Download or read book A Stolen Life written by Jaycee Dugard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raw and powerful memoir of Jaycee Lee Dugard's own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old and held captive for over 18 years On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009, Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California. Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard, living in a tent behind Garrido's home. During her time in captivity, at the age of fourteen and seventeen, she gave birth to two daughters, both fathered by Garrido. Dugard's memoir is written by the 30-year-old herself and covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark, utterly honest and unflinching narrative, Jaycee opens up about what she experienced, including how she feels now, a year after being found. Garrido and his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes.
Download or read book The Jaycee Journey written by Alyssa Groeteke and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autumn and her mom work together serving their community along with their Jaycee friends. The two share lots of fun times and Autumn learns how to help a large variety of people. Over the years, Autumn learns that service to humanity is the best work of life.
Download or read book The Family Secrets Collection Before I Saw You How Sweet the Sound Then Sings My Soul Lead Me Home written by Amy K. Sorrells and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four of Amy Sorrells’s novels in one e-book! Before I Saw You In a southern Indiana town ravaged by the heroin epidemic, Jaycee Givens lives with little more than a thread of hope. Jaycee is carrying grief and an unplanned pregnancy she conceals because she trusts no one, including kind, handsome Gabe, who is new to town and to the local diner where she works. Jaycee nurses her broken heart among a collection of unlikely friends, the closest thing to family that she has. Eventually, she can’t hide her pregnancy—not even from the baby’s abusive father, who is furious when he finds out. The choices Jaycee must make for the safety of her unborn child threaten to derail any chance she ever had for hope and redemption. Ultimately, she must decide whether the truest form of love means hanging on or letting go. How Sweet the Sound Anniston Harlan cares little for high society and the rigid rules and expectations of her grandmother, Princella. She finds solace working the orchards alongside her father and grandfather, and relief in the cool waters of Mobile Bay. Anniston’s aunt, Comfort Harlan, has never lived up to the family name, or so her mother Princella’s scowl implies. When she gleefully accepts her boyfriend Solly’s proposal, a flood tide of tragedy ensues, stripping Comfort of her innocence and unleashing generations of family secrets. While Comfort struggles to recover, Anniston discovers an unlikely new friend from the seedy part of town who helps her try to make sense of the chaos. Together, they and the whole town of Bay Spring, Alabama discover how true love is a risk, but one worth taking. Then Sings My Soul When Jakob’s wife dies, he and his daughter, Nel, must face the realities of his worsening dementia and emerging shadows Nel didn’t know lay beneath her father’s beloved, curmudgeonly ways. While Nel navigates the restoration and sale of Jakob’s dilapidated lake house, her high school sweetheart shows up in town, along with unexpected correspondence from Ukraine. And when she discovers a mysterious gemstone in Jakob’s old lapidary room, Jakob’s condition worsens as he begins having flashbacks about his baby sister from nearly a century past. As father and daughter race against time to discover the truth behind Jackob’s fragmented memories, the God they have both been running from shows that he redeems broken years and also the future. Lead Me Home Amid open fields and empty pews, small towns can crush big dreams. Abandoned by his no-good father and forced to grow up too soon, Noble Burden has set his dreams aside to run the family farm. Meanwhile, James Horton, the pastor of the local church, questions his own calling as he prepares to close the doors for good. As a severe storm rolls through, threatening their community and very livelihood, both men fear losing what they care about most . . . and reconsider where they truly belong.
Download or read book Freedom written by Jaycee Dugard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Postmodern Journeys written by Joseph Natoli and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part cultural criticism, this fast-paced ride through the postmodern landscape of American popular culture explores how our responses to headline events and popular films help script the ways in which we imagine ourselves and the world around us.
