Download or read book Me and Momma and Big John written by Mara Rockliff and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale inspired by a true story follows the experiences of Little John, who along with his sisters excitedly anticipates the completion of a latest sculpture by his mother, a stonecutter at the Big John cathedral.

Download or read book Me and Momma and Big John written by Mara Rockliff and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Momma is a stonecutter at the cathedral called Big John — and little John and his sisters can't wait to see her special stone — in this luminous true-life story. "Building a cathedral isn’t a job, it’s an art." Momma comes home from work, tired and sore from a long day at her job. She used to work on the factory line, but now an early bus takes her across the bridge into New York City. Momma is a stonecutter now, helping to build the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. She works all day on just one stone, and little John and his two sisters wonder how she does it. Finally, Momma’s stone is finished, and little John can’t wait to see it. But when he arrives at the cathedral, he’s confused. Where is Momma’s name? How will all the people know this is Momma’s art? This touching story from a child’s perspective, based on real events, lovingly shows the grace and dignity of having pride in one’s work — and in one’s Momma. Gorgeously illustrated with the illuminated artwork of William Low, the transcendent beauty of Saint John’s Cathedral radiates with warmth and light.

Download or read book Stevie written by John Steptoe and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1986-11-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African-American child resents and then misses a little foster brother. One day my momma told me, "You know you're gonna have a little friend come stay with you." And I said, "Who is it?" and "For how long?" That's when Stevie moved in with his crybaby self. He played with my toys and broke them, and he left dirty footprints all over my bed. But then Stevie left again, and I missed him. I missed playing Cowboys and Indians on the stoop and watching cartoons in the morning. Maybe. . .just maybe, Stevie wasn't so bad after all. Notable Children's Books of 1940–1970 (ALA) "Best of the Best" Children's Books 1966–1978 (SLJ) 1978 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award Society of Illustrators Gold Medal Children's Books of 1969 (Library of Congress) Children's Books of the Year 1969 (CSA) Black Americans – Minority Groups List (BL) Notable Books for the Portrayal of the Black in Children's Literature (Top of the News) Select Children's Books of 1969 (Publishers Weekly) Brooklyn Art Books for Children 1974

Download or read book Go to Hell Ole Miss written by Jeff Barry and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what lengths will a father go to save his daughter? Big John, a former POW in WWII, thinks women are smarter than men. The three women in his life agree, especially when he brags about knowing more Shakespeare than anyone else in Hope Springs, Mississippi. Big John is overly proud of the only seven words of Shakespeare that he knows: The prince of darkness is a gentleman. When Big John and his wife learn their beloved daughter has been beaten to the point of death by the man Big John pressured her to marry, he needs only three of these words: prince, darkness, and gentleman. Set in the Mississippi hill country in the early 1970s, Go to Hell Ole Miss tells the story of a father’s willingness to do almost anything to save his daughter from the Southern gentleman he had pressured her to marry. Almost. For fans of Pat Conroy, Barbara Kingsolver, Wiley Cash, and Cormac McCarthy, Go to Hell Ole Miss is a historical family saga of hope and hardship, redemption and revenge, faith and doubt. It’s also a compelling Southern tale with characters that become people who make you laugh, cry, and think.

Download or read book Mamma s Boarding House written by John D. Fitzgerald and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mamma always had a way of treating everyone as a member of her own family, of giving warmth and comfort and love to people who had known little but loneliness and misfortune. And in the rugged Utah town of Adenville in the early years of this century, there were many who needed her compassion and generosity. So when Papa died and her own children were grown, it was natural for Mamma to open her home to others. Among her boarders were Sarah Martin, angular and tight-lipped, a schoolteacher who took to smoking cigars to win the man she loved...Alonzo Strang, a retired sea captain whose last heroic voyage was in a rowboat...the fastidious faro dealer, Floyd Thompson, who started going to church again so that he could stay at Mamma’s dining table...Mr. Hackett, Papa’s successor as editor of the Advocate, a bachelor so solitary he had almost forgotten how to live with others...and Judge Gibson, competing against the memory of a dead man for Mamma’s love. Continuing his family reminiscences from the best-selling Papa Married a Mormon, John D. Fitzgerald presents a spirited picture of a frontier community. Adenville was a town where a gunfighter shot out his last battle strapped to a lamppost...where the townspeople singing Rock of Ages saved a man from being lynched...where a red-headed artist won his sweetheart in a mad chase across the Utah desert...and where honest conniving staved off an Indian raid. There are moments of suspense as the townspeople rescue a child from his deranged grandfather...moments of hilarity as a pig named Beatrice the Beautiful plays the part of Cupid...moments of terror as a vicious bully menaces the entire town...and many scenes of warm and affectionate family life in Mamma’s boarding house. A poignant, humorous and exciting saga, illuminated by Mamma’s radiant generosity and tolerance, Mamma’s Boarding House is a worthy successor to the highly-praised Papa Married a Mormon.

Download or read book B Is for Brooklyn written by Selina Alko and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Prospect Park, Coney Island, and Atlantic Avenue have in common? They are all located in Brooklyn, New York, a magical place where you can listen to jazz music, eat bagels and lox, and sit on the stoop of a brownstone and daydream. Children will recognize aspects of their own neighborhoods in this celebration of urban culture and community.

Download or read book Performance of a Lifetime written by Cerise Merola and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cerise Merola or CC as affectionately addressed by her friends was a cross between Antie Mame, Gypsie Rose Lee, and a jigger of Tulalla Bankhead.

