Download or read book The Undocumented Americans written by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio and published by One World. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation. “Karla’s book sheds light on people’s personal experiences and allows their stories to be told and their voices to be heard.”—Selena Gomez FINALIST FOR THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD AWARD • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, NPR, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, BOOK RIOT, LIBRARY JOURNAL, AND TIME Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she’d tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her immigration lawyer’s phone number on her hand in Sharpie and embarked on a trip across the country to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants—and to find the hidden key to her own. Looking beyond the flashpoints of the border or the activism of the DREAMers, Cornejo Villavicencio explores the lives of the undocumented—and the mysteries of her own life. She finds the singular, effervescent characters across the nation often reduced in the media to political pawns or nameless laborers. The stories she tells are not deferential or naively inspirational but show the love, magic, heartbreak, insanity, and vulgarity that infuse the day-to-day lives of her subjects. In New York, we meet the undocumented workers who were recruited into the federally funded Ground Zero cleanup after 9/11. In Miami, we enter the ubiquitous botanicas, which offer medicinal herbs and potions to those whose status blocks them from any other healthcare options. In Flint, Michigan, we learn of demands for state ID in order to receive life-saving clean water. In Connecticut, Cornejo Villavicencio, childless by choice, finds family in two teenage girls whose father is in sanctuary. And through it all we see the author grappling with the biggest questions of love, duty, family, and survival. In her incandescent, relentlessly probing voice, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio combines sensitive reporting and powerful personal narratives to bring to light remarkable stories of resilience, madness, and death. Through these stories we come to understand what it truly means to be a stray. An expendable. A hero. An American.

Download or read book One of the Children written by William G. Hawkeswood and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.

Download or read book An Untold Story written by Dr Somendra Lal Ghose and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayon is an educated, young, handsome village young boy whose ambition in life is to be an engineer. His dream is shattered due to the sudden death of his Father. As the only son in the family, he becomes responsible for the family and their farming business. When he is compelled to marry a girl call “Bonolata” by his Mother and Aunty but during his marriage he discovers that she is an unkind person. Ayon dreams of a girl from his College called “Adity”, and the lost opportunity to tell her of his feelings. Then one day, a chance encounter rekindles his love.

Download or read book I m Not Single I Have a Dog written by Susan Hartzler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age 60, Susan Hartzler has learned to accept, even love, the single life, provided she has good friends and a dog or two by her side. Always attracted to the quintessential bad boy with his good looks and charming ways, she was sure she could change "the one" into a devoted partner and loving father, but her compulsive giving and fixing behaviors went hand in hand with her disappointing and disastrous romantic relationships. On a purposeful trip to the pound, she hoped to find a dog to care for, one that would sniff out the bad guys, give her a sense of purpose, and help her find meaning in her crazy world. Thoughtful and funny, this memoir follows Susan's life through the many ups and downs on her way to finding unconditional love. Her journey is a personal one, full of the hard decisions it took to learn to put herself first and stop entering and staying in unhealthy relationships. By saving a dog, she rescues herself, learning to love herself as much as her dog loves her.

Download or read book Dear Barb 2 Advice for Daily Life written by Barbara Godin and published by BARBARA GODIN. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Barb 2: Advice for Daily Life is an insightful down-to-earth book, which offers tips for manoeuvring life's difficult journey. We all have obstacles in our everyday lives that we only talk about with our best friends and family members. Dear Barb 2: Advice for Daily Life is an anthology of many of these hurdles. Barbara Godin has been answering your questions for over 20 years, and often the solution may be as simple as a shift in perspective.