Download or read book A Handsome Man written by Pīsīke Prema and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Is A Brilliant Novel Embodying Ethos Of Modern India, An Attempt To Catch The Spirit Of The Age. Before The Independence Of The Country, There Was A Spontaneous Upsurge Of Patriotic Enthusiasm And Fervour, A Keenness To Realise The Dream Of Ramrajya, Of Prosperity And Justice For All And Uplift Of The Poor. However, The Dreams Seem To Vanish Away In The Post Independence Era, As Self-Interest Dominates, Corruption Spreads, Rat-Race For Gettingeasy Money Grows, And In The Process Familial Relations Shrink And Get Dried Up.It Is A Serious Work Of Literary Art Characterised By Historical Overtones And Vast Sweep. It Deepens Our Understanding About The Drift Of Modern Times Where Human Relations And Values Are The First Casualty.A Remarkable Work Which Embodies The Growing Dilemmas And Inner Contradictions Of The Modern Man. It Should Interest The General Readers As Also Those Belonging To The Categories Of Characters In This Work.
Download or read book Before I Saw You written by Amy K. Sorrells and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folks are dying fast as the ash trees in the southern Indiana town ravaged by the heroin epidemic, where Jaycee Givens lives with nothing more than a thread of hope and a quirky neighbor, Sudie, who rescues injured wildlife. After a tragedy leaves her mother in prison, Jaycee is carrying grief and an unplanned pregnancy she conceals because she trusts no one, including the kind and handsome Gabe, who is new to town and to the local diner where she works. Dividing her time between the diner and Sudie’s place, Jaycee nurses her broken heart among a collection of unlikely friends who are the closest thing to family that she has. Eventually, she realizes she can’t hide her pregnancy any longer—not even from the baby’s abusive father, who is furious when he finds out. The choices she must make for the safety of her unborn child threaten to derail any chance she ever had for hope and redemption. Ultimately, Jaycee must decide whether the truest form of love means hanging on or letting go. Includes discussion guide.
Download or read book Summary of Freedom written by Instaread and published by Instaread. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary of Freedom by Jaycee Dugard | Includes Analysis Preview: Freedom (2016) is the sequel to the memoir A Stolen Life (2011) by Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped in 1991 at age 11 and held captive in a hidden backyard compound in California for 18 years. In Freedom, she narrates her reintegration into mainstream society. Jaycee emphasizes that she is not Elizabeth Smart or one of the women held captive by Ariel Castro in Cleveland. She is Jaycee Dugard, and her story is her own. When 11-year-old Jaycee was walking to the school bus stop in her South Lake Tahoe community, a car approached her. A man, Phillip Garrido, reached out, zapped her with a stun gun, and dragged her into his car. Then he and his wife, Nancy, took Jaycee to their home in Antioch, where they held her as Phillip’s sex slave. Now, Jaycee is in her mid-30s. Phillip and Nancy Garrido are in prison for the rest… PLEASE NOTE: This is summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Inside this Instaread Summary of Freedom by Jaycee Dugard | Includes Analysis · Summary of the Book · Important People · Character Analysis · Analysis of the Themes and Author’s Style About the Author With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience. Visit our website at instaread.co.
Download or read book A Political Journey written by Eva Estrada Kalaw and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Curse Within Me written by Arnie Grimm and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though `The Wizard Within Me' had a happy ending, there were some in the magical world not very happy. `The Curse Within Me' continues the story of Agnes and Harriet along with the town of Broomstick. The day Zimmer Wardcrystal the ghoul drove into town, darker forces than black magic itself cursed Broomstick. You can enjoy reading this book without reading the first book. However, once drawn into this world, you'll want to know every little secret that the town of Broomstick has to hide. You'll be asking, "Where is Book Three?" Comments from readers: I have just finished reading your book. It was fun to follow along with the adventures and plot twists in your magical creation Loved your book! Say hi to Penelope for me. It made me feel like a young girl again I really enjoyed your book. I think Agnes was probably my favorite character.
Download or read book Journeys written by Prof. Susan L. Miller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than one in three women in the United States has experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Luckily, many are able to escape this life—but what happens to them after? Journeys focuses on the desperately understudied topic of the resiliency of long-term (over 5 years) survivors of intimate partner violence and abuse. Drawing on participant observation research and interviews with women years after the end of their abusive relationships, author Susan L. Miller shares these women’s trials and tribulations, and expounds on the factors that facilitated these women’s success in gaining inner strength, personal efficacy, and transformation. Written for researchers, practitioners, students, and policy makers in criminal justice, sociology, and social services, Journeys shares stories that hope to inspire other victims and survivors while illuminating the different paths to resiliency and growth.
