Download or read book Silly Papa written by Jamil Couzens and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Silly Papa" is the story of the author since his childhood years, his shady way of life that led him to several years of imprisonment. Jamil Couzens grew up in a tough environment that instilled in him the characteristics that defined him for the rest of his life. With the influence of the surroundings and his peers, Jamil started to develop bad habits, from drinking beer to smoking weed at a young age. His use of stronger alcoholic drink and more potent drugs was his attempt ease his feelings of pain and isolation. After having fathered a child by one girlfriend, Jamil got married to another, at an early age- a relationship that soon suffered with the arrival of his second child. Fearing his responsibilities, and with his life spiraling out of control, Jamil left Dayton for Los Angeles hoping to find a better life. Jamil, however, further sunk into the shady way of living, doing various crimes from robbery and car theft to drug dealing. His illegal activities sent him to prison five times. It was during his final stay that he was inspired by religious study, which brought light in his life. After spending the past fifteen years of his life in uncertainty, Jamil decided to make things right and reconnect with his daughters. Once re-established as a aerospace machinist and after making new friends. Jamil ends his, almkost 20 years, estrangement with his daughters, and meets his grandchildren for the first time, which brought immense joy to his heart. He gets another chance at love with Jackie and eventually is regarded as Silly Papa.
Download or read book The Best Intentions written by Ingmar Bergman and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original, extraordinarily moving, and highly personal novel, world-renowned stage and film director Ingmar Bergman goes back to the time of his parents and grandparents, to the years shortly before, during, and just after World War I. Set in the decade beginning in 1908, The Best Intentions is, ultimately, a love story on many different levels: a man and woman in love; parents and children; and love as miracle, that love which is overriding and, so often, inexplicable. Bergman was inspired to write this loosely biographical novel when he began rummaging through the voluminous family picture albums. That, plus family letters and records, and his own memories and unique imagination, helped him recreate this lost world in evocative and graphic detail. Henrik is a poor divinity student. Anna is the much loved but slightly pampered daughter of bourgeois parents. They fall in love and, after a long and tortuous courtship, marry, despite the objections of Anna's parents - especially of Anna's mother, Karin. Karin uses everything in her power, including deceit, first to prevent the marriage, then to break it up. Yet, even her basest actions are never monstrous but filled with good intentions. In fact, all the characters act with the "best intentions", however wrongheaded their behavior. "That Bergman can extend sympathy to such behavior is a great and generous gesture, one that allows him to create characters of astonishing depth", wrote Caryn James in the New York Times. Incorporating some of the elements of stage and screen, including filmic dialogues and personal "asides", which he weaves artfully into the narrative flow, Bergman has written a novel of great beauty and uncompromisinghonesty, a work filled with joy and sadness, sacrifice and reconciliation - and above all, abiding love.
Download or read book Papa s Angels written by Collin Wilcox Paxton and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papa s Storybook written by Lowrey Davis and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What family does not have a collection of stories that are passed down in oral tradition from one generation to the next? You know the ones. They become the lore shared around the dinner table or at family gatherings seated around a crackling fireplace. You laugh. You cry. You tell them over and over again. No one ever seems to tire of hearing them. These stories are the legend of Lowrey Davis a.k.a. Papa. The names have not been changed to protect the guilty. Who could make up stories like Papa's Sad Christmas or Uncle Bear's Little Secret? Just when you think you have read it all, there is Papa and Peanut. Of course, you will not want to miss reading Papa's Favorite Story. Papa's kids and grandkids all beg to hear these stories time after time. Join the fun! Adults and kids alike, climb into bed and pull up the covers as Papa shares his favorite bedtime stories. Lowrey Davis is a husband, father and grandfather. He and his wife, Deborah, have been married 35 years and have three grown children and five grandchildren. Lowrey serves as Administrative Pastor at Bear Creek Baptist Church, Katy, Texas. Lowrey has authored numerous articles and curriculum lesson plans for LifeWay Christian Resourc
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Download or read book Yaya Maya and the White King written by Cyan Abad-Jugo and published by Anvil Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ina Guinto certainly does not feel welcome in her new home in Laguna, although Biboy and her father like it. While Mr. Guinto goes to work, they are left in the care of Mayang, whom Biboy likes to call “Yaya Maya.” Ina insists she is too old to have a nanny, but no one listens to her, especially when it’s about wanting to go back to Manila. Then some strange things happen: Yaya Maya talks to frogs, Papa’s bookcase turns to splinter and dust, and someone has left a note wanting Ina and her family to go away. Who is Yaya Maya? Who—or what—is behind these events? As Ina finds more answers to her questions, and more questions to her answers, will she still want to go back to the home she left in the city?
