Download or read book Jessie s Journey written by Jess Smith and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ages of 5 to 15, Jess Smith lived with her parents, sisters and a mongrel dog in an old, blue Bedford bus. They travelled the length and breadth of Scotland, and much of England too, stopping here and there until they were moved on by the local authorities or driven by their own instinctive need to travel. By campfires, under the unchanging stars they brewed up tea, telling stories and singing songs late into the night. "Jessie's Journey" describes what it was like to be one of the last of the traditional travelling folk. It is not an idyllic tale, but despite the threat of bigoted abuse and scattered schooling, humour and laughter run throughout a childhood teeming with unforgettable characters and incidents.
Download or read book Tears for a Tinker written by Jess Smith and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-05-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third and final book of Jess Smith's autobiographical trilogy, Jess traces her eventful life with Dave and their three children, from their earliest years together. Their adventures and achievements are interspersed with stories of her parents' childhood, her father's 'tall tales' and the eerie echoes of ghosts and hauntings that she has heard from gypsies and travellers over many years. Fans of Jess Smith will not be disappointed with her latest memoir, full of more unforgettable characters and insight into the travellers' way of life, a tradition that stretches back more than 2000 years and survives in the rich oral tradition of its people.
Download or read book Jessie s Journey written by Angela McAllister and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing that she is going to take a train trip, Jessie imagines what it will be like and then experiences the exciting journey.
Download or read book Schizophrenia or a Mysterious Illness written by Jessie Cheek and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the most unpredictable happens..... Parenting is challenging under the best of circumstances. If your child suddenly begins exhibiting strange behaviors and appears to be contracting an unknown psychiatric or neurological illness, parenting becomes even more confusing. If the medical professionals can’t seem to figure out what kind of disease your child has, where does a parent go for help? Discovering the answers to Julia’s mysterious illness was a long and complicated journey. A misdiagnosis of Schizophrenia delayed proper treatment. Once a correct diagnosis was given, finding and receiving the appropriate treatment for her condition was another major challenge. This story is a journey of perseverance amidst many obstacles.
Download or read book When Jessie Came Across the Sea written by Amy Hest and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too. Reprint.
Download or read book Hard Journey of the Heart written by Mark Zullo and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse, a Southern California guy, is a wide-eyed dreamer who’s in love with love. Driven by erotic adventures, huge missteps and cherished heartbreaks, Jesse’s huge and hungry heart is always in pursuit of romance. With Carlos, Agustin, Alexis, Santiago, Andres, and Ulises, Jesse loved them all-some passionately, some unwisely-until each relationship came to its end. Although in Jesse’s memory, none can overshadow his first love: Dani, his boyhood best friend. Hard Journey of the Heart: Jesse’s Story chronicles one man’s complicated life, nagging self-doubts, and fervent search for lasting love and happiness. Jesse’s one roadblock: not resisting every temptation that comes within his path. Jesse’s Story is told in uninhibited explicit detail. Along the way, Jesse has hedonistic vacation getaways, marked by delirious and erotic encounters with many beautiful and impulsive men. Will Jesse ever find true love? In comes Diego to pull the reigns, and will Jesse finally become a one-man guy? Hard Journey of the Heart: Jesse’s Story is exciting, often frustrating, but ultimately rewarding. Tenderly told, Jesse's story finds its way into our hearts. An epic romance novel written with merciless but open-hearted honesty, Hard Journey of the Heart: Jesse’s Story will ring true for anyone who believes in the pursuit of passion and love. This book is the first in a series.
Download or read book Raising Girls written by Jessie Seneca and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jessie s Journey written by Jessie Glenny and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jessie's journey is the true story of a sheltered Edwardian girl and her husband who became missionaries in one of Peru's most ancient cities, Cuzco." -- p. 8.
Download or read book A Wondrous Journey written by Lynn Cluess Manzione and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Wondrous Journey" shows us what can occur when action is taken. When photographer Lynn Cluess Manzione decided to take on a project to counter what certain media are portraying as "women worthy of our attention," she found herself on an incredible journey. Manzione traveled through time with Dr. Martha MacGuffie, a retired surgeon and eighty-six-year-old humanitarian whose poignant story not only achieved the photographer's mission to show that beauty is heart and soul deep, but also offered wonderful life lessons along the way. "A Wondrous Journey" is the chronicle of Dr. MacGuffie's inspiring life story one of triumph, loss, and profound compassion. It is also a journey of self-discovery for Manzione, which leads to what they both share on the pages of this small book with big lessons.
Download or read book Brave Enough written by Jessie Diggins and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter Pyeongchang, February 21, 2018. In the nerve-racking final seconds of the women’s team sprint freestyle race, Jessie Diggins dug deep. Blowing past two of the best sprinters in the world, she stretched her ski boot across the finish line and lunged straight into Olympic immortality: the first ever cross-country skiing gold medal for the United States at the Winter Games. The 26-year-old Diggins, a four-time World Championship medalist, was literally a world away from the small town of Afton, Minnesota, where she first strapped on skis. Yet, for all her history-making achievements, she had never strayed far from the scrappy 12-year-old who had insisted on portaging her own canoe through the wilderness, yelling happily under the unwieldy weight on her shoulders: “Look! I’m doing it!” In Brave Enough, Jessie Diggins reveals the true story of her journey from the American Midwest into sports history. With candid charm and characteristic grit, she connects the dots from her free-spirited upbringing in the woods of Minnesota to racing in the bright spotlights of the Olympics. Going far beyond stories of races and ribbons, she describes the challenges and frustrations of becoming a serious athlete; learning how to push through and beyond physical and psychological limits; and the intense pressure of competing at the highest levels. She openly shares her harrowing struggle with bulimia, recounting both the adversity and how she healed from it in order to bring hope and understanding to others experiencing eating disorders. Between thrilling accounts of moments of triumph, Diggins shows the determination it takes to get there—the struggles and disappointments, the fun and the hard work, and the importance of listening to that small, fierce voice: I can do it. I am brave enough.