Download or read book Red Devil Tales A Son s Journey to Discover His Father s Legacy written by Ronald Sexton and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronald Sexton was only five years old when his father retired from coaching. He remembered very little of his dad’s life as one of North Carolina’s outstanding high school basketball coaches in the 1950s. Years after his father’s passing and after attending his father’s induction ceremony into Lenoir County’s Sports Hall of Fame, Ronald was determined to learn more about his father’s legacy as a basketball coach. He traveled from Louisiana to e
Download or read book Aiden s Journey written by L. S. Pote and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Wall Is Just a Wall written by Reiko Hillyer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, even the harshest prison systems in the United States were rather porous. Incarcerated people were regularly released from prison for Christmas holidays; the wives of incarcerated men could visit for seventy-two hours relatively unsupervised; and governors routinely commuted the sentences of people convicted of murder. By the 1990s, these practices had become rarer as politicians and the media—in contrast to corrections officials—described the public as potential victims who required constant protection against the threat of violence. In A Wall Is Just a Wall Reiko Hillyer focuses on gubernatorial clemency, furlough, and conjugal visits to examine the origins and decline of practices that allowed incarcerated people to transcend prison boundaries. Illuminating prisoners’ lived experiences as they suffered, critiqued, survived, and resisted changing penal practices, she shows that the current impermeability of the prison is a recent, uneven, and contested phenomenon. By tracking the “thickening” of prison walls, Hillyer historicizes changing ideas of risk, the growing bipartisan acceptance of permanent exile and fixing the convicted at the moment of their crime as a form of punishment, and prisoners’ efforts to resist.
Download or read book From Rat Tail Ridge to Capital Hill and Back written by Robert Edward Fulton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “From Rat-Tail Ridge To Capitol Hill And Back” is an autobiography written by Robert Edward (Bob) Fulton before his passing in 2018. It’s the story of a man born during the Great Depression into a poor and hard-working family of Middle American farmers, who became a public school teacher at the age of 16, served in the Army, and was the first in his family to graduate from college. He went on to obtain advanced degrees in law and public administration, to serve in the highest levels of government, and to become one of the country’s leading experts on government programs for alleviating poverty. Bob’s own journey was a reflection of the hope that he tried to bring to others — that when opportunity is made available to people of personal integrity and industry, good things can grow, just as life can spring up from the unforgiving soil of a farm on Rat-Tail Ridge. Bob’s own journey was deeply shaped by the experiences of those who went before him; “From Rat-Tail Ridge To Capitol Hill And Back” thus also tells the story of his ancestry. As with many Americans, the family story began with migration from another continent in search of a better life — in his family’s case, from Europe in the 1700s. It’s the classic pioneers’ tale, moving from parts east to the land west of the Mississippi in a persevering struggle to cobble together a workable life in a new land. “From Rat-Tail Ridge To Capitol Hill And Back” at once rings both familiar and remarkable, providing common refrains of the American experience while also reminding that principle, basic decency, and commitment to community are the magic stuff of life.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1961-05-08 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Download or read book Jaycee s Bakery written by Leanne Stanfield and published by Leanne Stanfield. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaycee is trying to provide for her family. Jeremy is determined to stop an arsonist. Neither of them is looking for love. When a heartbroken Jaycee Laughton returns home to reunite with her family, she finds them in dire financial straits. Using her talents to open a bakery in idyllic Larkin Bay seems the perfect way to forget her cheating boyfriend and help pay the bills. She just never imagined an arsonist would target her hometown and threaten her dream. Two years ago, charming Jeremy Matthews was widowed by a pyromaniac’s fire. Now he's in Larkin Bay and is determined to catch another arsonist. But he can't ignore his fiery attraction to Jaycee. Things are heating up between them until all the clues to the arsonist's identity point to one of Jaycee’s beloved family members. Now, Jaycee and Jeremy must set aside their past hurts to protect Jaycee's Bakery, save her family, and safeguard Larkin Bay. The stakes are high when you're playing with fire. Jaycee’s Bakery is the first book in the Larkin Bay Romance series. It is a feel-good, full-length, standalone novel.
