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Book Her Father   s Daughter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lucy K. Pick
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2017-11-15
  • ISBN : 1501714333
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Her Father s Daughter written by Lucy K. Pick and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Her Father's Daughter, Lucy K. Pick considers a group of royal women in the early medieval kingdoms of the Asturias and of León-Castilla; their lives say a great deal about structures of power and the roles of gender and religion within the early Iberian kingdoms. Pick examines these women, all daughters of kings, as members of networks of power that work variously in parallel, in concert, and in resistance to some forms of male power, and contends that only by mapping these networks do we gain a full understanding of the nature of monarchical power. Pick's focus on the roles, possibilities, and limitations faced by these royal women forces us to reevaluate medieval gender norms and their relationship to power and to rethink the power structures of the era. Well illustrated with images of significant objects, Her Father's Daughter is marked by Pick's wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach, which encompasses liturgy, art, manuscripts, architecture, documentary texts, historical narratives, saints' lives, theological treatises, and epigraphy.

Book My Father s Daughter

Download or read book My Father s Daughter written by Tina Sinatra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Sinatra seemed to have it all: genius, wealth, the love of beautiful women, glamorous friends from Las Vegas to the White House. But in this startling and remarkably outspoken memoir, his youngest daughter reveals to us an acutely restless, lonely and conflicted man. Through his marriages and front-page romances and the melancholy gaps between, Frank Sinatra searched for a contentment that eluded him. For the first time Tina writes candidly about the wedge his manipulative fourth wife, Barbara Marx, drove between father and daughter. MY FATHER'S DAUGHTER, with its unflinching account of Sinatra's flaws and foibles, will shock many of his fans. At the same time, it is a deeply affectionate portrait written with love and warmth, a celebration of a daughter's fond esteem for her father and a respect for his great legacy. The world remembers Frank Sinatra as one of the giants of the show business. In this book from someone inside the legend, Tina Sinatra remembers him as something more: a father, and a man.

Book Every Father s Daughter

Download or read book Every Father s Daughter written by Margaret McMullan and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is it about the relationship between fathers and daughters that provokes so much exquisite tenderness, satisfying communion, longing for more, idealization from both ends, followed often if not inevitably by disappointment, hurt, and the need to understand and forgive, or to finger the guilt of not understanding and loving enough?" writes Phillip Lopate, in his introduction to Every Father's Daughter, a collection of 25 personal essays by women writers writing about their fathers. The editor, Margaret McMullan, is herself a distinguished novelist and educator. About half of these essays were written by invitation for this anthology; others were selected by Ms. McMullan and her associate, Philip Lopate, who provides an introduction. The contributors include many well-known writers--Alice Munro, Jayne Anne Phillips, Alexandra Styron, Ann Hood, Bobbie Ann Mason, Maxine Hong Kingston, among others--as well as writers less well-known but no less cogent, inventive, perceptive, lacerating, questioning, or loving of their fathers.

Book My Father s Daughter

Download or read book My Father s Daughter written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a daughter tell the story of her father? Sheila Fitzpatrick was taught from an early age to question authority. She learnt it from her father, the journalist and radical historian Brian Fitzpatrick. But very soon, she began to turn her questioning gaze on him. Teasing apart the many layers of memory, Fitzpatrick reveals a complex portrait of an Australian family against a Cold War backdrop. As her relationship with her father fades from girlhood adoration to adolescent scepticism, she flees Melbourne for Oxford to start a new life. But it's not so easy to escape being her father's daughter. My Father's Daughter is a vivid evocation of an Australian childhood; a personal memoir told with the piercing insight of a historian.

Book My Father s Daughter

Download or read book My Father s Daughter written by E.L. Konigsburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor Little Rich Boy Winston Carmichael has it all: a big house, servants, vacations in Palm Beach, and a fancy private school. But with overprotective parents and a sense of responsibility for his younger sister, Heidi, Winston sometimes feels more as if he's living in a prison than a dream. Then one day a woman appears at the front door claiming to be Caroline -- Winston's half sister, who was kidnapped and presumed dead long before he and Heidi were born. Is she really Caroline? Is she an imposter? Or is she something far more complicated than either? And does she hold the key that could unlock the door to Winston's prison?

Book Her Father s Daughter

Download or read book Her Father s Daughter written by Beezy Marsh and published by Pan. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Annie marries Harry after years of heartache in a London slum she believes she's found her happy ever after. But the horrors of the Blitz soon threaten everything they hold dear. The terrible sights Harry witnesses as an air raid warden bring back traumatic memories of his time during the First World War. Suddenly Annie finds herself struggling to cope not only with life in wartime and two little children, but also with a husband who seems like a stranger. Kitty has always been protective of her little brother Harry. Hiding the scandal about their father from the world was the only way to survive as they were growing up in Newcastle. But when she discovers Harry too has a shocking secret, she is torn. Meanwhile Annie wonders why Harry refuses to discuss his life before their marriage and why she has never met his sister. Will the truth ever come to light? From the bombed-out terraces of London to the docks of Newcastle, Her Father's Daughter is a moving and poignant true story about the unbreakable bonds of family, and the power of love to heal the worst wounds.

