Download or read book I Aint Noways Tired Grandma Hands written by Brinase Merritt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that is non-fiction about a black family trials and tribulations and triumphs in the south and a black womans traditional calling of midwifery to help her community and women who otherwise would be unable to pay the fee of the white doctor in town to deliver their babies. A story of a family that overcame the odds and made a way out of no way while farming, picking cotton and being treated unfairly but continued to have love and kindness in their community and befriended a white family that the midwife my grandmother would deliver their children as well and they would coexist on the same land amicably. A resurgence of midwifery is taking place in the twenty-first century this tradition of old has never completely vanished especially in third world countries where 75% of babies are delivered by midwives.
Download or read book The Midland written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book No Way Out written by Peggy Kern and published by Townsend Press. This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afraid of being taken from his grandmother and placed in a foster home, Harold Davis, a Bluford High freshman, begins to work for the neighborhood drug dealer, Londell James, but Harold's choice leads him to world more dangerous than he could have imagined.
Download or read book Faith Has Conquered Fear written by Jacquinita A. Rose and published by Grown Folks' Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacquinita A. Rose meets Virginia Wolfe in this latest GFP release. Experience the innermost thoughts of Faith, Billy, and Marvi torn between duty to others and promises to themselves.
Download or read book The Color of Hope written by Kim Cash Tate and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope shines brightest when all seems lost. Stephanie London led a life of comfort and ease in St. Louis before feeling inexplicably drawn back to her father's roots in the tiny Southern town of Hope Springs. Charlotte Willoughby has lived there all her life and longs to make a new life somewhere else. Stephanie doesn't know exactly what she's doing there--or how to occupy her time. And Charlotte doesn't understand why, despite her overbearing family and reminders of her failed engagement, she's suddenly led to stay. Despite its small-town charm, Hope Springs itself is at a crossroads. After a failed reconciliation attempt by two well-meaning pastors, the town is split along racial and cultural lines, with little hope for redemption. When a terrible tragedy puts Hope Springs on the national radar, the entire town is tested, and both Stephanie and Charlotte feel their lives unraveling. In the midst of heartache, though, they'll discover the true color of hope . . . ". . . journeys us through the challenge of breaking through prejudice and hurt for the sake of love and faith." --Rachel Hauck, best-selling author of The Wedding Dress
Download or read book Cape Cod Folks written by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Watermelon Nights written by Greg Sarris and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Watermelon Nights, Greg Sarris tells a powerful tale about the love and forgiveness that keep a modern Native American family together in Santa Rosa, California. Told from the points of view of a twenty-year-old Pomo man named Johnny Severe, his grandmother Elba, and his mother, Iris, this intergenerational saga uncovers the secrets—and traumatic events—that inform each of these characters’ extraordinary powers of perception. First published in 1998, Watermelon Nights remains one of the few works of fiction to illuminate the experiences of urban Native Americans and is the only one to depict the historical conditions that shape a tribe’s rural-to-urban migration. As the novel opens, Johnny is trying to organize the remaining members of his displaced California tribe. At the same time, he is struggling with his own sexuality and thinking about leaving his grandmother’s home for the big city. As the novel shifts perspective, tracing the controversial history of the Pomo people, we learn how the tragic events of Elba’s childhood, as well as Iris’s attempts to separate herself from her cultural roots, make Johnny’s dilemma all the more difficult. In the end, what binds both family and tribe together is a respect—albeit at times reluctant—for the traditions that have withstood so many challenges. This new edition of the novel features a revised preface by the author and an afterword by Reginald Dyck, who identifies broader contexts important to our understanding of the novel, including tribal sovereignty, federal Indian policy, and the effects of historical trauma. Gritty yet rich in emotion, Watermelon Nights stands beside the works of Louise Erdrich, Stephen Graham Jones, and Tommy Orange.