Download or read book 35 Anthology of Christmas stories Classic collection Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enchanting, tragic, and hilarious fairy tales for adults and children grace these pages. An initial glance might lead you to assume that these are satirical versions of classic Christmas ghost stories. However, beneath the humorous stories involving ghosts, repentant sinners, miracles, and good peasants who find well-deserved happiness, lies a psychological undercurrent that sharpens the sense of intrigue and plot movement. Often this is aided by the unrelenting social exposure of the authors who always understood how intangible the “bourgeois paradise” truly was. Even today, idyllic dreams of tolerance, equality, and the triumph of justice have failed to materialize. Perhaps that is why people continue to read these classic stories while the snow falls outside and the lights glow on the Christmas tree. Contents: Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol The Chimes G.K. Chesterton A Christmas Carol L.M. Montgomery The Red Room A Christmas Mistake A Christmas Inspiration The Josephs' Christmas Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket The Osbornes' Christmas Bertie's New Year Ida's New Year Cake The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road Clorinda's Gifts The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner The Unforgotten One Christmas at Red Butte Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner L. Frank Baum A Kidnapped Santa Claus Little Bun Rabbit Mark Twain A Letter from Santa Claus Louisa May Alcott A Merry Christmas Leo Tolstoy A Russian Christmas Party Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Christmas Bells The Three Kings Nikolay Gogol Christmas Eve William Dean Howells Christmas Everyday The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express Joseph Rudyard Kipling Christmas in India Elizabeth Harrison Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Hans Christian Andersen The Fir Tree Selma Lagerlof The Holy Night Hans Christian Andersen The Little Match Girl Clement Moore The Night Before Christmas Henry van Dyke The Other Wise Man Beatrix Potter The Tailor of Gloucester Anton Chehov Vanka

Download or read book The Complete Christmas Stories of L M Montgomery 14 short stories Illustrated written by L. M. Montgomery and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Christmas just a few days away, why not pause your regular reading and savor a Christmas stories by Lucy Maud Montgomery? Christmas and New Year’s is a season of celebration and reflection, of taking stock of the months gone by and looking forward to the year to come. Here you will find 14 Christmas stories written by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Treat yourself to some fireside reading and capture the holiday spirit with a bit of old-fashioned storytelling from Christmas past. Contents: The Red Room A Christmas Mistake A Christmas Inspiration The Josephs' Christmas Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket The Osbornes' Christmas Bertie's New Year Ida's New Year Cake The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road Clorinda's Gifts The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner The Unforgotten One Christmas at Red Butte Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner

Download or read book The Letters of John McGahern written by John McGahern and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am no good at letters. John McGahern, 1963 John McGahern is consistently hailed as one of the finest Irish writers since James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.This volume collects some of the witty, profound and unfailingly brilliant letters that he exchanged with family, friends and literary luminaries - such as Seamus Heaney, Colm Tóibín and Paul Muldoon - over the course of a well-travelled life. It is one of the major contributions to the study of Irish and British literature of the past thirty years, acting not just as a crucial insight into the life and works of a much-revered writer - but also a history of post-war Irish literature and its close ties to British and American literary life. 'One of the greatest writers of our era.' Hilary Mantel 'McGahern brings us that tonic gift of the best fiction, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own.' John Updike

Download or read book The Letters of Robert Frost written by Robert Frost and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third installment of Harvard’s five-volume edition of Robert Frost’s correspondence. The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3: 1929–1936 is the latest installment in Harvard’s five-volume edition of the poet’s correspondence. It presents 601 letters, of which 425 are previously uncollected. The critically acclaimed first volume, a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, included nearly 300 previously uncollected letters, and the second volume 350 more. During the period covered here, Robert Frost was close to the height of his powers. If Volume 2 covered the making of Frost as America’s poet, in Volume 3 he is definitively made. These were also, however, years of personal tribulation. The once-tight Frost family broke up as marriage, illness, and work scattered the children across the country. In the case of Frost’s son Carol, both distance and proximity put strains on an already fractious relationship. But the tragedy and emotional crux of this volume is the death of Frost’s youngest daughter, Marjorie. Frost’s correspondence from those dark days is a powerful testament to the difficulty of honoring the responsibilities of a poet’s eminence while coping with the intensity of a parent’s grief. Volume 3 also sees Frost responding to the crisis of the Great Depression, the onset of the New Deal, and the emergence of totalitarian regimes in Europe, with wit, canny political intelligence, and no little acerbity. All the while, his star continues to rise: he wins a Pulitzer for Collected Poems in 1931 and will win a second for A Further Range, published in 1936, and he is in constant demand as a public speaker at colleges, writers’ workshops, symposia, and dinners. Frost was not just a poet but a poet-teacher; as such, he was instrumental in defining the public functions of poetry in the twentieth century. In the 1930s, Frost lived a life of paradox, as personal tragedy and the tumults of politics interwove with his unprecedented achievements. Thoroughly annotated and accompanied by a biographical glossary and detailed chronology, these letters illuminate a triumphant and difficult period in the life of a towering literary figure.

Download or read book Four Paws and Two Tales written by Camille Klump and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camille Klump is an American author of children's fiction. F our Paws and Two Tales is the second part of a trilogy that recounts the adventures of a dog born on an island who, after two years, is finally reunited with his family and relocated to the USA. Now a young headstrong and rebellious dog, Woofy is faced with many challenges as he tries to adapt to a life of order and obedience with his human family. He struggles to overcome subhuman elements and his own animal instincts in order to serve and protect his owners. Through interactions with other animals and people, he begins to interpret their behavior and realizes there are many valuable lessons to be learned. He discovers that the color of a dog's eyes should not determine how he sees the world and being accepted as a member of the human pack demands great loyalty, sacrifice, and service. As his connection to humans deepen, he begins to use his remarkable power of healing, which comes at a great price. When he is left behind by his family, he is consumed with guilt and sadness, and it is only after being reunited with his mother, that he begins to appreciate the value of her wisdom, which helps to heal his broken heart. She offers him comfort after the sudden death of a loved one, a loss which leaves him with many unanswered questions. He is surprised to discover that, for some, freedom and happiness means having no home at all, that distance and time can never break the bond of a loving family, and no one should be quick to judge the circumstances behind the most difficult choices. An uplifting tale which reveals that being left behind never means that you are forgotten or no longer loved.

Download or read book Definitely Fine written by Amy Lavelle and published by Orion. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A COSMOPOLITAN SUMMER 2021 TOP PICK!* 'If you loved Fleabag, you'll love this' LAURA KEMP Hannah is twenty-eight when the worst happens. Her first instinct? To call her mum. The problem is, her mum having an accident, being rushed to hospital and never waking up was the worst thing. Realising that she is now the Woman of the Family, Hannah has to be the rock for her emotionally-repressed father and chaotic younger sister, all while trying to muddle her way through the crucial life lessons her mother never taught her, like: - How to ride a tandem - How to react when your dad starts making lasagne for an unknown woman - How to broker peace between feuding aunts - How to know if you really want a baby or if this is just the grief talking But what Hannah really wishes her mother had taught her is: when you've just lost the person who made sense of everything, how are you meant to find yourself? Hilarious, heartbreaking and completely original, Definitely Fine is a book for anyone who's ever felt lost in their own life. Perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton, Holly Bourne and Emma Straub. Readers are loving DEFINITELY FINE: 'Beautifully written... I just wanted the experience to go on for longer' NetGalley Reviewer 'An honest and heartbreakingly real story' NetGalley Reviewer 'Truly, viscerally beautiful and one of the most true-to-life stories of recovery that I've ever read' NetGalley Reviewer 'A great debut novel' NetGalley Reviewer