Download or read book The Other Better Me written by Antony John and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author of Mascot comes this heartfelt novel, perfect for fans of John David Anderson and Cammie McGovern, about a girl searching for the meaning of family. Lola and Momma have always been a team of two. It hasn’t always been easy for Lola, being one of the only kids she knows with just one parent around. And lately she’s been feeling incomplete, like there’s a part of herself that she can’t know until she knows her dad. But what will happen—to Lola, to Momma, to their team of two—if she finds him?

Download or read book Rammer Jammer written by Bill Adams and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rammer Jammer is a romantic thriller about a famous athlete, Cooper Rawlings, who just happens to have a side jobthat of an assassin. Cooper travels the world playing professional golf, but his life takes on more twists and turns than a rural Alabama road.

Download or read book An Irregular Marriage written by Margaret A. Westlie and published by Selkirk Stories. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her parents are gone. Her sweetheart is absent. Where is Annie’s home? Annie’s family has left for a new life in Canada. Annie plans to make her home with Alistair, her betrothed. Instead she find herself alone in Scotland. Belle, Alistair’s mother, takes her in as her apprentice in midwifery and healing, while waiting for Alistair to return. But why does she discourage the marriage? Where will Annie find a home? An Irregular Marriage is a historical novel set in Scotland and Prince Edward Island, the home of Anne of Green Gables. If you like books about women with a touch of the occult, strong characters and happy endings, An Irregular Marriage is for you. Read An Irregular Marriage today and discover how Annie finally makes her own home.

Download or read book Momma s Lost Piano written by David Madden and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she is seventeen, Emily Merritt’s beloved father gives her the piano she has always wanted. A few days later, having lost his job, he sells Emily’s piano and moves the family out of its two-story house in Cleveland, Ohio, to his mother’s three-room house in his hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. The loss of her piano casts a shadow over Emily’s life in Knoxville, a city she could never love. Throughout the rest of her life, Emily longs to return to Cleveland, where she had an idyllic youth with many boyfriends and girlfriends and was, above all, a good piano student. Her life becomes like that of a nomad, moving from house to house and from job to job. Her great love of life is expressed by dancing in highway honky-tonks, along with her six beautiful girlfriends. After divorcing her lovable, alcoholic husband, Emily falls deeply in love with troubled married men. She doesn’t enjoy whiskey or smoking, but she’s not a churchgoer. She raises three boys in poverty. A fourth son dies soon after birth. Oldest Dickie becomes a life-long petty conman, but little brother John, known as “Sunshine,” becomes a legendary rescuer of wayward boys and girls. Jerry, the middle brother, becomes a merchant seaman, a soldier, and finally a professor and successful writer. Rather than a chronological narrative, Madden employs an impressionistic style that enables readers to experience Emily’s memories as he imagines them. In sharply focused scenes, Madden evokes the colorful expressions of the articulate, witty woman he has spent all his life listening to—and this memoir will inspire readers to listen eagerly, too.

Download or read book Gint written by Romulus Linney and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: GINT unfolds like a strange dream, beginning with Pete Gint, a ragged young man in the Appalachian Mountains in 1917, who spends most of his time lying, drinking and getting into trouble. Gint is determined to become something great grand and

Download or read book True Love The Hearts Desire written by Ingrid Symone and published by Divinity Publishing LLC. This book was released on with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasmine, Summer, and Trinity surrender to what comes so easily when given by the right one. Marcos, Hendrix, and Phoenix aren’t your normal ruff around the edges kind of men. Their actions prove that True Love is still alive.

Download or read book Each Kindness written by Jacqueline Woodson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF A CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR AND THE JANE ADDAMS PEACE AWARD! Each kindness makes the world a little better This unforgettable book is written and illustrated by the award-winning team that created The Other Side and the Caldecott Honor winner Coming On Home Soon. With its powerful anti-bullying message and striking art, it will resonate with readers long after they've put it down. Chloe and her friends won't play with the new girl, Maya. Every time Maya tries to join Chloe and her friends, they reject her. Eventually Maya stops coming to school. When Chloe's teacher gives a lesson about how even small acts of kindness can change the world, Chloe is stung by the lost opportunity for friendship, and thinks about how much better it could have been if she'd shown a little kindness toward Maya.

Download or read book Lyin Like a Dog written by Richard Mason and published by Richard H. Mason. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard has adventures living on a small farm in Arkansas.

Download or read book The Water Dancer written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. “This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.”—San Francisco Chronicle IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Adapted by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamilah Forbes, directed by Nia DaCosta, and produced by MGM, Plan B, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • Vanity Fair • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • Paste • Town & Country • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures. This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children—the violent and capricious separation of families—and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen. Praise for The Water Dancer “Ta-Nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me. So naturally his debut novel comes with slightly unrealistic expectations—and then proceeds to exceed them. The Water Dancer . . . is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. . . . What’s most powerful is the way Coates enlists his notions of the fantastic, as well as his fluid prose, to probe a wound that never seems to heal. . . . Timeless and instantly canon-worthy.”—Rolling Stone

Download or read book TENNYBOOTS written by Judy Edwards and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TennyBoots! is a narrative of two women on a journey back to love. Their mother-daughter relationship, now caregiver-care resister is fraught with all of the unresolved complexities that the typical mother-daughter relationship entails. It is also a story of how the Mother sees the daughter when her role changes, in Mother's estimation, from daughter to dictator. In order for the reader to understand who this Mother is in her late nineties, and the circumstances that have shaped her life, the Mother's own prolific stories-candid and unfiltered and in her own voice-are interspersed between the daughter's narrative and reflections. You will laugh. You will cry. Your loyalties will be challenged and your thoughts about aging upended. TennyBoots! lends a sympathetic, yet powerful voice to the caregivers toiling in the vineyard daily without complaint. The themes in this book are universal and ageless.