Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download My Mother Wore a Yellow Dress PDF full book. Access full book title My Mother Wore a Yellow Dress by Christina McKenna. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Christina McKenna Publisher: Neil Wilson Publishing ISBN: 9781903238769 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
'I learned about conflict from my parents.' So begins Christina McKenna's haunting memoir of her lonely early life. Recounting scenes from her childhood in Ulster, she paints a memorable and poignant picture of violence and oppression with her brutal father and protective mother, whose retalliation to her husband's meaness came in the form of a secret yellow dress. This is a rite-of-passage account of two generations of Irish women, told with great humour and compassion. On the one hand is the writer; on the other the heroic mother who showed her love as best she could. McKenna concludes that our past, no matter how painful, need not keep us bound - once we choose love over hate. That choice, she suggests, will set us free.
Author: Christina McKenna Publisher: Neil Wilson Publishing ISBN: 9781903238769 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
'I learned about conflict from my parents.' So begins Christina McKenna's haunting memoir of her lonely early life. Recounting scenes from her childhood in Ulster, she paints a memorable and poignant picture of violence and oppression with her brutal father and protective mother, whose retalliation to her husband's meaness came in the form of a secret yellow dress. This is a rite-of-passage account of two generations of Irish women, told with great humour and compassion. On the one hand is the writer; on the other the heroic mother who showed her love as best she could. McKenna concludes that our past, no matter how painful, need not keep us bound - once we choose love over hate. That choice, she suggests, will set us free.
Author: John Cammidge Publisher: Gatekeeper Press ISBN: 0999855549 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 409
Book Description
JOHN is brought up on an isolated farm near York, spends his spare time birdwatching, lives with an unsympathetic stepfather and loving mother, and attends Hull University as the government pays his expenses. He worries about serious relationships with girls and has no idea of what career to follow. His experience so far is as a farm hand and a hospital porter. A letter he finds at home confirms his biological father is alive but has no intention of helping him. On Bonfire Night 1965 (Guy Fawkes Night), during his final undergraduate year, he meets a fellow student, JEAN-LOUISE, and a romantic relationship develops. In many ways she is different from John; she is a town girl, brought up by loving parents, is an only child, has opposing politics and knows what she wants to be – a fashion buyer for Marks & Spencer. The obstacle is her mother is ill with muscular dystrophy and she must help take care of her parents. She surprises John by encouraging his birdwatching. John joins Ford of Britain as a graduate trainee and after an uncertain start, is placed in industrial relations and decides to study for a graduate degree with the Institute of Personnel Management. He also discovers more about his real father. What happens to the couple during the subsequent 10 years as they navigate their careers, have to deal with events that take place in Britain during the period and manage personal issues at home, are the subjects of this book. There is panic buying during the 1974, 3-day working week, the affects on home life of Britain's entry into the Common Market, annual inflation driven above 25 percent in part because of trade union militancy, and many other national incidents. A unique feature of the novel is the use of bird species to illustrate human behavior and character. At the end of each chapter there is an illustration of the featured bird from that chapter to provide a summary of the bird's appearance and habitat in case the reader is interested. The novel blends British history, ornithology, success at work, discrimination against women and the challenges of home life into a single story.
Author: torrin a. greathouse Publisher: Milkweed Editions ISBN: 1571317155 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 77
Book Description
A versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival. “Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem. greathouse celebrates “buckteeth & ulcer.” She odes the pulp of a bedsore. She argues that the vestigial is not devoid of meaning, and in kinetic and vigorous language, she honors bodies the world too often wants dead. These poems ache, but they do not surrender. They bleed, but they spit the blood in our eyes. Their imagery pulses on the page, fractal and fluid, blooming in a medley of forms: broken essays, haibun born of erasure, a sonnet meant to be read in the mirror. greathouse’s poetry demands more of language and those who wield it. “I’m still learning not to let a stranger speak / me into a funeral.” Concrete and evocative, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive. greathouse—elegant, vicious, “a one-girl armageddon” draped in crushed velvet—teaches us that fragility is not synonymous with flaw.
Author: Virginia Euwer Wolff Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0689852266 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
Nick Swansen pretty much knows what it means to be Special Ed.: You can't drive, even if you're sixteen and your parents have two cars; the regular kids in school don't talk to you much; and even if you can memorize every fact about amphibians, it's hard to make sense of all the other stuff swirling in your mind. What he doesn't know is whether being Special Ed. means you shouldn't go to the prom. But since no rule says you can't, Nick decides to ask Shana. But the prom doesn't turn out at all the way Nick expects it to, and everything bad seems to get all mixed up together: the prom, what Shana does, and the terrible thing that happened to Nick's sister nine years ago. Nick doesn't want to think about any of it, but he begins to realize that unless he makes peace with all the memories that trouble him, they will haunt him forever....
Author: J. J. Gainer Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467067512 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
WOW! Last Journey of the Ark is an incredible read. Mr. Gainer has done a spendid job of engaging the reader in an intriguing story line involving a fascinating subject...The Ark of the Covenant. You will enjoy this colorful journey. Great Job!! REVIEW By DL Moody- President of Arlington Baptist Your book is absolutely wonderful. I loved every minute of it! I laughed. I cried. I learned alot. Set up, climax and follow through of the storyline are all excellent. I would make an excellent screenplay as well (something to thing about in the future. REVIEW by Sarajoy Porter--Editor Now available at authorhouse.com--Last Journey of the Ark (288 pages), a compelling action-adventure with a hint of romance, inspired by contemporay events that tell how the Ark of the Covenant went back to Israel in modern times. The heroine is a determined woman reporter from New York City who stumbles into love while entangled in dangerous and complex Israeli security issues. Ultimately she witnesses the return of the Ark of the Covenant to Israel in 1991. So why didn't the world hear about these events? Indeed, bits and pieces of the real story have leaked out over the years. Perhaps you recall a whisper of an announcement on world news in May 1991 that the Israel Security Service--the Mossad--had quietly transported 14,314 Ethiopian Jews back to Israel at the height of the Civil War in Ethiopia. Why would Israel believe that these modern Ethiopian Jews are truly descendants of the tribe of Dan? Why would Israel risk men and airplanes against a backdrop of civil war in Ethiopia to fly these Jews to Israel? Why would Israelis take 14,000 poor people to their tiny country and pay millions of dollars to Ethiopia for that privilege? Why would the Israelis name the operation after the very King of Israel who first placed the Ark in the second temple? Read this book to find out.
