Download or read book A Broken Tree written by Stephen F. Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All families have stories and all families have secrets. Some stories can be hidden forever. Others come out over time, or suddenly through revelation. With the advent of easy to obtain and cheap DNA kits, more and more people are stumbling across biological secrets they never suspected, sometimes with happy outcomes, but sometimes with shocking results. In this book, the author provides a real-life example of the shocking revelations and aftermath of DNA investigation. Growing up as one of nine children, Stephen Anderson suspected from a young age that something was amiss. A chance accident, and a small crack in the history of his family broke open. More would come to be revealed as the author sets out on a journey to find answers to his questions. Any reader wondering what a DNA test might reveal will find here one extreme example of family secrets gone awry. As each member learns more about his or her own identity, new family members pop up, fade out, or pass away before relationships can be established or even revealed. More and more people are undergoing DNA tests and seeking to find long lost relatives though ancestry searches. What they find might upturn all their shared assumptions about family, identity, belonging, and history. Join Stephen as he uncovers his own family’s secrets, the impact they’ve had on his life and his family’s, and what they are all doing now to heal fresh wounds.
Download or read book THE BROKEN TREE written by Anita Venes and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As she was growing up, Anita Venes forgot many things about her origins – who she was, where everybody else was, why she had a strange name which people kept changing. She worked hard to forget about the past, avoiding questions about her parents and other family members who had all disappeared. This was often the case for an abandoned child growing up in the care system in the 1940s. It was best to focus on the future when you might have some control over events. Fostering experiences can be good - for Anita they were not. This is her story, a story of survival and inspiring courage to overcome the traumas of her abusive childhood. She chose to work with severely disabled children and that developed into her passion for over 40 years, eventually achieving the rewarding role of headteacher of a new school. The memorable stories of those years feature in The Broken Tree, and Anita also goes into detail about her search for her long-lost family members and the impact each made upon her life. This includes the journey of finding her brother, an internationally famous clown and mime artist, known as Potts. His story is still to be told. Tragic at times, her tale is ultimately uplifting and inspirational for all those who struggle in life to overcome the hand they’ve been dealt.
Download or read book From the Broken Tree written by Lee Langley and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1980-08-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Broken Tree written by Jason Chandler Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Broken Tree written by Lena E. Tripp and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Broken Tree written by Elspeth SANDYS and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Broken Christmas Tree written by D. Rigsby and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1983 in Southern Ohio near the mighty Ohio river in a small town nestled in the Little Smokies. Twelve year old Danny is no ordinary child. He continues to see extraordinary things around him. His family struggles with the reality of poverty, though his spirit is often lifted by his good friend Cluster. This year is different and Danny is desperately worried his mom has given up on Christmas. He decides to set out into the frozen wilderness in search of the most perfect gift to give to his mom. Away from home, and with night fast approaching he's faced with dangers which threaten to steal away what he most wants.
Download or read book The Broken Leaf written by Roger W. Lowther and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broken Leaf invites you to explore the beauty and gospel images found in Japanese art and culture. Through ten short meditations, discover for yourself just how God might be revealing his story in the everyday objects of your life whenever and wherever you may be.
Download or read book The Broken Ornament written by Tony DiTerlizzi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a beloved ornament breaks, will it ruin the holidays or save them? New York Times bestselling author and Caldecott Honor–winning illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi offers a brand-new Christmas story that is sure to be a holiday classic. Jack wants this to be the best Christmas ever, and he knows just how to make it happen… More! More lights, more presents, more cookies, more treats. More. More. More! So, when Jack breaks a dusty old ornament, he’s not sure why his mom is so upset. They can always get more ornaments, so what’s the big deal? Turns out the ornament was an heirloom, precious for more reasons than one. And Jack has a lot to learn about the true meaning of Christmas. A fairy emerges from the shattered ornament. She has the power to make the most magical Christmasy things happen. Suddenly trees are sprouting, reindeer are flying, and snowmen are snowball fighting. All of it is so perfect, or it would be if she could fix Mom’s ornament. But she can’t. So it’s up to Jack to make some Christmas magic of his own.