Download or read book Stephen Scudamore the Younger Or The Fifteen year Olds written by Arthur Locker and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boy's adventure story set mainly at the Victoria gold diggings. A small platypus in gilt on front cover under decorative title, with kangaroo, boy in gilt on spine.
Download or read book The Viscount Meets his Match written by Raven McAllan and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to persuade the lady your interest is genuine? No easy task. Has the viscount met his match, or can he win and claim a wife? What do you do when your father has no faith in you? Ignore him. David, Suddards' father assumes—wrongly—that David gambles deep and has had an affair with a married lady before she has given her husband an heir. Enraged, his father issues an ultimatum. Marry within three months or lose everything that is not entailed. David refuses. If that's what his father thinks of him, he can go to the devil. He will marry when he is ready and not before. What a shock then, a year later, when the one woman he is interested in shows no interest in him! It's up to him to persuade her he's the right husband for her, and when he does...sparks fly. Can these two strong-willed people ever learn how to compromise and find that in fact they are the perfect match?
Download or read book Memoirs of Mr Charles J Yellowplush The Fitzboodle Papers Miscellanies written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The memoirs of Mr Charles J Yellowplush written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in Twenty Volumes written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher written by Dana Alison Levy and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ”Fans of Beverly Cleary’s Quimbys, Judy Blume’s Hatchers, and, more recently, Jeanne Birdsall’s Penderwicks will fervently hope that more Fletcher misadventures are yet to come.” —School Library Journal, Starred The start of the school year is not going as the Fletcher brothers hoped. Each boy finds his plans for success veering off in unexpected and sometimes diastrous directions. And at home, their miserable new neighbor complains about everything. As the year continues, the boys learn the hard and often hilarious lesson that sometimes what you least expect is what you come to care about the most. Praise for The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher A Junior Library Guild Selection [set star] ”Their banter is realistic, and the disorder of their everyday lives, convincing. The Fletcher family rules!” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred ”Dana Alison Levy has gloriously reimagined the classic family story into a thoroughly modern mold, and it works perfectly.” —Bruce Coville, bestselling author of My Teacher Is an Alien and the Unicorn Chronicles [P1] [set star] ”With its semi-episodic structure, laugh-out-loud humor, and mix of zaniness and love, Levy’s debut offers something truly significant: a middle-grade family story featuring gay parents and interracial families that is never about either issue.” —School Library Journal, Starred ”Levy provides a compelling, compassionate, and frequently hilarious look at their daily concerns. By book’s end readers will want to be part of (or at least friends with) this delightful family.” —The Horn Book
Download or read book Bamboo Promise written by Vicheara Houn and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the autobiography of a woman who grew up as the sheltered and privileged only child of a wealthy, prominent Cambodian family. In her young life, she was oblivious of the impoverished lives of the underclass in Cambodia, and of the politics and world events that were sweeping her and her country toward one of the great catastrophes of the 20th century. The rich Cambodian culture and all the competing Western influences are vividly displayed in her descriptions of her life with her father as he tries to mold her into a highly educated and independent woman who still exemplifies all the virtues of the idealized, traditional Cambodian woman. The political tides that enveloped Southeast Asia in the 1970s began to become real to Vicheara when her fathers responsibilities in the Lon Nol government caused him to personally negotiate with a group of Khmer Rouge insurgents, including inviting them to a dinner at his home. On April 17, 1975, Pol Pot - the monstrous leader of the communist guerrilla organization transformed Cambodia, the country of his birth, into a Prison Without Walls. This was one week before the fall of Saigon, Vietnam. This extreme form of radical communism eliminated religion, culture, currency, personal property, hospitals, schools, the banking system, and every other vestige of modern urban life. They committed class genocide against Cambodians educated urban citizens through starvation, execution, and forced labor. Nearly half the population of Cambodia died in the four years that followed, many in the Killing Fields, and as Toul Sleng Prison, the slaughterhouse in Phnom-Penh. When Vicheara, near death from starvation, staggered out of the Pol Pot Time in 1979, she was alone, an orphan, a stranger in a world forever changed. The Cambodia of her childhood was gone as were most of her family and friends. Her journey through horror, privation and humiliation finally led her to the United States in 1984.
