Download or read book My Bag Was Always Packed written by Claudine Curry Smith and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel of action and ideas, Rose Smith wants to live among the "the oldest things in the world." While working in Los Angeles, a photo of Peru's Machu Picchu attracts her attention. "Stone city, blue sky. Home," she ruminates. Impulsively, she goes. There she meets a university professor, Carlos Urbina Delgado. They fall in love during a long trip down the dry Peruvian coast into the ancient mountain city of Cuzco. Through Carlos, Rose sees the poverty of the once-proud Inca, ponders the endurance of these and other indigenous peoples and wonders if the world can survive without them. Rose sees Los Angeles differently when she returns as a city without a soul, divorced from its roots in early native people. Overcome by loneliness, Rose retreats into work. Slowly she moves forward in her quest. She rediscovers her passion for painting and joins in fighting for the rights of indigenous people. Carlos visits, but she has one more journey she must make: to Guatemala where the indigenous Maya have survived three decades of war. There, in the cities' markets and the country's highlands, in violence that pits Indian against European and nearly ends her life, Rose looks for her answers.
Download or read book Motherwit written by Onnie Lee Logan and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Motherwit" and "common sense" were the watchwords of Onnie Lee Logan's career as a lay midwife in Mobile County, Alabama. Although she received little formal education, endured the Depression and faced a racist society, Onnie Lee Logan experienced her life as the triumphant fulfillment of a dream to be one of those who could bring babies into the world, as her mother and grandmother had done before her. Her story, told in the soft, now vanishing dialect of the Deep South, is powerful and fascinating oral history. Motherwit follows her life through her work as a servant for a wealthy Mobile family, her troubled marriage during the Depression, and her struggle to become a licensed midwife. We watch as she delivers the babies of both black and white women of Alabama--losing only one baby in 40 years. Onnie Lee Logan's forbearance in the face of the crushing prejudice of the rural South makes inspiring and unforgettable reading. When she passed away in 1995, the New York Times declared her a “folk hero,” and Time called her book “a feminist classic.” Filled with startling drama and profound wisdom, Motherwit is an important contribution to African-American history. "An amazing story. A heroic woman and life after my own heart." Alice Walker "To have told her own story, to have borne this eloquent witness to her life is Onnie Lee Logan's final triumph." Ellen Douglas in the Washington Post Book World "Oral history doesn't come much better than this." Booklist "Beautiful...her passion rings through in every line." Los Angeles Times
Download or read book The Mom Friend Guide to Everyday Safety and Security written by Cathy Pedrayes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare yourself for whatever life throws your way with these essential safety and security hacks you need to know to keep you and your family safe, from TikTok’s Mom Friend, Cathy Pedrayes. Have you ever wished that you kept a first-aid kit in the car or berated yourself for not keeping a pair of flip-flops in your purse at all times? Ever wondered when it’s okay to geo-tag a social media post or when it’s best to lie to strangers? Just need some tips on how to feel safer and more prepared in today’s digital world? Well, Cathy Pedrayes has you covered. Known as the Mom Friend of TikTok, Cathy posts practical, everyday safety and security tips that everyone should know and incorporate into their routine. The Mom Friend Guide to Everyday Safety and Security offers a shortcut to a lifetime of tips and hacks Cathy has learned from experience as well as her consultations with personal security experts. You will find quick guides on: -Securing your home -Building a first-aid kit -Items to take with you on the go -Things to always pack when going on vacation -How to read the red flags in everyday situations -How to protect yourself online -And more! Practical and personable, The Mom Friend Guide to Everyday Safety and Security is a quick guide to all the safety tips you wish someone had told you sooner so you can be better prepared for whatever life throws your way.
