Download or read book Where s Mama written by Sheryl Marsh and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One would assume that a woman with a seventh-grade education, eight children to raise, and no money is considered a failure. Wrong! Not for this woman who was born in the Deep South in the 1920s. Instead, she used her situation as a ladder, setting goals and stepping over obstacles to successfully break free from the clutches of poverty. Staring poverty in the face and cleaning huge homes of affluent white people for miniscule wages to take care of eight children, Odessa B. Toyer demonstrated how one woman of tenacious character and totally dependent on God beat the odds to rear a family that would make her proud and give back to enhance her quality of life. She did it all without handouts and taught her children to do the same. Out of her poverty came many and varied life lessons that live on through her offspring. Decades later after all of her children were grown, it was shocking to see this strong woman forget the meal she had eaten fifteen minutes earlier, put keys in the refrigerator, or wander away from home to become a victim of the dreaded Alzheimer's disease. Once diagnosed, Odessa would fight the disease, and in the end, she strong-armed Alzheimer's by refusing to forget her children. When she died in 2008, we had no idea we would see Alzheimer's again. The monster was still lurking and would ultimately claim Odessa's oldest daughter. Where's Mama goes against the stereotypical finger-pointing of poverty-stricken families. On the contrary, it will show that proper raising, not poverty or ethnicity, determines the successful outcome of children. This story is multifaceted with many twists, and it will show how Odessa's adult children chose serving over life's pleasures to give back to their mother and a sibling through caregiving that collectively spanned more than a decade. I am Odessa's daughter. I lived through poverty with her and my siblings. That's why I'm telling her story. I believe this book will help others who have a will to climb out of poverty; and people tasked with caring for elderly loved ones who are victims of Alzheimer's.
Download or read book Where Is Mama written by Yating Hung and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring, while Mama Frog makes a nice home for her family, the eggs she has laid hatch and her tadpoles swim around the pond, learning from a series of other mothers how to recognize their own. Full color.
Download or read book Where s My Mama written by Rachel Williams and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book M Is for Mama written by Abbie Halberstadt and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully rise to the high calling of motherhood without settling for mediocrity or losing their minds in the process. Motherhood is a challenge. Unfortunately, our worldly culture offers moms little in the way of real help. Mamas only connect to celebrate surviving another day and to share in their misery rather than rejoice in what God has done and to build each other up in hard times. There has a be a better way, a biblical way, for mamas to grow and thrive. As a daughter of Christ, you have been called to be more than an average mama. Attaining excellence doesn’t have to be unsettling but it will take committed focus and a desire to parent well according to God’s grace and for His glory. M is for Mama offers advice, encouragement, and scripturally sound strategies seasoned with a little bit of humor to help you embrace the challenge of biblical motherhood and raise your children with love and wisdom. Mama, you are worthy of the awesome responsibility God has given you. Now it’s time to start believing you can live up to it.
Download or read book Llama Llama Misses Mama written by Anna Dewdney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange new teacher. Strange new toys. Lots of kids and lots of noise! What would Llama like to do? Llama Llama feels so new . . . It’s Llama Llama’s first day of preschool! And Llama Llama’s mama makes sure he’s ready. They meet the teachers. See the other children. Look at all the books and games. But then it’s time for Mama to leave. And suddenly Llama Llama isn’t so excited anymore. Will Mama Llama come back? Of course she will. But before she does, the other children show Llama Llama how much fun school can be! Activities for Llama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney Watch a Video
Download or read book Where s My Mom written by Julia Donaldson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When little monkey can't find his mother, butterfly offers to help in the search. Little monkey says that his mother is big, so butterfly leads him to . . . an elephant. No, that's not right! Little monkey says his mom is furry, so butterfly leads him to . . . a bat. That's not right either. From then on, little monkey and butterfly meet many jungle animals, but they don't find Mom until little monkey comes up with just the right description. With Julia Donaldson's effortless rhyme and Axel Scheffler's vibrant illustrations, this circular tale combines funny miscommunication with a little bit of science for a charming feel-good adventure.
