Author: Jean Nelson Erichsen Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 144016049X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 373
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Sacred Heart, Minnesota, 1934: Born in the Great Depression to a sadly mismatched couple, a child is moved from one small town to another in her familys quixotic search for affluence. She is neglected, abused, kept penniless in a middle-class family. She dreams of helping children find the stable family she is denied. Forced out of her home at sixteen, shes a runaway, a child bride, a battered teenage mother. While she observes major events of the twentieth century, she wins her private struggle for independence. Through romance with a former World War II German soldier during the social revolution of the 1960s, to moving to Texas in the 1980s, Jean Erichsen becomes an innovator in international adoptions and a widely acclaimed and emulated agency director, social worker, and author. On an international journey spanning three decades, she and her husband raise children while traveling abroad and shaping ethical adoption practices for the benefit of thousands of orphans.
Author: Keri Smith Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780399534607 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 212
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From the internationally bestselling creator of Wreck This Journal, an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life. Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists. The mission Smith proposes? To document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to. Through this series of beautifully hand-illustrated interactive prompts, readers will enjoy exploring and discovering the world in ways they never even imagined.
Author: Susan Straub Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1402278179 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 212
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It's never too early—or too late—to start sharing books with your baby! Reading is one of the first activities you can enjoy with your child, and Reading with Babies, Toddlers, and Twos gets you started. Instill a love for reading early by answering questions such as: Which books will a newborn baby enjoy? ?What do you buy after you've read Goodnight Moon? ?Are eBooks and apps appropriate for young children? Can I make up a story to tell my child? What are the best collections of fairy tales, fables, and other classic stories? A parenting resource to help with early learning and literacy, Straub, Dell'Antonia, and Payne use their decades of experience as parents, book reviewers, and children's librarians to bring you the very best in children's books, so you'll never run out of ideas for reading with your baby. "An accessible and enjoyable guide...this book is a 'go-to' resource."—Traci Lester, executive director, Reach Out and Read of Greater New York
Author: Jenny Blake Publisher: Running Press Adult ISBN: 0762446056 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
Just graduated? Feeling a little lost? Life After College is like a portable life coach, giving you straightforward guidance on maneuvering the real world--along with tips, inspiration, and exercises for getting you where you want to go. Congrats, you've graduated! You have your whole life ahead of you. Do you feel overwhelmed? Unsure? Deluged with information, but no real plan? Jenny Blake's Life After College gives you practical, actionable advice, helping you to navigate every area of your life -- from work, money, dating, health, family, and personal growth -- to help you see the big picture. It will get you focusing on your goals, dreams, and highest aspirations so that you can create the life you really want. Now in a repackaged edition!
Author: R. Murray Schafer Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill ISBN: 088984352X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 284
Book Description
My Life on Earth and Elsewhere, a memoir by the internationally-acclaimed Canadian composer, music educator and writer R. Murray Schafer, traces the author's life and growth as an artist from his earliest memories to the present. Scenes from his youth as an aspiring painter, a music student at the University of Toronto and a sailor on a Great Lakes freighter give way to memories of his several years of work and wandering in Europe, where he gained a deeper understanding of his vocation, and found, especially in Greece, the inspiration for much of the astonishing music he would create after his return to Canada.
Author: Priscilla Long Publisher: University of New Mexico Press ISBN: 082636005X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 368
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Designed to mentor writers at all levels, from beginning to quite advanced, The Writer's Portable Mentor offers a wealth of insight and crafting models from the author's twenty-plus years of teaching and creative thought. The book provides tools for structuring a book, story, or essay. It trains writers in observation and in developing a poet's ear for sound in prose. It scrutinizes the sentence strategies of the masters and offers advice on how to publish. This second edition is updated to account for changes in the publishing industry and provides hundreds of new craft models to inspire, guide, and develop every writer's work.
Author: Jill Bialosky Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780156034326 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 356
Book Description
A chance encounter with Stephen, a childhood friend with whom she has shared a complicated relationship, forces Eleanor Cahn, a literature professor and wife of a leading cardiac surgeon, to reevaluate her life, her erotic past, and the passionate woman she suppressed for years.
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