Download or read book The Thorn Hearts written by Dr Danuta B Fabisiak and published by Danuata Fabisiak. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tragic true love story relates how one family was destroyed while losing sight of their hopes and dreams during their losing battle with cancer. The story teaches the reader to embrace the joy and unity our final time together can bring. Accept no compromise in life, especially at the end. Like so many others this family faced their loss alone. Instead of treasuring their last moments in peace, they were beset by emotional and psychological pain so crippling their family was torn apart. Life well-lived deserves a better end. In response to her grief, Dr. Fabisiak has resolved to help others avoid senseless suffering as the grip on life starts to slip. In remembrance of her loved one, Dr. Gerry G. Whitt, she has founded REFIT (Responding Effectively to Families In Trauma) to assist patients and their families in coping with all aspects of terminal illness.
Download or read book Amazing Stories From My Two Worlds written by John Y. Chan and published by Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd. This book was released on with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Why Not Me written by Wendy L. Bovard and published by Book Publishing Company (TN). This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the personal story of a courageous and compassionate Florida midwife and an account of her fight to provide women with affordable health care. It's a modern day tale of David versus Goliath, where "David" was one of the last grand ("granny") lay midwives still delivering babies in the U.S.
Download or read book The Curve Ball written by Samantha Lind and published by Samantha Lind. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justin I had the perfect bachelor's life. No obligations. No commitments. The greatest job in the world, all while being paid millions to do it. Until I became a dad overnight. My world turned upside down, I went from ballfields and bars to dirty diapers and bottles. I turned to my best friend for help but ended up with his little sister. Now, all I want is the one woman I can't have. She's the curveball I never saw coming. The one woman I'm willing to commit to and change my old ways for. I just have to show her that we can be a family. Riley Indianapolis was my fresh start. A new place near my family. When my brother's best friend ended up with a surprise baby dropped on his doorstep, I was the perfect nanny for the job. Everything was falling into place, If only I could keep my mind and hands off the playboy baller dad. Working for someone you are attracted to is hard. But when he's your brother's best friend and you live with him? Talk about impossible. Fatherhood changed him, but is it enough to give us a chance at a happily ever after?
Download or read book Grump s Guide to London written by Steve Williams and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Grump, the traveler’s guardian angel. Having flown the Atlantic over 300 times and stayed at over 40 of London’s variously priced hotels, who better to give cost-conscious advice to first-time London visitors? With a sharp eye for trouble, Grump is unafraid to expose all those potentially embarrassing ‘ooops’ moments that can trip the unwary. He even helps you beat jet lag! Finally the affable Mr. Grump pilots you out onto on the streets of London with a spring in your step and a smile on your face. Grump’s Guide To London is a treasure trove of helpful insights about the unique British culture found on ‘Planet London’. Heeding Grump’s advice will make planning and packing fun, the journey stress-free, and the arrival formalities a breeze. Bonus Tips On…… Beating Jet Lag What-to-wear tips for comfort in Britain’s changeable weather What the Queen thinks ‘Britishness’ explained – including their Empire and their table manners What Have The Brits Ever Done For Me? Plenty! (they gave you Fifty Shades of Gray, Harry Potter, Adele and Grand Theft Auto) Advice On Dealing With London’s Terror Threats A language primer explaining all those puzzling words and phrases the Brits use.
Download or read book Looking for Trouble written by Ralph Peters and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on his life as a career soldier, controversial strategist, prize-winning, bestselling novelist, erstwhile rock musician, popular columnist, and old-fashioned adventurer, Peters recounts the personal experiences that have shaped his views of the world.
Download or read book How to Be a Digital Nomad written by Kayla Ihrig and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't need to sacrifice your career to travel the world. Join the 35 million digital nomads who are living, working and exploring to the fullest. With this book, discover the incredible opportunities of digital nomadism and learn how you can travel the world while also sustaining a successful work-life. How to Be a Digital Nomad gives you everything you need to build a successful career on your terms. This book is both a practical guide and an insightful exploration of this unique lifestyle. It includes interviews with a diverse range of remote workers, telling stories that span five decades of digital nomadism, and highlights the unique opportunities this lifestyle offers you and your career. Whether you're looking for a few months away, a working gap year or an entirely new lifestyle, this book will show you how you can take control of your career while travelling the world.
