Download or read book Posing for My Father written by Mary Lee Gowland and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In high school I was known as the girl whose father took pictures of naked women. Boys wanted to hang out at my house, hoping to glimpse Peter Gowland photographing a Playboy centerfold. Or perhaps they'd get to see Jayne Mansfield or Raquel Welch or another Hollywood celebrity." What authors have said about Mary Lee's previous books Tender Bough I am happy to say I find a simplicity, a beauty, a tenderness which is so lacking today and which is not old-fashioned, as some may think, but perpetually new and refreshing, inspiring to young and old alike. - Henry Miller Tender Bough is beautiful. There's the freshness I mean, the child's wild eye. (and not only beautiful, but successful, man), - Ben Massalink The Guest of Tyn-y-Coedcae Because of the directness and simplicity, the wistfulness which underlies the moods touches one more deeply than the louder wail of sorrow in some of the screaming poets. It is a poetry of moods, shared with gentleness and precision of color and the feelings issued from human experience. One feels with her. - Anais Nn

Download or read book The Art of My Father s Dragon written by Ramin Zahed and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official behind-the-scenes art book for five-time Academy Award–nominated animation studio Cartoon Saloon’s stunning new animated fantasy adventure My Father’s Dragon, inspired by the classic children’s novel The Art of My Father’s Dragon documents the production of five-time Academy Award–nominated animation studio Cartoon Saloon’s (The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, The Breadwinner, WolfWalkers) and Mockingbird Pictures’ upcoming Netflix exclusive fantasy feature. Inspired by Ruth Stiles Gannett’s timeless children’s classic, My Father’s Dragon tells the story of Elmer—a young boy struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother—who runs away in search of Wild Island, and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Through exclusive commentary and interviews with Oscar-nominated director Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner), executive producers Tomm Moore and Meg LeFauve, and the world-renowned artists and crew of Cartoon Saloon, animation fans will discover the process behind bringing the ferocious beasts and mysterious locations of Elmer’s journey to life in beautiful 2-D animation. Alongside never-before-seen production art and sketches, author and acclaimed animation journalist Ramin Zahed breaks down the process of translating the story from page to screen and introduces readers to the fantastical characters of Wild Island.

Download or read book Made in China written by Anna Qu and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant's journey to an American future. As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is treated as a maid and suffers punishment for doing her homework at night. Her mother wants to teach her a lesson: she is Chinese, not American, and such is their tough path in their new country. But instead of acquiescing, Qu alerts the Office of Children and Family Services, an act with consequences that impact the rest of her life. Nearly twenty years later, estranged from her mother and working at a Manhattan start-up, Qu requests her OCFS report. When it arrives, key details are wrong. Faced with this false narrative, and on the brink of losing her job as the once-shiny start-up collapses, Qu looks once more at her life's truths, from abandonment to an abusive family to seeking dignity and meaning in work. Traveling from Wenzhou to Xi'an to New York, Made in China is a fierce memoir unafraid to ask thorny questions about trauma and survival in immigrant families, the meaning of work, and the costs of immigration.

Download or read book The Father Connection written by Josh McDowell and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern classic on father-child relationships is revised and redesigned, continuing its legacy of helping dads to lovingly raise their kids based on God's teaching.

Download or read book Assembling My Father written by Anna Cypra Oliver and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-08-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver's father's suicide, committed when she was only five years old, has haunted her all her life. In "Assembling My Father," she offers the extraordinary chronicle of her journey of discovery to learn who he was and why he died.

Download or read book The Gift of Caring written by S. Cottrell S. Houle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a powerful blending of memoir and practical strategies from a medical doctor’s perspective, The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents – and ourselves - from the Perils of Modern Healthcare reveals the hidden side of modern healthcare practices for aging Americans. This ground-breaking book, co-written by award-winning author Marcy Houle and nationally-recognized geriatrician and public health advocate, Elizabeth Eckstrom MD MPH, sheds new light on aging by showing it from twin perspectives: the story of a daughter desperately seeking help for the parents she loves, and a geriatrician who offers life-changing strategies that can protect our loved ones and ourselves. Today, for many older adults, the medical delivery system is confusing, fragmented, and ill-equipped to provide comprehensive, person-centered care. Under our current healthcare model, thousands of aging persons face unnecessary suffering, hospitalizations and nursing home stays, and even preventable death. Seniors and families often feel powerless as they travel this sad journey. Not having knowledge of aging’s changes, they resign themselves to believing there is nothing anyone can do to help, while some health care professionals simply write off symptoms seniors endure as “just old age.” But as Marcy Houle discovered in caring for her parents, many of the problems often are not “just old age.” Further, the real issue is not that the answers to ease suffering don’t exist. Rather, what we need to know is generally not available to the general public. Even more concerning, many health care professionals have had little or no training in the care of older adults. The Gift of Caring hopes to change that. It is written to give empowerment to all older adults, family members, and health care professionals, by sharing much needed knowledge and practical strategies. The Gift of Caring shows the best ways to advocate for our parent’s health care … and our own … by giving us the tools we need to insist upon the better way. Your parents and you deserve the best healthcare as you age- But there are so many reasons why that’s not happening.You can change that.