Author: Barrie Jean Borich Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803239858 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 267
Book Description
A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich’s Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and where dislocation means finding oneself. One coordinate of Borich’s story is Chicago, the prototypical Great Lakes port city built by immigrants like her great-grandfather Big Petar, and the other is her own port of immigration, Minneapolis, the combined skylines of these two cities tattooed on Borich’s own back. Between Chicago and Minneapolis Borich maps her own Midwest, a true heartland in which she measures the distance between the dreams and realities of her own life, her family’s, and her fellow travelers’ in the endless American migration. Covering rough terrain—from the hardships of her immigrant ancestors to the travails of her often-drunk young self, longing to be madly awake in the world, from the changing demographics of midwestern cities to the personal transformations of coming out and living as a lesbian—Body Geographic is cartography of high literary order, plotting routes, real and imagined, and putting an alternate landscape on the map.
Author: Grace W. Thomson Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1466902930 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 91
Book Description
Some memories of childhood are impossible to forget. For author Grace Thomson, the memories of her experiences of growing up during World War II in Scotland have lasted a lifetime. When the Luftwaffe bombed her small town, she and her family were forced to endure hardships daily. Grace writes of her parents' struggles to feed and clothe their children when they were faced with rationing the most basic necessities of life. There were years of hunger when she ate tree leaves to fill her empty belly. We follow Grace and her brothers through their school days when a pencil was a luxury and a slate to write on a necessity. Life equaled loss, and the family suffered the loss of a family member in the war with stoic strength. She watched her mother become so depressed that she contemplated suicide as the only way to escape her misery. Grace endured sexual harassment in dead-end jobs; eventually, she met her future husband and escaped to Canada to an unknown future.
Author: Eunice W. Remington Publisher: Xulon Press ISBN: 1619042495 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 96
Book Description
Eunice Remington lives in Virginia Beach, VA This is her first novel. Spiritual This is the life journey of six sisters raised in the South. It mostly revolves around Ellen, the fifth sister. The sun would come out and the rain would fall. There would be laughter and there would be tears. The six lives are intertwined for eighty years. Cover design by: Elsie W. DeLane W. Barnstable, MA
Author: Robert Bryndza Publisher: Raven Street Publishing ISBN: 1914547136 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 331
Book Description
The international multi-million bestselling author of The Girl in the Ice is back with his first stand-alone thriller, a heart-racing, hold-your-breath read that will keep you hooked until the very last page. ‘Do you believe Will took his own life?’ The question echoed off the white tiles in the hospital’s cold, cavernous morgue, and I studied my husband in peaceful repose. I leaned down and put my forehead against his. Silent tears ran down my cheeks. They felt hot, and he felt so cold. It was five days since his death, and my grief felt heavy, like a vast, dark mass pushing down on me. When Maggie’s husband, Will, is shot dead in their London home, she thinks he is the victim of a burglary until the police tell her the shocking news that Will was the one who pulled the trigger. Maggie is consumed with grief and questions. Will wasn’t suicidal. He had so much to live for. After the funeral, Maggie travels to their holiday home on a small Croatian island to escape London. She finds a disturbing letter written by Will, containing clues to a dark secret. As Maggie puts the pieces together, she discovers Will’s death is connected to someone from his past… Someone who will go to extreme lengths to keep Maggie silent. Three can keep a secret... If two of them are dead. WHAT REAL READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT FEAR THE SILENCE: ‘Robert Bryndza does not disappoint with this stand-alone thriller! Every page had me breathless with anticipation of what was to come. Bryndza is without doubt one of the modern masters of this genre.’ Louise, Netgalley reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘What a Phenomenal story! A high-octane page turner. I loved Maggie and the scary island setting was great.’ Sian, Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘OMG! This book terrifically twisty . . . hooks from the first page…Electrifying from the moment I picked it up to the minute I put it down. The ending was incredibly satisfying and tied everything up fabulously.’ Claire, Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘So, my husband may be divorcing me because I canceled dinner plans to finish this book. It’s ok - it was worth it! This thriller is an intense, immersive experience from the very first page. I highly recommend it to all you adrenaline junkies!’ Lisa, Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘It’s always brave when a writer of successful series writes their first standalone - did Robert Bryndza pull it off? Hell yeah! This is a fast-paced edge of your seat rollercoaster of a book.’ Donna, Netgalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Author Robert Bryndza hits a home run in this five-star thriller set in London and Croatia. You’ll fly through this book to keep pace with all the action and get to the story’s end which will satisfy every mystery lover.’ Deb, Netgalley reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I read it in one sitting as every chapter stopped at a cliff hanger in the narrative that made me read the next one. A brilliant book that I am happy to recommend to any fan of a good thriller.’ Patricia, Netgalley reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Author: Christina McKenna
Author: Christina McKenna
Author: John Cammidge
Author: torrin a. greathouse
Author: Virginia Euwer Wolff
Author: J. J. Gainer
Author: Barrie Jean Borich
Author: Michael Wilkerson
Author: Grace W. Thomson
Author: Eunice W. Remington
Author: Robert Bryndza