from? It is this search that leads him to explore uncharted territory, to go on a grand quest into India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and ultimately into the wilds of Cambodia. There he is blown away to find the earliest zero—the keystone of our entire system of numbers—on a crumbling, vine-covered wall of a seventh-century temple adorned with eaten-away erotic sculptures. While on this odyssey, Aczel meets a host of fascinating characters: academics in search of truth, jungle trekkers looking for adventure, surprisingly honest politicians, shameless smugglers, and treacherous archaeological thieves—who finally reveal where our numbers come from.

Download or read book Somehow Finding Us written by Claudia Burgoa and published by Claudia Burgoa. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today Bestselling Author Claudia Burgoa brings you a MM romance full of angst and tragedy that might turn to hope in a redemption love story that’ll break your heart and mend it all over again. Emotional, endearing, and full of romance People think they know me. They only know what I allow them to see. I’ve learned to control the narrative. I have secrets. So many, it’s hard to keep them straight. I should let those secrets go, open myself to my friends. Open my heart and allow it to love. Break the grasp that the demons of my past have on me. The only man who understands me is fighting for his life. I put him there. Zeke is suffering. He wants to move forward and forget the past. Forward as in without me. Friends. That is all he offers but I want more. I can’t let him go. But I can’t let the past go either. When calamity strikes and wrecks the Sinners of Seattle again, Zeke and I are forced to deal with the aftershock. And I can’t help but wonder if he’s next. I can either stay away from him forever. Or hold onto him while we try to survive. COLLAPSE

Download or read book Finding Nana s Smile written by Jimmy Pollard and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young children may hesitate to approach and engage loved ones whose medical conditions mask expressions of love and happiness. A flat facial appearance hides a warm smile. Slower responses diminish expressions of affection and joy. Without a welcoming smile and a big hug, Keira suspects that Nana doesn't love her. But she and her cousins discover that Nana enjoys playing with them. She does love them! She just shows it differently now.Written and illustrated for nonreaders and emergent readers ages two through five, it's a story to read together at bedtime again and again!

Download or read book A Letter to Nana written by Carol Wawrychuk and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, thirty-five years after she died while a patient in a mental hospital in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Nana came to her granddaughter, Carol Wawrychuk, in a vision. "Take me home, Carol. Take me home." Little did Wawrychuk know those few words would take her on an odyssey that lasted two years and literally uncovered thousands of lost souls in a forgotten and eroding cemetery. Expecting to find a manicured cemetery with flowers and century old headstones, she instead found cement slabs with dates and names crudely etched by hand, mangled metal markers stamped with patient numbers and human remains that found their way to the surface. A Letter to Nana is not only about a cemetery cleanup, slicing through rolls of bureaucratic red tape, but it is a journey of Wawrychuk's reliance on God. In her quest to find Nana, she unintentionally uncovered skeletons in the closet and realized she had to free herself from her own barbed-wire fences. Through acceptance, redemption, courage and faith, Wawrychuk discovers the destination is the journey.

Download or read book Finding My Voice with Aphasia written by Carol M. Maloney and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 9, 2009, Carol M. Maloney, a veteran teacher, experienced a transient ischemic attack in the left hemisphere of her brain. She helplessly observed her mind deteriorate to the point where she could not speak, walk, read, identify household objects, or recall her family. Maloney traveled between the worlds of the surreal and the logical. The stroke resulted in aphasia, the loss of communication and other functions of her left hemisphere. After eighteen months of rehabilitation, she was finally able to communicate with others by using her hand as a metronome. The frustration of having the words and sentences formed in her mind but being unable to share them caused frustration and depression. Her verbal abilities suffered, along with her reading and comprehension skills. Even so, hard work, strong will, and persistence has allowed her to reach out to other teachers to offer new insight into the minds of her beloved special-education and reading-disabled students. In this, her story, Maloney turns her experience into a unique opportunity to gain an understanding of her students difficulties and to share that knowledge with other teachers. Ms. Carol Maloney has written a compelling story that chronicles her amazing life before, during, and after her devastating stroke. She writes with frankness that touches ones heart. Her story will lend encouragement to those who have suffered a stroke as well as offer strategies to those who have a loved one recovering from one. Carol Maloney developed aphasia after her stroke. I am happy to say that she has survived and conquered both the devastation of her stroke and her aphasia. I know this first hand: she conducts amazing PowerPoint presentations to my graduate class at Rivier University each semester. She is an inspiration to all who want to improve themselves. In this book, Carol clearly describes the strategies that she used to help her become the functioning writer and speaker that she is today. J. Diane Connell, Ed.D.

Download or read book Finding Grace written by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shirlee Taylor Haizlip struck a chord with "The Sweeter the Juice," an unflinching look at how gradations of skin color caused her mother's family to choose sides. She continues her journey through the labyrinth of race with "Finding Grace."

