Download or read book Names My Sisters Call Me written by Megan Crane and published by Quercus Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtney, Norah, and Raine Cassel are as different as three sisters can be. When Courtney's longtime boyfriend proposes, she decides it's finally time to call a truce and bring the three sisters together, but family ghosts aren't easily defeated.

Download or read book Names My Sisters Call Me written by Megan Crane and published by 5 Spot. This book was released on 2008-04-11 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving novel of sisterhood and finding yourself tells the story of a newly engaged woman who decides to use her engagement party as a way to reconcile her estranged sisters—much to their chagrin. Courtney, Norah, and Raine Cassel are as different as three sisters can be. Norah, the oldest, is a type A obsessive who hasn't forgiven Raine, the middle sister, for ruining her wedding day six years ago. Raine is Norah's opposite, a wild child/performance artist/follow-your-bliss hippie chick who ran off to California. The only thing the two have in common is their ability to drive Courtney, their youngest sister, crazy. When her longtime boyfriend proposes, Courtney decides it's finally time to call a truce and bring the three sisters together. After all, they're grown-ups now, right? But it turns out that family ghosts aren't easily defeated—and neither are first loves. Soon Courtney finds herself reexamining every choice she has made in the past six years—including the man she's about to marry—and the value of reconnecting with the sisters she knows she needs, in spite of everything.

Download or read book Names My Sisters Call Me written by Megan Crane and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtney's boyfriend has just gone down on one knee and asked her to be his wife. She couldn't be happier. And with her super-organised sister, Norah, to help her plan the wedding, what could possibly go wrong? Nothing, until Courtney decides their other sister, Raine, should be invited. No one has seen or heard from Raine for six years - since she ruined Norah's own wedding and ran off with the love of Courtney's life. Convinced they should all be able to move on after so much time, Courtney gets the sisters back together again only to find that family ghosts aren't easily vanquished - and neither are first loves. Reuniting her family is going to make Courtney reconsider every decision she's made for the last six years - right down to the man she's about to marry. It's going to be one long summer...

Download or read book I Remember written by Vetress A. Arnold and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much of your childhood do you remember? When's the last time you even thought about it? This thought-provoking collection of short stories will have you reading, becoming teary-eyed, laughing, and depserately trying to remember your own childhood memories. Be prepared for the unexpected emotional responses that surface as your breeze through each story and grasp at glimpses from your own life's drama. Although these stories are presented in the author's chronological maturation process (from the crib to age 13), they can easily be read on independent of another. Each unique recollection is filled with its own characters and plots. In these action-packed pages, the author delves into spiritual values, the childish pranks of siblings, emotional and physical abuse, a mother's love, and the unconditional love of God. You will finish this novel deeply reflecting on your memories, what is important in your life, and the people and circumstances that influenced you the most.

Download or read book Sibling Abuse written by Vernon R. Wiehe and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-06-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sibling Abuse, Second Edition provides insight into this form of abuse and carefully describes the range of abusive behaviors perpetrated among siblings. Along with personal accounts by adult survivors, this completely updated book describes appropriate steps for parents to take in order to evaluate and respond to their children's abusive interactions. A new chapter on current techniques of assessment and treatment also helps therapists or counselors work to end this problem. Very readable yet reinforced by the latest research, Sibling Abuse, Second Edition will make an excellent supplement for advanced students in social work, sociology, psychology, nursing, education, and family studies. Lay readers looking for a resource for understanding this underexposed form of abuse will also want to turn to this book.

Download or read book The Life and Times of a Hyphenated American written by Young Park and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing about the past helps to explain why I am discontent and continuously angry. I am reminded that America is a society dominated by religious fundamentalism and racism. After a time, I rejected the White American world and went to Asia, seeking another basis for my identity. My identity is still in question. I cannot become an Asian and although I was born in this country, I am not accepted as an American citizen. As my birth certificate clearly states - I am not of an accepted racial color.

Download or read book Our Journey by Faith written by Gene Vogelpohl and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want a life-changing experience, live a life of faith. Hearing and reading stories about a life of faith can be inspiring and encouraging; but to experience it for yourself is a life changer. The sharing of events in our life is a testimony of what God has done in leading us in different ways of ministering, to encourage and strengthen others that we can do more than we think possible when we place our life in God’s hands. “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not” (Jeremiah 33:3).

Download or read book A Word for My Sisters written by Louise Campbell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Word for My Sisters, Empowered for Change is my personal journey to a positive self-image, a search for acceptance within a society that gives false images of reality which can keep the best of us down. My life was filled with self-hatred and devastation for many years. I was on a road to total freedom and I am compelled to share my experiences with other women who just might be going through the same things. I have written this book to encourage my Sisters to celebrate who they are, where they are and where they are about to go. Life is a journey filled with mountain highs and valley lows. It is a wonderful thing to experience the mountaimtop, but the valley is where we grow. My prayer is that the Holy spirit will reveal to you truths concerning you and take you to the place predestined for you. My Sisters, God says that you are "Blessed and highly favored". It is left up to you to walk in those blessings. Peace and love to you all. Louise

Download or read book Sailing on a Cusp and a Prayer written by Margaret Zeegers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-03-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book where Jennifer Worth’s Call the Midwife meets Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes in Australia, with a nod to AB Facey’s A Fortunate Life, as it presents the early years of one migrant family’s experience after arriving by ship in Australia in the 1950s. Babies, marriages, childhoods, and relationships in general figure prominently not only for those arriving with their large families but also for the Australians who had a similar fertility. All of these have provided material for rollicking good yarns about the real people of the fictional parish, St Kitts, in a fictional country town in Victoria, Australia, going about their daily lives.

