Download or read book The Hardship of Growing up on Wheels written by Thomas G. Kandiah and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is life really like living with a disability? I have been brutally honest with the events that have happened in my short twenty-four years on this planet. It hasn’t been easy for me to go back and relive memories that sent me to the brink of despair. However, I have decided that I am a survivor, and I want to put the past behind me and hopefully help others who are maybe going through a similar experience.
Download or read book If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits written by Erma Bombeck and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious #1 New York Times bestseller: Erma Bombeck’s take on marriage and family life is “fun from cover to cover” (Hartford Courant). Ever since she was a child, Er ma Bombeck has been an expert worrier, and married life has only honed that skill. She gets anxious about running out of ball bearings; about snakes sneaking in through the pipes; about making meaningful conversation on New Year’s Eve. Married life, she realizes, is an unpredictable saga even when you know exactly how loud your husband snores every night—and she wouldn’t have it any other way. In this crisp collection of essays, Bombeck shows off the irresistible style that made her one of America’s favorite humorists for more than three decades. When she sharpens her wit, no family member is sacred and no self-help fad is safe. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erma Bombeck including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Download or read book Growing Up and Getting By written by John Horton and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how children, young people and families cope with situations of socio-economic poverty and precarity in diverse international contexts and looks at the evidence of the harms and inequalities caused by these processes.
Download or read book Growing Up in a Divided Society written by Sandra Burman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All Souls written by Michael Patrick MacDonald and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “All Souls is the written equivalent of an Irish wake, where revelers dance and sing the dead person’s praises. In that same style, the book leavens tragedy with dashes of humor but preserves the heartbreaking details.”—The New York Times Book Review A 25th anniversary edition of the National Bestselling memoir, with a new afterword from Michael Patrick MacDonald, takes us deep into the South Boston housing projects during one of the city's most tumultuous times in history and tells the story of his family struggling the overcome the poverty, crime, addiction, and incarceration that overtook the neighborhood. A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger’s crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald’s Southie is populated by sharply hewn characters. We meet Ma, Michael’s mini-skirted, accordian-playing, single mother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children. And there are Michael’s older siblings Davey, sweet artist-dreamer; Kevin, child genius of scam; and Frankie, Golden Gloves boxer and neighborhood hero whose lives are high-wire acts played out in a world of poverty and pride. Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community’s code of silence, MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but moving honesty. All Souls is heartbreaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be “the best place in the world.”
Download or read book The Voice of Childhood Or the Influence the Poetry and the Wrongs of the Little Ones Including Poems by Various Authors written by John De Fraine and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers from the 1981 Kilkenny Conference on Poverty written by and published by Combat Poverty Agency. This book was released on with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Life Story written by Becky Lynn Black and published by Energion Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Life Story by Becky Lynn Black isn't a celebrity autobiography. It's better. Becky's story is a testimony. We are promised we can overcome through the word of our testimonies (Rev. 12:11). A testimony doesn't just tell a story to satisfy curiosity. It presents a divine call. The story in this book will call you to put God first, especially in your marriage. It will call you to mission. It is, in fact, the Gospel story. God loves you, died to save you, and calls you to join Him in the ministry of reconciliation. No matter where you go or what problems you face, God will be with you. He will not remove all your troubles, but He will work through you no matter what. When Becky Lynn Black went home to glory, it was not a victory for the cancer that tried to conquer her. It was God's victory over death, shown in the life of His servant. "Becky Lynn Black was the daughter of missionary parents to Ethiopia and my wife for 37 years. Her life was a story that only God could have written. It is a powerful tale of sacrifice, struggle, hope, and ultimate victory. Her life changed my view of serving God and will certainly challenge yours." -David Alan Black, Dr. M. O. Owens Jr. Chair of New Testament Studies, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Download or read book In God We Trust Or Do We And Why We Should written by Robert D Trent and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In God We Trust, or Do We? And Why We Should tells the story of a middle-class boy growing up in middle-class America that without the hand of God reaching out to save, there would be no story to tell. There would be more spiritual interventions that would be the cause for his faith to grow and to believe that there is no doubt a living God that someday we will all go face-to-face to. As a layperson, he fears for our individual moral decline and what it is doing to our churches and our nation. In the end, he has suggestions of what we need to do to turn things around.
