Download or read book Meeting Sophie written by Nancy McCabe and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2003-10-06 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The baby is screaming again. My baby. I hoist her off the narrow hotel bed--again--and try to cradle her as I rock my torso back and forth in an uncomfortable straight-backed chair. This baby does not cradle. She doesn't know how to cuddle, to be soothed in anyone's arms. She howls and arches away, squirms and flops, a sixteen-pound fish out of water. I'm not used to holding babies, and she's not used to be being held, but when I try to put her down, she wails. My arms feel chafed, raw, and my wrists ache from the hours of straining to hang on to her. Huge tears pool in her eyes. These tears could break my heart. These screams could break my eardrums. After years as a temporary college instructor with no real home—her family and longtime friends scattered—Nancy McCabe yearned to settle down, establish a place she could call home, and rear a child there. A tough academic job market led her to accept a position at a church-connected college in the deep South, a move that felt like an uneasy return to the conservative environment of her childhood that she thought she had left behind. McCabe had many reservations about rearing a child alone in this climate, but the desire to become a mother would not go away. Meeting Sophie tells the story of McCabe adopting a Chinese daughter and the many obstacles she faced during the adoption and adjustment process as she renegotiated her role within her family and fought difficulties in her job. Especially poignant is her struggle to bond with a sick, grieving baby while in a foreign country during political unrest—followed, upon her return to the U.S., by a devastating loss and a career crisis.

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Download or read book Mystery in the Marsh A Sophie Quinn Thriller written by Isolde Bennett and published by Gavin Jay Maureemootoo. This book was released on 2024-07-24 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Louisiana bayou hides a terrifying secret. Coffins rise from the murky depths, each containing a woman who vanished without a trace. Sophie Quinn, a brilliant FBI agent with a haunted past, is called upon to investigate. A gifted hypnotist with a photographic memory, Sophie's expertise in deception and the human mind could be the key to cracking the case. But this investigation cuts too close to home. The bayou where these coffins surface is the same one where Sophie and her sister were once abducted. Now, as she confronts the demons of her past, a desperate race against time unfolds. Will Sophie be able to identify the killer before he strikes again? Can she confront her own buried trauma to unravel the truth? Find out in Mystery in the Marsh: A Sophie Quinn Thriller by Isolde Bennett, a thrilling tale of suspense where the secrets of the swamp threaten to drag everyone under.

Download or read book Sophie Tucker written by Armond Fields and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-05-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie Tucker appeared in only seven American stage musicals and appeared only twice on Broadway but, then, it was difficult to cast her in a show. A buxom and ebullient performer, she--and her audiences--quickly found that playing herself was most effective. This is a biography of a vaudeville and cabaret performer who saw herself as one of the first liberated women and one of the last "red hot mamas." It tells the story of her birth as her mother traveled to Boston from Russia, her childhood in Boston, and her first public performance at Poli's Vaudeville Theatre at the age of 13. It also tells the story of her troubled marriage to Louis Tuck and the birth of their son, her meeting with Willie Howard, a vaudeville veteran who encouraged her to go to New York and pursue a stage career, her discovery by Flo Ziegfeld (of the Ziegfeld Follies), and her rise to headliner status under the guidance of her agent William Morris. She was best known for appearing on stage with just a piano player, and openly discussing her life and Jewish upbringing.

Download or read book Madeleine Sophie Barat 1779 1865 written by Phil Kilroy and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book also explores Sophie Barat's spiritual journey, from her dark Jansenistic roots to her belief in a loving, warm and tender God, as expressed in devotion to the Sacred Heart."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Saving Sophie written by Cate Beauman and published by Cate Beauman. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *READERS CROWN AWARD WINNER *Readers' Favorite International Book Award Silver Medalist *National Excellence In Romance Fiction Award Finalist Eventually, he will find you... Jewelry designer Sophie Burke has fled Maine for the anonymity of the big city. She’s starting over with a job she tolerates and a grungy motel room she calls home on the wrong side of town, but anything is better than the nightmare she left behind. Stone McCabe is Ethan Cooke Security’s brooding bad boy more interested in keeping to himself than anything else—until the gorgeous blond with haunted violet eyes catches his attention late one rainy night. Stone reluctantly gives Sophie a hand only to quickly realize that the shy beauty with the soft voice and pretty smile has something to hide. Tangled up in her secrets, Stone offers Sophie a solution that has the potential to free her from her problems once and for all—or jeopardize both of their lives.

