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Book Child in the Valley

Download or read book Child in the Valley written by Gordy Sauer and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply in debt, he flees his St. Louis home for Independence, Missouri. There, he plans to offer his medical expertise in exchange for passage to California in a Gold Rush party. Joshua is initially rebuffed given his youth and inexperience, but as his resentment and greed grow, a chance encounter with a ruthless adventurer and an ex-slave enlists him in a party comprised of provincial identical twins and a wealthy Englishman. The party departs overland along a 1,500-mile trail carved out by hardship, disease, violence, and death. When finally they arrive starving and exhausted in California's Sacramento Valley, Joshua discovers that attaining those riches is not as simple as pulling them from the riverbed, forcing him to redefine his sense of morality within the context of his greed; his complex sexuality; and the growing, though still-fledgling, American government. This novel is part of the Cold Mountain Fund Series, in partnership with Charles Frazier"--

Book Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat

Download or read book Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat written by Stephanie Covington Armstrong and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing her struggle as a black woman with an eating disorder that is consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem, this insightful and moving narrative traces the background and factors that caused her bulimia. Moving coast to coast, she tries to escape her self-hatred and obsession by never slowing down, unaware that she is caught in downward spiral emotionally, spiritually, and physically. Finally she can no longer deny that she will die if she doesn't get help, overcome her shame, and conquer her addiction. But seeking help only reinforces her negative self-image, and she discovers her race makes her an oddity in the all-white programs for eating disorders. This memoir of her experiences answers many questions about why black women often do not seek traditional therapy for emotional problems.

Book Shattered but Not Broken

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betty Major-Rose
  • Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
  • Release : 2022-04-10
  • ISBN : 1489740716
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Shattered but Not Broken written by Betty Major-Rose and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founder of Parents Against Gangs, and the Family Trauma Advocacy Counseling Center, Betty Major-Rose shares her story of the many grief experiences she lived through including the tragic and sudden death of her first husband and murder of her seventeen year-old daughter. She walks us through each death she endured and reveals the complexities that comes with grief. Her story sheds light on the struggle with grieving in pain while holding hope, and battling with depression and anxiety, while trying to maintain faith in God. Being shattered by loss time and time again, her vulnerableness in the darkest hours built a strength and resilience that never left her broken. The mending from each loss brought about a continuous transformation that ultimately led to her having the grace to support others who are grieving the sudden and traumatic loss of their loved ones.

Book My Sister  My Brother

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Baker-Fletcher
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2002-06-19
  • ISBN : 1579109993
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book My Sister My Brother written by Karen Baker-Fletcher and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-06-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh new approach to African-American theology brings two creative theologians into a lively dialogue between womanist and XodusÓ thought. Karen Baker-Fletcher writes from the perspective of womanism, reflecting the interlocking issues of sex, class, and race, that characterize the experience of African-American women. Garth KASIMU Baker-Fletcher writes from the perspective of what he has termed Xodus theology. With a name that resonates with reference both to the Exodus story, the Cross, and the self-naming identity of Malcolm X, Xodus reflects the perspective of a new generation of Black theology by males who have responded, among other things, to the challenges of womanist theology. In successive chapters based on core themes of theology, each author lays out his or her position. They then engage in mutual critique and dialogue. Both authors draw widely on the Bible and traditional theology, as well as incorporating elements from both African and African-American religious and cultural expression - from the novels of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker to rap and hip-hop. 'My Sister, My Brother' weaves a bright theological tapestry that integrates female and male experience, traditional and contemporary perspectives, in an African-American theology that promotes survival, resistance, healing, liberation, and transcendence. CONTENTS: Part I God: God as Spirit and Strength of Life; Xodus Intuitions of the Divine. Part II Christ: Immanuel, Jesus as Dust and Spirit; Jesus, the Scandal of a God with a Body. Part III Humanity: Xodus Anthropology; Womanhood, A Way of Being Human. Part IV Generations: Unto All Generations; Unto the Fathers' Fathers. Part V Church: Spirit-Church; Having Church.Ó Part VI: Last Things: Future Now! Xodus Eschatology; Dust to Dust, Spirit to Spirit. A Womanist Eschatology.

Book There Was A Fire Here

Download or read book There Was A Fire Here written by Risa Nye and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less than a month before her 40th birthday, a devastating firestorm destroys Risa Nye’s home and neighborhood in Oakland, California. Already mourning the perceived loss of her youth, she now must face the loss of all tangible reminders of who she was before. There Was a Fire Here is the story of how Nye adjusts to the turning point that will forever mark the “before and after” in her life—and a chronicle of her attempts to honor the lost symbols of her past even as she struggles to create a new home for her family.

Book With His Love Along The Way

Download or read book With His Love Along The Way written by Judy Luce and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, I wanted to share my amazing story with not only my friends but with others and to let everyone know how my story all began. In looking back and at the things that I have seen in my travels that God has created for you and me hold a life time of memories I have been blessed with such an amazing life and my journey has not ended as my journey continues on and I can't wait for the next Chapter. So let our amazing journey began and I hope that you like my story

Book Turbulence

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN : 1438972679
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Turbulence written by and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 1976 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wound Up In Murder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betty Hechtman
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2015-07-07
  • ISBN : 0698187121
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Wound Up In Murder written by Betty Hechtman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the newest Yarn Retreat Mystery from the national bestselling author of Silence of the Lamb’s Wool, dessert chef Casey Feldstein continues to develop her hidden talents for knitting…and solving murders. With two yarn retreats in the bag, Casey is looking forward to running her third one at Cadbury by the Sea’s Vista Del Mar hotel on the Monterey Peninsula. This time, each knitter will get a Mystery Bag of knitting materials to turn into a personal project. But Casey gets tangled up in another retreat at the same hotel, when the organizer and his wife have a very public spat. As Casey is delivering her baked goods later that night, she finds the woman dead in the bushes with a magician’s silk scarf nearby—just like the scarf Casey’s ex-boyfriend, Sammy, used during his magic act at the retreat. As Sammy takes center stage as the prime suspect, Casey and her friends will have to stitch together the clues before the real killer pulls a disappearing act... Includes knitting patterns and a recipe