Download or read book The Mountain Man s Baby written by Alice Moore and published by Chronos Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who would have thought that a camping trip would turn out this way? Surely not Caroline. Trying to burst into bigger photography journals, Caroline went to the woods to take the perfect shot but after a fall she is left alone in the woods hoping for some help. Will someone come? Will she accept help from a stranger? BUT what if this stranger was a handsome Mountain Man.... Caroline: He was dark and broody, damaged beyond repair before we’d even met. But breaking my ankle brought us together, and even my dog knew there was something there. I got so comfortable in those two days before we parted- it was almost scary. And then the calls started, and I realized that I’d started something I had no choice but to finish. It was something I wanted to finish. It was putting this broken man back together, and falling in love with him during the process. James: Who knew a dog had better intuition than most people? If anyone else had gotten to her first, she would’ve lost her foot. The fire in her eyes would’ve been quenched, and her strength would’ve diminished into obscurity. But the things I’d seen- I’d done- haunted me, and I didn’t want her to get dragged down with me. I couldn’t get her out of my mind, and she never failed to rise up to meet me. Her strength- her compassion- were the bright light in my darkness. The Mountain Man's Baby is a 46K words Billionaire Secret Baby Romance novel with elements of bdsm. It's a HEA standalone with NO cheating and No cliffhanger! Get ready to fall for a Mountain Man like you never met before! But don't worry about the fall, he will be there to catch you and protect you in his strong arms.

Download or read book John Wayne written by Aissa Wayne and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In John Wayne: My Father, Aissa Wayne delves into her father's childhood, his film career, and his life off the screen. The result is an affecting portrait that offers a new perspective on one of America's most enduring hero's humanity.

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Download or read book That d be Right written by William McInnes and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'a funny and clever reminiscence about what happened in Australia over the past 30 years ... Told with a delightful insight and sense of whimsy.' Daily Telegraph In THAT'D BE RIGHT, much loved actor and author William McInnes gives his personal view on the things we love – sport, families, politics and the greatest spectator sport of them all, an election campaign. He takes the momentous landmarks that fascinate us, such as Melbourne Cup Day, Grand Final wins and election night parties, and brings them into our back yards. He also writes about early morning swimming carnivals, lawnmowers and sitting in the stands at the cricket with his son. THAT'D BE RIGHT is a biographical trip through Australian life with lots of yarns along the way.

Download or read book My Losing Season written by Pat Conroy and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his life—and a crucible for becoming his own man. With all the drama and incandescence of his bestselling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivotal senior year as captain of the Citadel Bulldogs. He chronicles the highs and lows of that fateful 1966–67 season, his tough disciplinarian coach, the joys of winning, and the hard-won lessons of losing. Most of all, he recounts how a group of boys came together as a team, playing a sport that would become a metaphor for a man whose spirit could never be defeated. Praise for My Losing Season “A superb accomplishment, maybe the finest book Pat Conroy has written.”—The Washington Post Book World “A wonderfully rich memoir that you don’t have to be a sports fan to love.”—Houston Chronicle “A memoir with all the Conroy trademarks . . . Here’s ample proof that losers always tell the best stories.”—Newsweek “In My Losing Season, Conroy opens his arms wide to embrace his difficult past and almost everyone in it.”—New York Daily News “Haunting, bittersweet and as compelling as his bestselling fiction.”—Boston Herald

Download or read book Memoir of a Medium Man written by Paul Bonner and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book weaves the development of the medium of television with the story of a fascinating career, told by a man who both lived through the times and documented them.

Download or read book My Father s War written by Adriaan van Dis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Holland after the war, a son grows up an outsider in his family and in the world, and endure the brutal military training his father puts him through, and wonders about the hardships the family has suffered. Years later, the son begins a quest into his family's past and the origins of his father's brutality.

Download or read book Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti Book and Cassette written by Anna Grossnickle Hines and published by Sandpiper. This book was released on 1989-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daddy picks up Corey from the daycare center, goes to the store with him and has dinner cooked by the time Mom arrives home from work.

Download or read book Broken Fathers Broken Sons written by Gerald J. Gargiulo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir is a story of loss and gain, of alienation and reconciliation, and of how such experiences go into the making of a psychoanalyst. In sharing his own very troubled family history, his decade as a Carmelite monk, his marriage and career as a psychoanalyst, Gargiulo shows how the diverse pieces of one’s life can fit together into something that is meaningful and real. This is one person’s life - but it relates to us all. “We are bound together, each of us,” the author writes, “in our living, our troubles and our joys. As we hear another's story, we are, simultaneously, writing our own autobiography.”

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