Download or read book Mama Don t Cry written by Darlene Chandler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS BOOK IS ABOUT EMOTION,REAL RAW EMOTION. GOES FROM THE ULTIMATE HIGH TO THE LOWEST OF THE LOW. BUT IT IS MOSTLY ABOUT CHOICES, THE CHOICES WE MAKE TO NAVIGATE THROUGH LIFE. I HOPE YOU WALK AWAY WITH A SINCE OF HOPE AND INSPIRATION.
Download or read book Mommy Please Don t Cry written by Linda Deymaz and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mommy, Please Don't Cry is a book of love and comfort for mothers who have experienced the deep sorrow of losing a child. Serene illustrations frame gentle words that describe heaven from a child's perspective. With room for the reader's personal reflections at the end of the book, every page is a poignant gift of hope and healing. "Our stories are all different, but our pain is the same," writes Linda. "We are mothers who will forever grieve the loss of our children. And yet, there is hope for our troubled souls."
Download or read book What Mama Don t Know written by Jane Martin and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sing Don t Cry written by Angela Dominguez and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a year, Abuelo comes from Mexico to visit his family. He brings his guitar, his music—and his memories. In this story inspired by the life of Apolinar Navarrete Diaz—author Angela Dominguez’s grandfather and a successful mariachi musician—Abuelo and his grandchildren sing through the bad times and the good. Lifting their voices and their spirits, they realize that true happiness comes from singing together.
Download or read book Dede S Book of Poems written by Delane Washington and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this publication, poems included are for different occasions, all seasons, and for many reasons: inspirational, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Easter, memorial poems and readings, Christmas, welcomes, pastoral, children, dedications, blessings, family tributes, and senior citizens. Inspired by my surroundingswhich included family, friends, students, and acquaintanceswriting hasnt always been an interest. However, reading was. For me, reading was a means of discovering what others thought and felt.
Download or read book Mother Teresa s Lessons of Love and Secrets of Sanctity written by Susan Conroy and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside view of Mother Teresa's heroic love at work A moving first-hand account of Mother Teresa and her work, written by someone who worked by her side. As an idealistic young volunteer, author Susan Conroy spent a summer serving in one of Mother Teresa's orphanages and in the Home for the Dying. "In a city where I found hell on earth," she says, "I also found each day a deep sense of peace and incredible happiness." It was an experience that changed her life forever. She learned why Mother Teresa had found real joy in working with the poorest of the poor. Along the way, she took striking photographs that have never been seen before now - photographs that show Mother Teresa at her everyday best. This is an account you won't soon forget, told with simple and loving directness by an eyewitness.
Download or read book I Choose To Live written by Alexis Murphy and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life can bring the unexpected-broken home, sexual abuse, toxic church environment, generational curses, sickness, and even death. Through it all, one must make two major decisions: to trust in God's unchanging hand and to live through it. It can make you bitter, or it can make you better. Throughout this book, you will see how I made a choice to live... Many circumstances were thrown in my way and tried to stop me and take my very life. Through my faith and relationship with the Lord, I made an adamant decision to live. To the readers, I pray you find yourself in this book. I pray that you are inspired to walk in faith and overcome any situation that has been put before you... Remember, with God, all things are possible. Sincerely, Alexis Murphy
Download or read book Mama Are We There Yet written by Rose Saposnek and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Bolshevik Revolution erupts in 1917 with pogroms, Mama decides she and Raizle must escape to America. Crossing the Atlantic, they reach Cuba, where Mama receives devastating news threatening to leave them stranded.
Download or read book For Black Girls Like Me written by Mariama J. Lockington and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, Schneider Family Book Award and Stonewall Honor-winning author Mariama J. Lockington draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family. I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark. Makeda June Kirkland is eleven years old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda's family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves behind her best friend, Lena— the only other adopted black girl she knows— for a new life. In New Mexico, everything is different. At home, Makeda’s sister is too cool to hang out with her anymore and at school, she can’t seem to find one real friend. Through it all, Makeda can’t help but wonder: What would it feel like to grow up with a family that looks like me? Through singing, dreaming, and writing secret messages back and forth with Lena, Makeda might just carve a small place for herself in the world. For Black Girls Like Me is for anyone who has ever asked themselves: How do you figure out where you are going if you don’t know where you came from?
