Download or read book Papa s Mechanical Fish written by Candace Fleming and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candace Fleming and illustrator Boris Kulikov pair up to tell a fun story about a real submarine inventor in Papa's Mechanical Fish Clink! Clankety-bang! Thump-whirr! That's the sound of Papa at work. Although he is an inventor, he has never made anything that works perfectly, and that's because he hasn't yet found a truly fantastic idea. But when he takes his family fishing on Lake Michigan, his daughter Virena asks, "Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a fish?"—and Papa is off to his workshop. With a lot of persistence and a little bit of help, Papa—who is based on the real-life inventor Lodner Phillips—creates a submarine that can take his family for a trip to the bottom of Lake Michigan.
Download or read book Notes on Grief written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided” (The Washington Post). Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page—and never without touches of rich, honest humor—Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book—a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever—and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.
Download or read book The Last Words written by David D M Osano and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LAST WORDS is a collection of verse, stanzas and poems written for relaxation. With humour and satire, soul searching and comforting prose, love and hope, the collection promises all readers an adventure full of laughter, curiosity and moments of personal thought. The collection also tells of the pride of our soldiers to whom it is dedicated, as they sacrifice their lives in pursuit of peace to the oppressed. The courage and pride of these men and women is told in poetry with highlights of the pride in what they choose to do. The pride that outweighs the risks they face everyday in doing their job.
Download or read book Dear Papa written by Anne Ylvisaker and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September of 1943, one year after her father's death, nine-year-old Isabelle begins writing him letters, which are interspersed with letters to other members of her family, relating important events in her life and how she feels about them. Reprint.
Download or read book Children Who Survived the Final Solution written by Peter Tarjan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holocaust survivors who were children during the Nazi persecution wrote this collection of memoirs. Each story bubbled up spontaneously, without an interviewer's guidance; hence these represent the most permanent memories of their authors' childhood experiences. This book provides a rare vantage point to look into the diverse lives of children during the Holocaust.-Both professionals and adult survivors have often said, "The children were too young to remember."-They could not have been more wrong about that. " I was struck by the fact that the stories were not bitter, they did not seek revenge. I found the underlying thread in the purpose of the stories to be gifts to the world, given in the hope that the stories and the anthology would contribute to other children not having to suffer such events in the future." Paul Valent, M.D., Melbourne, Australia author, Child Survivors of the Holocaust (1994, 2002)
Download or read book Last Words of Saints and Sinners written by Herbert Lockyer and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 700 quotes includes the last words of commoners, atheists, poets, and politicians along with noted Christians and martyrs. Ready reference source for the pastor or public speaker.
Download or read book Fathers and Sons written by Alexander Waugh and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there is a literary gene, then the Waugh family most certainly has it—and it clearly seems to be passed down from father to son. The first of the literary Waughs was Arthur, who, when he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry at Oxford in 1888, broke with the family tradition of medicine. He went on to become a distinguished publisher and an immensely influential book columnist. He fathered two sons, Alec and Evelyn, both of whom were to become novelists of note (and whom Arthur, somewhat uneasily, would himself publish); both of whom were to rebel in their own ways against his bedrock Victorianism; and one of whom, Evelyn, was to write a series of immortal novels that will be prized as long as elegance and lethal wit are admired. Evelyn begat, among seven others, Auberon Waugh, who would carry on in the family tradition of literary skill and eccentricity, becoming one of England’s most incorrigibly cantankerous and provocative newspaper columnists, loved and loathed in equal measure. And Auberon begat Alexander, yet another writer in the family, to whom it has fallen to tell this extraordinary tale of four generations of scribbling male Waughs. The result of his labors is Fathers and Sons, one of the most unusual works of biographical memoir ever written. In this remarkable history of father-son relationships in his family, Alexander Waugh exposes the fraught dynamics of love and strife that has produced a succession of successful authors. Based on the recollections of his father and on a mine of hitherto unseen documents relating to his grandfather, Evelyn, the book skillfully traces the threads that have linked father to son across a century of war, conflict, turmoil and change. It is at once very, very funny, fearlessly candid and exceptionally moving—a supremely entertaining book that will speak to all fathers and sons, as well as the women who love them.
Download or read book Papa s Pastries written by Charles Toscano and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Miguel’s family needs a new roof, firewood, and clothing to survive the winter. Miguel hope his father, a pastry peddler, will sell enough tasty treats to buy the things they need.But all the villagers they meet have also endured great hardship, and Miguel;s father gives his pastries to those who need them most. Miguel feels heartbroken. Then something happens that teaches him that kindness is far more valuable than money."
