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Book Juanita

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Tyler Peabody Mann
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780813919560
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Juanita written by Mary Tyler Peabody Mann and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centers on the extended visit of Helen Wentworth, a New England teacher, to a childhood friend's plantation, where she witnesses African slaves' arrivals and their sale and gross mistreatment at the hands of coffee and sugar planters. Juanita is a beautiful mulatta slave with whom the plantation owner's son falls in love. Extending the tradition of Gothic fiction in the Americas, Mann's novel raises questions about the relation of slavery in the Caribbean to that in the United States, and between romance and race, adding an important element to our understanding of nineteenth-century American literature.

Book Juanita

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  • Author : Leo Politi
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0892369914
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Juanita written by Leo Politi and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juanita takes the dove she received for her fourth birthday to the Old Mission Church for the blessing of the animals.

Book Juanita

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  • Author : Lola Walder
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-09
  • ISBN : 9788418302053
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book Juanita written by Lola Walder and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical story of a Guatemalan girl named Juanita, who loved cooking crunchy maize tortillas and counting stars every night. For a long time, Guatemala has had an important place in my heart. My son has raised a beautiful family there, and I believe that when you love the places you visit, the land gives back that love in the form of unforgettable experiences. Mayan temples, majestic volcanoes, most of them active, with the heat throbbing inside them, contrast with the lush green of the tropical forests. Rivers and lakes meander through the mountains, ending in breathtaking waterfalls, which naturally sustain the extensive coffee and corn crops. Corn is the daily bread of Guatemala and the main food for the entire indigenous population throughout the year. Many varieties are grown, and they all are of different colors. The local women make delicious white, yellow, black, and red corn tortillas. The inhabitants of this beautiful country are kind and loving. I met Juanita one sunny morning. That day, Lake Atitlán woke up slowly, and we quietly sailed away, visiting the small villages that surround the lake. When we arrived in Santa Catarina Palopó, a pretty seven-year-old girl with jet-black hair and a gummy smile-she was missing two of her baby teeth-was sitting on the pier, wearing a beautiful huipil embroidered in blue tones. She looked like a little Mayan princess sitting on a wooden throne. The huipil is a square piece of cloth with a hole in the center. Guatemalan women and girls wear it as a blouse, and in each region they weave them in different colors. Juanita sold woven cotton bracelets. She did it to help her mother, who sat on the floor weaving a few meters away from her, while she rocked to sleep a tiny baby that she was carrying on her back. Back in Spain, with a head full of memories, the words began to take shape on paper, until Juanita came to form a part of this little tale. --Lola Walder

Book Learning to Be

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  • Author : Juanita Campbell Rasmus
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2020-09-15
  • ISBN : 0830843868
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book Learning to Be written by Juanita Campbell Rasmus and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juanita called it "The Crash." Her counselor labeled it "a major depressive episode." Others called it a nervous breakdown. On the spiritual front, it was a dark night of the soul. This experience landed Juanita, a busy pastor, mother, and community leader, in bed. When everything in her life finally came to a stop, she found that she had to learn to be—with herself and with God—all over again. If you are longing for a trustworthy companion through your dark days, this book is here for you. Each chapter includes life-giving spiritual practices to help you discover your own new ways of being.

Book Juanita s Eat It and Wear It Cookbook

Download or read book Juanita s Eat It and Wear It Cookbook written by Sally Hayton-Keeva and published by . This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eat it or wear it" is the motto of Juanita, an incredible cook and celebrated eccentric of the San Francisco Bay Area. The country's most provocative restauranteur has sent hapless diners out of her restaurants decorated with syrup, pancake batter, and hamburgers stuffed down their pants. Here is a down-and-dirty collection of 40 of her best recipes. Photographs and line drawings.

Book Virgin Soul

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  • Author : Judy Juanita
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2013-04-18
  • ISBN : 1101622857
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book Virgin Soul written by Judy Juanita and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a lauded poet and playwright, a novel of a young woman's life with the Black Panthers in 1960s San Francisco At first glance, Geniece’s story sounds like that of a typical young woman: she goes to college, has romantic entanglements, builds meaningful friendships, and juggles her schedule with a part-time job. However, she does all of these things in 1960s San Francisco while becoming a militant member of the Black Panther movement. When Huey Newton is jailed in October 1967 and the Panthers explode nationwide, Geniece enters the organization’s dark and dangerous world of guns, FBI agents, freewheeling sex, police repression, and fatal shoot-outs—all while balancing her other life as a college student. A moving tale of one young woman’s life spinning out of the typical and into the extraordinary during one of the most politically and racially charged eras in America, Virgin Soul will resonate with readers of Monica Ali and Ntozake Shange.