Download or read book Calling My Name written by Liara Tamani and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Calling My Name is a treasure.”—Nic Stone, New York Times–bestselling author of Dear Martin Calling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self—ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros. This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas, and deftly and beautifully explores the universal struggles of growing up, battling family expectations, discovering a sense of self, and finding a unique voice and purpose. Told in fifty-three short, episodic, moving, and iridescent chapters, Calling My Name follows Taja on her journey from middle school to high school. Literary and noteworthy, this is a beauty of a novel that captures the multifaceted struggle of finding where you belong and why you matter.

Download or read book Names We Call Home written by Becky Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Names We Call Home is a ground-breaking collection of essays which articulate the dynamics of racial identity in contemporary society. The first volume of its kind, Names We Call Home offers autobiographical essays, poetry, and interviews to highlight the historical, social, and cultural influences that inform racial identity and make possible resistance to myriad forms of injustice.

Download or read book My Sister the Moon written by Sue Harrison and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVIn prehistoric Alaska, an Aleut girl, unwanted and abused, changes the destiny of her tribe /divDIV Gray Bird wanted only sons. His daughter, Kiin, would have been killed at birth to make way for a male heir if not for the tribal chief, Kayugh, who claimed the infant as a future wife for one of his two young sons. Sixteen years later, Kiin is caught between the two brothers: one to whom she is promised, the other whom she desires. But the evil spawned by her own family takes her far from her people to a place where savage cruelties, love, and fate will strengthen and change her, and lead her to her ultimate destiny./divDIV /divDIVMy Sister the Moon is book two of the Ivory Carver Trilogy, which also includes Mother Earth Father Sky and Brother Wind./div/div

Download or read book Reaching for the Reins written by Tara Carlsen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tara Carlsen wanted to help at-risk students learn without relying on stale, clinical teaching methods. Instead of trying to find solutions in the classroom, the mathematics teacher transplanted failing students from an alternative high school to a horse ranch. There, she encouraged them to reach for the reins, and she witnessed dramatic results. Students who could not relate to their peers or teachers could relate to horsesand suddenly their futures looked a whole lot brighter. Carlsen and her students proceeded to take an inspiring journey, learning the basics of horsemanship through equine-assisted learninga therapeutic approach to interpersonal development using horse-related activities. After learning the basics, the students taught peers with special needs what theyd learned, drawing upon their own struggles and triumphs to help them achieve success. Punctuated with humor, heartbreak, and hard-won triumph, Reaching for the Reins chronicles the struggles and successes of these students over five years.

Download or read book Minds of Winter written by Ed O'Loughlin and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a journey shrouded in mystery and intrigue, Sir John Franklin's 1845 campaign in search of the Northwest Passage ended in tragedy. All 129 men were lost to the ice, and nothing from the expedition was retrieved, including two rare and valuable Greenwich chronometers. When one of the chronometers appears a century and a half later in London, in pristine condition and crudely disguised as a Victorian carriage clock, new questions arise about what really happened on that expedition--and the fates of the men involved. When Nelson Nilsson, an aimless drifter from Alberta, finds himself in Canada's Northern Territories in search of his brother, he meets Fay Morgan by chance. Fay has just arrived from London, hoping to find answers to her burning questions about her past. When they discover that their questions about their pasts and present are inextricably linked, the two will become unlikely partners as they unravel a mystery that traverses continents and centuries. In a narrative that crosses time and space, O'Loughlin delves deep into the history of Franklin's expedition through the eyes of the explorers themselves, addressing questions that have intrigued historians and readers for centuries. What motivated these men to strike out on dangerous campaigns in search of the unknown? What was at stake for them, and for those they left behind? And when things went wrong--things that couldn't be shared--what would they do to protect themselves and their discoveries?

Download or read book Proceedings written by Rhodesia Scientific Association, Salisbury and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings Rhodesia Scientific Association written by Rhodesia Scientific Association and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Names and Nunavut written by Valerie Alia and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...a thought-provoking book. Alia lays out the intricacies of Inuit naming so clearly, describes the Arctic environment so vividly, and conveys such a rich sense of Inuit values, concerns, and humour that readers are likely to hunger for more information and to pose ethnographic and on mastic questions that press forward the horizons of Inuit ethnography. Names and Nunavut is a welcome addition to Arctic ethnography and should be of interest not only to linguists and anthropologists working in the Arctic but to anyone interested in the relationship between onomasty, personhood, and cosmology and to anyone looking for fresh insights to the micropractices of linguistic and onomastic colonialism." - NAMES A Journal of Onomastics "Embedded within this nuanced and extraordinarily well-researched account of the political onomastics (the politics of naming) involved with Inuit (colonial) history are an abundance of theoretical, ethical and political insights into both the complex nature of the Inuit and their evolving engagement with Qallunaat (non-Inuit, Euro-Canadian), as well as the complex nature of engaging in such research. This publication, refreshing in its focus on extensive local community research, delves into the complicated dynamic between colonial administration and its effects on the culture and identity of the Inuits. - British Journal of Canadian Studies On the surface, naming is simply a way to classify people and their environments. The premise of this study is that it is much more - a form of social control, a political activity, a key to identity maintenance and transformation. Governments legislate and regulate naming; people fight to take, keep, or change their names. A name change can indicate subjugation or liberation, depending on the circumstances. But it always signifies a change in power relations. Since the late 1970s, the author has looked at naming and renaming, cross-culturally and internationally, with particular attention to the effects of colonisation and liberation. The experience of Inuit in Canada is an example of both. Colonisation is only part of the Nunavut experience. Contrary to the dire predictions of cultural genocide theorists, Inuit culture - particularly traditional naming - has remained extremely strong, and is in the midst of a renaissance. Here is a ground-breaking study by the founder of the discipline of political onomastics.