Download or read book Stella s Barn written by Stanley Joseph Bieda and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trouble woke me up early. Only two years old, my first memory: startled from sleep, I follow my mother to the road where she covers with old burlap a dead dog, just run over. My world was frightening and tough, from the beginning. Polish Catholic, my harsh paternal grandmother ruled our house. The men were there to eat and sleep. Alcohol, incest the norm in our neighborhood. With just the clothes on our back, one night Ma spirited us all away to her mother's small subsistence farm in the country where I woke up to imagine I had died and found myself in the Garden of Eden. Plants, animals, fishing in the old muddy river across the railroad tracks: here I could dream! All short-lived when we moved again into our barn-like house of stark poverty and deprivation. I learned from my mother how to ride the rapids, how to grab onto the sides of life's often flimsy, careening boat. Catastrophe visited us, but you will see how our story, my hope, survived.

Download or read book Stella s Barn written by Stanley Joseph Bieda and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trouble woke me up early. Only two years old, my first memory: startled from sleep, I follow my mother to the road where she covers with old burlap a dead dog, just run over. My world was frightening and tough, from the beginning. Polish Catholic, my harsh paternal grandmother ruled our house. The men were there to eat and sleep. Alcohol, incest the norm in our neighborhood. With just the clothes on our back, one night Ma spirited us all away to her mother's small subsistence farm in the country where I woke up to imagine I had died and found myself in the Garden of Eden. Plants, animals, fishing in the old muddy river across the railroad tracks: here I could dream! All short-lived when we moved again into our barn-like house of stark poverty and deprivation. I learned from my mother how to ride the rapids, how to grab onto the sides of life's often flimsy, careening boat. Catastrophe visited us, but you will see how our story, my hope, survived.

Download or read book Eclair Goes to Stella s written by M. Weidenbenner and published by R. Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AWARD-WINNING and BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Early Reader, Chapter Book Series for 5 - 9 year-old girls. When Eclair's mother leaves home, Eclair and her little sister must go live on a farm with Stella, their eccentric grandma, a woman they barely know. When Eclair sees the dead deer heads over Stella's mantel she wonders if she'll end up on the mantel too. Eclair Goes to Stella's is funny, sad, heart warming, and genuine all at once!” ~ Renee Gray-Wilburn, co-author of Grandparenting Through Obstacles: Overcoming Family Challenges to Reach Your Grandchildren for Christ (Pix-N-Pens, 2012). “Michelle's story is well-written and engaging. She does a wonderful job of developing the characters and deals with difficult issues in a kid-friendly way. Readers will be quickly drawn into this story and want to keep reading. There are so many dimensions to this story--it is filled with humor, action, and emotion--a great read!” --Award-winning children's book author, Crystal Bowman. “More and more, grandparents today are assuming the role of part-time or even full-time caregivers for their grandkids. In Eclair Goes to Stella's, we see how one grandmother bravely and creatively steps into this role to help her family through a difficult situation. I'm certain that children everywhere will be able to relate to the range of emotions that little Éclair faces as she struggles to adjust to her new living arrangements then begins to welcome the love and care her grandmother offers.” ~ Renee Gray-Wilburn, co-author of Grandparenting Through Obstacles: Overcoming Family Challenges to Reach Your Grandchildren for Christ (Pix-N-Pens, 2012). There is a growing trend in America—grandparents raising grandchildren. According to the AARP’s Grandfacts, “Across the United States, almost 7.8 million children are living in homes where grandparents or other relatives are the householders, with more than 5.8 million children living in grandparents’ homes and nearly 2 million children living in other relatives’ homes. These families are often called grandfamilies.”

Download or read book Stella s Search written by Jane Denison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bio for Jane Denison (Mary J. Moses) Jane Denison is the pen name of Mary J. Moses, co-author of 52 Simple Ways to Manage Your Moneyand No More Baglady Fears. After many years in public education, where she specialized in Human Resource Management, she lives and writes on the Central Coast of California. Description of My Book Discover a ghost who frightened people away from her barn. Meet the lonely deputy sheriff who doesn’t believe in that spiritual nonsense and who is going to live in the adjacent house no matter what. Complicate matters with the deputy’s ex-wife, who thinks he may have discovered gold on his property, and the waitress who is generous to a fault—not to mention the attractive sheriff’s dispatcher who is married to her work until the ghost… What drives the specter to behave the way she does? What passion, what mystery stirs her to action? The dead woman’s story describes vividly the trials and sacrifices made by the emigrants of the 1840s, and adds the excitement of first love, a possible robbery, and a murder—all touching the young woman’s family. The deputy becomes determined to help her find the buried box that will put her fears to rest. What they find is not what she expected.

Download or read book Stella by Starlight written by Sharon M. Draper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharon M. Draper presents “storytelling at its finest” (School Library Journal, starred review) in this New York Times bestselling Depression-era novel about a young girl who must learn to be brave in the face of violent prejudice when the Ku Klux Klan reappears in her segregated southern town. Stella lives in the segregated South—in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can’t. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn’t bothered them for years. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something they’re never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination. As Stella’s community—her world—is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire. And she learns that ashes don’t necessarily signify an end.

