Download or read book The Dumpster s Daughter written by PJ White and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bored ten year old girl is stuck at her mother's workplace (a daytime shelter for homeless women and children). While rummaging around she finds a diary which seems to belong to one of the shelter's homeless clients.Whose diary is this? What is her name? The questions become more and more urgent as the girl reads on: this nameless woman and her baby might be in terrible danger. Will she be able to help them? Will she find out who they are before it's too late?
Download or read book A Girl in the Dumpster written by Jack Apfel and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sweltering darkness that envelops an alley in the small town of Candlesberg, Wisconsin, a homeless woman approaches a dumpster in search of food. She finds instead a mysteriously mewling bundle. Reaching inside she discovers a patch of matted hair, a tiny ear, a smooth little shoulder. She knows what to doif only she can conquer her compulsion to drop the newborn and run. Anne Hedlin is trying to get to sleep in her apartment above her resale shop when she is startled by a banging from the shop below. Annes solitary life is transformed when she takes in the homeless woman and the baby she finds at her back door. In its first week, the newborn also profoundly touches the lives of Annes shy teenaged niece, a storefront preacher and his wife, a successful divorced realtor, and the realtors teenaged daughter, whose life of drug abuse and careless sex has become a dumpster of a different sort. With complex characters and surprising twists author Jack Apfel has given us a compelling story of how lives can be knocked off their seemingly inevitable trajectories by an unexpected event, like someone finding a girl in a dumpster.
Download or read book Who Killed My Daughter written by Lois Duncan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 16, 1989, Kaitlyn Arquette was shot to death in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The police gave up, but her mother would not . . . In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette. Duncan begins to suspect that the official police investigation of Kaitlyn’s murder is inadequate when detectives ignore her daughter’s accidental connection to organized crime in Albuquerque. When Duncan loses faith in the system, she reaches out to anyone that can help, including private investigators, journalists, and even a psychic. Written to inspire other families who have lost loved ones to unsolved crimes, Who Killed My Daughter? is a powerful testament to the tenacity of a mother’s love. A heartbreaking personal account by an Edgar Award–winning author known for such books as I Know What You Did Last Summer, this is a true story with “all of the elements of a suspenseful mystery” (School Library Journal). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Duncan including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Download or read book Supervision written by Sophie Hamacher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind anthology of art and writing exploring how surveillance impacts contemporary motherhood. The tracking of our personal information, activities, and medical data through our digital devices is an increasingly recognizable field in which the lines between caretaking and control have blurred. In this age of surveillance, mothers' behaviors and bodies are observed, made public, exposed, scrutinized, and policed like never before. Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance gathers together the work of fifty contributors from diverse disciplines that include the visual arts, legal scholarship, ethnic studies, sociology, gender studies, poetry, and activism to ask what the relationship is between how we watch and how we are watched, and how the attention that mothers pay to their children might foster a kind of counterattention to the many ways in which mothers are scrutinized. A groundbreaking collection, Supervision is a project about vision (and supervision), and all the ways in which vision intersects with surveillance and politics, through motherhood and personal history as well as through the histories and relations of the societies in which we live. Contributors: Melina Abdullah, Jeny Amaya, Gemma, Anderson, Nurcan Atalan-Helicke, Sarah Blackwood, Lisa Cartwright, Cary Beth Cryor, Moyra Davey, Duae Collective, Sabba Elahi, Laura Fong Prosper, Regina José Galindo, Michele Goodwin, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Lily Gurton-Wachter, Sophie Hamacher, Jessica Hankey, Keeonna Harris, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Jennifer Hayashida, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Lisbeth Kaiser, Magdalena Kallenberger, Caitlin Keliiaa, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Stephanie Lumsden, Irene Lusztig, Tala Madani, Jade Phoenix Martinez, Mónica Mayer, Iman Mersal, Jennifer C. Nash, Hương Ngô, Erika Niwa, Priscilla Ocen, Litia Perta, Claudia Rankine, Viva Ruiz, Ming Smith, Sable Elyse Smith, Sheida Soleimani, Stephanie Syjuco, Hồng-Ân Trương, Carrie Mae Weems, Lauren Whaley, Kandis Williams, Mai'a Williams, Carmen Winant, Kate Wolf, and Hannah Zeavin
Download or read book For Mothers of Difficult Daughters written by Charney Herst and published by Villard. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first mother-daughter book for mothers, featuring a new Afterword and a Reading Group Discussion Guide ¸ Do you long for a better relationship with your daughter? ¸ Do you occasionally feel as though you have failed as a mother? ¸ Do you blame yourself because your relationship with your daughter is strained, faltering, or nonexistent? ¸ Do you feel that the relationship is unchangeable and that there is no chance that it could become a nurturing and deeply satisfying friendship? Dr. Charney Herst knows that there is always more than one side to a story, and in her book, For Mothers of Difficult Daughters, she uses her twenty-five years of experience as counselor and group therapist to provide mothers with solutions that work. In the book she first helps you understand your particular relationship with your grown daughter--untangling the complex web of personal history and intense emotion inherent in any mother-daughter relationship. Then she describes practical, successful, mother-tested steps you can take to repair this all-important bond.
