Download or read book The Stranger Who Was Myself written by Barbara Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her childhood in colonial Port of Spain, to becoming a young mother in Wales and then returning to Trinidad, Jenkins tells her story with wit, emotional sensitivity and insight. Her experience is one rich with themes of gender, race, colonial politics, migration, language and class, woven into a compelling, poignant, and often very funny narrative.
Download or read book I Am a Stranger Here Myself written by Debra Gwartney and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 WILLA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction from Women Writing the West Part history, part memoir, I Am a Stranger Here Myself taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and one of fourteen people killed at the Whitman Mission in 1847 by Cayuse Indians. Whitman's role as a white woman drawn in to "settle" the West reflects the tough-as-nails women in Gwartney's own family. Arranged in four sections as a series of interlocking explorations and ruminations, Gwartney uses Whitman as a touchstone to spin a tightly woven narrative about identity, the power of womanhood, and coming to peace with one's most cherished place.
Download or read book A Stranger to Myself written by Willy Peter Reese and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2005-11-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War, Russia 1941-44 is the haunting memoir of a young German soldier on the Russian front during World War II. Willy Peter Reese was only twenty years old when he found himself marching through Russia with orders to take no prisoners. Three years later he was dead. Bearing witness to--and participating in--the atrocities of war, Reese recorded his reflections in his diary, leaving behind an intelligent, touching, and illuminating perspective on life on the eastern front. He documented the carnage perpetrated by both sides, the destruction which was exacerbated by the young soldiers' hunger, frostbite, exhaustion, and their daily struggle to survive. And he wrestled with his own sins, with the realization that what he and his fellow soldiers had done to civilians and enemies alike was unforgivable, with his growing awareness of the Nazi policies toward Jews, and with his deep disillusionment with himself and his fellow men. An international sensation, A Stranger to Myself is an unforgettable account of men at war.
Download or read book Notes From a Big Country written by Bill Bryson and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an old friend asked him to write a weekly dispatch from New Hampshire for the Mail on Sunday's Night and Day magazine, Bill Bryson firmly turned him down. So firm was he, in fact, that gathered here are nineteen months' worth of his popular columns about the strangest of phenomena -- the American way of life.Whether discussing the dazzling efficiency of the garbage disposal unit, the mind-boggling plethora of methods by which to shop, the exoticism of having your groceries bagged for you, or the jaw-slackening direness of American TV, Bill Bryson brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on the world's richest and craziest country.
Download or read book The Stranger Beside Me written by Mabel Seeley and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Husband, with a driving ambition for success he never gets, rebels against wife's success.
Download or read book A Stranger and You Welcomed Me written by Pope Francis and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of the Pope's writings and talks on the plight of migrants and refugees shows his deep knowledge and concern. It points out how followers of Christ are obliged to understand the root causes of mass movement of peoples and to act in light of their suffering.
Download or read book A Stranger to Myself written by Kelly Spence Cain and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us have had our dreams altered, threatened with failure, or even destroyed. Learn how God's love and grace miraculously reassembled the shattered pieces of Kelly's face and body after she survived a horrific accident. Her inspiring story of faith and family is for anyone, young and old, who has been disappointed by life.
Download or read book De Rightest Place written by Barbara Jenkins and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indira Gabriel, recently abandoned by her lover, Solomon, embarks on a project to reinvigorate a dilapidated bar into something special. In this warm, funny, sexy, and bittersweet novel, Barbara Jenkins draws together a richly-drawn cast of characters, like a Trinidadian Cheers. Meet Bostic, Solomon's boyhood friend, who is determined to keep the bar as a shrine; I Cynthia, the tale-telling Belmont maco; KarlLee, the painter with a very complicated love-life; fatherless Jah-Son; and Fritzie, single mum and Indira's loyal right-hand woman. At the book's centre is the unforgettable Indira, with her ebullience and sadness, her sharpness and honesty, obsession with the daily horoscope and addiction to increasingly absurd self-help books. In this warm, funny, sexy, and bittersweet novel, Barbara Jenkins hears, like Sam Selvon, the melancholy behind "the kiff-kiff laughter," as darkness from Indira's past threatens her drive to make a new beginning.
