Download or read book Momma Gone written by Nina Foxx and published by Brown Girls Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Momma set me on the jukebox. So begins the personal story of Denise (Sweetie) Wooten, set between a post-civil rights era New York City and a growing, but stale rural Alabama. We are thrust in the midst of a family longing for normalcy, but instead struggling with illness and all that comes with it; denial, anger and misunderstanding and love. As cultures clash, we see the family through a child s eyes and walk with her as she makes sense of war fought far away, but with effects close to home, and a tragedy that changes her life forever. More truth than not, Momma: Gone is a story of survival, where all the lessons are taught by the child who must eventually lead them through and a classic American story of overcoming life s misfortunes to find the bloom on the other side. -Shortlisted for a Doctorow Award in Innovative Fiction

Download or read book Momma written by Nina Foxx and published by Brown Girls Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Momma set me on the jukebox." So begins the personal story of Denise (Sweetie) Wooten, set between a post-civil rights era New York City and a growing, but stale rural Alabama. We are thrust in the midst of a family longing for normalcy, but instead struggling with illness and all that comes with it; denial, anger and misunderstanding and love. As cultures clash, we see the family through a child s eyes and walk with her as she makes sense of war fought far away, but with effects close to home, and a tragedy that changes her life forever. More truth than not, Momma: Gone is a story of survival, where all the lessons are taught by the child who must eventually lead them through and a classic American story of overcoming life s misfortunes to find the bloom on the other side. -Shortlisted for a Doctorow Award in Innovative Fiction

Download or read book Truth Be Told written by D. Fu-Ski and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His Birthright His Birthright to Love be Loved to be Respectable be Respected to be a Leader to Lead to have a Home a World to be a Man a Blackman to seek his Deity and to know his God All Lost Before His Birth, Right D. Fu-Ski

Download or read book Switch written by Ingrid Law and published by Dial Books. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Companion to the Newbery Honor winner Savvy"--Jacket.

Download or read book Toolbox of Life written by Toshya L. Isom and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We spend 90% of our adult life getting over our childhood experiences. This book is about my experience in life how I was mislead, bound, controlled, spiritually damaged, mentally broken and physically abused all while trying to find my way through life ripped from the path of righteousness and thrust into the clutches of sin. having a desire to do right in the mist of everything wrong! fighting to be freed from the generational curse of a strange people with know fear of God and know reverence to man a blood line of alcoholism, addictions, perversion, gambling, adultery and seduction I never stopped praying and never stopped believing for I knew God would hear my cries and except for Gods grace and mercy I would have been destroyed and sent to HELL!

Download or read book Naptime with Theo and Beau written by Jessica Shyba and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only thing better than naptime is naptime with a friend. Theo the puppy (part-Boxer, part-Shepherd, part-Labrador, part-Sharpei) was rescued by Beau, a twenty-three-month-old toddler, and his family from an animal shelter in Santa Cruz. The two of them instantly became best friends. And every day at naptime, Theo waits for Beau to fall asleep, then curls up next to him. Theo and Beau were already a viral sensation thanks to the "unbearably adorable," "utterly charming" photos that author (Beau's mother) Jessica Shyba has been posting on her popular blogMomma's Gone City. And now, she's matched the very sweetest of them to a charming bedtime text to make a board book that is (as Alyssa Milano said of the blog) "so cute it hurts."

Download or read book Mounthaven written by Bernard Peyton Chamberlain, Jr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mounthaven is a multi-layered tale. Four generations and a hundred years of a Virginia family that, having survived the Civil War, acquires a derelict mansion and surrounding acreage called Mounthaven. The year is 1903. The place is already over a century old when Mary Carter Stokes, wife of a failed Yankee gentleman farmer and daughter of Major Moses Carter, late of the Army of Northern Virginia, first sees the property no plumbing, no electricity and the grounds a total disaster -- and it begins to sink in that this is to be where she will eventually die. Thus it becomes the story of Marys elder son, Edmund Carter Stokes and his Yankee but wealthy bride, as Ed, using Mounthaven as a base, struggles to complete the mission laid upon him by his mother-- to restore the family to the place in society it occupied before the war while Eds own son, Carter, flounders to free himself from these very values, for most of which Mounthaven serves as a decaying metaphor.

Download or read book Momma Gone written by Beryl Hamilton-Horton and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Song Lyrics and Poems written by Herthey Hill and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I do hope these writtings will be very inspirational to you, and inspire you with more hope for the future. I have written a lot of Truck driving songs and Humorus songs also. You will find songs and Poetry of different Holidays too. So come on and let's go on a journey into the past, the present, and hope for the Future.

Download or read book The Season written by Hilda Bridget Turner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born on February 8, 1951 in a small migrant camp town in Southeast Florida. This mostly hot sandy little community was called Indiantown. My mother was a nineteen years old along, who with her father David and other siblings, lived at this camp during the seasonal months of 1950. They worked picking vegetables out in the enormous fields owned by local farmers for what little money they could make. This money was to be taken back home to care for the rest of the family. Times were hard and the family needed money to make ends meet. My grandmother, Annie Mae, was at home, a two-hour drive north in central Florida. She was caring for all the younger children. David and Annie Mae came to Florida in 1950; their children would always tease them by saying . . . . "We left Carolina in 1949 and got to Florida in 1950". Of course it was late December when they left, and January 1st by the time they arrived.