Download or read book An Itty Bitty Murder on the Way to Long Lane written by S. C. Kirk and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of two young men finding their way in the world. It isn't the easiest thing when you either don't have the money or the know how to do it. All these boys had was determination and a higher power to guide them. How else could someone get into so many situations and come out unscathed, and the better for it each time. This book is about learning to do what's right, the strength to overcome all odds despite your circumstances. The most important thing is it doesn't matter where you start, it's where you end up that counts. These boys find out humility is what makes us all stay grounded, and thinking too much of yourself never gets you far. The thought of judging others is out of the question because no two people go through the same experiences or learn the same lessons, you simply make the most out of every journey.
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Download or read book Core written by Kassten Alonso and published by Hawthorne Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS INTENSE AND COMPACT NOVEL crackles with obsession, betrayal, and madness, and was an Oregon Book Award Finalist for fiction 2005. As the narrator becomes fixated on his best friend’s girlfriend, his precarious hold on sanity rapidly deteriorates into delusion and violence. This story can be read as the classic myth of Hades and Persephone (Core) rewritten for a twenty-first century audience as well as a dark, foreboding tale of unrequited love and loneliness. Alonso skillfully uses language to imitate memory and psychosis, putting the reader squarely inside the narrator’s head. In addition, deliberate misuse of standard punctuation blurs the distinction between the narrator’s internal and external worlds. A sense of alienation and Faulknerian grotesquerie permeate this landscape where desire is borne in the bloom of a daffodil and sanity lies toppled like an applecart in the mud.
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Download or read book Letters to Ellie written by Grandma Bea Goode and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no question that a relationship between a grandmother and grandchild is like no other. In Letters to Ellie, Grandma Bea Goode captures her granddaughter's humorous and loving world and brings it to life through her eyes, ultimately sharing a poignant glimpse into their special bond. Goode, who began journaling her experiences with her granddaughter when little "Ellie Cat" was just nine months old, shares details from her three-year journey as a loving observer while her granddaughter grew from a precious baby into a lively toddler. With the special attention of a grandmother, Goode narrates all Ellie's firsts, including pulling herself up, rolling the ball, and even mistakenly drinking from the cat's water dish. As Ellie grows and begins to explore the world around her, Goode describes what it is like to be a grandmother who revels in every shared moment with her granddaughter, no matter how big or small. Letters to Ellie is a compilation of favorite memories penned by a grandmother to her granddaughter highlighting the treasured and often overlooked moments in life.
Download or read book Haints Cave written by Ginny Powers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Stump loses her baby in childbirth. Granny offers her a newborn, unwanted by its mother, but tells Ruth, "If you take this baby, you gotta swear you won't tell a soul he ain't yours...ever. If you tell, you could cause this baby...and you great harm." Ruth takes the baby but wonders: Has God opened a door? Or is the devil laughing at her? Fifteen years later, the local preacher accuses Ruth's son, Tommy, and his friend Cassie Yocum, of witchery. Black cats are hangin' dead from trees, haints are roaming the woods, the fearsome cry of the Banshee is echoing through the hollows. And Tommy's pa has disappeared. Tommy must find his pa and destroy the real evil before he loses his family and his home.
Download or read book Outlook written by Alfred Emanuel Smith and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dig Too Deep written by Amy Allgeyer and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Green Earth Book Award, Young Adult Fiction 2017 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA), Young Adult Notable Book With her mother facing prison time for a violent political protest, seventeen-year-old Liberty Briscoe has no choice but to leave her Washington, DC, apartment and take a bus to Ebbottsville, Kentucky, to live with her granny. There she can at least finish high school and put some distance between herself and her mother—or her former mother, as she calls her. But Ebbottsville isn't the same as Liberty remembers, and it's not just because the top of Tanner's Peak has been blown away to mine for coal. Half the county is out of work, an awful lot of people in town seem to be sick, and the tap water is bright orange—the same water that officials claim is safe. And when Granny's lingering cold turns out to be something much worse, Liberty wonders if somebody at the mine is hiding the truth about the water. She starts to investigate and is soon plunged into a world of secrets, lies, threats, and danger. Her searches for answers and justice lead to even tougher questions—should she turn to violence and end up like her mother? Give up her quest for the sake of keeping the peace? Or keep fighting until the mine is shut down for good?
