Download or read book My Grandpa Fixes Stuff written by John Bourgeois and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short story with photos of a three year old girl who helps her grandfather fix things. She shows the tools she uses and stresses the safety aspect of using them under supervision.

Download or read book Writing Is Magic Or Is It Using Mentor Texts to Develop the Writer s Craft ebook written by Mary McMackin and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students must study what accomplished authors have written and practice the styles, approaches, or methods they employ in order to become proficient writers. The practical, standards-based book dives deeply into the genres of poetry, narrative fiction, narrative nonfiction, informative/explanatory, and opinion/argument. Using close reading of mentor texts, analysis of specific writing strategies in those texts, and the application of those strategies in the student's own writing, students will be equipped for any type of writing.

Download or read book What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay written by Amanda Cockrell and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angie never thought much about God until things started getting weird—like the statue of St. Felix talking to her and Angie’s mother busting up her third marriage for no reason. Then there’s Jesse Francis, sent home from Afghanistan with his leg blown off.

Download or read book Sleeping Dogs written by Virginia Easley DeMarce and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the multi-ethnic immigration paradise of Minnesota’s Iron Range, a woman’s suspicion that her husband might be cheating on her leads to the unexpected response from the private investigator she hired. He is, instead, spending the time investigating his adoption at the request of their adult daughters, who had submitted a DNA test and through it connected him with a nearby relative. Bringing in a professional genealogist to expedite solving the puzzle of how on earth they might be related to each other leads the family through photo albums, newspapers on microfilm, the mystery of an abandoned toddler a generation earlier, census records, the frequent illegibility of cursive handwriting in historical records, rum-running on the Great Lakes during Prohibition, the propensity of upper midwestern girls to go to beaches in California for winter break, cross-border migration between the US and Canada, the wonders of multi-lingual phonetic spelling, and other adventures through the past to some unanticipated results in the present.

Download or read book The Stuff of Family Life written by Michelle Janning and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does putting your smartphone on the dinner table impact your relationships? How does where you place your TV in your home affect your family? The Stuff of Family Life takes readers inside the changing world of families through a unique examination of their stuff. From digital family photo albums to the growing popularity of “man caves,” author Michelle Janning looks at not only what large demographic studies say about family dynamics but also what our lives—and the stuff in them—say about how we relate to each other. The book takes readers through various phases of family life, including dating, marriage, parenting, divorce, and aging, while paying attention to how our choices about our spaces and objects impact our lives. Janning has joked, “I'm not a social scientist who uses large national datasets to illustrate family life; I’m the social scientist who asks people to examine what’s in their underwear drawers to tell stories about their family life.” From underwear drawers to calendars, The Stuff of Family Life offers an illuminating and entertaining look at the complexities of American families today.

Download or read book The Boys in the Window written by John Bourgeois and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What goes on inside the social group of a bunch of old men as they gather weekly inside a coffee shop.

Download or read book My Grandfather s Altar written by Richard Moves Camp and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Grandfather's Altar is an oral-literary narrative account of Richard Moves Camp's family history and traditions.

Download or read book The Night Sister written by Jennifer McMahon and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest novel from New York Times best-selling author Jennifer McMahon is an atmospheric, gripping, and suspenseful tale that probes the bond between sisters and the peril of keeping secrets. Once the thriving attraction of rural Vermont, the Tower Motel now stands in disrepair, alive only in the memories of Amy, Piper, and Piper's kid sister, Margot. The three played there as girls until the day that their games uncovered something dark and twisted in the motel's past, something that ruined their friendship forever. Now adult, Piper and Margot have tried to forget what they found that fateful summer, but their lives are upended when Piper receives a panicked midnight call from Margot, with news of a horrific crime for which Amy stands accused. Suddenly, Margot and Piper are forced to relive the time that they found the suitcase that once belonged to Silvie Slater, the aunt that Amy claimed had run away to Hollywood to live out her dream of becoming Hitchcock's next blonde bombshell leading lady. As Margot and Piper investigate, a cleverly woven plot unfolds—revealing the story of Sylvie and Rose, two other sisters who lived at the motel during its 1950s heyday. Each believed the other to be something truly monstrous, but only one carries the secret that would haunt the generations to come.