Download or read book Sic Transit Wagon written by Barbara Jenkins and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this collection move from the all-seeing naïveté of a child narrator trying to make sense of the world of adults, through the consciousness of the child-become-mother, to the mature perceptions of the older woman taking stock of her life. Set over a timespan from colonial-era Trinidad to the hazards and alarms of its postcolonial present, these stories have, at their core, the experience of uncomfortable change, but seen with a developing sense of its constancy as part of life, and the need for acceptance. The stories deal with the vulnerabilities and shames of a childhood of poverty; the pain of being let down; glimpses of the secret lives of adults; betrayals in love; the temptations of possessiveness; conflicts between the desire for belonging and independence; and the devastation of loss through illness, dementia, and death. What brings each of these not uncommon situations to fresh and vivid life is the quality of the writing: the shape of the stories, the unerring capturing of the rhythms of the voice and a way of seeing that includes a saving sense of humor and the absurd and also delights in the characters that people these stories.
Download or read book Ain t Nobody a Stranger to Me written by Ann Grifalconi and published by Jump At The Sun. This book was released on 2007-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Caldecott Honor recipients join to bring you the incredible journey of one man, as he recounts the story of his passage on the Underground Railroad to his granddaughter. His message is one of cheer, for although he and his family found troubles during their escape, he found that folks, black and white, "helped lift us up when we was down." How, then, could he ever turn his back on another human being?
Download or read book The Stranger me written by SARVAD PUBLICATION and published by sarvad publication. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stranger Me is an anthology, where writers penned their emotions in words.
Download or read book The Stranger Beside Me written by Ann Rule and published by Planet Ann Rule. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Stranger Within written by Rose North and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The article you are about to read is my overwhelming desire to express my thoughts on the subject of controlled gamblers vs. the compulsive gamblers. Gambling appears to be providing a very lucrative source of income for the United States and other states besides Nevada and New Jersey. Gambling was introduced to Atlantic City back in the later part of the nineteen seventies. In addition, there is world wide gambling that is enjoyed by vacationers or via the internet (extremely addictive). Several gamblers can control their gambling and can stop. However, there are those gamblers who “cannot” control their desire to gamble and become “Compulsive Gamblers.”
Download or read book The Sign of the Stranger written by William Le Queux and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Sign of the Stranger" is an exciting tale written via William Le Queux, who is mentioned for being a professional in spying and mystery. The tale takes location in opposition to a mysterious and anxious historical past, as the precept character offers with the advent of a stranger whose presence units off a sequence of strange sports. As the tale goes on, the precept character gadgets out to locate the mysterious individual who is hiding secrets and techniques, navigating a worldwide full of shadows, remote places intrigue, and unexpected turns. Le Queux skillfully weaves an internet of hysteria that continues readers on the brink of their seats as the primary man or woman receives deeper into the thriller. The story actions with a feel of unpredictability, mixing spying and unusual alliances to make a charming tale that goes beyond favored genres. "The Sign of the Stranger" isn't simplest a thrilling has a have a look at of the unknown manner to Le Queux's vibrant writing and complex plot, however it is also evidence of the writer's capacity to write down compelling recollections that keep readers concerned. Le Queux's mysterious odyssey lets readers discern out the thriller alongside aspect the principle person, making for a thrilling journey into the world of secrets and strategies, anxiety, and the unknown.
Download or read book The Stranger written by August von Kotzebue and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stranger at Our Shore written by Joshua Sherif and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping tale of escape from Egypt, The Stranger at Our Shore is the true story of one young man’s journey out of Islam into new life in Christ. Through his remarkable testimony, Chicago pastor Joshua Sherif calls the Western Church to reconsider the plight of the modern day sojourners in our land—the strangers at our shore and the ones living right next door—and to return wholeheartedly to its first charge: making disciples. The book examines three ways believers harden their hearts towards the stranger and suggests three practical remedies to help us begin casting a wider net for discipleship in our communities. Though any reader will be captivated by the powerful story, any believer will walk away from this book feeling less intimidated and better equipped to disciple people who are different than them.
Download or read book Tales from the Stranger s Room Volume 2 written by David Ruffle and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 includes more Sherlock Holmes and Watson tales collected by David Ruffle from writers around the world.