Download or read book A Servant s Tale A Novel written by Paula Fox and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rare and wondrous thing....[Fox] knows how to create a character."—Vogue Luisa de la Cueva was born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, of a plantation owner's son and a native woman, a servant in the kitchen. Her years on Malagita were sweet with the beauty of bamboo, banana, and mango trees with flocks of silver-feathered guinea hens underneath, the magic of a victrola, and the caramel flan that Mama sneaked home from the plantation kitchen. Luisa's father, fearing revolution, takes his family to New York. In the barrio his once-powerful name means nothing, and the family establishes itself in a basement tenement. For Luisa, Malagita becomes a dream. Luisa does not dream of going to college, as her friend Ellen does, or of winning the lottery, as her father does. She takes a job as a servant and, paradoxically, grows more independent. She marries and later raises a son alone. She works as a servant all her life. A Servant's Tale is the story of a life that is simple on the surface but full of depth and richness as we come to know it, a story told with consummate grace and compassion by Paula Fox.

Download or read book Bulletin written by National Institutes of Health (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Singing Nana written by Pat Mora and published by American Psychological Association. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Singing Nana is a compassionate tribute to families dealing with Alzheimer's Disease. This story celebrates the ideals of family, heritage, and happy memories, showing kids that no matter how their loved one might change they always have ways to maintain their special connection. “In a context perfect for the understanding of elementary-aged children, award-winning author and acclaimed literary critic Pat Mora sheds light on the everyday experiences of a family member living with dementia. In My Singing Nana Mora eloquently demonstrates that, despite the hefty toll this devastating disease can take, grandchildren and children alike can still enjoy meaningful and heartfelt relationships with those affected.” —San Francisco Book Review

Download or read book The Greatest Works of French Literature written by Marcel Proust and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 19518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the greatest classics of French literature, including novels, short stories, dramas and philosophical essays:_x000D_ Table of Contents: _x000D_ A History of French Literature_x000D_ François Rabelais:_x000D_ Gargantua and Pantagruel_x000D_ Molière:_x000D_ Tartuffe or the Hypocrite_x000D_ The Misanthrope_x000D_ The Miser_x000D_ The Imaginary Invalid…_x000D_ Jean Racine:_x000D_ Phaedra_x000D_ Pierre Corneille:_x000D_ The Cid_x000D_ Voltaire:_x000D_ Candide_x000D_ Zadig_x000D_ The Huron_x000D_ A Philosophical Dictionary_x000D_ Letters on England_x000D_ Jean-Jacques Rousseau:_x000D_ Confessions_x000D_ Stendhal

Download or read book French Classics Boxed Set 100 Novels Short Stories Poems Plays Philosophical Books written by Stendhal and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 22272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'French Classics - Boxed Set: 100+ Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays & Philosophical Books' offers an unparalleled journey through the richness of French literary tradition, sweeping across genres from the vivid realism of Émile Zola to the romantic adventures of Alexandre Dumas, and the profound philosophical discussions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This anthology encapsulates the evolution of French literature, showcasing its ability to reflect and shape societal changes and individual experiences. It invites readers to explore seminal works that have defined and transcended their times, including revolutionary plays, poignant poems, and transformative philosophical texts. The thematic diversity and stylistic innovations present in this collection serve as a testament to the enduring legacy and versatility of French literary crafts. The contributing authors and editors, pillars of French literature, bring to this collection a range of perspectives shaped by their distinct historical contexts, personal experiences, and cultural backgrounds. From the Enlightenment thoughts of Voltaire to the existential complexity of Marcel Proust's narrative, each contributor has played a pivotal role in literary movements that span from the Renaissance to modernism. Their collective works offer a dynamic exploration of human nature, societal norms, and the pursuit of truth, underscoring the anthology's relevance to both contemporary and historical social discourses. For scholars, students, and aficionados of literature, 'French Classics - Boxed Set' presents an invaluable opportunity to engage with the comprehensive scope of French literary genius. It not only enhances the readers appreciation for the depth and breadth of French literature but also encourages a nuanced understanding of the cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic dialogues that have enriched the global literary landscape. This collection is an essential addition to any library, promising countless hours of enjoyment and scholarly inquiry.

Download or read book The Greatest Works of French Literature English Edition written by Charles Baudelaire and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 22266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of the greatest French classics books has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards: A History of French Literature François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel Molière: Tartuffe or the Hypocrite The Misanthrope The Miser The Imaginary Invalid The Impostures of Scapin… Jean Racine: Phaedra Pierre Corneille: The Cid Voltaire: Candide Zadig Micromegas The Huron A Philosophical Dictionary… Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Confessions Emile The Social Contract De Laclos: Dangerous Liaisons Stendhal

Download or read book This is the End written by Stella Benson and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1917 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cloaked written by A.D. Justice and published by A.D. Justice. This book was released on with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One word easily summed up my entire life: ordinary. I lived with my grandmother in a rural town in Montana. As I worked beside her in our small store, she taught me everything I needed to know. Except how to find her when she disappeared into thin air. Yesterday, going off to college was my greatest adventure. But the truth about my childhood was hidden from me my entire life, cloaked by a powerful spell. I thought all the tales she told me were just bedtime stories…children’s fantasies. Until I stumbled into the Covis Realm. Until I learned my mother was killed because she was a mage. Until I was told my father died defending her. Until I realized I’m the rightful heir to the throne. Mages were hunted and killed because of their powers. They said a mage could never be the queen. My response? Watch me.