Book You Are Your Father s Daughter

Download or read book You Are Your Father s Daughter written by Earl R. Henslin and published by Spirit of Hope Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Earl Henslin, explores how the father-daughter relationship affects the adult daughter. Father-daughter relationships damaged by abuse, betrayal and abandonment can be healed and reconnected through understanding and forgiveness. "You Are Your Father's Daughter" is a book for adult daughters (and fathers) who want to heal or improve the father-daughter connection. It helps readers understand that a daughter's relationship with her father -- positive or painful -- affects who she is today. A daughter's relationship with her father -- positive or painful -- affects who she is today. Every daughter has a deep, God-given need to be nurtured by her father. It is vital to a woman's development. A strong emotional and spiritual connection between a father and his daughter empowers her to achieve her God-given potential in the life. It provides a secure and safe foundation from which she can venture into the world. When the father-daughter connection is missing or broken by abuse, the daughter is robbed of the personal identity, feminine strength, private boundaries, self-respect, emotional health, and spiritual understanding that a godly father can give. This loss and the painful wound that results affects every area of her life -- relationships with men, role in the workplace, search for love and meaning in life. Dr. Henslin offers hope and healing to every daughter who knows the pain and loss of a broken, missing, or less-than-perfect father-daughter relationship. His compassionate understand and spiritual insight provide a pathway for restoration and a process for rebuilding the father-daughter bridge.

Book My Father  His Daughter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yaël Dayan
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2015-04-07
  • ISBN : 1497698812
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book My Father His Daughter written by Yaël Dayan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life of one of Israel’s greatest heroes, as seen through his daughter’s eyes Moshe Dayan was one of the greatest military leaders in Israel’s short history. A child of the first kibbutz movement in British Palestine, he went on to lead Israel to victory in the 1948 War of Independence and to liberate Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War. Dayan was not only a soldier but a politician, an archaeologist, and a larger-than-life figure who helped shape the state of Israel. In My Father, His Daughter, Yaël Dayan, who herself served in the Israeli Parliament, shares an uncensored look into her father’s life and her own conflicted relationship with him. With poignancy and candor, Dayan creates a profound yet nuanced profile of her father. She relates his strong national pride, his boldness in dealing with other world leaders, and his troubles at home to his disintegrating marriage and multiple affairs. As revealing as My Father, His Daughter is of the man behind the myth, it is also a snapshot of a loving relationship between Yaël and Moshe Dayan, and of a daughter’s admiration and respect for a complicated but loving father.

Book My Fathers  Daughter

Download or read book My Fathers Daughter written by Hannah Pool and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974 Hannah Pool was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea and brought to England by her white adoptive father. She grew up unable to imagine what it must be like to look into the eyes of a blood relative until one day a letter arrived from a brother she never knew she had. Not knowing what to do with the letter, Hannah hid it away. But she was unable to forget it, and ten years later she finally decided to track down her surviving Eritrean family and embarked upon a journey that would take her far from the comfort zone of her metropolitan lifestye to confront the poverty and oppression of a life that could so easily have been her own.

Book Unpolished Gem

Download or read book Unpolished Gem written by Alice Pung and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Poignant, provocative, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, Pung’s rollicking tale of two worlds is not to be missed.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought their new country was a Wonderland. In this lyrical, bittersweet debut memoir—already an award-winning bestseller when it was published in Australia—Alice grows up straddling two worlds, East and West, her insular family and the Australia outside. With wisdom beyond her years and a keen eye for comedy in everyday life, she writes of the trials of assimilation and cultural misunderstanding, and of the tender but fraught relationships between three generations of women trying to live the Australian dream without losing themselves. Unpolished Gem is a moving, vivid journey about identity and the ultimate search for acceptance and healing, delivered by a writer possessed of rare empathy, penetrating insight, and undeniable narrative gifts.

Book Becoming the Dad Your Daughter Needs

Download or read book Becoming the Dad Your Daughter Needs written by Rick Johnson and published by Revell. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father models for his daughter how women should be treated, how men should act, and how a man shows healthy love and affection toward a woman. And, perhaps most importantly, he sets the standard for how his daughter feels she deserves to be treated by men. Rick Johnson shows men how to develop the close relationships with their daughters that they both need and crave.