Book The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

Download or read book The Story of My Boyhood and Youth written by John Muir and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1913-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Muir (1838-1914), whose writings about the natural world have shaped the conservation and environmental movements for more than a century, wrote this autobiographical account near the end of his life about his childhood in Dunbar, Scotland, his immigration to America (1849), his adolescence on a pioneer farmstead near Kingston, Wisconsin, and his student years at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth reveals the evolution of Muir's scientific curiosity and the beginnings of his reverential attitude towards nature. Treating his encounters with wildlife as high adventure, he gives especially informed attention to bird life in both Scotland and Wisconsin.

Book The Adventures Of Tom   Jeff  The Cemetery

Download or read book The Adventures Of Tom Jeff The Cemetery written by jeffery Clinkenbeard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Adventures of Tom & Jeff, The Cemetery" is a mind twisting mystery about an Urban Legend, a ghost that has, in fact, been seen and chased by many. Our quest will explore what's real and what's not, it will have a ripple effect starting in the past and going forward into the future. It may ultimately change the fate of all unresolved, unspeakable mysteries that some refer to as Urban Legends! "This book is about life, seen from the eyes of two young and adventurous Boys, how they were challenged with life changes, life bonds, and had to quickly acquire unthinkable coping skills". (This book is perfect for teens and anyone who likes adventure stories BUT, I will also make another edition of This Book in LARGER PRINT for those of us who have a hard time with small print)

Book Redeemed

Download or read book Redeemed written by Penny Lane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penny is just four years old when she is snatched away from her all-American home by the Hungarian father who abandoned her when she was a baby. After facing isolation and neglect in a strange, dysfunctional household where heartache, rejection, and physical abuse rule her life, she escapes—only to find herself in a relationship with a man who’s just converted to fundamentalist Christianity. Penny’s road is long, winding, and often painful, but gradually she begins to listen to her inner voice, stand up for herself, and refuse to bow to the pressures of either her family or society—freeing herself to build a life on her own terms and find her way to happiness. A rise-from-the-ashes hero’s story of overcoming abuse, trauma, and unbearable odds, of being waylaid by both family and religion’s promise of love, and harnessing the resilience to find the way home, Redeemed offers a rare window into Eastern European immigrant culture and reads like a page-turning thriller. Especially relevant today—a time when marginalized people are increasingly finding a voice—this memoir will serve as an inspiration to women everywhere, encouraging them to overcome their obstacles and go after their dreams.

Book To Vietnam and Back 1967   1968

Download or read book To Vietnam and Back 1967 1968 written by Dolores Cook Raisch and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war in Vietnam was a turbulent time in our nation’s history that stirred strong feelings and deep emotions as America changed in ways that could not have been anticipated or avoided. To Vietnam and Back is an intimate family memoir that, through a lifeline of letters, offers a unique and warmly told story about one soldier’s year in Vietnam and one family anxiously awaiting his return. Readers will take a step back in time to a pivotal period of the Vietnam War, 1967-1968, and glimpse what it was like to not only leave home for the uncertainty of an increasingly controversial conflict, but also to be the parents, siblings and friends left at home to provide support the only way they knew how... through heartfelt words of everyday life. The pages are filled with emotion, humor, family and neighborhood news, while also depicting the uncertainty, fear and division caused by the war in Vietnam. It is a year of back and forth letters that brought encouragement and hope to the writers and recipients of those letters. In essence, To Vietnam and Back is a journey of the written kind that revisits and illustrates the timeless value of family, friends, faith and love.

Book A Stirring of the Air  a Shifting of the Light

Download or read book A Stirring of the Air a Shifting of the Light written by Wayne Luckmann and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne Luckmann looks back on growing up in Milwaukee's South Side during the 1930s and 1940s, sharing hard-fought lessons from his childhood and beyond in this touching memoir. In A Stirring of the Air, a Shifting of the Light, Luckmann celebrates his family, childhood friends, and many others who have played meaningful roles in his life. His recollections include Margaret and Her Children in which he shares the rich heritage of his mother's European family who immigrated to America at the start of the last century. Their deep, abiding love often unexpressed help turn him into the man he ultimately becomes. In My Father's Keeper, he explores his father's side of the family, showing how various relatives influenced his relationship with his dad. This side of the family helps shape his attitudes, perceptions, and relationships with others, especially his son. These recollections seek to preserve moments and memories of things past that were rich in flesh and blood and bone. Although they are now only flickering neural images, they made Luckmann who he is, and they have profound meaning for anyone seeking a bridge to the past and an understanding of self.

Book Harper s Bazaar

Download or read book Harper s Bazaar written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ladies  Home Companion

Download or read book Ladies Home Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Country Gentleman

Download or read book The Country Gentleman written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Running from the Voices

Download or read book Running from the Voices written by Lorne Sanford and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an early age Krystal Copeland knew she was unlike most children. After all, they weren’t hearing the same voices she was. As time went on, she would learn the truth about her abilities—they were gifts. Running from the Voices tells the life of the psychic Krystal Copeland and how she learned to accept her gifts, her heritage, and, above all, herself. Running from the Voices encourages readers to take a closer look into their own lives and explore a world beyond material possessions and monetary values.