Download or read book Concealed written by Esther Amini and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2020 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esther Amini grew up in Queens, New York, during the free-wheeling 1960s. She also grew up in a Persian-Jewish household, the American- born daughter of parents who had fled Mashhad, Iran. In CONCEALED she tells the story of being caught between these two worlds: the dutiful daughter of tradition-bound parents who hungers for more self-determination than tradition allows. Exploring the roots of her father's deep silences and explosive temper, her mother's flamboyance and flights from home, and her own sense of indebtedness to her two Iranian-born brothers, Amini uncovers the story of her parents' early years in Mashhad, Iran's holiest Muslim city; the little known history and persecution of Mashhad's underground Jews; the incident that steeled her mother's resolve to leave; and her parents' arduous journey to the United States, where they found themselves facing a new threat to their traditions: the threat of freedom. Determined to protect his only daughter from corruption, Amini's father prohibits talk, books, higher education, and tries to push her into an early Persian marriage. Can she resist? Should she? Focused intently on what she stands to gain, Amini eventually comes to see what she also stands to lose: a family and community bound together by food, celebrations, sibling escapades, and unexpected acts of devotion by parents to whom she feels invisible. In this poignant, funny, entertaining and uplifting memoir, Amini documents with keen eye, quick wit, and warm heart, how family members build, buoy, wound, and save one another across generations; how lives are shaped by the demands and burdens of loyalty and legacy; and how she rose to the challenge of deciding what to keep and what to discard.

Download or read book Cambridge International AS A Level Further Mathematics Coursebook written by Lee Mckelvey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge International AS & A Level Further Mathematics supports students following the 9231 syllabus. This single coursebook comprehensively covers all four modules of the syllabus and helps support students in their studies and develops their mathematical skills. Authored by experienced teachers of Further Mathematics, the coursebook provides detailed explanations and clear worked examples with practice exercises and exam-style questions. Answers are at the back of the book.

Download or read book Positive Affirmations Book written by Alena Art and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positive Affirmations Journal. Different pages for writing: Create your own affirmations I forgive myself for... 20 things that make me smile Today I affirm.. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Write a "Thank You" letter to yourself for all thatyou have achieved so far My favorite quote Positive thoughts I have about myself Things that make me laugh and more... Great Gift Idea for Family or Friends. For Christmas, Birthday, New Year, Thanksgiving, Mothers Day, Valentines, Day.

Download or read book Stay Daughter written by Yasmin Azad and published by Swift Press. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We did not stay in our houses. Not in the way our grandmothers had, or our mothers. We went out a little more and veiled ourselves a little less. Some of us longed for more learning and dreamed about leaving home to get it. The elders shook their heads and cautioned: too much education could ruin a girl's future. To be a Muslim girl in the Sri Lanka of the 50s and 60s was to have to stay inside once you hit puberty; where even a glimpse of flesh was forbidden; and where things were done the way they'd always been done. But Yasmin Azad's family is full of love, humour and larger-than-life characters, despite the strictures half of them were under. And almost despite himself, Yasmin's father allows her an education – an education that would open the whole world to her, even as it risked closing her off from those she was closest to. An extraordinary portrait of a time and a community in the midst of profound change, Stay, Daughter vividly evokes a now-vanished world, but its central clash – that of tradition and modernity – is one that will always be with us.

Download or read book A Saint from Texas written by Edmund White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood. Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far more dramatic and tragic fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy's land, both girls harbor their own secrets and dreams-ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society as Yvette gives herself to a lifetime of worship and service in the streets of Jericó, Colombia. And yet, even as they remake themselves in their radically different lives, the twins find that the bonds of family and the past are unbreakable. Spanning the 1950s to the recent past, Edmund White's marvelous novel serves up an immensely pleasurable epic of two Texas women as their lives traverse varied worlds: the swaggering opulence of the Dallas nouveau riche, the airless pretension of the Paris gratin, and the strict piety of a Colombian convent. For nearly half a century, Edmund White's work has revitalized American literature, blithely breaking down boundaries of class and sexuality, and A Saint From Texas is one of his most joyous, gorgeously written, and piercing works to date.