Book Her Father s Daughter

Download or read book Her Father s Daughter written by Debi Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of her autobiography, Sara Henderson has become a household name. There's barely a person in the country who doesn't know the now legendary story of how she saved her outback property from a million-dollar debt, hasn't heard about the philandering husband and the estrangement from her middle daughter Bonnie. But how much of what she writes is true and how much of it is fantasy? Tired of being misrepresented in her mother's books, Bonnie decided to set the record straight and asked journalist Debi Marshall to write her real story. And the result? Well, not since Jaon Crawford's daughter wrote Mommy Dearest has such an icon been so well and truly smashed. But Bonnie's story, Her Father's Daughter, is much more than that. It's a celebration of a remarkable bushwoman, of her fierce strength and wild, irrepressible spirit, her deep respect for the land she once called home and her abiding love for her reprobate father. Bonnie's mother hates Bullo River Station from the moment she lands on that million acres of red dust. And before long she comes to hate the manwho has brought her there too. Bonnie grows up in a household isolated from the rest of the world, in a place where every excess is indulged: 'Charles purposely cut the off from the outside world, and Sara was very often away. It was like living in Kenya in the 1930s; nothing was ruled out, there were no limits.' Charles and Sara fight constantly and use the children as weapons against eachother. Bonnie is her father's favourite - his inheriting daughter - and Murray-Lee is her mother's. To this day the two sisters bear the scars of their parent's gamess - they still don't speak to eachother. The one place Bonnie can escape the tenxion in the homestead is the bush and she comes to love and know the land as intimately as Old Mray, her Aboriginal companion. Bonnie has her father's indomitable spirit (doubtless what makes her mother so uncomfortable) and his willingness to tackle anything. She grows into adulthood as a superb horsewoman, pilot and cattlewoman. Wild and unruly, afraid of nothing, Bonnie is very different to her reserved mother, and the two grow further and further apart. In her late teens Bonnie takes over the running of the station and gradually emerges from the years of financial instability. When a neighbouring property Charles owns with Gus Trippe, his childhood friend, is sols, the property becomes debt-free. 'Sara talks about being left with a million-dollar debt, but the truth is that there was no debt ... Sara sold Charles' yacht after he died ... and a gold mine in Western Australia ... She puts the sudden cash flow down to having a miraculous stock market win, but I've lived in the bush too long to believe that.' Bonnie is by now utterly in love with flying and goes to Darwin to practice her aerobatics whenever she can fit it in to her hectic schedule at Bullo. It is in Darwin that she meets Arthur Palmer, a charismatic, intelligent and arrogant man - a replica of her father - and the two fall in love. Both Sara and Charles detest Arthur and this makes home life, already extremely tense, unbearable. 'The plain truth was that Daddy loathed him,' says Dannielle, Bonnie's younger sister. 'If he could, he would have put a hit on him. There's no question of that.' On a trip to Queensland Arthur persuades Bonnie to see a specialist about her jaw which, incredibly, has been causing her intense pain for fifteen years. The specialist insists Bonnie be operated on immediately and she is forced to call Sara to tell her she won't be back at Bullo for the muster. Bonnie thinks her mother will be able to cope. In fact it is the beginning of the end of their relationship. Sara screams down the phone at her daughter that she must return, then tells Charles that she is refusing to come home for the muster, without mentioning anything about the operation. As a result, Charles give Bonnie an ultimatum - Bullo or A

Book Why a Daughter Needs a Dad

Download or read book Why a Daughter Needs a Dad written by Gregory E. Lang and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times and USA Today bestseller! The perfect gift of love or sweet keepsake for a daughter of any age to show why Dad is so amazing! This new picture book for kids ages 3-7 and beyond is a touching story showing all the ways a father will help his daughter grow. This is the gift for every girl dad and little girl to celebrate their special bond! Featuring charming animal illustrations and heartwarming rhymes about the moments fathers and daughters share, Why a Daughter Needs a Dad is the perfect story to connect father and child together. From the first time I held you, so perfect and new, I promised to do everything that I could do To help you become your most wonderful YOU, My darling, my daughter, my girl. For new dads, fathers-to-be, or for that perfect father-daughter moment at birthdays and other special occasions, this sweet storybook celebrates how a father is always there for his little girl. reminding her to be artistic, thoughtful, honest, and smart, but most of all, true to herself.

Book Either Side of Winter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Markovits
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2010-12-09
  • ISBN : 0571268285
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Either Side of Winter written by Benjamin Markovits and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fall we see the tentative beginnings of an unlikely romance - between schoolteacher Amy and drifting former graduate, Charles. In Winter we hear how her colleague Howard learns, seventeen years too late, that he has a daughter following a brief fling with collegemate Annie. Spring and Summer tell the story of his daughter's friend Rachel's relationships with her literature teacher, Stuart, and her dying father Reuben. Executed with exquisite sympathy, tenderness and emotional nuance, Either Side of Winter is a moving and elegiac picture of people whose lives are inextricably linked by circumstance, community - and a need to be loved.

Book You Are the Best Dad a Daughter Could Have

Download or read book You Are the Best Dad a Daughter Could Have written by Jenny Kempe and published by Blue Mountain Arts. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of To My Beautiful Daughter, comes this delightful book that captures the love and appreciation a daughter feels for her dad. Featuring Jenny's adorable penguin characters, this book is sure to touch the hearts of fathers and daughters everywhere. It is a memorable way to let a dad know that he'll always be his daughter's biggest hero.

Book Father s Arcane Daughter

Download or read book Father s Arcane Daughter written by E. L. Konigsburg and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winston's half-sister Caroline was long presumed to be dead, killed by kidnappers when she was 17. But when a woman arrives at the posh Carmichael home, she says "she" is Caroline, returning just in time to claim her share of a family fortune.

Book My Father s Daughter

Download or read book My Father s Daughter written by Victoria Wilson Darrah and published by . This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: