Download or read book Becoming Grandma written by Lesley Stahl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller From one of the country’s most recognizable journalists, Lesley Stahl of CBS's 60 Minutes: How becoming a grandmother transforms a woman’s life. After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl’s most vivid and transformative experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or researching stories at 60 Minutes. It was becoming a grandmother. She was hit with a jolt of joy so intense and unexpected, she wanted to “investigate” it—as though it were a news flash. And so, using her 60 Minutes skills, she explored how grandmothering changes a woman’s life, interviewing friends like Whoopi Goldberg, colleagues like Diane Sawyer (and grandfathers, including Tom Brokaw), as well as the proverbial woman next door. Along with these personal accounts, Stahl speaks with scientists and doctors about physiological changes that occur in women when they have grandchildren; anthropologists about why there are grandmothers, in evolutionary terms; and psychiatrists about the therapeutic effects of grandchildren on both grandmothers and grandfathers. Throughout Becoming Grandma, Stahl shares stories about her own life with granddaughters Jordan and Chloe, about how her relationship with her daughter, Taylor, has changed, and about how being a grandfather has affected her husband, Aaron. In an era when baby boomers are becoming grandparents in droves and when young parents need all the help they can get raising their children, Stahl’s book is a timely and affecting read that redefines a cherished relationship.

Download or read book GRANDMA GRANDPA written by C. M. Dowdell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-10-08 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ve been told a lie, what you know about grandparents is wrong, problematic at its best. Under the duress of traumatic stress, I tried to kill a black cat-crazy-evil on purpose. Yet, it tried to kill me first! Babysitting gigs went everywhere other than smooth. Each day was a “War Zone.” Dracula just showed up on the regular without even a knock on the door before I could invite him in. Neighbors walked around looking like “Zombies” of an unknown planet. Dogs and chickens are humongously gigantic, they tried to eat me/my whole family. My prayers to God is the only thing that saved my life.

Download or read book Does My Great Grandma Drive a Motorcycle written by Jeremy Secrest and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if there's more to your great-grandma than meets the eye? Does she have a secret identity? Does she have adventures you know nothing about? Does My Great-Grandma Drive A Motorcycle? is a whimsical, illustrated children's book that follows the inquisitive adventure of a young boy as he questions whether or not his dad's story about his seemingly normal great-grandmother's secret life as a motorcycle rider is true or not. "Does she like to watch the sunset and feel the evening breeze? Does that black jacket work to keep her tissues in her sleeve?" Following in the tradition of Dr. Seuss, Calvin and Hobbes, and The Muppets, Does My Great-Grandma Drive A Motorcycle? is designed to appeal to the explorer in both young and young at heart with the mysterious great-grandmother, who may or may not have other adventures waiting to be discovered.

Download or read book Granny Wait for Me written by Sarah Owens and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granny sounds her bike horn and quickly takes the lead. But soon she's out of eyesight, 'Granny, wait for me!' I plead. A whimsical and fun-filled story of a lively granny's trip to the park with her grandson, which all begins with a bike race ...

Download or read book Motorcycles Sweetgrass written by Drew Hayden Taylor and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne – a master of aboriginal martial arts – to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.

Download or read book Grandmas Stories written by Rick Steber and published by Bonanza Publishing. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandma grew up on a farm and, at a relatively young age, she fell in love and married Grandpa. They moved west, found the opportunities to their liking and together they raised a wonderful family. Grandma was the glue that held the family together. She performed the necessary domestic tasks of making a home - caring for the children, cleaning, cooking, baking, washing, sewing and darning. She also tended the chickens, milked the cows and churned the cream to butter. And when necessity arose, like the time a horse rolled on Grandpa and he was laid up for nearly a year, Grandma demonstrated she could take on a man's work as well. The Grandma I remember was old. Her domain was the kitchen, a room dominated by the cheery warmth of a wood stove and the sweet aroma of baking pies. While Grandma worked, frequently pausing to wipe her calloused hands on her freshly ironed white apron, she talked - telling stories of pioneering days, tales handed down from the Indians and interesting things that had happened to family members, friends and neighbors. Every once in awhile she lowered her voice and shared some small secret. My children will know their great-grandmother because of the stories I will share with them and from the words Grandma carefully wrote in her journal. Every evening, no matter how trying her day had been, she would take a few moments to reflect and describe things from the day that were important to her - a laughing child chasing a butterfly across the pasture, the lovely fragrance of wildflowers in bloom, a field of wheat dancing in an afternoon breeze.... When Grandma finished the entries she would lay down her pen, close her journal, blow out the candle flame, and say to herself, 'And so ends another glorious day.'

