Download or read book Aunt Betty s Story written by Bethany Veney and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bethany Veney was born into slavery in Shenandoah County, Virginia, in 1813. In her narrative, written in the late 1880's, she tells her life's story, including early childhood, family separation, physical punishment at the hands of masters, religious awakening, marriages, motherhood and, finally, freedom.
Download or read book The Narrative of Bethany Veney written by Bethany Veney and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collected Black Women s Narratives written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four autobiographical narratives written by African-American women from 1853 to 1902.
Download or read book Betty s Burgled Bakery written by Travis Nichols and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betty's bakery has been burgled, and it is up to the Gumshoe Zoo to solve the criminal conundrum of who stole (and ate) the purloined pastries.
Download or read book Betty written by David A. Robertson and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Betty Osborne, known as Betty to her closest friends and family, dreamed of becoming a teacher. She left home to attend residential school and later moved to The Pas, Manitoba, to attend high school. On November 13, 1971, Betty was abducted and brutally murdered by four young men. Initially met with silence and indifference, her tragic murder resonates loudly today. Betty represents one of almost 1,200 Indigenous women in Canada who have been murdered or gone missing. This is her story. Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story has been selected as a White Raven 2016 by the International Youth Library for its annual catalogue of book recommendations in the field of international children’s and youth literature. This year’s White Ravens catalogue contains 200 titles in 42 languages from 60 countries.
Download or read book Across the Wilderness written by JEANNE F. BROOKS and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphaned at a young age, Isobel dreams of marriage and a family of her own after graduation from college. Her plans come to a grinding halt when her potential in-laws reject her because of her ethnic appearance. She doesn’t fit into their class-conscious, blue-blooded, American society. Broken-hearted, she retreats to the home her last living relative, Aunt Betty. When her aunt dies, she discovers a family secret: that she isn’t who she thought she was! Isobel was raised to believe she was part Japanese and part Caucasian-American, but she finds proof that her ethnicity is totally different and that her birth mother might still be living. She determines to seek out her biological family and in the process finds a heritage far greater than she ever anticipated.
Download or read book Letters from Hell written by Valdemar Adolph Thisted and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Betty Before X written by Ilyasah Shabazz and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fictionalized biography of Betty Shabazz (Malcolm X's wife) as a young girl in post-WWII Detroit, as written by her daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, with Renée Watson.
Download or read book A Message from a Lost Soul Or Letters from Hell written by Valdemar Adolph Thisted and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Betty Leicester written by Sarah Orne Jewett and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Betty spends a summer with her aunts in Tideshead, Massachusetts, while her father, a naturalist, travels to Alaska.
Download or read book Seven Aunts written by Staci Lola Drouillard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century They were German and English, Anishinaabe and French, born in the north woods and Midwestern farm country. They moved again and again, and they fought for each other when men turned mean, when money ran out, when babies—and there were so many—added more trouble but even more love. These are the aunties: Faye, who lived in California, and Lila, who lived just down the street; Doreen, who took on the bullies taunting her “mixed-blood” brothers and sisters; Gloria, who raised six children (no thanks to all of her “stupid husbands”); Betty, who left a marriage of indenture to a misogynistic southerner to find love and acceptance with a Norwegian logger; and Carol and Diane, who broke the warped molds of their own upbringing. From the fabric of these women’s lives, Staci Lola Drouillard stitches a colorful quilt, its brightly patterned pieces as different as her aunties, yet alike in their warmth and spirit and resilience, their persistence in speaking for their generation. Seven Aunts is an inspired patchwork of memoir and reminiscence, poetry, testimony, love letters, and family lore. In this multifaceted, unconventional portrait, Drouillard summons ways of life largely lost to history, even as the possibilities created by these women live on. Unfolding against a personal view of the settler invasion of the Midwest by men who farmed and logged, fished and hunted and mined, it reveals the true heart and soul of that history: the lives of the women who held together family, home, and community—women who defied expectations and overwhelming odds to make a place in the world for the next generation.