Download or read book The Scrolls of the Bonefairy Castle written by David Spiegel and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-12-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Hunter knew very little about his family’s history. After experiencing a very embarrassing moment at school, Hunter knew he must discover who his ancestors are. By simply asking his grandpa where his ancestors came from, it opened the door to the most outrageous adventure of his life. He learned all about his namesake, Sir Hunter, who was the leader of the Royalmen who served the Queen of the Bonefairy Castle. Sir Hunter led the Royalmen in all battles to safeguard the land of the Bonefairy Castle. Sir Hunter encountered numerous challenges that were extremely dangerous and frightening, while returning from battle to the Bonefairy Castle. Sir Hunter knew he must fulfill his obligations to the Queen. The most powerful of all queens. This Queen wrote everything in scrolls, the same scrolls that young Hunter found. Young Hunter soon understood why he was named Hunter and was given a mission by the Queen. This was a very important mission that will change the way of the world. With young Hunter’s new founded friend Galaxy, the leader of all the Queen’s fairies, Hunter and Izzy made their assigned mission their own life endeavor. Their new endeavor will be a crucial element to the human race.

Download or read book Romi and the Best Man written by Amy Sparling and published by Amy Sparling. This book was released on with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romi’s greatest dream is to run the famed Blake Retreat until she retires, despite how her family just wants to sell to a wealthy CEO and take the money. With the purchase offers getting higher and higher, she’d rather focus on planning an extravagant week-long wedding for a local couple, and it’s not just because the best man who is planning the wedding with her is super good-looking. (Okay, maybe it is.) Lucas avoided love and family for years as he climbed high on the corporate ladder, and now he finds himself planning a charming wedding retreat for his best friend, Max. Weeks of phone calls and emails with the proprietor, Romi, has given him a little crush on the woman, but it’s not until he meets her in person the week before the wedding that he realizes that there might be more to life than working all the time. When Romi discovers that Lucas not only works for that annoying CEO, but has been tasked with making sure he buys her business no matter the cost, she’s crushed. She’s also determined to make sure he never gets his greedy hands on her family’s property, no matter what it takes. The Lake Sterling series is a series of sweet contemporary romantic comedies. Each book can be read as a standalone. Dive into Lake Sterling and fall in love today!

Download or read book Dad How Do I written by Rob Kenney and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like the YouTube channel, this is a touching yet informative guide for those seeking fatherly advice, or even a few good dad jokes.” — Library Journal

Download or read book Fixing Fate written by Anna Brooks and published by Anna Brooks. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some wounds need more than time to heal... I don't remember what it's like not to be scared. And then I meet him. My brother's friend and ex-partner is everything I'll never be. Sexy, confident, and perfect. He calls me sunshine and tells me I'm beautiful. He asks me to stay. When my past comes back with a vengeance, he proves just how much he'd risk to shield me from the demons that were never supposed to resurface. *** Readers love Smith and Mellie's story that delivers all the feels! "This story gets a big ol' WOW! 10++ stars & all kinds of nail-biting!" ~ Carrie M "In Fixing Fate, Anna introduces us to Mellie and Smith and weaves their love story so beautifully. It's sexy, touching, heartbreaking and sweet, all in one. Safe to say, I'll buy whatever Anna's selling because her books are just that good!" ~ Brenna R "I wish I could rate this higher than 5 stars, because this read is so much more than a 5! I enjoyed so many elements of this book. It had twist and turns throughout the story, insecurity, fear, personal emotional growth, awareness of mental illness and addiction, a victim's daily struggles, hope and love...just to name a few." ~Mom's Guilty Pleasure *** Fixing Fate is the first novel in the Daring Destiny series featuring alpha males and wounded, but strong women. It can be read as a standalone. Emotionally gripping, this sexy, suspenseful romance will pull at your heart strings and leave you with a guaranteed happily ever after. *** keywords: contemporary romance, romantic suspense, new adult romance, alpha male, modern romance, sexy, angsty, emotional, contemporary romance series, romantic suspense series, family, love, kidnapping, secret romance, stalker, forbidden romance, rescue, forced proximity, swoon, brother’s best friend, best friend’s sister, police officer, cop romance, HEA, no cliffhanger, steamy romance, family saga