Download or read book I Believe Something Wonderful Is Going to Happen to Me Today written by Daily Journal and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Positive Self-Affirmations notebook Journal it to use as a to-do-list book or journal to focus on what you need to do at the same time remind yourself of the positive and affirmations in your mind. positive affirmations, you can help you to develop confidence and a healthy dose of self-esteem.This composition book or notebook is ideal for: -Birthday Gifts for kids and adults-Special occasions -Student's gifts-Stationery gift pack-Office workers and friends -Use as a journals or notepadAnd for capturing ideas and much more........

Download or read book Mill Town written by Kerri Arsenault and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Finalist for the 2021 New England Society Book Award Finalist for the 2021 New England Independent Booksellers Association Award A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Chicago Tribune top book for 2020 “Mill Town is the book of a lifetime; a deep-drilling, quick-moving, heartbreaking story. Scathing and tender, it lifts often into poetry, but comes down hard when it must. Through it all runs the river: sluggish, ancient, dangerous, freighted with America’s sins.” —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland Kerri Arsenault grew up in the small, rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone in town, including three generations of her family. Kerri had a happy childhood, but years after she moved away, she realized the price she paid for that childhood. The price everyone paid. The mill, while providing the social and economic cohesion for the community, also contributed to its demise. Mill Town is a book of narrative nonfiction, investigative memoir, and cultural criticism that illuminates the rise and collapse of the working-class, the hazards of loving and leaving home, and the ambiguous nature of toxics and disease with the central question; Who or what are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?

Download or read book The Pelton Papers written by Mari Coates and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly imagined novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Born into a family ruined by scandal, Agnes becomes part of the lively New York art scene, finding early success in the famous Armory Show of 1913. Fame seems inevitable, but Agnes is burdened by shyness and instead retreats to a contemplative life, first to a Long Island windmill, and then to the California desert. Undefeated by her history—family ruination in the Beecher-Tilton scandal, a shrouded Brooklyn childhood, and a passionate attachment to another woman—she follows her muse to create more than a hundred luminous and deeply spiritual abstract paintings.

Download or read book Things to Tell Yourself Each Day written by Positive Journal and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Positive Self-Affirmations notebook Journal it to use as a to-do-list book or journal to focus on what you need to do at the same time remind yourself of the positive and affirmations in your mind. positive affirmations, you can help you to develop confidence and a healthy dose of self-esteem.This composition book or notebook is ideal for: -Birthday Gifts for kids and adults-Special occasions -Student's gifts-Stationery gift pack-Office workers and friends -Use as a journals or notepadAnd for capturing ideas and much more........

Download or read book The Storytellers written by John F. Corrigan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1876 America. Ulysses S. Grant is completing his second term as president, the Civil War has been over for eleven years, and Sitting Bull’s Lakota have just defeated Custer’s seventh calvary. But now as rumors begin circulating about a mystical being that is stalking the moonlit skeletons on the battlefield, the US Army begins developing a plan to investigate. A year later, the army dispatches an expedition to return to the Little Bighorn to retrieve the remains of the officers and unearth the alleged mystery behind the rumors. Accompanying the soldiers is a thirty-one-year-old undercover private investigator tasked with interviewing any and all witnesses to Custer’s movements and the subsequent battle along the banks of the Little Bighorn. As DelCol searches for men to interview who he hopes will answer all his questions, he is led down a fascinating path into the history of one of the most famous battles of all time—and eventually to a destiny he never could have imagined. The Storytellers is the tale of a private investigator’s odyssey as he rides along with the US Army in 1877 to investigate the mysteries surrounding the battle of the Little Bighorn.

