Download or read book The Girl from Purple Mountain written by May-lee Chai and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11-19 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of love, betrayal, and healing, The Girl from Purple Mountain begins with a mystery: The Chai family matriarch, Ruth Mei-en Tsao Chai, dies unexpectedly and her grieving husband discovers that she had secretly arranged to be buried alone-rather than in the shared plots they had purchased together years ago. In this extraordinary and moving family epic set against the shifting tides of twentieth-century China, Ruth's first-born son, Winberg, and his daughter, May-lee, explore family history to reconstruct her life as they seek to understand her fateful decision.
Download or read book Appalachian Mountain Girl written by Rhoda Bailey Warren and published by ChicagoReviewPress + ORM. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachian Mountain Girl is a sensitive and beautifully written autobiographical account of a childhood in the coalmine district of Depression-era Kentucky. With humor and warmth—but without sentimentality—Rhoda Warren recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and family values buttressed and sustained them. As a young girl, Rhoda began to catch glimpses of the world outside her narrow mountain community through the stories in True Confessions magazine and the pictures in the Montgomery Ward catalog—which to her seemed like “visions of a fairy world.” When Rhoda married and moved to a small town in New York State, it seemed that her dreams of a better life had been realized. Yet scenes of Letcher always “hovered in the back roads of her memory.” When she revisited her homeland, this time as a New Yorker, Rhoda found that Letcher was no longer the place of her memories.
Download or read book It s the Mountain Way written by Donna M. Bevans Ph. D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the Mountain Way is a coming-of-age story filled with suspense and memories of first love. Savannah Benjamin, born and raised in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, knew the ways of the mountain. She had only experienced the outside world from the books she read. But books couldn't teach her how first love felt, or explain why some people who seemed good were not always trustworthy. They didn't tell her that teenagers could be mean or unfriendly. These lessons she had to learn for herself. Set in 1983, marrying young was not unusual in the isolated hollows and villages of the mountains. At fourteen, Savannah was no longer a child, but not yet an adult. Her mother had married at fifteen, she wanted more for her daughter. Horace Jenks, the local moonshiner, had other plans for Savannah.
Download or read book A Woman Like That written by Joan Larkin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The act of "coming out" has the power to transform every aspect of a woman's life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. An essential element of self-realization, it is the unabashed acceptance of one's "outlaw" standing in a predominantly heterosexual world. These accounts -- sometimes heart-wrenching, often exhilarating -- encompass a wide breadth of backgrounds and experiences. From a teenager institutionalized for her passion for women to the mother who must come out to her young sons at the risk of losing them -- from the cautious academic to the raucous liberated femme -- each woman represented here tells of forging a unique path toward the difficult but emancipating recognition of herself. Extending from the 1940s to the present day, these intensely personal stories in turn reflect a unique history of the changing social mores that affected each woman's ability to determine the shape of her own life. Together they form an ornate tapestry of lesbian and bisexual experience in the United States over the past half-century.
Download or read book My Heart Is a Mountain written by Catherine Holm and published by Holy Cow! Press. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut collection of magical short stories, filled with compassion for the rugged frontier wilderness and its unique characters.
Download or read book Girls Seek Bliss written by Nicole Beland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhism made easy for the girl on the go. Are you searching for serenity but can’t seem to find it amongst the sticky tubes of lip gloss floating around in your purse, the piles of paperwork stacked on your desk, or the endless numbers programmed into your cell? Have the words "calm" and "stress-free" disappeared from your vocabulary? If so: Take some advice from the Bold and the Buddha-ful Try a mini-meditation Learn how to create your own Space to Chill Improve your love life by using The Eightfold Path to Finding a Good Guy Spice up your sex life by trying some Tantric Tricks Building on the most basic principles of Buddhism, Girl Seeks Bliss is the perfect book for any young woman looking to unclutter her mind, her heart…and her closet, and be better prepared to face the obstacles life throws her way every day.
Download or read book The Youth s Companion written by Nathaniel Willis and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.
Download or read book Challenged Lovers written by Fadzai Zimunya and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the power of love over all else. Both Danai and Fadzai are first-born children and expectations were understandably very high. The central message here is that parents need to impart all they believe their offspring need to get and this needs to be during the formative years. Young adults are subjected to societal influences that may not be in line with what the parents have in mind. Life lessons must be given but respect of the young mind is critical to maintain balance. Most parents find that they are busy with the day-to-day life demands, to the extent that their offspring are left to find their ways. Outside influences end up shaping the young minds. In this true story the challenge came when the two young adults fell in love and decided to marry. Their love was stronger than all efforts to separate them.
Download or read book Elsewhen written by William Patterson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Mahmood approached them, Jimmy saw what was in Mahmood's good hand. He knew what it was. Mahmood used such devices frequently on his captives and had used such a device on Jimmy before. Jimmy screamed louder in rage and frustration. "I do not want that on my head." He tried to move away from Mahmood but made little progress because of the handcuffs. Mahmood reached over to try to put the device on. Jimmy bent his head away from Mahmood in order to avoid the device. Jimmy was unsuccessful and the device went on. When the sphere touched the top of his head, it flowed out in all directions, assuming a more flattened shape. It stuck to his head despite the fact that he used his free hand to try to pull it off. He started sobbing. All his movements gradually started getting slower and slower. He appeared to get weaker and weaker, which he was. The violent emotions shown on his face became more subdued. He began to get lethargic. He slowly sank to the floor.
Download or read book Best of Covered Wagon Women written by Kenneth L. Holmes and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand accounts are among the best ever written. They were selected for the power with which they portray the hardship, adventure, and boundless love for friends and family that characterized the overland experience. Some were written with the skilled pens of educated women. Others bear the marks of crude cabin learning, with archaic and imaginative spelling and a simplicity of expression. All convey the profound effect the westward trek had on these women. For too long these diaries and letters were secreted away in attics and basements or collected dust on the shelves of manuscript collections across the country. Their publication gives us a fresh perspective on the pioneer experience.
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Download or read book Nan of Music Mountain written by Frank H. Spearman and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nan of Music Mountain' is a novel in the drama genre written by Frank H. Spearman. The story follows Henry de Spain, who is determined to find the man who murdered his father. He becomes sort of an outsider with Duke Morgan's gang, cattlemen, and outlaws. Nan, daughter of the head of the clan, secretly loves Henry and when he is wounded in a fight with the Morgan clan, she helps him escape.
Download or read book Stranger Than a Green Dog written by Paul Sedory and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 12 years Paul Sedory trekked across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in search of nothing much in particular. Despite his greatest attempts to avoid purpose, he did have a few (mis)adventures along the way and learned a thing or two. Within these pages you will find observations on philosophy, politics, and religion; on love, romance, and sex; on people, places and the nitty-gritty of backpacker travel.
Download or read book Gravity written by Juliann Rich and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shot at Olympic gold in ski jumping. It’s a dream that has been the exclusive property of male athletes. Until now. For seventeen-year-old Ellie Engebretsen, the 2011 decision to include women’s ski jumping in the Olympics is a game changer. She’d love to bring home the gold for her father, a former Olympic competitor whose dreams were blown along with his knees on an ill-timed landing. But can she defy the pull of gravity that draws her to Kate Moreau, her biggest competition and the girl of her dreams? How can Ellie soar through the air when all she feels like doing is falling hard?
Download or read book Moving the Mountain written by Lu Li and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A student leader of the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square provides a persona account of the protests, the Chinese government's violent retaliation, and the aftermath.
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