Download or read book Grandma Raised the Roof written by Ethel Walbridge McCully and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors̓ account of building her home in the Virgin Islands.
Download or read book Grandma Raised the Roof written by Ethel Walbridge McCully and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors̓ account of building her home in the Virgin Islands.
Download or read book Main Line Maverick written by Sally Gibbs and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-08-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Main Line Maverick, with fast-paced dialogue, humor and complex characters, creates a realistic drama describing the struggles of being individualistic in a conformist society. The setting is suburban Philadelphia's Main Line, pre-World War II and subsequent years. It tells the life of Brenda Marr, a Main Line debutante who kicks the stuffy social scene for the theatre as a singing showgirl in a Broadway musical. Her maverick nature leads her into various romantic adventures, the New York nightlife and literary world, of entanglement with a literary agent and of her marriage to a dashing, hard drinking, abusive Naval test pilot…all against the wishes of her over possessive Mother. Main Line Maverick is a 'must read' for anyone who has desired to go against the grain and to discover their own place in the world.
Download or read book Kamchatka written by Marcelo Figueras and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An O, The Oprah Magazine Summer Reading Pick. A “brilliantly observed, heartrending” novel of a Buenos Aires boy in exile (Financial Times). In 1976 Buenos Aires, a ten-year-old boy lives in a world of school lessons and comic books, TV shows and games of Risk. But in his hometown, the military has just seized power, and amid a climate of increasing terror and intimidation, people begin to disappear without a trace. When his mother unexpectedly pulls him and his younger brother from school, she tells him they’re going on an impromptu family trip. But he soon realizes that this will be no ordinary holiday: his parents are known supporters of the opposition, and they are going into hiding. Holed up in a safe house in the remote hills outside the city, the family assumes new identities. The boy names himself Harry after his hero Houdini, and as tensions rise and the uncertain world around him descends into chaos, he spends his days of exile learning the secrets of escape. Told from the points of view of Harry as a grown man and as a boy, Kamchatka is an unforgettable story of courage and sacrifice, the tricks of time and memory, and the fragile yet resilient fabric of childhood. “[Figueras] vividly evokes a child’s reaction to a world beleaguered by violence . . . [A] hopeful message about the healing powers of imagination and love.” —The New York Times
Download or read book The Evolution of Confusion written by Meiner and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brown Gold written by Michelle Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children's picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children's books about black life were hard to find — if, indeed, young black readers and their parents could even gain entry into the bookstores and libraries. But today, in the "Golden Age" of African-American children's picturebooks, one can find a wealth of titles ranging from Happy to be Nappy to Black is Brown is Tan. In this book, Michelle Martin explores how the genre has evolved from problematic early works such as Epaminondas that were rooted in minstrelsy and stereotype, through the civil rights movement, and onward to contemporary celebrations of blackness. She demonstrates the cultural importance of contemporary favorites through keen historical analysis — scrutinizing the longevity and proliferation of the Coontown series and Ten Little Niggers books, for example — that makes clear how few picturebooks existed in which black children could see themselves and their people positively represented even up until the 1960s. Martin also explores how children's authors and illustrators have addressed major issues in black life and history including racism, the civil rights movement, black feminism, major historical figures, religion, and slavery. Brown Gold adds new depth to the reader's understanding of African-American literature and culture, and illuminates how the round, dynamic characters in these children's novels, novellas, and picturebooks can put a face on the past, a face with which many contemporary readers can identify.
Download or read book My First Life written by David Day and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My First Life is an autobiography of life in a small, rural village in western New York in the '30's and '40's, and a lucid account of the culture of small town life during the worst years of the depression and WWII. Day provides interesting tales of his family, neighbors, old men of the village, and his pals, with whom he explored everything from the village haunts to his sexual coming-of-age. A compelling social history of the times and of the ways in which they shaped his character for good and not so good.
Download or read book Don t Provoke Princess written by Ai MuYing and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because she was the daughter of the Mu Clan. So the family ... The family property and glory belonged to her. It was also because she was the daughter of the Mu Clan. So the stepmother and sister became jealous, to take away her man, to take away her family fortune, To take away her glory, Together, they sent her to heaven. She was reborn to the age of fourteen, and turned on the hacking and reversing of their lives, Entrance to a happy school, He would use his own ability to exact revenge. There are risks associated with hanging out, Use carefully. It was also because she had met a man in her life who could make her vomit blood at any moment ...
Download or read book Bourbon Decay written by Donna Jolly and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like much of the Deep South in the early Sixties, Lisa Tingle is fighting for change. Change for herself, that is. The reluctant peacekeeper between her sister, parents, and grandparents in their shabby house, she wants desperately to "Get Out" of Newitville, Mississippi, a town steeped in Civil War history, and move far away from the war at home. Lisa dreams of an urban life, filled with art, beauty and even a bit of sanity. She longs to put some distance between her and her parents, Sinatra-loving alcoholics trying to make a ring-a-ding life for themselves, and her grandparents, who blame alcohol on everything from communism to spider veins. Her older sister, Ava Gardner Tingle, believes the way to Get Out is to get married, then divorced, and repeat the process, again and again. When Lisa finally Gets Out, she realizes "you can't go home again," yet the family troubles won't stay behind. Instead, they phone-in long distance.
Download or read book The Grandmahood Quest written by Fi Read and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before you can become a Grandma, you must complete a quest, explained Grandma. Big sister Tina, and her broody younger brother Alex, sit spellbound as Grandma narrates the adventure of her own quest. As the tale unfolds, the children come to see Grandma in a new and heroic light.
Download or read book Grandma s Notes on Parenting written by Brenda Silveira and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandma's Notes on Parenting is a reflection on parenting written by a grandmother. Raising a child is not an easy task and there are no instructions manuals. Each child is different but there are a few simple guidelines that should be followed. Grandma's Notes on Parenting will offer some simple, basic, down-to-earth ideas on positive parenting that have come from research and personal experience.
Download or read book Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grandma s Secrets Memories written by Solveig Rogstad Larsen and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Norwegian immigrant's true adventures and lifetime story reveals how special an everyday common person's life can be when dedicated early and diligently to Jesus.
Download or read book From Grandmother to Granddaughter written by Michael Gorkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-03-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life histories and testimonies of nine Salvadoran women from different generations shape this intimate portrayal of contemporary El Salvador. The authors interviewed a grandmother, mother, and granddaughter from three Salvadoran families: La Familia Nuñez, members of the upper class; La Familia Rivas, from El Salvador's growing middle class; and La Familia García, from the campo, the Salvadoran peasantry. The voices we hear convey a deep sense of the world of Salvadoran women and how life is lived in that Central American country today. Each woman tells her own life story, and interspersed with recollections of childhood, marriage, and childrearing are revealing accounts of El Salvador's turbulent political past and present. Reflected in the stories are the vast changes in educational and occupational opportunities for women and the shifts in male-female relationships. Class differences are still a fundamental part of Salvadoran life, but changes are occurring in this area as well. From Grandmother to Granddaughter is a vivid and authentic portrait of today's El Salvador that convincingly illustrates how individual lives can reflect the larger changes within a society.
Download or read book Extremely Loud Incredibly Close written by Jonathan Safran Foer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