Download or read book The Promise written by Barbara Powers and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Holocaust survivor's own story, told specially for young readers. This is the remarkable true story of a young Jewish girl and her brother caught in a world turned upside down by the Nazis during the Second World War. Eva Schloss describes her happy early childhood in Vienna with her kind and loving parents and her older brother Heinz, whom she adored. But when the Nazis marched into Austria everything changed. Eva's family fled to Belgium, then to Amsterdam where, with the help of the Dutch Resistance, they spent the next two years in hiding - Eva and her mother in one house, and her father and brother in another. But in the end they were all betrayed and deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Despite the horrors of the camp, Eva's positive attitude and stubborn personality (which had often got her into trouble) saw her through one of the most tragic events in history but sadly her father and brother perished just weeks before the liberation. Eva and her mother travelled back to the house in Amsterdam where Heinz and his father had hidden and discovered over thirty beautiful paintings by her brother. Heinz hadn't wasted any of his talents during his captivity. For Eva, here was a tangible, everlasting memory of her beloved older brother, and a reminder of her father's promise that all the good things you accomplish will make a difference. Heinz's paintings have been on display in exhibitions in the USA and are now a part of a permanent exhibition in Amsterdam's war museum. Eva Schloss is the posthumous step-sister of Anne Frank, after mother, Fritzi, was remarried to Otto Frank, the only surviving member of his immediate family.
Download or read book Hustling Is Not Stealing written by John M. Chernoff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While living in West Africa in the 1970s, John Chernoff recorded the stories of “Hawa,” a spirited and brilliant but uneducated woman whose insistence on being respected and treated fairly propelled her, ironically, into a life of marginality and luck as an “ashawo,” or bar girl. Rejecting traditional marriage options and cut off from family support, she is like many women in Africa who come to depend on the help they receive from one another, from boyfriends, and from the men they meet in bars and nightclubs. Refusing to see herself as a victim, Hawa embraces the freedom her lifestyle permits and seeks the broadest experience available to her. In Hustling Is Not Stealing and its follow-up, Exchange Is Not Robbery, a chronicle of exploitation is transformed by verbal art into an ebullient comedy. In Hustling Is Not Stealing, Hawa is a playful warrior struggling against circumstances in Ghana and Togo. In Exchange Is Not Robbery, Hawa returns to her native Burkina Faso, where she achieves greater control over her life but faces new difficulties. As a woman making sacrifices to live independently, Hawa sees her own situation become more complex as she confronts an atmosphere in Burkina Faso that is in some ways more challenging than the one she left behind, and the moral ambiguities of her life begin to intensify. Combining elements of folklore and memoir, Hawa’s stories portray the diverse social landscape of West Africa. Individually the anecdotes can be funny, shocking, or poignant; assembled together they offer a sweeping critical and satirical vision.