Download or read book The Broken Kingdoms written by N. K. Jemisin and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man with no memory of his past and a struggling, blind street artist will face off against the will of the gods as the secrets of this stranger's past are revealed in the sequel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, the debut novel of NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. And Oree's guest is at the heart of it. . .
Download or read book The Broken Brooch written by Katherine Lowry Logan and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a brooch is broken, some of its magic is lost... **While this is not a time travel romance, the hero and heroine are taken out of their comfort zones and face many of the same challenges MacKlenna Family time travelers have confronted in previous brooch books.**.
Download or read book I Can t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood written by Tiana Clark and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family, and faith by making and breaking forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, her own ancestry, and, yes, even Rihanna. I Can’t Talk About the Trees without the Blood, because Tiana cannot engage with the physical and psychic landscape of the South without seeing the braided trauma of the broken past—she will always see blood on the leaves.
Download or read book The Broken Tree written by Kellie Butler and published by Raleigh Hills Press. This book was released on 2019-07-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ms. Butler is a master of characterization"-USA Today Bestselling author Ellie Midwood. An anxious homecoming. A three-hundred-year-old curse. A betrayal that threatens to tear the Cavert and Bainbridge families apart. Welcome home to Laurelhurst.Lancashire, Summer 1959. Fifteen years ago, Lydie Cavert Bainbridge left the dark memories of her youth at Laurelhurst Manor behind her. Now thirty-two, an expectant Lydie returns with her family of five with two goals: to protect her children from her horrific experience at Laurelhurst and to spend a peaceful summer before the arrival of her fourth child.When Lydie comes across an ancient oak tree split in the middle on the edge of the estate, it reveals an old secret from three hundred years ago involving an enemy along with the specters she had hoped to leave behind. As the tree casts a shadow upon the house and loyalties are tested, Lydie must choose between the love she holds for her family and the love for her brother. Can the Cavert family stay together, or will splinter like the tree at the edge of the moors?
Download or read book Summary of Stephen F Anderson s A Broken Tree written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-22T22:59:00Z with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I loved watching the TV show Leave It to Beaver, which portrayed a perfect family living out their lives. I wished I could have such a family, but I knew that was beyond what my own family could ever hope to achieve. #2 The author’s father was a salesman, and he spent the work week traveling through several states meeting with community fire chiefs and city council members to convince them to buy one very big truck. He was rarely home, and when he was, he spent most of his time drinking with his war buddies. #3 I was left to wonder what the early years were really like. When I was in my mid-forties, I worked with my town’s historical society gathering dozens of oral histories from the original settlers. I wanted to fly back to my hometown and visit my oldest sister, Holly, who still lived there. Holly was not going to share a single recollection with me. #4 The stories my parents told me were never recorded, and I was not allowed to hear them until after they died. I grew up hearing the stories, and as I grew older, I deliberately declined invitations to play with my cousins so that I could hear the stories being told by my older siblings.
Download or read book The Broken Tree written by Jason Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black & White EDITION This collection of poems will touch you and move you. Emotionally, you will travel through anguish and despair to a sense of well being and confidence. The photos are included to help you imagine the exhausting ambiance of life, no matter what it brings. From Jason, My prayer is that no matter what challenges you are facing that my book will give you hope and strength to help you make it through, from the darkest moments to the brightest. You will find humor and similarity to your own life within these poems, and I promise this familiarity will give you a new outlook on life.
Download or read book The Island of Missing Trees written by Elif Shafak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he's searching for lost love. Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited--- her only connection to her family's troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak's best work yet.
Download or read book About Trees written by Katie Holten and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Trees considers our relationship with language, landscape, perception, and memory in the Anthropocene. The book includes texts and artwork by a stellar line up of contributors including Jorge Luis Borges, Andrea Bowers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Lovelace and dozens of others. Holten was artist in residence at Buro BDP. While working on the book she created an alphabet and used it to make a new typeface called Trees. She also made a series of limited edition offset prints based on her Tree Drawings.