Download or read book The Raw Bold Truth written by Joan Hammersmith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John B. died on January 26, 2001, he died sober. That was his greatest desire. In The Raw, Bold Truth, author Joan Hammersmith, Johnny B.s widow, finishes the story John himself started in the late 1990s before he passed away prematurely. In this memoir, Hammersmith narrates the real story of the real Johnny B.the man he was and the man he became. Johns goal was to tell the story of his life: his childhood, filled with abuse, grief, and dysfunction; his struggles with mental health issues; his prison experiences; his addictions; and the journey of his recovery, including the tragic episodes of his relapses. The Raw, Bold Truth tells of Johns legacy as a leader, teacher, father, grandfather, friend, and husband. Hammersmith then shares the story of her relationship with Johnny B., a multi-racial, ex-con biker who struggled to find final recovery from his past and his addictions before he took his last ride to seek his Creator. A compelling story of love and redemption, The Raw, Bold Truth communicates that recovery from addiction is possible, but it requires rigorous honestysomething John found only in death.
Download or read book Dear Papa Dear Hotch written by Ernest Hemingway and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book Momas Baby Papa s Maybe the Secrets Out written by Pyre Kabu Ajamu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look who's all grown up, and No longer green to the Game; you know... that funny little thing called life. Yup the one and only infamous, "Drip Baby to the high Heel Diva" In a ballpark of her madam Celeste No longer being looked at as a night walking eye candy for peeping toms, after hour politicians, and natives of the nation’s capital Celeste though.
Download or read book Laudato Si written by Pope Francis and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In the heart of this world, the Lord of life, who loves us so much, is always present. He does not abandon us, he does not leave us alone, for he has united himself definitively to our earth, and his love constantly impels us to find new ways forward. Praise be to him!” – Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ In his second encyclical, Laudato Si’: On the Care of Our Common Home, Pope Francis draws all Christians into a dialogue with every person on the planet about our common home. We as human beings are united by the concern for our planet, and every living thing that dwells on it, especially the poorest and most vulnerable. Pope Francis’ letter joins the body of the Church’s social and moral teaching, draws on the best scientific research, providing the foundation for “the ethical and spiritual itinerary that follows.” Laudato Si’ outlines: The current state of our “common home” The Gospel message as seen through creation The human causes of the ecological crisis Ecology and the common good Pope Francis’ call to action for each of us Our Sunday Visitor has included discussion questions, making it perfect for individual or group study, leading all Catholics and Christians into a deeper understanding of the importance of this teaching.
Download or read book Listening To Her Own Voice written by Colleen A. MacFarlane and published by Colleen A. MacFarlane. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosa Kerker's journey is a true account of a young girl's emigration with her family to America in 1866. Her parents and six siblings settled in Chaska, Minnesota, persevering through harsh winters, disease, and the stigma of her sister's suicide. Raised in a strong Catholic family, Rosa was drawn to the convent at a young age. This is a novel of historical fiction and is inspired by Rosa's quest to find fulfillment and happiness in a religious community, despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Rosa's story is a revelation about a woman who learned how important it is to listen to her own voice.
Download or read book Fratelli Tutti written by Pope Francis and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaving Patriarchy Behind written by Leticia Aguilar and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we fight, and win, against an ideology that has been established and practiced for decades? In Leaving Patriarchy Behind, Leticia recounts her father’s disappointment at the birth of each daughter: “After each birth, Papa would turn to Mama and ask, ‘Mama, es un niño?’ But, out of 18 babies, Mama only had four boys.” With some challenging years behind her, Leticia considers the culture that informed her parents’ principles, those she knew she could not accept as her own. She realized from childhood that she was not one to follow the disparate rules set for boys and girls. In these short vignettes, Leticia Aguilar recalls her life as a child in Mexico in the 1960s and as an adult in America in the ‘70s and beyond. Looking back, she reflects on her struggles as a girl, then a young woman, and the men who told her what she could and could not do. Instead, Leticia turned away from Mexican patriarchy, even as she was criticized and warned of her shortcomings in being independent. In a small mountain community in California where Leticia raised her family, she joined a variety of local organizations where she provided young women with a career, education, and family resources. Leticia’s memoir inspires others to rise above misogyny and racism.
Download or read book My Planets written by David P. Reiter and published by Interactive Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Planets is in fact a suite of works about adoption and redefinition of identity after the reunification of a biological family OCo a physical book; an enhanced eBook incorporating images, music, sound and video with spoken word and text, a film. Like most of David P Reiter's work, it challenges the boundaries, changing shape with the message, inviting the reader to time-travel on a Tardis of the mind. Making his planets your own."
Download or read book Daughter of Treasure written by Rolena Hatfield and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leslie has sailed the seas with her father ever since her mother died when she was a very young child. Her father's fame as the wealthiest pirate captain around has spread farther than she knew. Though his wealth is great, the mates are still after the greatest prize they have gone after yet, The Great Jewel, which is said to be the most valuable treasure left to mankind. But as they search an isolated island, their adventure takes a turn in a wrong way when Rage de Darken a treasure thirsty pirate attacks her father's mates and makes it clear that he will not release the captain without a reward. Leslie sets off in search of this ransom. If she can bring her father's treasure back to Darken before the blue moon sets, then he will release her father to her. Only problem, she doesn't know where her father's treasure is hid. Can Leslie find her father's treasure in time to save his life? Or will Darken destroy the most dearest treasure Leslie has?
