Download or read book Where the Aunts Are written by PATRICIA J. SOTIRIN and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying characters from Aunt Bee and Auntie Em to Bernie Mac's Aunt Wanda and House of Payne's Aunt Ella and countless living, breathing aunts across the country, Where the Aunts Are re-visions the ideals of family, femininity, and kinship and, in the process, offers a hopeful and progressive recognition of the multiple possibilities of womanhood in modern culture.
Download or read book The Aunts Book written by Caroline Hughes and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mums, dads, grannies, grandads and lovers everywhere have been entertained and delighted by the bestselling 'Best of Everything' series. Now you can show your favourite aunt just how much you care with The Aunts' Book, a celebration of aunties everywhere, featuring the best quips, tips and anecdotes to amuse any aunt for hours. Including: anecdotes about famous aunts - both moving and funny; why an aunt is the most important ally to have in the family; fantastic present ideas for nieces and nephews; how to be the coolest aunt - keeping up with all the trends; inspiration for great activities and days out with nieces and nephews; from shopping and museums to jaunts in the country; true stories of amazing aunts, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. This is a delightful and heartwarming gift that will charm any favourite aunty!
Download or read book Aunting written by Laura L. Ellingson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skillfully written, Aunting recovers the enormous potential of this dynamic kinship relationship and offers a model for understanding and supporting the variety of families in society today.
Download or read book What Aunts Do Best What Uncles Do Best written by Laura Numeroff and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read one way, this book describes all the wonderful things aunts do, and when turned over, it depicts why uncles are special.
Download or read book Gone to an Aunt s written by Anne Petrie and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty or forty years ago, everybody knew what that phrase meant: a girl or a young, unmarried woman had gotten herself pregnant. She was “in trouble.” She had brought indescribable shame on herself and her family. In those days it was unthinkable that she would have her child and keep it. Instead she had to hide. Most likely she would be sent away to a home for unwed mothers, where she would stay in secrecy until her baby was born and given up for adoption. “Gone to an aunt’s” was the usual cover story, a fiction that everyone understood but no on talked about –until now. In Gone to an Aunt’s, journalist and long-time television host Anne Petrie takes us back into these homes for unwed mothers. Most cities in Canada had at least one home, several as many as five or six, most of them run by religious organizations. Here, in institutional settings, the girls were kept out of sight until their time was up and they could return to the world as if nothing had happened. Seven women –including the author – recount their experiences in Gone to an Aunt’s, talking openly, some for the first time, about how they got pregnant; the reaction of their parents, friends, boyfriends, and lovers; why they wound up in a home; and how they managed to cope with its rules and regulations –no last names, no talking about the past –and the promise of salvation that could come only through work and prayer. Gone to an Aunt’s is a profoundly moving and compassionate –even alarming – account. It comes as a reminder that we not get too wistful for the supposedly innocent times before the sexual revolution. That innocence, Petrie shows vividly, was a charade made believable only because the thousands of girls who had broken the rules were hidden away.
Download or read book The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a mini-series of books about Harriet and her very talented aunts.
Download or read book Truman s Aunt Farm written by Jama Kim Rattigan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1994 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Truman sends away for an ant farm, a birthday gift from his favorite aunt, he gets more than he bargained for. A School Library Journal Best Book of 1994. Full color.
Download or read book Island of the Aunts written by Eva Ibbotson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As they get older, several sisters decide that they must kidnap children and bring them to their secluded island home to help with the work of caring for an assortment of unusual sea creatures.
Download or read book Aunts Up the Cross written by Robin Dalton and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was travelling very slowly in the right direction and could hardly have been missed by anyone except Aunt Juliet, who must have been travelling fairly fast in the wrong direction. Growing up in the 1930s in a grand old home in Sydney’s bohemian Kings Cross, Robin Dalton experienced a childhood of curiosity and wonder. Raised by a bevy of idiosyncratic aunts and a revolving door of unconventional houseguests, Dalton recalls a time when children had real adventures in a world not easy but perhaps less complicated than today’s. With a gentle warmth and wicked wit, Robin Dalton brings to life all the colour, glamour and charm of Australian society between the wars. Steeped in nostalgia, Aunts Up the Cross is a delightfully funny memoir of family, childhood and an Australia of yesteryear.
Download or read book Four Aunties and a Wedding written by Jesse Q. Sutanto and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aunties are back, fiercer than ever and ready to handle any catastrophe—even the mafia—in this delightful and hilarious sequel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties. Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. Now the day has arrived, and she can't wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day as guests. As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. Meddy is hesitant at first, but she hits it off right away with the wedding photographer, Staphanie, who reminds Meddy of herself, down to the unfortunately misspelled name. Meddy realizes that is where their similarities end, however, when she overhears Staphanie talking about taking out a target. Horrified, Meddy can’t believe Staphanie and her family aren’t just like her own, they are The Family—actual mafia, and they're using Meddy's wedding as a chance to conduct shady business. Her aunties and mother won’t let Meddy’s wedding ceremony become a murder scene—over their dead bodies—and will do whatever it takes to save her special day, even if it means taking on the mafia.
Download or read book Aunt Green Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender written by Elsa Beskow and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic story, perfect for fans of the Moomins, Beatrix Potter and Cicely Mary Barker�s Flower Fairies.
Download or read book Aunt s Aren t Gentlemen written by P.G. Wodehouse and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tome of well-mannered high comedy, from the "unrivaled master of the comedy of manners" (Entertainment Weekly)
Download or read book Travels with My Aunt written by Graham Greene and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Henry Pulling, a retired and complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his dull suburban existence to travel her to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot and breaks all currency regulations.
Download or read book Eight Cousins written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy cousins. She must choose which aunt to live with and which lifestyle to follow; instead she chooses her educator uncle.
Download or read book The Testaments written by Margaret Atwood and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • A modern masterpiece that "reminds us of the power of truth in the face of evil” (People)—and can be read on its own or as a sequel to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale. “Atwood’s powers are on full display” (Los Angeles Times) in this deeply compelling Booker Prize-winning novel, now updated with additional content that explores the historical sources, ideas, and material that inspired Atwood. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways. With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.
Download or read book James and the Giant Peach written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the World's No. 1 Storyteller, James and the Giant Peach is a children's classic that has captured young reader's imaginations for generations. One of TIME MAGAZINE’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Life there is no fun, until James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Inside, James meets a bunch of oversized friends—Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug, and more. With a snip of the stem, the peach starts rolling away, and the great adventure begins! Roald Dahl is the author of numerous classic children’s stories including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, and many more! “James and the Giant Peach remains a favorite among kids and parents alike nearly 60 years after it was first published, thanks to its vivid imagery, vibrant characters and forthright exploration of mature themes like death and hope.” —TIME Magazine Cover may vary.
Download or read book The Aunt s Story written by Patrick White and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