Download or read book How Stella Saved the Farm written by Vijay Govindarajan and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Stella Saved the Farm is a simple parable about making innovation happen. Written by the authors of the New York Times bestselling Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble. This story resonates in organizations of all types—public sector, private sector, and social sector, from mammoth corporations to small organizations employing just a few dozen people. The parable is about a farm in trouble. Bankruptcy, or the grim prospect of being acquired by a hostile competitor, threaten. The farm succeeds only if the team pulls together and innovates. The main characters in the story—Stella, Deirdre, Bull, Mav, Einstein, Rambo, Maisie, and Andrea—are all like people you know, maybe even yourself. The tale includes an unexpected leadership challenge, an ambitious call to action, a bold idea, countless internal obstacles and conflicts, fears, joys, triumphs, and even a love interest. It's a story that can be enjoyed by anyone. How Stella Saved the Farm delivers eight simple lessons to guide innovation initiatives to success. It prepares business leaders to avoid some of innovation's most toxic myths, teaches how to build the right kind of team, and shows how to learn quickly from experience.

Download or read book Stella by Starlight written by Sharon M. Draper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.

Download or read book China Sailor written by Charles Giezentanner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Times are tough in 1938 during the Great Depression when eighteen-year- old Leslie Charles hears that the navy shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia, is hiring college students. A talented musician endowed with exceptional math skills, Leslie believes hes a good candidate for work now that he has one year of college under his belt at Mars Hill College in Marsh County, Virginia. Leaving his parents, siblings, and the rest of his family behind in Asheville, North Carolina, Leslie becomes a welders helper at the yard, and soon the lure of the navy snags him. He becomes an enlisted man, endures basic training, and begins his journey both as a sailor and as a man. A novel of military fiction, China Sailor narrates the story of Leslies coming-of- age, including his life as a sailor, his experiences in China during its civil war and its war with Japan, and his personal relationships with women. It provides a glimpse into this exciting time in history leading up to the start of World War II.

Download or read book It s One O clock and Here is Mary Margaret McBride written by Susan Ware and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-02-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1950s, confirming the enormous significance of radio to everyday life, especially for women. In the first in-depth treatment of McBride, Ware starts with a description of how widely McBride was revered in the mid-1940s--the fifteenth anniversary party for her show in 1949 filled Yankee Stadium. Once the readers have gotten to know Mary Margaret (as everyone called her), Ware backtracks to tell the story of McBride's upbringing, her early career, and how she got her start in radio. The.

Download or read book Mutts and Mistletoe written by Natalie Cox and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in mass market paperback, the "ideal read for anyone who's a fan of Christmas or dogs--or both!"--Sophie Kinsella. When a surprise break-up and a gas leak in her apartment leave Charlie single and homeless for the holidays, there's only one place to go--Cozy Canine Cottages, where she'll spend the season looking after her cousin's doggy day care center. And if she's not exactly a dog person, well, no one has to know. But her plans for a quiet Christmas in the country are quickly dashed. Peggy the pregnant beagle and Malcolm the ancient Great Dane seem determined to keep her up all night. A strange man is casing her cousin's house. And Cal, the unbearably patronizing but disturbingly handsome local vet, keeps seeing her at her worst. With Christmas just around the corner, can her new four-legged friends help her embrace the unexpected and open herself up to love?

Download or read book Epistemic Reasons Norms and Goals written by Martin Grajner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, questions about epistemic reasons, norms and goals have seen an upsurge of interest. The present volume brings together eighteen essays by established and upcoming philosophers in the field. The contributions are arranged into four sections: (1) epistemic reasons, (2) epistemic norms, (3) epistemic consequentialism and (4) epistemic goals and values. The volume is key reading for researchers interested in epistemic normativity.

Download or read book Cold Comfort Farm written by Clare West and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A school reader for secondary pupils, in the OXFORD BOOKWORMS. BLACK SERIES STAGE 6. This new series offers students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English.

Download or read book Stella written by McCall Hoyle and published by Shadow Mountain. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Stella was a puppy, she was trained to use her powerful beagle nose to sniff out chemicals used in explosives and warn her human handler in order to keep people safe. But during a routine security inspection, Stella is distracted and misse

Download or read book Loral County Times written by Lucky Maxwill and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LORAL COUNTY TIMES: Return to Echo Woods is the introductory tale of people, animals, and adventures in fictional Loral County in Missouri. This rural area is a place where normal activities are not exactly as they appear because of a clever elf named Sam, who has hidden agendas and is only visible to a select population. He is especially perplexing to newcomer Audry Merryweather, a young woman who moves to Echo Woods to take ownership of her familys historical homestead. Here she unwittingly becomes an accomplice in Sams efforts to shelter and provide forever homes for animals. But, she is not alone. Sam is quite resourceful and has many allies with diverse talentseverybody from an animal control officer to a youth home coordinator and even a red-tailed hawk. Altogether, they combat bullies, overcome challenges, and provide a community where all can call home. Woven within this tale are historical and geographical Missouri references that are hyperlinked to web resources. These offer superior supplemental reading materials for students and educators alike. Subtle humanitarian messages regarding animal welfare and culture, as well as Missouri history, make this a value-added book for young readers.

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Download or read book Farm Roots written by Gladys Muir and published by Gladys Muir Books. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir recounted to his wife, author Gladys Muir, Frank (Francis) Muir recounts his early years growing up in the 1920s and 1930s in and around Shanty Bay, Oro, and Barrie, Ontario, on the western shore of Lake Simcoe. This e-book edition has been produced using the text and photographs from the original 2001 print edition. All proceeds from the sale of this book go to the Wrinch Memorial Foundation, a non-profit organization providing Health, Education, Social and Housing Programs and Services in the Hazelton, BC area.

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-09-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.