Download or read book Bowery Life written by Chuck Connors and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bowery Life" by Chuck Connors. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book Dogs of March written by Ernest Hebert and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His life had come to this: save a few deer from the jaws of dogs. He was a small man sent to perform a small task. Howard Elman is a man whose internal landscape is as disordered as his front yard, where native New Hampshire birches and maples mingle with a bullet-riddled washer, abandoned bathroom fixtures, and several junk cars. Howard, anti-hero of this first novel in Ernest Hebert's highly acclaimed Darby Chronicles, is a man who is tough and tender. Howard's battle against encroaching change symbolizes the class conflict between Granite Staters and citified immigrants with "college degrees and big bank accounts." Like the winter-weakened deer threatened by the dogs of March—the normally docile house pets whose instincts arouse them to chase and kill for sport—Howard, too, is sorely beset. The seven novels of Hebert's Darby Chronicles cover 35 years in the life of a small New England town as seen through the eyes of three families—the Elmans, the Salmons, and the Jordans—each representing a distinct social class. It all starts with The Dogs of March, cited for excellence in 1980 by the Hemingway Foundation (now the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction).

Download or read book Dolly Reforming Herself written by Henry Arthur Jones and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolly Reforming Herself is a comedy about 30-year-old Dolly Telfer and her hilarious relationships with her husband and father, her inability with money, and her general ineptitude as a wife. Excerpt: "Dolly. [Snappishly.] Perhaps, when I've paid off my bills. Matt. [To Pilcher.] Will you kindly let my daughter have your lowest tariff for ladies? Dolly. Oh, please don't be in such a hurry. What about your contribution? Mr. Pilcher, I hope you don't intend to let my father escape."

Download or read book Till Death Do Us Part written by Diane Gravelle Giroux and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renee had found the love of her life—Paul Hamilton. She had a fairy tale wedding and now a charming home with a white picket fence. But not long after her marriage, her seemingly perfect life begins to crumble. Paul comes from a well-to-do family in Boston, and his wealthy parents don’t think Renee is good enough for him. Then, when Paul is called to New York on business, he is in the Twin Towers when they are struck on September 11. Believing he is dead; Renee and his parents are devastated. But unbeknownst to them, Paul has survived, though he has lost his memory. Distraught and confused, he collapses at the doorstep of a young single mother named Rachel, and as she takes care of him, they slowly fall in love. Meanwhile, Renee has found out she is pregnant with Paul’s child. She doesn’t want his controlling parents to know. While she takes some time away on holiday, she meets Matt, a doctor, who falls in love with her. Through gossip, her in-laws find out she is pregnant, and after Renee gives birth, they come to the hospital with documents giving them custody of the child. Renee’s devasting story makes the news, and when Paul sees it on television, his memories come flooding back. He now must decide where his heart belongs. Will true love prevail?

Download or read book Trilogy one 1 2 3 written by John Hynes and published by John Hynes. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder in Bay City Episode one A wealthy man is found murdered in his own bedroom. His wife is missing and is the prime suspect. Bay City Murder on the East Side Episode two A second young girl is found murdered on the east side of Bay City. What clue did one of the young murdered girls leave behind? Kidnapping in Bay City Episode three A young boy is kidnapped from Bay City. What is the connection between episodes one and three?

Download or read book Reborn As an 80 s Coddled Girl written by Mu Mian and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wake up and find herself fat and ugly? It's okay, because she has a strong heart and perseverance to make herself better. In the dream, everyone was blaming that she should not fall in love with that excellent boy. A person as fat and ugly as she is not worthy of love. She was very panicked and angry, but at the same time confused, she was thin and beautiful. Why is everyone saying she is ugly? When she woke up, she looked at her fat and ugly body and her unfamiliar parents, she realized that she had traveled through time and space in the dream to the 1980s, and she had become completely different from her beautiful self! Fortunately, there are parents who love her. With the care and encouragement of her parents, she decided to lose weight and become beautiful, then worked hard to earn money. Such a girl who loves life and kind, she began to become the girl that boys dream of. ☆About the Author☆ Mu Mian, an excellent online novelist, her novels are fresh and cute, the stories are cleverly conceived, the perspectives are unique, and they are highly readable.