Download or read book Sophie s Journeys written by Dr. Graham Dwyer and published by Pustaka Digital Media. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From streets where poverty is a living, tangible presence to the majestic splendour of the Taj Mahal, the contradictions and fascinations of unexpected adventures in India are vividly brought to life in this story about Sophie, the principal character from whom the book takes its name. Invited there to join an old school friend mysteriously connected to her by a peculiar English flower, Sophie experiences a land of exotic customs and breath-taking monuments. After encountering an enigmatic spiritual teacher and eventually acquiring wealth beyond her wildest dreams, she is ultimately faced with a unique opportunity to become an agent of heroic change in the struggling world of a poor, angelic housemaid.

Download or read book Sophie s Path written by Catherine Lanigan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her choice. His consequences. Nurse Sophie Mattuchi has seen a lot of angry patients in the ER, but no one's ever rattled her like Jack Carter. He has no right to blame her for his friend's death. Sophie did everything she could. Didn't she? Yet his accusations sting, and that sets off all kinds of internal alarms. She's never cared this much about any man's opinion of her. But Jack is different. He stirs up feelings. Strong feelings. Guilt. Anger. Attraction. Curiosity. Sympathy. Sophie's definitely not interested in Jack, but even if she was, he'd never forgive her for the decision she made that night in the hospital. Would he?

Download or read book Sophie s Legacy written by Lesley Elliott and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie Elliott had everything to live for, until her ex boyfriend decided otherwise. The gripping mother's tale of a murder that shocked New Zealand. Sophie Elliott had good looks, intelligence, friends, a loving family, a degree under her belt and a new job at the Treasury in Wellington. And then, the day before she left Dunedin to take up that job, she was brutally stabbed to death in her own home by her former boyfriend, Clayton Weatherston. He was much older and one of her lecturers at the university. When the public came to take his measure at his high-profile trial in 2010, his narcissistic, manipulative personality stunned the nation. Sophie's mother Lesley has weathered the horror of her daughter's death, and the gruelling process of the trial, to set up a foundation to help young women identify when they might be in a relationship that puts them in harm's way — as Sophie was, unbeknownst to her and her family — and how to seek help. This book is Lesley's tribute to a daughter she adored, her harrowing account of a tragedy no family should ever have to endure, and her inspiring decision to make sure that Sophie's legacy endures. It's also her challenge to the justice system on behalf of victims.

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Download or read book Sophie s Path written by Fleur Blüm and published by Fleur Blüm. This book was released on 2018-05-27 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie Faithful works as a Sales Rep in a big company. She lives in inner Melbourne and she likes her life, but there's something missing. You need to help her choose what to do. Whether to go on a date with her colleague Jude, or to get back in touch with her ex, James, or whether to strike up a conversation with that guy in the cafe, Freddie. This Choose Your Own Romance Adventure has 14 endings. Some are sexy and fun, others have serious consequences.

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Download or read book Novalis Signs of Revolution written by William Arctander O'Brien and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novalis traces the meteoric career of one of the most striking--and most strikingly misunderstood--figures of German Romanticism. Although Friedrich von Hardenberg (better known by his pseudonym, Novalis) published scarcely eighty pages of writings in his lifetime, his considerable fame and influence continued to spread long after his death in 1801. His posthumous reputation, however, was largely based on the myth manufactured by opportunistic editors, as Wm. Arctander O'Brien reveals in this book, the first to extract Hardenberg from the distortions of history. A member of the generation of the 1770s that included Hegel, Hölderlin, and Schelling, Hardenberg was an avid follower of the French Revolution, a semiotician avant la lettre, and a prescient critic of religion. Yet in 1802, only a year after his death, the writer who had scandalized the Prussian court was marketed to a nation at war as a reactionary patriot, a sweet versifier of Idealism, and a morbid mystic. Identifying the break between Hardenberg's own early Romanticism and the late Romanticism that falsified it, Novalis shows us a writer fully engaged in revolutionary politics and examines his semiotic readings of philosophy and of the political, scientific, and religious institutions of the day. Drawing on the full range of Novalis's writings, including his poetry, notebooks, novels, and journals, O'Brien situates his semiotics between those of the eighteenth century and those of the twentieth and demonstrates the manner in which a concern for signs and language permeated all aspects of his thought. The most extensive study of Hardenberg available in English, Novalis makes this revolutionary theoretician visible for the first time. Mining a crucial chapter in the history of semiotics and social theory, it suggests fruitful, sometimes problematic connections between semiotic, historical, "deconstructive," and philological practices as it presents a portrait of one of the most complex figures in literary history. Indispensable for scholars of German Romanticism, Novalis will also be of interest to students of comparative literature and European intellectual history.

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Download or read book Sophie s Drama written by Nancy N. Rue and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2009-12-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lead. That's always been Sophie's role when it's time to make a new film. But then the Flakes and Lucky Charms start to make plans without even asking her opinion, and Sophie has to figure out more about who she is—both in the group and in Jesus' eyes.

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