Download or read book Hell Is Other Parents written by Deborah Copaken Kogan and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I read No Exit in my early twenties, and I remember thinking hell might very well be other people, okay, sure, but under what far-fetched conditions would anyone ever actually be trapped forever in the company of strangers with no sleep or means of escape? Then I became a parent. From Deborah Copaken Kogan, the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Shutterbabe, comes this edgy, insightful, and sidesplitting memoir about surviving in the trenches of modern parenting. Kogan writes situation comedy in the style of David Sedaris and Spalding Gray with a dash of Erma-Bombeck-on-a-Vespa: wry, acutely observed, and often hilarious true tales, in which the narrator is as culpable as any character. In these eleven linked pieces, Kogan and her husband are almost always broke while working full-time and raising three children in New York City, one of the most expensive and competitive cities in the world. In one episode, exhausted from a particularly difficult childbirth, Kogan finds herself sharing a hospital room with a foul-mouthed teen mother and her partying posse. In another, Kogan manages to crawl her way to her own emergency appendectomy, which inconveniently strikes the same week her infant's babysitter is away on vacation, her adolescents are off from school, her New York Times editor needs his edit, and the whole family catches the flu. And in the book's capper essay, she drives twelve hours, solo, with a screaming toddler in a rent-a-car in a futile effort to catch a glimpse of her eldest child in his summer camp play. Yes, Shutterbabe is all grown up and slightly worse for the wear, but her clear-eyed vision while under fire has remained intact: You've never read funnier war stories.

Download or read book Shackled to My Father s Sins written by Sarah Martin Byrd and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a person inherit the wickedness of an evil parent? Are we forever shackled to our father’s sins? No one should know the answer to this better than nineteen-year-old Katherine Paddington. She finally sees an end to her own misery when her Uncle Ben is jailed for the murder of his brother. But, lurking in the coal mine shadows is none other than Ben Paddington’s very own son, Benny Bauguess. After searching unsuccessfully for her son’s daddy for twenty years, Trudy sees the mugshot of her old boyfriend on a news broadcast. Only, Ben is in the state penitentiary in Wheeling, West Virginia, and Trudy has not seen him since Benny’s conception. Benny and Trudy begin the six-hundred-mile journey from Folly Beach to Wheeling to confront the scoundrel who left Trudy to raise her son on her own. But what does Benny really want? His father’s love . . . or revenge on him and his wealthy family? In this sequel to In the Coal Mine Shadows, Katherine knows she must start a new life after her Grandmother Mame and Grandfather Clint pass away, but will the coal mine shadows of her past control her future away from the hills of West Virginia? Will Katherine succeed in making a new life for herself in North Carolina, away from the lies and deceit of her forefathers? Or, will the sins of yesteryear haunt her and her cousin Benny forever?

Download or read book The Shiner s Fix Up Drink Up written by Michael L. Schuh and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has many stories about my friends that are fine And them working on my place whilst drinking my shine Many weeks they get started with the repairs It's really nice to have friends like mine that truly cares I wish you could be here but then I would not write about All what I have to say and when I talk I tend to shout. But you'd not believe how beautiful it is, today for sure The birds are all singing and these hills are alive once more Spring is the season I wait for each year And I always feel much better once it is here Boy"" This shine that I'm now a-drinking is extra ripe That means I've made once again some, moonshine with bite You get all this and much, much more...

Download or read book Waldo Emerson My Grandfather and Me written by Eugene X. Perticone and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Matthew is almost twelve years old, his grandfather, Sam, decides it's time for him to get to know the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a sage the boy has never heard of. During their frequent meetings, Sam introduces Matthew to Emerson's sophisticated notions and wisdoms. Emerson's words, delivered in the essay Self-Reliance and in other writings, teach Matthew practical concepts that give greater meaning to life and help him successfully overcome difficulties for himself and his family. At the same time, Sam and Matthew develop a very special and loving relationship. In Waldo Emerson, My Grandfather, and Me, author Eugene X. Perticone shows that although circumstances and the problems of life may seem different and more complex in our time, the best solutions haven't changed much. The wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson as it pertains to both worldly and spiritual matters is shown to be as relevant today as in the time it was written, and a grandfather's approach to teaching this to his grandson results in happiness for both of them as well as many others in the boy's life.

Download or read book SURVIVING YOUR OWN HOLOCAUST written by Dr. Bryant F. Litchfield, MD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Family Medicine, the physician often takes on the role of Junior Psychiatrist treating depression, grief, anxiety, social phobia, panic attack disorder, and bipolar affective disorder. He or she may have among his/her patients others with schizophrenia, dissociative, or a wide variety of personality disorders. Counselling is commonplace in Family Medicine engaging these as well as excessive appetite behaviours: addictions.