Download or read book Walking Hand in Hand with Cameron Together We Can written by Becki Enck Mph and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking Hand in Hand with Cameron, Together We Can shares the Enck family's journey into the world of special-needs parenting. Travel with them as they share the feelings they felt as they learned of Cameron's brain damage and their struggles to obtain therapies for Cameron despite obstacles from their HMO. Understand why the Encks' have now made it their mission to educate medical professionals on how to deliver a diagnosis with care and compassion. Also learn why the Encks' are committed to educating people to see Cameron for who he is, not what condition he has. This book is a culmination of Becki's four-year-long personal journey of finding her life's purpose out of one of the hardest, most painful, yet most personally rewarding and enriching experiences of her life. As you read this book, you will understand why the statement Dr. Shah spoke to the Encks' the evening he delivered the news that Cameron had suffered extensive brain damage, "The day you say Cameron will never do something, he never will!," has become their life philosophy.
Download or read book Making Sense of Parenthood written by Tina Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from Making Sense of Motherhood (2005) and Making Sense of Fatherhood (2010), Tina Miller's book focuses on transitions to first-time parenthood and the unfolding experiences of managing caring and paid work in modern family lives. Returning to her original participants, it collects later episodes of their experience of 'doing' family life, and meticulously examines mothers' and fathers' accounts of negotiating intensified parenting responsibilities and work-place demands. It explores questions of why gender equality and equity are harder to manage within the home sphere when organising caring and associated responsibilities, re-addressing the concept of 'maternal gatekeeping' and offering insights into a new concept of 'paternal gatekeeping'. The findings presented will inform both scholarly work and policy on family lives, gender equality and work.
Download or read book All That She Carried written by Tiya Miles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives. WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, Lawrence W. Levine Award, Darlene Clark Hine Award, Cundill History Prize, Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, Massachusetts Book Award ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Vulture, Publishers Weekly “A history told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds. It honors the creativity and resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today FINALIST: MAAH Stone Book Award, Kirkus Prize, Mark Lynton History Prize, Chatauqua Prize ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, NPR, Time, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Smithsonian Magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, Book Riot, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Grieving Loss and Healing written by Amy Newmark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 101 inspirational, compassionate, and empowering stories will help you cope with loss, regain your strength, and find joy in life again. You deserve loving support in your time of need, because it hurts—a lot. It helps to read stories from other people who have been through the same thing and who are passing on their advice and best tips. Losing a loved one, whether a child, a spouse, a parent or grandparent, a sibling, a friend, a pet… it’s a process you have to work through. The same goes for losing the future you thought you had due to chronic illness. And with these 101 stories you’ll find people just like you sharing what worked for them and helped them continue living, loving, and even laughing. You don’t have to feel alone. Think of this as your portable support group, with 101 new friends who care about your situation and understand what you’re going through. Chicken Soup for the Soul books are 100% made in the USA and each book includes stories from as diverse a group of writers as possible. Chicken Soup for the Soul solicits and publishes stories from the LGBTQ community and from people of all ethnicities, nationalities, and religions.
Download or read book Rockhounding Colorado written by Gary Warren and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rockhounding Colorado takes you to 81 of the best rockhounding sites in the state. Search for amethyst and quartz at the Crystal Hill Mine, check out the view at Douglas Pass while looking for leaf imprints and insect fossils, or head to Saint Peters Dome to uncover green, white, and purple fluorite.
Download or read book Cambridge English Prepare Level 6 Student s Book written by James Styring and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare! is a lively 7-level general English course with comprehensive Cambridge English for Schools exam preparation integrated throughout. This flexible course brings together all the tools and technology you expect to get the results you need. Whether teaching general English or focusing on exams, Prepare! leaves you and your students genuinely ready for what comes next: real Cambridge English exams, or real life. The Level 6 Student's Book engages students and builds vocabulary range with motivating, age-appropriate topics. Its unique approach is driven by cutting-edge language research from English Profile and the Cambridge Learner Corpus. 'Prepare to...' sections develop writing and speaking skills. A Student's Book and Online Workbook is also available, separately.