Download or read book Memory Lane written by Talented Evans and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was adopted so young I barely remember it. Although it was by blood relatives, I grew up in a loveless home with people who abused me mentally, physically, and emotionally. Too young to know how to deal with my emotions, I began to act out. By the age of twelve, I was drinking, drugging, and smoking cigarettes. Staying in trouble became normal. I had become just as toxic as my environment. That caused me to carry a lot of baggage to college with me. There I met my first husband and my children's father. From infidelity to prison, this had to be the pettiest relationship I have ever seen or been in. The thirteen long years of heavy drinking, drugging, and domestic violence were a bad atmosphere for our girls. We were creating more damaged goods. Once I decided to leave my train wreck of a marriage, I found the divorce to be as messy and complicated. Situations like this have a way of exposing the fake people in your life. It lets you know who is for you and who has secretly been against you. The moment I decided to do what I felt was best for me and my girls, the ridicule began, and it was relentless. I was immediately a bad mother. I had to stand my ground and defend the decisions I made. I had to show my so-called family and friends I was strong enough to stand alone. I never really had a family, just a bunch of relatives. I never had many friends, just true frenemies. It was me against the world, and I was ready for battle. After the divorce was final and I was kid-free, my drinking, drugging, and partying spiraled out of control. This led me to people who helped me turn things around. Regardless of how bad things got, my club brothers never turned their backs on me. That's why joining a motorcycle club was one of the best decisions I ever made. It didn't hurt that when I met the sergeant at arms, I wanted one hot night with him. However, after I got to know him, I wanted him all to myself. We started as best friends, and our relationship was solid. It was definitely tested. From my children returning home, my multiple arrests, and my bad relationship with his family. Through it all, he had my back. I had spent the majority of my life masking. Riddled with addictions to stealing, food, alcohol, drugs, sex, money, and gambling, I had a lot of self-reflecting and growing to do. All this was made possible with a stretch in the penitentiary. I had to start with separating religion and spirituality. Religion was forced on me. It was time for me to decide. My physical being may have been trapped in a cage, but my mental stability was far worse. I needed to free myself and my mentality from bondage and truly begin to heal and grow. My life may have been an uphill battle, but I made it to the top, a much-better Mz. Talented.
Download or read book For His Daughter s Sake written by Stella Bagwell and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real man puts his child's needs first in USA TODAY bestselling author Stella Bagwell's contribution to the Montana Mavericks: The Real Cowboys of Bronco Heights continuity The Cowboy's Second Chance Single dad Tyler Abernathy has vowed to devote himself completely to his little girl, Maeve. The widowed rancher’s belief that he wasn’t a present-enough father or husband pushes him to turn down the locals’ well-meaning attempts to fix him up. But when he meets Callie Sheldrick, she disarms him in ways he can’t explain…or ignore. Walking away would be the right thing to do. Yet doing the “right” thing might end up breaking all three of their hearts… From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. Montana Mavericks: The Real Cowboys of Bronco Heights Book 1: The Rancher's Summer Secret by Christine Rimmer Book 2: For His Daughter's Sake by Stella Bagwell Book 3: The Most Eligible Cowboy by Melissa Senate Book 4: Grand-Prize Cowboy by Heatherly Bell Book 5: A Kiss at the Mistletoe Rodeo by Kathy Douglass Book 6: Dreaming of a Christmas Cowboy by Brenda Harlen
Download or read book Enough Discovering the Blessings of My Daughter s Addiction in Twelve Easy Steps written by Maryscarlett Amaris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Goddess, grant me the serenity to accept how fucked up this is Give me strength to face myself in the mirror, the courage to swallow my pride, and a glass of champagne to wash it all down." After her 18 year old daughter survives a heroin overdose, which caught her by complete surprise, MaryScarlett Amaris tries everything, including a fearless examination of her own life and mores, to answer the haunting question: why did this happen? Funny, poignant, honest, and wise, Amaris both bears and heals her soul in the hope that no one who experiences a loved one's addiction will ever feel too angry, too ridiculous, or too alone.
