Download or read book Dolores Queen of the Neighborhood written by Irma Barrientes Sherman and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author takes the reader through four generations of her family, beginning in the late 1800's. The family left Burgos, Spain and settled Burgos, Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas. Eventually, Dolores, the author's mother married and moved to the border in Brownsville, Texas. The reader will experience a fascinating "first-hand" account of Spanish Mexican culture as well as life along the border in South Texas. Irma Barrientes Sherman vividly brings to life her family's deep faith in Christ, their music, marriage customs, food, dress and folklore. The account focuses on her mother, Dolores from her birth in a small town in northern Mexico to marriage and raising a family of nine siblings in South Texas.
Download or read book Dolores Queen of the Neighborhood written by Irma Barrientes Sherman and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author takes the reader through four generations of her family, beginning in the late 1800's. The family left Burgos, Spain and settled Burgos, Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas. Eventually, Dolores, the author's mother married and moved to the border in Brownsville, Texas. The reader will experience a fascinating "first-hand" account of Spanish Mexican culture as well as life along the border in South Texas. Irma Barrientes Sherman vividly brings to life her family's deep faith in Christ, their music, marriage customs, food, dress and folklore. The account focuses on her mother, Dolores from her birth in a small town in northern Mexico to marriage and raising a family of nine siblings in South Texas.
Download or read book Dolores Queen of the Neighborhood written by Irma Sherman Barrientes and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author takes the reader through four generations of her family, beginning in the late 1800's. The family left Burgos, Spain and settled Burgos, Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas. Eventually, Dolores, the author's mother married and moved to the border in Brownsville, Texas. The reader will experience a fascinating "first-hand" account of Spanish Mexican culture as well as life along the border in South Texas. Irma Barrientes Sherman vividly brings to life her family's deep faith in Christ, their music, marriage customs, food, dress and folklore. The account focuses on her mother, Dolores from her birth in a small town in northern Mexico to marriage and raising a family of nine siblings in South Texas.
Download or read book Dolores written by Harro Harring and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lola Out Loud written by Jennifer Torres and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Lola helps her mother at the family's hotel, she learns about compassion, social injustice, and how one voice can lead to change. Includes author's note on Dolores Huerta, a labor organizer who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
Download or read book Daughter of the Queen of Sheba written by Jacki Lyden and published by HMH. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of growing up with a mentally ill mother “belongs on a shelf of classic memoirs, alongside The Liars’ Club and Angela’s Ashes” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). As an NPR correspondent, Jacki Lyden visited some dangerous war zones—but her childhood was a war zone of a different kind. Lyden’s mother suffered from what is now called bipolar disorder or manic depression. But in a small Wisconsin town in the sixties and seventies she was simply “crazy.” In her delusions, Lyden’s mother was a woman of power: Marie Antoinette or the Queen of Sheba. But in reality, she had married the nefarious local doctor, who drugged her to keep her moods in check and terrorized the children to keep them quiet. Holding their lives together was Lyden’s hardscrabble Irish grandmother, a woman who had her first child at the age of fourteen and lost her husband in a barroom brawl. In this memoir, Lyden vividly captures the seductive energy of her mother’s delusions and the effect they had on her own life. She paints a portrait of three remarkable women—mother, daughter, and grandmother—revealing their obstinate devotion to one another against all odds, and their scrappy genius for survival. “What distinguishes Daughter of the Queen of Sheba from any other book about dysfunctional parents . . . and turns this exotic memoir into compelling literature is the dreamy poetry of Lyden’s prose. In graceful imagery as original (and occasionally as highly wrought) as her mother’s costumes, Lyden—a senior correspondent for National Public Radio—loops and loops again around the central fact of her mother’s manic depression and how that illness shaped Lyden’s life growing up with two younger sisters, a scrappy Irish grandmother (whose memory she holds like ‘a cotton rag around a cut’), a father who left, and a hated stepfather.” —Entertainment Weekly
Download or read book The Colantonio Files written by Frederick A. Colantonio and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people I've met in my life were the impetus for writing this book. They are the good, bad and ugly people. Those I remember the most are those who were good to me and helped me along the way to become a professional broadcaster and newspaper journalist. Others were not kind and often said aloud that I would fail at achieving my goals. One relative went so far as to ask "Why can't you hold a job?"" He knew nothing of how unstable the job market was at the time for the jobs I held. It did not deter me; it fueled my desire to succeed. I knew what I wanted out of life and that is what I am currently doing. Sadly many who were unkind to me were unwilling to help people in need. Coffins don't have pockets was a phrase my parents often used. My mother said to me that she had two words of wisdom for me. They were not 'thank you those two words were BE NICE. It is the legacy I want to leave behind.
Download or read book Desire Street written by Jed Horne and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing anatomy of a New Orleans murder trial and a system of justice gone wrong. In a New Orleans supermarket parking lot in the fall of 1984 ,two disparate lives become inextricably bound for the next fourteen years. The first, the life of Delores Dye, a white housewife and grandmother. The second, a young black man with a gun in hand. Moments following their maybe not so chance encounter, Mrs. Dye lay dead on the sunbaked macadam, and the killer had made off with her purse, her groceries, and her car. Four days later, following a tip, authorities arrested a known drug dealer and father of five named Curtis Kyles. Kyles would then be tried for Mrs. Dye's murder an unprecedented five times, though he maintained his innocence throughout each trial. Convicted and sentenced to death in his second trial, he would spend fourteen years on death row. After a fifth jury was unable to reach a verdict, New Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick, Sr., finally conceded defeat and dropped the murder charge. But the case slowly yielded a deeper drama: The crime turned out to have been the side effect of an intricately plotted act of revenge. That police and prosecutors may have been complicit in the vengeance that framed Kyles cuts to the heart of a system of justice for Southern blacks in the era since lynch mobs were shamed into obsolescence. A compellingly written legal drama that has at its heart passionate intrigue and justice gone awry. Desire Street is a 2006 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime.
Download or read book Bob Hope written by Lawrence J. Quirk and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Lawrence J. Quirk delves into every personal and professional aspect of Bob Hope's long, complex and dramatic life; rising by sheer dint of will to great wealth and fame. Why did Hope become so identified with sponsoring the Vietnam War? What's the real scoop on his relationship with Bing Crosby? How far astray did Hope's frankly oversexed nature lead him from the marriage he successfully maintained with Dolores for over sixty years? Quirk writes about Hope based on long experience. He knew and interviewed Bob Hope while serving as an army seargeant during the Korean war and later as entertainment editor, and interviewer of top stars for over forty years. Quirk approaches his subject with original observations born of years of studying this most celebrated, yet in some ways most mysterious of entertainment giants.
Download or read book The Initiate s Book of Pathworkings written by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, an internationally known esoteric teacher, teams up with her daughter, Tamara, to reveal the pathworkings (or guided meditations) used by The Servants of the Light School to help students train their consciousness to access cosmic wisdom. Within the mind of every human being is a cosmos that matches the physical cosmos atom for atom. If you can learn how to tap the motherlode of wisdom in your inner cosmos, virtually anything in the universe comes within the realm of your understanding. You will cultivate your visualization skills, feed your creativity, and understand the true potency of rituals performed by only using your imagination! These pathworkings take you through ancient civilizations Egypt, Greece, Celtia, and Alexandria and even into the new millennium. You'll find your way into the mystical realms of the Tree of Life, the Angelic, and Elemental worlds, or explore shamanic workings, the Craft, and the Fairy Faith. From each pathworking you will gain new insight into timeless truths, and the wide variety of pathworkings in this book will help you find a path that works best for you. You can also refer to a working that is appropriate for the specific life situation in which you find yourself. Soon you'll be able to project your consciousness into astral scenery of your own making to find solutions to your personal challenges or to open up new opportunities in your life. If you can visualize it, you can make it happen!