Download or read book A Sharecroppers Story A Dream to Own a Piece of Land The Story of Madea The Sweet Alabama Rose written by Charlie Davis and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story based on true events surrounding the life and times of Elizabeth Jane Jones Davis, known to many as Madea. This story tells of the struggles of the black man living down on the countryside of southern Alabama during the 1950s and 1960s, refusing to depend solely on the privileges allowed by some white landowners. When the black man failed to meet the demands of some white men, the acts of slavery were reignited all over again. This was an act that some white men seemed to remembe
Download or read book In My Father s House written by James H. Street and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 1941 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Abernathy family lives in rural Mississippi where folks farm cotton and grow vegetables and kitchens are filled with smells of sweet potato pie, muscadine preserves, and pickled grapes. Cupboards bulge with Octagon soap wrappers collected to trade for dishes, and shelves are lined with homemade cures for everything ― sulphur, molasses, quinine, calomel, and mutton suet. Life is serene and harmonious if folks follow the rules and heed natures' signals. Everyone knows, for example, that a morning shower, like an old person's dance, never lasts long, or that high birds and high smoke mean good plowing weather. Some of the most important codes, however, are unspoken, and when these laws are violated, men are obliged to abide by the code even if it means doing the unthinkable. Hobson Abernathy, Big Hob, loves his family and leads his household with firmness and uncompromising example. His wife, Lavinia, was married at sixteen and still fulfills her duties with skill and selfless devotion. She obeys her husband (one of the rules), but she's a strong woman and when the occasion demands, she offers her wisdom to bring balance back to the family. Teenie, their teenage daughter spends her time bossin' her brother, Little Hob. Little Hob says he doesn't mind 'cause the same is true for chickens. One ol' rooster is always the boss and he can peck any chicken he wants to. When Teenie isn't bossin', she's dreaming about the young man she's sparkin', Woody. And, Woody? Well, he's anxious to marry Teenie and brags a lot to prove his eligibility. “Not bad loud-mouth bragging, just tongue-strutting,” as Hobson calls it. Little Hob is about growed up; still a boy in many ways, he is proud of his advancing maturity and is not shirking the arrival of a man's responsibilities. Hobson teaches his son everything he needs to know, and if there's a man Little Hob idolizes, it would be his papa, Big Hob.
Download or read book Africa39 written by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and Doris Lessing, to more recent talents like Nuruddin Farah, Ben Okri, Aminatta Forna and Brian Chikwava. Who will be the next generation? Following the successful launch of Bogotá39, which identified many of the most interesting upcoming Latin American talents, including Daniel Alarcon, Junot Diaz (Pulitzer Prize), Santiago Roncagliolo (Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and Juan Gabriel Vásquez (short-listed for the IFFP), and Beirut39 which published Randa Jarrar, Rabee Jaber, Joumana Haddad, Abdellah Taia and Samar Yazbek, Africa39 will bring to worldwide attention the best work from Africa and its diaspora. The judges will select from up to 200 submissions researched by Binyavanga Wainaina, the founding editor of the acclaimed Nairobi-based literary magazine Kwani?, and the writers' names will be unveiled in Port Harcourt and at the London Book Fair in April 2014. Africa39 will be published in English throughout the world by Bloomsbury. Africa39 is a Hay Festival and Rainbow Book Club project which aims to select and celebrate 39 of the best young African writers from south of the Sahara. It will be launched at the PH Book Festival in UNESCO's World Book Capital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in October 2014. The three judges are: Margaret Busby (UK – publisher, broadcaster and reviewer, chair of the Commonwealth Prize and editor of the anthology Daughters of Africa) Elechi Amadi (Nigeria – author of plays, memoir and novels, including The Slave, Estrangement and The Woman of Calabar) Osonye Tess Onwueme (Nigeria/USA – playwright, poet and scholar, whose works include Riot in Heaven and What Mama Said)
Download or read book A Storm Within written by Esther Vance and published by TEACH Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life was anything but idyllic for Esther as a child. She grew up in Honduras in a small home built from driftwood collected along the beach from shipwrecks. With ten children in the house, food was scarce. But what her family lacked in material possessions, they made up for in love and a deep faith in God. At the tender age of seven, Esther was sent to live with a couple to work as their housemaid. What was done in love to provide Esther with food and better living accommodations turned into a twelve-year nightmare of physical and verbal abuse--something she kept hidden from her parents out of respect for their instruction to obey her employer. When Esther secured her freedom, she turned away from God and decided to do things her way. Sadly, her decisions led to more heartache and trials. The freedom she sought ended in other forms of slavery. Could she ever find true freedom? Did God hold the answer? Journey with Esther as she recounts her childhood, the lessons her parents taught her, her quest to come to America, two abusive marriages, and God's never-failing love and forgiveness in A Storm Within. Although her life has been battered by many storms, God has always been beside her.
Download or read book The American Star Speaker and Elocutionist written by Charles Walter Brown and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mama s Story written by Emily G. Mereness and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a womans survival story that begins with life in Europe, loss of her father convicted of being a spy and sent to Siberia, her flight to Poland, where she becomes a prisoner of the Germans. She survives labor farms, a concentration camp and an abusive relationship in the U.S.