Download or read book When Kingdom Comes written by Ashea S. Goldson and published by Urban Christian. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending six years on death row in southern Louisiana, Trinity Crawford is finally declared innocent. She returns home to a mother who never wanted her. Immediately hit with a devastating medical diagnosis for her son, Trinity sets out in search of estranged family members. She travels first to New Orleans, to reconcile the past in order to reclaim her future. In her search to save her son, she enlists the help of her sassy Aunt Ruby, who helps her make sense of the strange visions she has always had. Trinity discovers the power of God that her paternal grandmother had told her so much about. As she wrestles with the relationship that has caused her the most pain in her life, she must also struggle with the only thing that hasn't been destroyed—her faith. When she has run out of time and resources, will the very weary Trinity give up on happiness, settling for what her mother calls her "bad luck," or will she realize that God is the only one who can heal the wounded and restore the lost?
Download or read book Beauty from Ashes written by Eugenia Price and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the best selling third volume of the Georgia Trilogy, presented by Turner Publishing For three decades, Eugenia Price has entranced millions of readers with her sweeping, romantic chronicles of life in the American South. In all its beauty, glory, infamy, and tragedy, Ms. Price’s South is at once mysterious and heartbreakingly familiar. Beauty from Ashes is the long-awaited concluding volume in Ms. Price’s Georgia Trilogy, preceded by the New York Times bestseller Bright Captivity and Where Shadows Go. Again, she leads us through her South—by now an aching South that will soon be torn by pain and pride, riven by fierce principles and divided loyalties, but always guided by men and women of uncommon passion. The sweeping saga of two families of St. Simon’s Island—the Coupers and the Frasers—resumes in 1852, as Anne Couper Fraser grieves the deaths of her husband and her parents. But fate is as cruel to Anne as history itself would prove to be to the nation: Anne’s family, fallen on hard times, has lost its home. Anne has no choice but to seek refuge, and reluctantly resettles in Marietta, three hundred miles north of her beloved St. Simons Island. As she begins to piece together her broken life, all around her the society she knows so well is falling apart. The roots of the Civil War are already evident. Anne’s family, like the South itself, seethes with internal conflict. Her son and grandson, who find it impossible to spurn their Southern heritage, enlist in the Confederate Army. Anne, in strong sympathy with the Unionists, finds her life disintegrating once again, and the family, the region, and the nation begin an agonizing collapse. But Anne, like the Union, endures. She learns that even in life’s cruelest circumstances, there is always a place for the unquenchable human spirit to find a refuge, and to blossom anew. Filled with characters drawn from history and from Eugenia Price’s rich imagination, Beauty from Ashes is a memorable finale to her admired Georgia Trilogy. An inspirational story of courage, love, and friendship, it will delight longtime Price fans and introduce the Georgia author to a new generation of readers.
Download or read book Summer Secrets written by Patricia Hermes and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Missy tries to learn more about her mother's odd behavior as she and her two friends share some secrets during a long, hot summer in Mississippi toward the end of World War II.
Download or read book A Sinister Quartet written by Mike Allen and published by Mythic Delirium Books. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best Anthology Contains “The Twice-Drowned Saint” by C.S.E. Cooney, 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best First Novel “With fiction from C.S.E Cooney, Jessica P. Wick, Amanda J. McGee, and Mike Allen, Mythic Delirium’s excellent new anthology, A Sinister Quartet, provides further evidence that long-form genre fiction is not just alive and well but thriving.” —Locus, Ian Mond “Mythic Delirium is one of the smaller presses which sustains our field . . . This is lovely and fascinating . . . Really fine work.” —Locus, Rich Horton "Easily one of the best things I've read this year . . . 'The Twice Drowned Saint' alone is worth five times the cost of the collection." —The Little Red Reviewer INCLUDES BONUS STORIES AND EXCERPTS AND NEW FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS Behind the walls of an invulnerable city ruled by angels, old movies provide balm for the soul and a plan to escape risks grisly retribution. A princess discovers a passage to a nightmarish world of deception and blood-sealed enchantment. A woman who has lost everything meets a man of great wealth and ominous secrets. In a town haunted by tragedy, malevolent supernatural entities converge, and the conflict that ensues unleashes chaos. A Sinister Quartet gathers original long-form wonders and horrors composed in unusual keys, with a short novel by World Fantasy Award winner C. S. E. Cooney and a new novella from two-time World Fantasy Award finalist Mike Allen joined by debut novellas from rising talents Amanda J. McGee and Jessica P. Wick. All four offer immersions into strange, beautiful and frightening milieus.