Download or read book Keep It Moving written by Talented Evans and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was time for me to gather my girls and leave my train wreck of a marriage. The divorce, although needed and inevitable, was as messy and complicated as the marriage. We were separated at least a year before he filed. I had been doing me. The girls and I had been living it up. I knew you couldn’t move forward looking back, so I was ready to move on at his expense. I knew we were finished, and I needed to put it behind me. I thought it would be easy. Wishful thinking. This divorce took way too much time, and I felt like I had the worst judge on the bench. Situations like this have a way of exposing the fake people in your life. It let’s you know who is truly for you and who has secretly been against you. Family and so-called friends turned their back on me and continued to betray me. I never imagined the people closest to me would do and say the things they did and said to and about me. The moment I decided to do what I felt was best for me and my girls, the ridicule began, and it was relentless. I was immediately a bad mother. I received so many disturbing messages that I sent a few of my own, changed my number, and moved on with my life, without them in it. I had to stand my ground and defend the decisions I made. I needed to show I was strong enough to stand alone. I had pushed away and removed a lot of people from my life at this time. I never really had a family, just a bunch of relatives. I never had many friends, only true frenemies. On top of that, my relationship with my girls got sketchy. I felt like it was me against the world, and I was ready for battle.
Download or read book Mothers Sisters Daughters Friends written by Vanessa Morgan and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mothers-Sisters/Daughters-Friends is a collection of short stories about eight women living in Hopeville, Georgia. They are ordinary women with an extraordinary love for each other. Although the ladies are confronted with many trials and tribulations in life, their love is constant.
Download or read book Face Stealer written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stand by Me written by Neta Jackson and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathryn Davies, an outgoing young women with a zeal for life, leaves medical school and moves to Chicago, where she discovers the SouledOut Community Church and longing to part of the church family, meets Avis, a reserved women and the two discover their contrasting lives may work together.
Download or read book The Professor and the Don s Girl written by John Vance and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the end of the term, and Nadia Hill hopes for a romance with her young literature professor, once she graduates. But there are obstacles. For starters, she’s attending college under an alias—made necessary because she’s the daughter of a high-ranking figure in organized crime, who vowed that Nadia would receive all A’s throughout her college career. Standing in the way of such perfection is Heath Alexander, a man of unimpeachable integrity, who is about to give Nadia a B+ in his literature course. Will he budge off his principles and award her the higher grade—especially if he is made to understand the dire consequences of not doing so? In this delightful and hilarious novel, matters are complicated further by several of the professor’s colleagues, who plot to deny him tenure; the Don’s loyal yet inept associate; and the Don’s irrepressible and crafty former lover.
Download or read book Only Daughters written by Robert McDavid and published by Only Daughters. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birth, death, greed, love Eleanor Rawlings, a 34-year-old Chicago physician, abandoned by her husband just as she conceives. Her husband is indicted by a federal grand jury for a massive financial fraud and disappears with sixty million dollars. "Only Daughters" is the story of Eleanor's struggle against an aggressive and self-serving media and the escalating violence surrounding her fugitive husband. A story of intrigue, "Only Daughters" deals with Dr. Eleanor Rawlings' battle to reshape her life. Her drama passes through infertility, conception, abortion, miscarriage, birth, death, and love. Through Eleanor Rawlings, "Only Daughters" explores and challenges contemporary views of pregnancy.
Download or read book In Fear of My Child written by K. S. Kallin-Nissen-Duame and published by Dr. K. S. Kallin. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic ten-year+ Case-Study of an innocent child,caused to go awry due to the dire effects ofetiology, conditions and circumstances! A vivid expose, of the experiences and tragedy, of onerepresentative child, from before six, to after fourteen! A graphically-painted picture, of the danger/jeopardyand trauma, affected to an aggrieved single-mother! The impacting realization of the caustic effects,on an entire family and all others,so involved, whether directly or indirectly! A real and well-warranted indictment, of the entireAmerican "system", both to the Public & Private sectors,for all the failures and fallacies that cause a majorsector, of our youth and future,to be all-but-forgotten and LOST, forever! AND The evolution, out of that which is now able to berealized and understood, of a worthy andall-encompassing ANSWER/SOLUTION,in the non-profi t/charity organization called TIME OUT, FOR KIDS, INC.
Download or read book A Daughter s Homecoming written by Ginny Aiken and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOME TO STAY Gabriella Carlini loves her family. But when she returns to Lyndon Point, Washington, to help save their restaurant, she's not sure she's the right person for the job. She's spent her adult life avoiding her heritage. What she needs is a new chef to take the heat off her. Talented and experienced, Zachary Davenport seems to be the answer to her prayers. But he's also a handsome complication. Gabi has always put love on the back burner. Will Zach show her that love and family should always be on the menu?
Download or read book Buried Truths A Daughter s Tale written by Elsa Wolf and published by ElsaWolfBooks. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deception surrounding an adoption in 1958 is at the heart of Buried Truths, A Daughter's Tale. Heidi is whisked out of Germany to become the only known daughter of an older American couple living in Paris. By the time she turns four, the family moves to Washington, D.C. As Heidi matures into her teenage years, she grows leery of her mother’s bizarre behavior and her father’s quiet disposition. During Heidi's university years, she is confronted by a stranger who gives her an envelope addressed to her uncle. She confronts him, and he reluctantly reveals disturbing facts. The prospect of romance and a theatrical career temporarily overshadow his words. Murder, truths about her German family, and the loss of her adopted parents reveal a treasure trove of secrets.