Download or read book My Papi Has a Motorcycle written by Isabel Quintero and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo. When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. With vivid illustrations and text bursting with heart, My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl's love letter to her hardworking dad and to memories of home that we hold close in the midst of change.

Download or read book The Secret Recipe of Ella Dove written by Karen Hawkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three lives converge as a wildly talented baker returns to Dove Pond to face her past in this entry in the charming series that proves that sometimes miracles really do happen... Ella Dove is an acclaimed baker whose desserts spark vivid, cherished memories in those who taste them. A restless soul, Ella goes wherever the wind takes her—but driven by a haunting dream, she’s coming home to Dove Pond. Years ago, her mentor, Angela Stewart Harrington, falsely accused Ella of stealing her beloved family recipe book, known as the Book of Cakes. Now, Ella believes it’s time for them to reconcile. Angela has her own share of amends to make. Her daughter Jules has never forgiven her for divorcing her father, and they’ve been estranged ever since. But just as Angela begins to hope that she and Jules might mend their tattered relationship, a miscommunication turns into a lie that could destroy everything. Meanwhile, Jules’s son Gray is shocked that Ella, his first love and his first heartbreak, has returned to Dove Pond. But even though he knows Ella is a wanderer and will soon leave, he’s unable to stop himself from falling for her once again. Can Gray find a way to convince Ella to give him, and their town, a serious chance? Or is he once again on the road to a broken heart? With so much at stake, Ella, Angela, and Gray must learn to accept each other—flaws and all—forgive the many mistakes of their pasts, and trust that love can, and will, always find a way. For fans of Alice Hoffman and Sarah Addison Allen, The Secret Recipe of Ella Dove is a delicious and magical read that will warm your heart and charm your senses.

Download or read book Granny written by Anthony Horowitz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In London, England, twelve-year-old Joe discovers that his grandmother is not just physically repulsive and horribly mean, she is also involved in an evil plot against him, but the adults around them fail to see behind her mask.

Download or read book Motown Girl Sister Golden Hair written by Johnnie Sue Bridges and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnnie Sue Bridges incredible life story began with the release of her first book, the highly acclaimed Shadows And Scars, a beautiful story that captures the essence of living in the mountains of Middlesboro, Kentucky, with vivid imagery, comical moments and raw emotion. In one cold blue night, she writes of an already painful world turning into nothing short of a nightmare. Bitter coldness and survival starts the reader on a journey that portrays a young mothers fight against poverty, loneliness, and alcoholism, concluding in the riot-torn and racially divided city of Detroit. Shadows And Scars reveals a birds-eye view of the child that struggled to maintain stability in her hauntingly unstable world. Readers will gain the knowledge of endurance within themselves, despite adversity. Book # 2 Motown Girl Sister Golden Hair chronicles her roller coaster ride through the early 70s growing up in the inner city of Detroits Westside. Hitting the teen years during the underground time of extreme change, uprisings, experimenting with everything under the sun, came at a very high pricerobbery of her self worth and most importantly, the stolen innocence of the ones she dearly loved. Highly educated in cultured urban habit, she was forevermore restless and ran incessantly. And by the grace of God, she eventually changed and escaped. However, some of those she held closest to her heart paid the piper with their lives. In her own words, No one told us that stuff would kill ya. Book # 3 of the series Run BabyGirl Run Just Published! The year was 1973. A fourteen-year-old girl hitchhiked across the country to the Pacific Coast, then back to the Atlantic Ocean. Her mother died when she was only eleven years old and never knowing a father, there had to be a way of validating her very existence and to discover why she was on this planet. The answers were all around her; however, she would not be able to recognize them until years later. Meeting with many life-threatening situations, its a thousand wonders she is still alive to tell her story. Run BabyGirl Run is written with gutwrenching honesty and allows the reader to see into the very depths of this beautiful young girls soul. Editor: Jackie Hurst www.johnniesuebridges.com

Download or read book The Grass Is Bluer on the Other Side written by V. Montrell Jones and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world filled with glitz and glamour, baller style, Azaria is at the top of the chain.But there is one thing that is elusive from her - the commodity of love and family. Azaria lost her mom two years ago - the only family shes known. But her childhood friend, Magic, was always there. One morning Azaria is rudely awakened with a hangover from the previous nights festivities by total strangers that would later become her family and love that once was far-fetched.