Download or read book Love Laughs and Landscapes written by Phill J Doring and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book being Phills first is a grand collection of contemporary Poetry. Phill was ranked within the Top 200 Amateur Poets for some years for submissions to The International Society of Poetry. Five single poems of his have been published within books of International status. Three Poems being placed front page within these various books. Let alone Two International Editors Choice Awards. Not bad for True Blue down to earth Australian Country boy. Phill continues to write nowadays and is studying various forms of writings through university as well as venturing into singing and song-writing somewhat.

Download or read book Broken Cisterns written by Minister Juanita Young and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Love Continue my journey again with me soon my friends. I am so grateful that God has chosen me to tell them. I do have a voice, a voice that no one can take away from me. Oh how I love Jesus. What he has done with my life is so amazing and he will, help you. He is real, make no mistake about it. Seek him, seek his face with diligence in your heart, he answers us my friends.. I realized Christ was always my friend but I let the worlds issues get in the way and I, pushed him aside. But once I surrendered my everything to him I have learned to watch for him, watch for him like never before. Finding Christ is the best joy I've ever experienced in my life so I'm telling you, pray my friends, pray that he'll come for you and soon you too will rest in HIS peace and if you are in it, stay and wait on him. Wait on him to continue putting your life in order because if it weren't for him, we wouldn't be here. (Thanks for that Daddy.) Isaiah: 41 v 13

Download or read book Southern Comfort written by L.C. Mitchell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonny Nexell is a typical young man growing up in the South. He was born in Pineville, SC in the late 20’s to a family who inherited the land his ancestors slaved over for years. He was taught strong family and Christian values but sometimes those values succumb to temptation and greed. In turn he goes down a path that would take him on a ride that he will never forget or out live.

Download or read book HellFire written by Mia Gallagher and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a midsummer’s evening a young Dublin woman, Lucy Dolan, prepares for a showdown that will help make sense of a heart-breaking and brutal atrocity that happened thirteen years earlier, changing her life forever. As she waits for the arrival of the charismatic figure who is the key to the mystery, she recounts her life story – a rich and extraordinary tale spanning two generations of storytellers and deal-makers, fortune-tellers and gamblers, businessmen and warlords, and the people that feared, served and betrayed them. With each twist of this tumultuous story Lucy revisits her childhood and early adolescence – trying to get her head around the things people do in the name of love and hate, greed and desire – and she pieces together afresh the events that led to the night that still haunts her.

Download or read book Desperation Road written by Michael Farris Smith and published by Lee Boudreaux Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Amazon Best Book of the Month An Indie Next Pick A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick One of Southern Living's Best Southern Books of 2017 In the vein of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect. For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sits in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His sentence is now up, and he believes his debt has been paid. But when he returns home, he soon discovers that revenge lives and breathes all around him. On the same day that Russell is released from prison, a woman named Maben and her young daughter trudge along the side of the interstate under the punishing summer sun. Desperate and exhausted, the pair spend their last dollar on a room for the night, a night that ends with Maben running through the darkness holding a pistol, and a dead deputy sprawled in the middle o the road in the glow of his own headlights. With the dawn, destinies collide, and Russell is forced to decide whose life he will save--his own or those of the woman and child. Delivered in powerful and lyrical prose, Desperation Road is a story of troubled souls twisted with regret and bound by secrets that stretch over the years and across the land.

Download or read book A Child Called Hope written by Pat Allen Kaplon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope, a thin, tow-headed child with sad hazel eyes, stands barefooted in a dusty farm lane, watching the horse-drawn wagon take her mother away. Her beloved Momma has died a senseless death, and Hope must face life without her guidance and love. Pop, completely broken by his young wife, Lucy’s, sudden death, turns more and more to the bottle to ease his pain. Hope’s baby sister, Nollie, is taken away by relatives, and Hope sees her world being destroyed. From the hard scrabble farm in Appalachia where she was born, through homes of relatives and a foster home, to the coal towns of Western Maryland, Hope seeks to fi nd someone to love her, a home of her own, and a way to come to grips with the loss of Momma, the center of her young world. Follow Hope as she follows the fascinating journey to find happiness and closure.

Download or read book Lives of Short Duration written by David Adams Richards and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Terris are engaging people, but they are a family in collapse. Alcoholism, drugs, and loveless sex have reduced them to a petty and wasted bunch. Worse, they typify aspects of the larger community besieged by financial woes and by creeping economic and cultural Americanization. What David Adams Richards accomplishes is no mean feat: his characters are at times vicious, sleazy, and even outright dim, yet he manages to entitle them to the interest and sympathy of the reader. Even more now than at its first publication in 1981, Lives of Short Duration’s sharp, essential insights have significance for readers seeking to understand the modern Canadian predicament.