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Book Runaway Daughters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn A. Sloan
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2008-11-15
  • ISBN : 082634478X
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Runaway Daughters written by Kathryn A. Sloan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Oaxaca City, Kathryn Sloan analyzes rapto trials--cases of abduction and/or seduction of a minor--to gain insight beyond the actual crime and into the reality that testimonies by parents, their children, and witnesses reveal about courtship practices, generational conflict, the negotiation of honor, and the relationship between the state and its working-class citizens in post colonial Mexico. Unlike the colonial era where paternal rule was absolute, Sloan found that the state began to usurp parental authority in the home with the introduction of liberal reform laws. As these laws began to shape the terms of civil marriage, the courtroom played a more significant role in the resolution of familial power struggles and the restoration of family honor in rapto cases. Youths could now exert a measure of independence by asserting their rights to marry whom they wished. In examining these growing rifts between the liberal state and familial order within its lower order citizens, Sloan highlights the role that youths and the working class played in refashioning systems of marriage, honor, sexuality, parental authority, and filial obedience.

Book Live Through This

Download or read book Live Through This written by Debra Gwartney and published by HMH. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “achingly beautiful” memoir about a mother’s mission to rescue her two teenage daughters from the streets and bring them back home (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). After a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves with her four young daughters to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her family. But the two oldest, fourteen-year-old Amanda and thirteen-year-old Stephanie, blame their mother for what happened, and one day the two run off together—to the streets of their own city, then San Francisco, then nowhere to be found. The harrowing subculture of the American runaway, with its random violence, its dangerous street drugs, and its patchwork of hidden shelters, is captured with brilliant intensity in Live Through This as this panicked mother sets out to find her girls—examining her own mistakes and hoping against hope to bring them home and become a family again, united by forgiveness and love. “For all the raw power of this true story and the fearless honesty of the voice telling it, what sticks out for me is the literary craft that shapes every sentence. Debra Gwartney has seen clear to the bottom of her experience, purged it of self-righteousness, and emerged with a stunningly humane and humbled awareness of life’s troubles” —Phillip Lopate

Book The Runaway Daughter

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  • Author : Lauri Robinson
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2015-07-01
  • ISBN : 1460385977
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Runaway Daughter written by Lauri Robinson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From stowaway… After years of playing the local gin joint to pay off his father's debts, talented musician Brock Ness has landed a radio gig in Chicago. Now he's on the up-and-up, his next stop is securing the dame of his dreams, Ginger Nightingale… …to Chicago celebrity! If Brock is headed for fortune and fame, Ginger won't be left behind! She may be the youngest of the Nightingale sisters, but she's old enough to know what she wants. And Brock is right at the top of her wish list! Daughters of the Roaring Twenties Their hair is short and their skirts are even shorter!

Book The Runaway Daughter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joanna Rees
  • Publisher : Pan Macmillan
  • Release : 2019-07-11
  • ISBN : 1447266757
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Runaway Daughter written by Joanna Rees and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Runaway Daughter by Joanna Rees is the first novel in A Stitch in Time – a sweeping historical trilogy. It’s 1926 and Anna Darton is on the run from a terrible crime she was forced into committing. Alone and scared in London, salvation comes in the form of Nancy, a sassy American dancer at the notorious nightclub, the Zip. Re-inventing herself as Vita Casey, Anna becomes part of the line-up and is thrown into a hedonistic world of dancing, parties, flapper girls and fashion. When she meets the dashing Archie Fenwick, Vita buries her guilty conscience and she believes him when he says he will love her no matter what. But unbeknown to Vita, her secret past is fast catching up with her, and when the people closest to her start getting hurt, she is forced to confront her past or risk losing everything she holds dear.

Book Runaway Father

Download or read book Runaway Father written by Richard Rashke and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1988 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her husband deserted her in 1968, Pat Bennett was left with three kids to raise, no income and no future. But at age 23, she put herself through school and emerged a confident, strong-willed woman--determined to track down the man who had abandoned her despite legal prejudice that prolonged her search for 17 years.

Book Runaway Daughters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn A. Sloan
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2008-11-16
  • ISBN : 0826344771
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Runaway Daughters written by Kathryn A. Sloan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sloan investigates how civil laws in post-colonial Mexico played a significant role in changing social norms for marriage, sexuality, and parental authority.

Book The Runaway Daughter  Mills   Boon Vintage Superromance   Count on a Cop  Book 24

Download or read book The Runaway Daughter Mills Boon Vintage Superromance Count on a Cop Book 24 written by Anna DeStefano and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She took the baby and ran... Eighteen-year-old Maggie didn't know what else to do. She'd promised her dying friend she'd keep the baby safe from his father, a drug dealer...and killer. Who else could she turn to but her uncle, Deputy Tony Rivers?