Download or read book The Crush written by Allyson Kennedy and published by Allyson Kennedy. This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never settle for anything less. A combination hopeless romantic and old soul trapped in a teenager’s body, closet musician Emery Brooks wonders if she’ll ever find a love as timeless as her grandparents’. Fear of judgment and social alienation due to her older brother’s past mistakes render her incapable of writing a love song. Still, Emery holds fast to the ideals her Grandma Adeline instilled in her from a young age, vowing to allow God to handwrite her love story, to never settle for anything less. That is, until love cynic Sawyer Alston enters her world. Broken by the wrath of his parents’ failed marriage, Sawyer has been uprooted from everything he’s ever known and now sees love as a void of empty promises. When Emery and Sawyer meet due to their mothers' rekindled friendship, Emery soon realizes she’s in over her head. For, despite her resistance, her first crush, her first glimpse at love, involves a boy who doesn’t believe in love at all. A tale of love and loss reminiscent of old-fashioned values with a bit of sass and music mixed in, The Crush is perfect for fans of A Walk to Remember and This Lullaby.

Download or read book If You Could See What I See written by Cathy Lamb and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this moving, insightful new novel, acclaimed author Cathy Lamb delves into the heart of going home again, the challenge of facing loss--and the freedom of finally letting go. . . For decades, the women in Meggie O'Rourke's family have run Lace, Satin, and Baubles, a lingerie business that specializes in creations as exquisitely pretty as they are practical. The dynamic in Meggie's family, however, is perpetually dysfunctional. In fact, if Meggie weren't being summoned back to Portland, Oregon, by her grandmother, she'd be inclined to stay away all together. Since her husband's death a year ago, Meggie's emotions have been in constant flux, and so has her career as a documentary film maker. Finding ways to keep the family business afloat--and dealing with her squabbling sister and cousin--will at least give her a temporary focus. To draw customers to their website, Meggie decides to interview relatives and employees about their first bras and favorite lingerie. She envisions something flip and funny, but the confessions that emerge are unexpectedly poignant. There are stories of first loves and aching regrets, passionate mistakes and surprising rendezvous. And as the revelations illuminate her family's past, Meggie begins to find her own way forward. With warmth and unflinching humor, If You Could See What I See explores the tender truths we keep close--and what can happen when we find the courage to bare them to the world.

Download or read book Biker Billy s Hog Wild on a Harley Cookbook written by Bill Hufnagle and published by Harvard Common Press. This book was released on 2003-03-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To help celebrate the 100th anniversary of Harley-Davidson in 2003, Bill Hufnagle, aka Biker Billy, has collected 200 righteous recipes from HOG members from sea to shining sea.

Download or read book Falling for the Bronc Rider written by Danae Little and published by Little Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bronc riding confirmed bachelor, a chaste barrel racer full of hope, and the rodeos that push them together Beth is fine being friends with Jake, but she won’t cross that line, even when circumstances push them to share the same living space. Jake proudly wears the badge of confirmed bachelor. It suits his bronc riding career just fine. When Beth needs help, he offers her to ride along with him. Who knew the one girl he couldn’t have, would be the one to finally reach his heart. Falling for the Bronc Rider is Book One of Faithful Cowboys, a series that inspires hope, faith, and, of course, belief that love conquers all. Each book can be read as a stand-alone though characters are tied-in throughout the series.

Download or read book An Invisible Child written by Lenore Ossen, MSW and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trapped in the twisted world of a paranoid schizophrenic mother, Lenore Ossen is shut away from the outside world. For her, there is no school. No classmates. No friendships with other children. Under her mother's insane rules, she can't even turn to family members for solace, and so, day after day, she lives in panic and fear. How can she survive such terrible treatment? In deep despair, Lenore learns to retreat to the safety of her own mind. There she creates a world of fantasy and yearns for someone to take her away from her deranged mother. But there is no one. Most people suffering such abuse would go out of their minds. What makes Lenore different? How does she endure? What drives her to rise above her traumatic past? In this compelling true story, Lenore Ossen describes what living in isolation with a psychotic mother feels like to an innocent child. In telling how she broke free of the nightmare enslaving her, she reaches out to give hope and comfort to other victims of abuse.

Download or read book Smriti MEMORIES WITH GRANDPARENTS written by Sambardhana Dikshit and published by BookSquirrel Publication. This book was released on 2021-06-05 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: स्मृति - Memories with Grandparents There is no one to match the love of our grandparents. They love us unconditionally and they are the bestest friends of every grandchildren , know why ! Because they save us from all the scolding of parents but later they correct us also for our mistakes. Now-a-days the busy life have changed a lot of things ... We live alone , we play alone , we eat alone , we sleep alone but inner we feel the absence of our grandparents and recall their stories and each activities spent together ... This book is consist of different genres on the theme of memories of grandparents from the words of different writers' pen . Let's dive into the deep ocean of emotions and feelings of our beloved writers for our super great grandparents.