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Download or read book The Orphan s Daughter written by Jan Cherubin and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Orphan's Daughter is a novel about a woman who grows up in the shadow of her charismatic but troubled father, a man shaped by his boyhood in a Depression-era Jewish orphanage. The two life stories are woven together to form the fabric of this funny and suspenseful work of literary fiction. Clyde Aronson survives the cruelties of the seemingly bucolic orphanage but is left scarred. Brilliant and self-destructive, a popular high-school teacher and a callous womanizer, he yearns for a son to replace the relationship lost when his father abandoned him. Instead, he fathers two daughters. He resents most the one who most resembles him: the younger, Joanna. Joanna Aronson is thirty, alienated, and living in Southern California when she learns of her father's puzzling illness. She returns home to Baltimore to help care for him. In the process, the two reconcile; Joanna struggles to come to terms with her own difficult history. Clyde promises to leave Joanna his collected papers, including a secret manuscript written long ago about life in the orphanage. After Clyde's death, Joanna's stepmother inherits the house and all of his possessions. She refuses Joanna any access. Determined, Joanna breaks into the house and steals the manuscript. The stepmother presses charges. Though fictional, The Orphan's Daughter is based upon the time, from 1924 to 1934, the author's father spent in the Hebrew National Orphan Home in Yonkers, New York. This evocative novel incorporates a strong female voice, contemporary feminist themes, Jewish cultural history, and a nostalgic sense of place. By turns wrenching and delightfully humorous, The Orphan's Daughter is a deft melding of history and psychological drama, a literary page-turner you won't want to put down.

Download or read book All My Positive Affirmations Shit Positive Affirmations Journal written by Can Help Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positive Affirmations Journal: Blank Lined With Writing Prompts, Perfect Gift, Notebook, Book This Positive Affirmations Journal is a perfect way to change your life by changing your thoughts. Daily repeating affirmations is easy, but an effective affirmation is more than just the words you speak. This journal will help make you dig deep and help you focus on the life you are living and the life you want to live. It will help you explore your self love, your beliefs, your gratitude, your manifestations, law of attraction, your mind set, self confidence, happiness, truths, intents, your vision board ideas, success, your attitude, self discovery and much, much more. Each page is unique and has a different set of prompts for you to write the answers to. Start to discover new truths about yourself. Put your thoughts on paper and manifest the life you want. Easy to use it every day. Great for men, women, young adults, students, children and kids. Get one today! Size is 6x9 inches, 122 page, quality white paper, soft matte finish cover, paperback.

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Download or read book Positive Affirmations Journal written by Susan Laborde and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repeating affirmations is simple - but an effective affirmation involves much more than the words you speak! That's why Positive Affirmations Journal is not your typical interactive workbook. It includes 50 positive affirmations with TWO different writing prompts for each one. Yes, two, and it's designed this way for good reason. These 100 unique writing prompts help you dig deep by approaching your thoughts from more than one perspective. Instead of only scratching the surface, you'll take a close look at what's really going on in your head. What hidden negative thoughts are holding you back? Are you truly open to new possibilities, or are you letting your mind run on autopilot? Are you pursuing your passions or living by default? Do you have a clear picture of exactly what you want, or only a vague notion? This book takes you on a quest to find answers to those questions and more. The affirmations cover a broad range of topics, and the engaging prompters make your journey interesting and fun. From serious self-reflection to letting your imagination run wild, you will be encouraged and inspired to rethink your positive thinking. Most importantly, you'll explore the connections between your thoughts and the emotions behind them. Creative journaling is an excellent way to raise your self-awareness, and these 100 writing ideas provide keys to transforming meaningless statements into powerful, positive affirmations.

Download or read book Success written by Positive Notebook and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Positive Self-Affirmations notebook Journal it to use as a to-do-list book or journal to focus on what you need to do at the same time remind yourself of the positive and affirmations in your mind. positive affirmations, you can help you to develop confidence and a healthy dose of self-esteem.This composition book or notebook is ideal for: -Birthday Gifts for kids and adults-Special occasions -Student's gifts-Stationery gift pack-Office workers and friends -Use as a journals or notepadAnd for capturing ideas and much more........

Download or read book Stories to Sing in the Dark written by Matthew Bright and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The speculative shines bright in the dark with these stories by Matthew Bright: a boy with a secret begins work at a strange library housing all the books never written; Dorian Gray's love of beauty struggles in the face of AIDs-era San Francisco and the Castro; the tomb of the Empress is adrift in space and hungry for the concubines aboard her; two men in an old film finally realize that they are trapped but still they seek the means for finally declaring their love for each other. These and other tales of the queer fantastic should be the perfect bedtime read.