Book Raise Your Sons and Daughters with Real Unconditional Love

Download or read book Raise Your Sons and Daughters with Real Unconditional Love written by John Sangwon Lee, MD., FAAP and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raise Your Sons and Daughters with Real Unconditional Love By: John Sangwon Lee, MD., FAAP Pediatrician John Sangwon Lee, MD., FAAP, has years of experience with parenting methods and children’s health in both America and in South Korea. With these combined experiences, and his own as a father, Dr. Lee puts forth Raise Your Sons and Daughters with Real Unconditional Love, a guide to raising children with kindness, empathy, and love. He describes in detail the types of love needed for parents to raise their children well, eye-contact love, physical-contact love, and focused-attention love. With his familiarity of American and South Korean parenting styles, he sets forth to create a shared foundation of parenting knowledge using the positive childrearing practices of both nations. Whether you are a new parent or already have children of your own, Dr. Lee’s in-depth explanations of newborn, toddler, child, and adolescent physical and mental health combined with insightful guides on how parents should handle difficult or new situations is an essential read.

Book Stella Louella s Runaway Book

Download or read book Stella Louella s Runaway Book written by Lisa Campbell Ernst and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Stella Louella as she races through the streets of her town to find and return her missing library book before the due date. Studious Stella Louella is frantically trying to find her missing library book, so she can return it before the due date passes. Looking every place she can imagine, Stella ends up visiting everyone in town, from the people at the fix-it shop, the diner, the police station, the scouts, and each neighbor in between. “From the start of this cheerful cumulative tale, Ernst gives youngsters crowded spreads chock-a-block with amusing particulars.” – Publishers Weekly

Book The Daughters of Suffolk

Download or read book The Daughters of Suffolk written by William Jasper Nicolls and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rebellion of the Daughters

Download or read book The Rebellion of the Daughters written by Rachel Manekin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Origins of the "Daughters' Question" -- Religious Ardor: Michalina Araten and Her Embrace of Catholicism -- Romantic Love: Debora Lewkowicz and Her Flight from the Village -- Intellectual Passion: Anna Kluger and Her Struggle for Higher Education -- Rebellious Daughters and the Literary Imagination: From Jacob Wassermann to S. Y. Agnon -- Bringing the Daughters Back: A New Model of Female Orthodox Jewish Education.

Book Runaway Bear

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9781455611539
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Runaway Bear written by and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a father lovingly creates two lifelike bears for his twin daughters' birthday, one bear disappears before the big day and must be rescued by his companion and some friendly animals.

Book Women s Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean

Download or read book Women s Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Kathryn A. Sloan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys Latin American and Caribbean women's contributions throughout history from conquest through the 20th century. From the colonial period to the present day, women across the Caribbean and Latin America were an intrinsic part of the advancement of society and helped determine the course of history. Women's Roles in Latin America and the Caribbean highlights their varied and important roles over five centuries of time, providing geographical breadth and ethnic diversity to the Women's Roles through History series. Women's roles are the focus of all six chapters, covering themes that include religion, family, law, politics, culture, and labor. Each section provides specific examples of real-life women throughout history, providing readers with an overview of Latin American women's history that pays special attention to continuity across regions and variances over time and geography.

Book Lord Oakburn s daughters

Download or read book Lord Oakburn s daughters written by Ellen Wood and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dr  Gilbert s Daughters

Download or read book Dr Gilbert s Daughters written by Margaret Harriet Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reproach Daughters of a Divorce

Download or read book The Reproach Daughters of a Divorce written by Kone Mphela and published by XinXii. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two woman, married irresponsible man, one walk out of the marriage by getting a divorce and the other walked out of the marriage through death, later when their children have grown the daughters of one who got divorce were rejected and condemned by the community because they were raised from a broken home, no one allowed their son to marry them. Out of despair the divorcee sought Jesus and he took away her shame and condemnation, Jesus brought salvation not only for her daughters and but for the community. The widower out of pride and foolishness led her son to his premature death and brought bad luck to her only daughter. God changed Mary’s name from the reproached to redeem. God still hate divorce but he will never allow anyone to give her life to premature death.

Book New Daughters of Africa

Download or read book New Daughters of Africa written by Various Authors and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent, including Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A glorious portrayal of the richness and range of African women's voices, this major international book brings together their achievements across a wealth of genres. From Antigua to Zimbabwe and Angola to the USA, overlooked artists of the past join key figures, popular contemporaries and emerging writers in paying tribute to the heritage that unites them, the strong links that endure from generation to generation, and their common obstacles around issues of race, gender and class. Bold and insightful, brilliant in its intimacy and universality, this landmark anthology honours the talents of African daughters and the inspiring legacy that connects them-and all of us.