Download or read book My Name is Bertha written by Fran Lewis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bronx Times Reporter News: February 21, 2008 LOCAL AUTHOR TEACHES TOLERANCE THROUGH KIDS' BOOK by Jeni Asaba My Name is Bertha is a story of hope for all children living with differences that make them victims of criticism and outcasts among their peers. Bertha is a young girl who feels misunderstood by society. Her heavy stature and awkward, uncoordinated movements made her feel like an outcast among her peers, while her own family deemed her different. The fictional children's book is a compilation of stories based on past encounters and events the author, Fran Lewis, experienced during her own childhood growing up in the Bronx . Lewis hopes to use My Name is Bertha as a mode of encouragement for those children whose weak self image is limiting their happiness and personal growth. “Children today have to know that they can achieve anything they want and no one should try to stop them from reaching their goals and dreams,” Lewis said. As a young girl growing up in the south Bronx , Lewis said she always felt excluded, an outsider in her own community. Through My Name is Bertha, Lewis teaches that as long as people recognize and believe in their own personal strengths, there is and always will be light at the end of the tunnel. “Not everyone is born athletic, beautiful, thin or a genius,” Lewis said, “but everyone is born good in something, whether it is running track, playing board games or drawing. Who you are is what makes you special.” Working as a reading and writing staff developer at P.S. 78, at 1400 Needham Avenue , for 36 years, Lewis said it was a real joy to see young children learn from reading. Now, through her book, she's proud to provide youth with the encouragement she never received. “Children are entitled to make mistakes,” Lewis said. “There are erasers on the end of pencils for a reason.” In a series of notes from 10-year-old Bertha, she tells her stories of struggle and despair - specific instances of humiliation that created the feelings of rejection she would spend many years fighting to overcome. In the note titled “Bertha Goes Bowling,” she shares an embarrassing tale about a family outing at Southern Boulevard Lanes. Not having good physical coordination, Bertha detested all sports activities. But even still she couldn't ignore the daunting persistence of her father's voice urging her to simply try. The book reads, “As I started to wind up, I guess I thought I could throw it harder if I used my punch ball skills to get some momentum on the ball. I bent over and heard a ripping noise. My pants split down the middle because they were too tight and I bent over too far.” After her mother did a quick fix tying her sweater around Bertha's waist, the encouragement for one more try continued. It continued, “I walked back up to the edge of the lane and wound up my right arm and threw the ball straight across my body three lanes to the left and got a strike for the man on that lane. He just looked at me in horror while everyone else just started to stare at me or laugh.” Bertha returned to her apartment on Southern Boulevard and Tremont Avenue , feeling sad and once again, different. While it took her a while to realize that it was her differences that made her special, Bertha now proudly shares some advice with her young readers. Concluding her stories Bertha said, “Stay strong and think positive about yourself. I am learning to do that and so can you.” Lewis is currently contacting literary agents to publish her second book Bertha Speaks Out. My Name is Bertha is available at all major bookstores. For more information, contact Xlibris at (888) 795-4274 or www.xlibris.com. Barnes and Noble, at 26
Download or read book My Name is Tahi written by Bev Davis and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the State of Georgia to Vancouver Island people with nothing obvious in common come together through fate or a maze of coincidence. Their lives will eventually touch each other and the life of one little pup, Tahi, who is born in the greed business of puppy mills. Tahi is given a voice because it’s his story to tell and it’s the story of average people who devote themselves to the rescue of those who cannot speak for themselves. The challenge is the rescue...the triumph is a healthy, happy dog living in a loving new home. Rescued Dogs: These little dogs came into rescue to find new loving homes. No, they have not all been abused but their lives had changed and they needed some help. They have all been adopted but many will come to take their place. When you are ready to add a new furry companion in your life, please check for rescues in your area. As the rescue motto says, "adopt… don't shop."
Download or read book The Madwoman in the Attic written by Sandra M. Gilbert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers, and why the book still feels fresh some four decades later. "Gilbert and Gubar have written a pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World
Download or read book Bertha the Swiss Trader s Daughter written by Eleni Trataris Cotton and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1915 and the Great War changes everything.Born of two cultures, black and white, the Deuss sisters live lives of privilege in Nyasaland, now Malawi, a magnificent country where people walk in fear of slave traders, where big game is hunted, and affluent colonials drink cocktails at sundown.It ends suddenly when catastrophic events tear their family apart. Bertha and her sisters are left unprotected in a male dominated, racist society.Rejecting despair, they forge a new path for themselves with courage and determination. But is this enough to open society's closed doors, to build a new life, find love and defy what society expects lone girls of mixed race to do?This is fact-fiction meticulously researched, a novel and adventure story which is based on real peoples' lives, people who experienced the depths of tragedy, yet also the heights of joy during their lives on an unforgettably beautiful and wild continent. It is a slice of history, a window into an enthralling, exciting and doomed world that is gone forever.