Download or read book The Blossoming of a Nightingale written by Sharon Brindley Katana and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Irene ONeill breaking free from her sheltered childhood and strict father is not a choiceits a necessity. After promising her father shed focus solely on her studies, Irene packs her bags for one of the most prestigious hospital-based nursing programs in America. Little did she know how utterly unprepared she was to enter the progressive and fast-paced world in Manhattan and Bellevue Nursing School. Irene stumbles, bumbles and bluffs her way through classes and scenarios she doesnt completely understand and finds herself mistaking bedpans for food trays and syringes for IVs! But can Irene manage to keep her promise to her father and focus only on her studies in the midst of all Manhattans distractions? She tries hard to hold true to her morals but Bellevues biggest temptations, a male nurse and a stockbroker who seem focused entirely on her, make this promise almost impossible to maintain. For the first time in her young life, Irene finds herself trapped in a love triangle between her patient and sweet colleague, Ray and the smooth and powerful stockbroker, Steve. Will this inexperienced Nightingale lose herself amid New York Citys wild 60s? Will Studio 54, war protests and free love change the woman she saw in the mirror for her entire life? And will one of these men win her heartor will they end up ruining her dream of becoming a successful nurse?
Download or read book She s Come Undone written by Wally Lamb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the chocolate, crisps and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally rolls into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before really going belly up. In his extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch an incredible ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. At once a fragile girl and a hard-edged cynic, so tough to love yet so inimitably loveable, Dolores is as poignantly real as our own imperfections.
Download or read book How Far Do You Love Me written by Lulu Delacre and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a bedtime game that author and illustrator Lulu Delacre played with her young daughters, How Far Do You Love Me? is an 'I Love You' book with a twist. With every expression of love, readers visit one of 13 locations around the world, each a beautifully illustrated scene of adults and children in a place of natural beauty. As bedtime - or any quiet time - approaches, gather close with a special person in your life and get ready to let your imagination soar to place after place of love as you embark on a game of 'How far do you love me?'
Download or read book The House of the Lost Court written by Alice Muriel Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealthy American widow and her daughter, Dolores, come over to England for a lengthy stay, and, looking for a furnished house, rent the fine old Tudor mansion known as Queen's Quadrangles. There are certain conditions attached to the tenancy: they have to keep one or two of the ancient servitors, and the Lady Rosamund stipulates that they shall allow her to remain in residence, nominally as their housekeeper. Strange rumors reach them of a tragedy that overhangs the place; there is talk of it being haunted, and a persistent tale of the house having been built with three courts, though it now only possesses two. Dolores sees the ghost that haunts the grounds, and follows it into the missing third court, and a friendship springs up betwixt her and the young, sad-featured "ghost" that begins the unraveling of a mystery.
Download or read book San Francisco written by Jerry Camarillo Dunn and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco’s scenic views, world-class dining, and charming ambiance make it a top destination. National Geographic Traveler: San Francisco guides you through this magical city, from Haight-Ashbury and Union Square to high-class Nob Hill and crowd-pleasing Fisherman’s Wharf to the Italian cafés of North Beach and Golden Gate Park’s magnificent scenery. You’ll even learn the history of its famous cable cars and legendary Beatniks.
Download or read book 904 The Jeffries Family Chronicles written by The Jeffries Family and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a loving family from 904 47th PL., in the Deanwood community, of Washington, D.C.. They not only survived tough economic times but endured the trials of having a father who was an alcoholic. Everyone knew them because they were one of the largest families in Deanwood. This book is a combination of eleven stories written by the surviving siblings. The Jeffries family was well respected for their service to others while living at "904" and those actions carried on into their adult lives. Some of them became caregivers, worked in ministry fields, were athletes, educators and some served in the military and worked for the government. They are the epitome of a family who still loves and celebrates each other. The house at 904 reared a beautiful family and they've written this book to leave a beautiful legacy for their future generations.
Download or read book Stairway Walks in San Francisco written by Adah Bakalinsky and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of public stairways traverse San Francisco’s 42 hills, exposing incredible vistas while connecting colorful, unique neighborhoods — Mary Burk and Adah Bakalinsky love them all. The updated Stairway Walks in San Francisco explores well-known and clandestine corridors from Lands End to Bernal Heights while sharing captivating architectural, historical, pop culture, and horticultural notes along the way. A comprehensive appendix lists every one of the city's 600-plus public stairways. Long-term residents and tourists alike have used the book for more than 25 years to adventurously uncover San Francisco’s unexpected details.