Book Reclaiming Din   History

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  • Author : Jennifer Nez Denetdale
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2015-09-01
  • ISBN : 0816532710
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Reclaiming Din History written by Jennifer Nez Denetdale and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, the first Navajo to earn a doctorate in history seeks to rewrite Navajo history. Reared on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, Jennifer Nez Denetdale is the great-great-great-granddaughter of a well-known Navajo chief, Manuelito (1816–1894), and his nearly unknown wife, Juanita (1845–1910). Stimulated in part by seeing photographs of these ancestors, she began to explore her family history as a way of examining broader issues in Navajo historiography. Here she presents a thought-provoking examination of the construction of the history of the Navajo people (Diné, in the Navajo language) that underlines the dichotomy between Navajo and non-Navajo perspectives on the Diné past. Reclaiming Diné History has two primary objectives. First, Denetdale interrogates histories that privilege Manuelito and marginalize Juanita in order to demonstrate some of the ways that writing about the Diné has been biased by non-Navajo views of assimilation and gender. Second, she reveals how Navajo narratives, including oral histories and stories kept by matrilineal clans, serve as vehicles to convey Navajo beliefs and values. By scrutinizing stories about Juanita, she both underscores the centrality of women’s roles in Navajo society and illustrates how oral tradition has been used to organize social units, connect Navajos to the land, and interpret the past. She argues that these same stories, read with an awareness of Navajo creation narratives, reveal previously unrecognized Navajo perspectives on the past. And she contends that a similarly culture-sensitive re-viewing of the Diné can lead to the production of a Navajo-centered history.

Book Flamer

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  • Author : Mike Curato
  • Publisher : Henry Holt and Company BYR Paperbacks
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 1250803942
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Flamer written by Mike Curato and published by Henry Holt and Company BYR Paperbacks. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graphic novel, telling a difficult story with humor, compassion, and love. "This book will save lives." —Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author of National Book Award Finalist Hey, Kiddo I know I’m not gay. Gay boys like other boys. I hate boys. They’re mean, and scary, and they’re always destroying something or saying something dumb or both. I hate that word. Gay. It makes me feel . . . unsafe. It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes—but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance.

Book Juanita  Emma Jean  and Sometimes Hughie

Download or read book Juanita Emma Jean and Sometimes Hughie written by Sheila Chance-Morrison and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story in 2018 has an anniversary of fifty-eight years. I wrote this book for information and to tell our story. We are Native Americans, and we live in Dunn, which is located in Harnett County, North Carolina. This book is a true account of the struggle of two brave Indian brothers who wanted better education opportunities for their children. My dad often made this statement: "Parents want a better life for their children than what they have experienced." He often reminded me and my nine siblings, "Your money could be taken, your valuables stolen, but no one could take knowledge from you." After the eighth grade, there were no accommodations in Harnett County for Indian high school students. High school students attended the state run Eastern Carolina Institute for Indian Children. This involved a seventy-two-mile round-trip on a bus daily. We had to rely upon our Lord and Savior for our strength. Our journey would take six long years. It was our faith that made us strong for the challenge. When the mission was accomplished, six of the siblings received an education at Dunn High School.

Book Juanita la Larga

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  • Author : Juan Valera
  • Publisher : CUA Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 0813214351
  • Pages : 287 pages

Download or read book Juanita la Larga written by Juan Valera and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Juanita la Larga (1896) unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a wealthy widower many years her senior. Appearing here for the first time in English, Valera's novel describes in detail life in an Andalusian hamlet."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Juanita  Freedom Seeker  Volume 1

Download or read book Juanita Freedom Seeker Volume 1 written by Juan Cenon Marasigan and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the choice seems simple, Juanita is torn. What is freedom really, if you’re separated from those you love? Does living the life of a wealthy socialite mean turning her back on her poor family? Does she have the courage to face up to the rich girls who bully her in her new school? Juanita Freedom Seeker is a story of love, despair, and liberation. Enjoy Juanita’s spunk as well as her serious side as she straddles the class barrier on her way to adulthood in San Carlos. She shares many valuable lessons to all, regardless of age, seeking freedom to transcend limits.

Book Juanita  Freedom Seeker  Volume 2

Download or read book Juanita Freedom Seeker Volume 2 written by Juan Cenon Marasigan and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the choice seems simple, Juanita is torn. What is freedom really, if you’re separated from those you love? Does living the life of a wealthy socialite mean turning her back on her poor family? Does she have the courage to face up to the rich girls who bully her in her new private girls school? Does she have the freedom to love the boy, introduced to her by her best friend, in a forbidden relationship? Juanita Freedom Seeker is a story of love, despair, and liberation. Enjoy Juanita’s spunk as well as her serious side as she straddles the class barrier on her way to adulthood in San Carlos. She shares many valuable lessons to all, regardless of age, seeking freedom to transcend limits.

Book Juanita Fights the School Board

Download or read book Juanita Fights the School Board written by Gloria Vel‡squez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1994-09-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny, the eldest daughter of Mexican farm workers, is expelled from high school, but with the help of a Latina psychologist and a civil rights attorney, she fights the discriminatory treatment and returns determined to finish school.

Book Juanita s Flowers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sally Spencer
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2009-04
  • ISBN : 1438948417
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Juanita s Flowers written by Sally Spencer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Juanita Brooks

Download or read book Juanita Brooks written by Levi S. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jamaica s Find

    Book Details:
  • Author : Juanita Havill
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780395393765
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Jamaica s Find written by Juanita Havill and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1986 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home.

Book You d Better Get Some Ice on That

Download or read book You d Better Get Some Ice on That written by Juanita Broaddrick and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retired businesswoman and nurse Juanita Broaddrick tells the story of her life, from her childhood when she was emotionally and physically abused by her mother, to her years as a successful nurse and nursing home owner/administrator, to her rape by then Arkansas Attorney General Bill Clinton in 1978, and the aftermath.