Download or read book The Labyrinthine Journey written by Luciana Cavallaro and published by Mythos Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Plato's Atlantis story as written in his dialogues: Critias and Timaeas. Can our heroes find the elusive talisman to continue their quest? Follow Evan as he continues his odyssey as Servant of the Gods in The Labyrinthine Journey. The quest to locate the sacred object adds pressure to the uneasy alliance between Evan and the Atlanteans. His inability to accept the world he’s in, and his constant battle with Zeus, both threaten to derail the expedition and his life. Traversing the mountainous terrain of the Peloponnese and Corinthian Gulf to the centre of the spiritual world, Evan meets with Pythia, Oracle of Delphi. Her cryptic prophecy reveals much more than he expected; something that changes his concept of the ancient world and his former way of life. Will Evan and his friends succeed in their quest to find the relics and stop the advent of Christianity?
Download or read book Silence and Silences written by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on the infinite search for meanings in silence, from Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, the author of The Other Side of the Tiber and Mother Tongue. We need quiet to feel nothing, to hear silence that brings back proportion and the beauty of not knowing except for the outlines of what we live every day. Something inner settles. The right to silence unmediated by social judgment. Sitting at a table in an empty kitchen, peeling an apple, I wait for its next transformation. For a few seconds, the red, mottled, dangling skin unwinds what happened to it on earth. Wallis Wilde-Menozzi set out to touch silence for brief experiences of what is real. In images, dreams, and actions, the challenge leads to her heart as a writer. The pages of Silence and Silences form a vast tapestry of meanings shaped by many forces outside personal circumstance. Moving closer, the reader notices intricacies that shift when touched. As the writer steps aside, there is cosmic joy, biological truth, historical injustice. The reader finds women’s voices and women’s silences, sees Agnes Martin’s thin, fine lines and D. H. Lawrence’s artful letters, and becomes a part of Wilde-Menozzi’s examination of the ever-changing self. COVID-19 thrusts itself into the unbounded narrative, and isolation brings with it a new kind of stillness. As Wilde-Menozzi writes, “Reading a book is a way of withdrawing into silence. It is a way of seeing and listening, of pulling back from what is happening at that very moment.” The author has created a record of how we tell ourselves stories, how we think and how we know. Above all, she has made silence a presence as rich as time on the page and given readers space to discover what that means to a life.
Download or read book At the Heart of the Universe written by Samuel Shem and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two mothers and a father in love with the same daughter, Samuel Shem's At the Heart of the Universe is an epic novel set deep in rural China against the backdrop of an ancient mountain monastery during the time of the one-child-per-family policy. Inspired by the author's experiences as parent of an adopted child, it describes the drama of adoption and the journey of loss and rebirth that can happen when a daughter brings together her adopted mother and father with her birth mother high on a mountaintop. Set in 1991 in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, as a Chinese woman abandons her one-month-old daughter in a pile of celery in a busy market, and then shifting to Changsha ten years later as the daughter returns with her adopted American parents, the story moves across southern China until, high atop Emei San, one of China's "sacred mountains" with a Buddhist temple, the four are brought together in the wilderness—a perilous and explosive time that unleashes their heartbreak and suffering and, remarkably, transcends it to shared compassion, and new beginnings.
Download or read book Vignettes written by Paul Lee and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vignettes: Musings and Reminiscences of a Modern Renaissance Man is a remarkable series of recollections from a man whose experiences cover an extraordinary range of places, people, and interests. Eschewing the formulaic conventions of autobiography, Vignettes moves back and forth across time and space to describe in vivid detail events and observations from a fascinating life. Its subject matter reflects the acute perceptions of a man for whom every day is a new adventure and a fresh opportunity to learn
Download or read book Anna Age Eight written by Katherine Ortega Courtney and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With research showing child maltreatment is substantiated for one in eight children in the US, it's clear Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), a broader category of experiences than just maltreatment, are at an epidemic scale in our society ... The authors' main thesis, quite simply, is that protecting all our children is entirely possible, but only when we know the scope of the challenges families face. The book provides a detailed, data-driven analysis of the scope of the problem and how to strengthen systems designed to protect our children"--
Download or read book The Secrets of the Universe written by Barbara Nudell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Secrets of the Universe" deciphers the metaphors of the archaic biblical language and interprets the Gospels as those thoughts would be expressed today. It explains how Jesus' miracles were performed, presents a logical explanation of the Resurrection, interprets the Revelation of Destiny as a mental conflict, rather than a physical one, and points out how Mankind will soon suffer the consequences created by our current political leaders and the business community.
Download or read book True Sisters written by Sandra Dallas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four women seeking the promise of salvation and prosperity in a new land.
Download or read book A Forgotten Land written by Lisa Cooper and published by Urim Publications. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on recorded conversations Lisa Cooper’s father had with his mother, Pearl, about her early life in Ukraine, A Forgotten Land is the story of one Jewish family in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, set within the wider context of pogroms, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and civil war. The book weaves personal tragedy and the little-known history of the period together as Pearl finds her comfortable family life shattered first by the early death of her mother and later by the Bolshevik Revolution and all that follows.