Download or read book On This Long Journey The Journal of Jesse Smoke a Cherokee Boy The Trail of Tears 1838 written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed author Joseph Bruchac's exciting JOURNAL OF JESSE SMOKE is now in paperback with a dynamic repackaging! In 1838 in Tennessee, the Cherokee Nation is on the brink of being changed forever as they face the Removal -- being forcibly moved from their homes and land, in part because of a treaty signed by a group of their own people. Sixteen-year-old Jesse Smoke has been studying at the Mission School, but it has been shut down and turned into a fort for the ever-increasing number of soldiers entering the territory. Now Jesse has returned to his home to live with his widowed mother and two younger sisters. All hope lies on the Cherokee chief, John Ross, who is in Washington, D.C., trying to delay the Removal. Then one night, family members are suddenly awakened, dragged from their homes, and brought at gunpoint to a stockade camp. From there, Jesse and his family are forced to march westward on the horrifying Trail of Tears during the long, cold winter months. It's a difficult journey west, and Jesse's not sure if he and his family can survive the journey.
Download or read book Call It Horses written by Jessie van Eerden and published by . This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Dzanc Prize for Fiction Set in small-town West Virginia in the twilight of the eighties, Call It Horses tells the story of three women--niece, aunt, and stowaway--and an improbable road trip. Frankie is an orphan (or a reluctant wife). Mave is an autodidact (or the town pariah). Nan is an artist (or the town whore). Each separately haunted, Frankie, Mave, and Nan--with a hound in tow--set out in an Oldsmobile Royale for Abiquiú and the desert of Georgia O'Keeffe, seeking an escape from everything they've known. Frankie records the journey in letters to her aunt Mave's dead lover, a linguist named Ruth, sketching out her troubled life and her complicated relationship with Mave, who became her guardian when Frankie was orphaned at sixteen. Slowly, one letter at a time, Frankie exposes the ruins of herself and her fellow passengers: things that chase them, that died too soon, that never lived. With lush prose and brutal empathy, Frankie tells Ruth--and herself--the story of liminality experienced by a woman standing just outside of motherhood, fulfillment, and love.
Download or read book Jesse s Journey written by R. J. Young and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse Baker, 16, fights for control of his life and his sanity in Jesse's Journey, the second book in the Jesse Baker series. As he leaves his father behind him, he begins a search for his mother. His journey takes him to Somerset, Kentucky where he meets the Palomino mare that's been protection him in his dreams face to face. The Coleman Ranch is a life saver, but as the holiday approach his father begins to invade his dreams. How much can he endure before he goes back to the life he left behind? As he struggles with his faith, mind, and body, the fight of his life, for his life is at hand. I'm confident that Jesse's Journey will tug at your heart. You'll grow to love him even more in book two as he struggles for freedom, both physically and spiritually while fighting to keep the family he's come to love. It's time he faces the demons that haunt him. The question is, is he strong enough and brave enough to do so?
Download or read book Journey in Search of the Way written by Satomi Myōdō and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiography describes a woman's attainment of enlightenment in modern Japan. Satomi Myōdō rejected the traditional roles of good wife and wise mother, broke with her unhappy past, and followed her spiritual path beginning as the disciple of a Shinto priest. At midlife she turned to Zen Buddhism encouraged by a female dharma friend and by various teachers. Under the guidance of Yasutani Rōshi she attained Kenshō, the goal of her lifetime's search.
Download or read book Jessie s Island written by Sheryl McFarlane and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a long list of activities and events to attend, cousin Thomas paints a picture of city life that makes Jessie’s world seem a little dull in comparison. When her mother suggests they invite Thomas to visit their island, Jessie wonders glumly what she could possibly write in her letter that would sound as exciting as zoos, planetariums or video arcades. But as Jessie looks out over her island home, she sees a world of endless variety, from killer whales in the strait and bald eagles soaring overhead to anemones in tide pools and tiny hermit crabs on the shore. She thinks of countless days spent exploring, fishing, swimming and canoeing.
Download or read book A Year of American Travel written by Jessie Benton Frémont and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessie Benton Frémont (1824-1902), the daughter of a Missouri Senator and wife of explorer John Charles Frémont, first came to California in 1849, when she and her young daughter spent six months at her husband's newly-acquired ranch at Mariposas, 140 miles east of San Francisco. The Frémonts also spent the years 1851-1852 and 1857-1861 at the Mariposas ranch before moving to St. Louis during the Civil War. They returned to California in 1887 and made Los Angeles their home for the rest of their lives. A year of American travel (1878) was written by Mrs. Frémont to earn badly-needed money for her family after her husband went bankrupt in 1873. Here she describes her first trip to California in 1849: the voyage and crossing at Chagres, life on the Mariposas ranch, visits to San José and Monterey, the life of women in California, the plight of the Mission Indians, the slavery controversy in the territory, and the Monterey Constitutional Convention of 1849. The book closes with the Frémonts' return to the East when Frémont assumed his seat in the U.S. Senate.
Download or read book Jessie Crush Crazy written by Disney Book Group and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Jessie, Disney Channel's hit live-action comedy series, this junior novel tells the story of Jessie, a starry-eyed girl from rural Texas living in New York City as a nanny to a high-profile couple's four children and their seven-foot pet lizard, Mr. Kipling, and her journey to follow her dreams. This book includes eight pages of color photos and diary entries from Jessie that fans will adore!