Download or read book Stella s Back in Town written by Perlina Murray and published by Strategic Book Publishing Rights Agency. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable couple with different complexions is featured in this interracial romance novel. Their amazing relationship comes together in an unexpected and surprising way, and blooms until one partner leaves town because of the negative reaction of their parents. Stella is smart, sexy, and gorgeous. She is also black and finds love in the eyes of a white man. Brandon has claimed her heart, but Stella’s mother believes that black people should only associate with their own race. Brandon’s parents also don’t approve of their engagement. Broken hearted, Stella leaves home because Brandon’s parents secretly pay her off. But watch what happens when Stella’s Back in Town! This dramatic, fascinating, and entertaining tale proves love and fate are powerful, irresistible forces.
Download or read book Give Me Your Heart written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of stories by National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates. In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young men. Can she outplay them? In the award-winning "Smother!" a young woman's nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor-mother. Which of them will win? In "Split/Brain" a woman who has blundered into a lethal situation confronts the possibility of saving herself. Will she take it? In "The First Husband," a jealous man discovers that his wife seems to have lied about her first marriage, and exacts a cruel revenge, years after the fact. In these and other powerful tales, children veer beyond their parents' control, wives and husbands wake up to find that they hardly know each other, haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures, and those who bring us the most harm may be the nearest at hand.
Download or read book The Sweetest Encounter written by Karlene Pitters and published by Jacanie, LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dallas Hollingsworth thought she had met the man of her dreams until her life came crashing down one night. Devastated, she moved to New York City in pursuit of a new beginning. But when sparks fly with Franco, a blue-collar firefighter with a tight budget, the rich beauty queen wonders if she can overcome her differences and find love again. Set in the bustling streets of New York City, Dallas, and Franco are two people from different worlds, but are both determined to make their relationship work. But when her heart is on the line, will Dallas be able to put her trust in Franco, or will her heart be betrayed yet again? If you enjoyed the romantic comedy "The Proposal" starring Sandra Bullock, you will also love this romantic story of Dallas and Franco. Buy now before the price changes and immerse yourself in a heartwarming tale of love and second chances.
Download or read book Treasure Box of Poem and Story written by Bertha Laird and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-03 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of poems about God's Word and His World. Includes a story about a little girl that loses her parents and finds a new beginning.
Download or read book Please Don t Call Me A Refugee written by Etta Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s reader can experience Hitler’s invasion of Austria, the rigidity of anti-Jewish laws, the Kindertransport, air raids in England, and a perilous cross-Atlantic journey through Steffi’s eyes. She proves her resiliency, as with little sister in tow, she leaves two homes, travels across continents, copes with a new language and the outbreak of war in two countries, while never attending school. Though some scenes are fictitious, the story recounts the author’s own World War II experiences. Coping with change and the pain of being a refugee will resonate with some of today’s kids and enlighten others. Middle grade historical fiction.
Download or read book Your Loving Arms written by Gwendolyn Bikis and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just of jail, and feeling free only when she's,high, Beth wants only one thing: to see her,ex-lover, Tammy, the beautiful black artist who,offered her the only emotional, financial and,personal security Beth had ever known. Seasoned,with flavours of poetry, defiance and courage,Your Loving Arms ranges from the streets of East,Baltimore to the front porches of North Carolina,from college dorms to prison yards. along the way,this powerful novel confronts addiction, racism,self-hatred and distrust - and reveals the honest,love and friendship that can transcend them all.
Download or read book The Cowboy s Christmas Miracle written by Anne McAllister and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last present he expected – a nearly two-year-old son! Deke Malone never gave a thought to having kids – until the day Zack came into his life. Now he can’t imagine not being a dad. It’s not easy, but it’s the best thing he’s ever done. It’s the hardest, too, because it takes him back to Montana for the holidays – to give his son a family and make peace with his own father if he can. He never expects to run into widow Erin Jones. Once upon a time, when they were barely more than kids, Erin was madly in love with Deke – while he thought she was his best friend. A lot has changed in fifteen years. Erin’s a widow now, with a young family of her own and a wealth of loving memories behind her. Could she really be so lucky the second time around? Deke thinks it’s their first real chance. Besides, it’s Christmas. And isn’t that the season of miracles . . . and love?