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Download or read book Bertha written by Lisa M. Hutchison and published by Word Alive Press. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertha: Shine Like the Dawn is the true story of Bertha, the author’s great-grandmother, born into relative wealth and comfort in 1860 Germany, orphaned as a baby, and begrudgingly raised by two sets of grandparents. Violated by her uncle at seventeen, Bertha becomes pregnant and is quickly married off to a man beneath her standing. After enduring years of domestic violence and forced pregnancies, she finally walks away with four young children and with only her grandmother in Berlin for support. Once there, Bertha finds love with a mysterious man—but will it last? Bertha, who lives through the turn of the century, the sinking of the Titanic, the First World War, the Spanish Flu, The Great Depression, and the Second World War, accepts whatever life gives her, with courage and passion, but most of all with love. This is a tender romance, filled with compassion and many unexpected turns in life. Bertha experiences unbelievable trials, tribulations, and triumphs, as well as great love and great loss. Readers will cheer for her, cry for her, and love with her.
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Download or read book Bertha s Word written by Danny Rittman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertha Siegelman grew up in Munich and witnessed the rise of Nazism. Later, she had a role in its downfall. As a young girl, Bertha realized she could sense people’s inner thoughts and peer into the future. Despite her talent, she didn’t make clairvoyance her vocation—at least not initially or by choice. She attended college in Munich, married, and lectured in history. However, as the Third Reich consolidated, Bertha and her husband lost their positions and she turned to her gift to earn a living. As her reputation as a seer spread, her clientele grew in numbers, devotion, and power. Reinhard Beck, a colonel in German counterintelligence, was deeply impressed by her gift and spread word to the upper circles of Berlin, including Hermann Göring and eventually Adolf Hitler himself. Bertha shaped her counsel in a manner that would help bring the Third Reich down, encouraging political and military leaders, including Hitler and Erwin Rommel, to continue the unwinnable war in Russia and delay the response to Allied landings in France. Ultimately, she uses her powers to see that the greatest evil of all vanishes from this world. A fortune teller, then, had as much to do with Hitler’s downfall as any general.
Download or read book Love s Journey in Sugarcreek Bertha s Resolve Book 4 written by Serena B. Miller and published by L. J. Emory Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the USA Today Bestselling Author of the acclaimed Love’s Journey series comes the story of Bertha Troyer. In 1959, after reading a heartbreaking plea for medical personnel, Bertha Troyer, a young, beautiful Amish woman from Sugarcreek, rebels against church rules and enters nursing school determined to pour out her life on behalf of the desperate children of Haiti. This fourth installment of the Sugarcreek Series, follows Rachel’s beloved aunt, Bertha, back in time to a nightmare of poverty, political unrest, and the fury of nature, as Bertha is forced to make the most agonizing decision of her life in order to protect her people—and the man—she loves. “Miller is a talented author who writes from her heart and brings the reader on a wonderful journey. Her characters are always strong both in mind and in spirit.” -Patsy Glans, Romantic Times
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Download or read book The Unchained Powerful Life Stories of Former Slaves written by Aphra Behn and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 10327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves, including numerous recorded testimonies, life stories and original photos of former slaves long after Civil War: Recorded Life Stories of Former Slaves from 17 different US States Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave (Solomon Northup) The Underground Railroad Harriet Jacobs: The Moses of Her People Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington) The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave! The Confessions of Nat Turner Narrative of Sojourner Truth The History of Mary Prince Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (William & Ellen Craft) Thirty Years a Slave (Louis Hughes) Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Behind The Scenes: 30 Years a Slave & 4 Years in the White House (Elizabeth Keckley) Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (Josiah Henson) Fifty Years in Chains (Charles Ball) Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (Austin Steward) Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave The Story of Mattie J. Jackson (L. S. Thompson) A Slave Girl's Story (Kate Drumgoold) From the Darkness Cometh the Light (Lucy A. Delaney) Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, a Slave in the United States of America Narrative of Joanna Life of Henry Box Brown, Who Escaped in a 3x2 Feet Box Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley Buried Alive Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain Documents: The History of the Abolition of African Slave-Trade History of American Abolitionism from 1787-1861 Pictures of Slavery in Church and State Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address XIII Amendment Civil Rights Act of 1866 XIV Amendment ...
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Download or read book Our Dramatic Heritage written by Philip George Hill and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.
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