Download or read book Neglected Stories written by Peggy Cooper Davis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a powerful challenge to the belief that the Constitution has nothing to do with the individual freedoms that comprise family rights, Peggy Cooper Davis argues in Neglected Stories that the constitutional amendments after the Civil War reflect a profound appreciation of the political, social, and personal worth of family autonomy. She draws upon what she calls the "motivating stories" of the Fourteenth Amendment to show that the Reconstruction legislators who sponsored it understood family rights as aspects of liberty that were fundamental to the proper definition of freedom and citizenship. This new understanding of family rights developed as men and women - black and white, Southerners and Northerners - came to appreciate the enormity of slavery's denial, even destruction, of family life. Davis also explores the "doctrinal stories" the Supreme Court has told to justify or strike down restrictions on liberty with respect to work, marriage, procreation, parenting, and sexuality and family planning - and the stories of the litigants who wanted to live, work, marry, love, and parent as they chose. These "neglected stories" are woven together in a strong new constitutional argument that gives us at long last a framework in which we can have sensible social and political debate about just what we mean when we say "family values."
Download or read book My Name Is Phillis Wheatley written by Afua Cooper and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but captured by slave raiders and forced aboard a slave ship, where appalling conditions spell death for many of her companions. Numerous sharks follow the ship, feeding on the corpses of slaves thrown overboard. Weakened by the voyage and near death in a Boston slave market, Wheatley is bought by a kind family who nurses her back to health and teaches her to read and write. Soon her mistress recognizes that the girl is a quick learner and talented. At the age of 12, a torrent of poetry begins to flow out of Wheatley. Proud of her achievements, her mistress organizes readings in Boston's finest parlors and drawing rooms, and Wheatley's fame spreads. But even when many in Boston are calling her a prodigy and a genius, some remain unsure that a slave should be able to write, much less write poetry. When Phillis travels to London she is a media sensation, feted by the cream of English society. A book of her poems is published, and she finally gains her freedom. This amazing story, wide in scope, is based on fact and told convincingly from young Wheatley's point of view.
Download or read book Giving Up On Ordinary written by Isla Dewar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Isla is the best, the funniest, the cleverest, the most enjoyable writer in Scotland today. . . . you would enrich your life beyond all measure by discovering Isla Dewar." ---Robin Pilcher, New York Times bestselling author In this funny and charming novel, Megs is a woman whose ordinary life is about to become absolutely extraordinary. . . . When Megs became a house cleaner to make ends meet as a single mother of three, she didn't realize that people would be so blinded by the cleansers and mops, they would fail to see her as an actual human being. As "the housekeeper" she's become invisible to them all. Little do these upper-crust clients realize that her life is just as full as theirs, although perhaps a bit less high end. Megs sings the sultry blues at a club each weekend, begins a secret affair, and drinks her troubles away with her saucy best friend, Lorraine---all while trying to keep her children happy and her head above water. But with help from an eccentric professor whose house she cleans, her life is about to get a shot in the arm. Megs begins to speak her mind, stand up for herself, and live her life in color. Poignant and incredibly witty, Giving Up On Ordinary is a heartwarming story with laughter and surprises on every page. Following in the incredible footsteps of Maeve Binchy and Joanna Trollope, Isla Dewar has established herself as one of the greatest voices in women's fiction today.
Download or read book The Quiver written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 12 contains: The Archer...Christmas, 1877.
Download or read book The Narrative of Bethany Veney a Slave Woman written by Bethany Veney and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories from Another Universe written by Johann Kassim and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this book originate from another reality called The Autherens. Come and explore this world, starting with "A Story of Missed Opportunities." This special tale takes place in Melswith, and tells of the love between a lecturer and his student. Follow their love story that brings you along to other places and beyond. The twist at the end allows you to decide how it ends. Reader participation is encouraged in Johann Kassim's writings, so be prepared. The Autherens is filled with stories emanating from all different genres. One quirk about the author's books is that there is always a cavalcade of other interesting things within. In this book, readers don't need to decide on one main story. You can skip about and enjoy the tales from many angles. Instead of starting at the beginning, read a short story in the middle, or read a poem, and then come back to the main story when the mood strikes. This is one time when reader's choice is given priority over author's authority. There is romance, fantasy, and transformational verse. There has never been a book quite like Stories from Another Universe. Don't wait any longer, come explore this new universe!
