Author: Marj Gurasich Publisher: TCU Press ISBN: 9780875650371 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 180
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After her family moves from Germany to Texas in 1847, fifteen-year-old Tina chronicles in letters to her grandmother their struggle to survive in a strange new place while preserving their traditional German ways.
Author: Keysha Clarke Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing ISBN: 1609113977 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 169
Book Description
Karis was a happy girl with a wonderful life, until the fateful night when everything came crashing down on her. After a terrible accident that robbed her of her memory and left her badly injured, Karis now faces the difficult task of rebuilding her life. As she endures numerous surgeries, unimaginable losses and obstacles confront Karis. And after a paranormal experience that leaves her frightened and confused, she must learn to push fear aside and open herself to her own faith and spiritual guidance. Inspiring and heartfelt, Keep Me is a story that reminds us all that there is a light at the end of every dark tunnel, but we have to have courage if we are going to reach it. Author K. Clarke is a mental health consultant living near Poway by way of Mira Mesa in the city of San Diego. She is currently working on the sequel to Keep Me as well as a book of poetry. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/KeepMe.htm
Author: Emcie Day Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0557029155 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 292
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Ms. Day was born and raised in a small town in upstate New York during the late 30's through the early 50's. Being part of a family of nine children and an alcoholic father brought on many hardships, yet there were many delightful moments as well. "Mama's Diamonds" is a collection of these tales. The story tells of the extent that the mother and children of this poor Irish family had to go through and the things they had to endure in order to survive. Their wily nature helped. Mama O'Brien loved all her children and would have been shocked to know what devious means they used and the risks they took in order to obtain some of the necessities of life. Perhaps she knew, but just couldn't bear to acknowledge that this was for the most part, required in order to supplement the meager substance provided by their father. One might ask about her precious diamonds and their worth, and why couldn't they be used to help support the family; but they did ... just not in a materialistic sense.
Author: Leroy Day Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1412202744 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 240
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Road From Hilldene chronicles the boyhood of the author on a farm in rural Virginia during the Great Depression. It tells of hard work and happy play of a time long ago. Times were lean. On the farm, there was no electricity, telephone or radio; farm work was performed with horse and mule. Harvesting hay, threshing wheat and working in the cornfields contrasted with Huck Finn-type adventures floating down the river in a leaky homemade boat with playmates. Accidents on the farm called for frantic horseback rides for the only doctor in the nearby town. The author relates the happy times along with his sadness when events force him to leave the farm. His adult career in engineering and management positions in NASA's manned space programs, Gemini, Apollo and the Space Shuttle, contrasted sharply with his simple boyhood life.
Author: Jon Michael Miller Publisher: English in Florida ISBN: 1413718124 Category : Languages : en Pages : 437
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Rosalind Juliet Mitchell could become one of the great heroines of modern fiction. She is a Jamaican Lolita and a Caribbean cross between Huck Finn and Liza Doolittle. Dirt poor, hungry, bright-eyed and determined, she clings to her one distant hope a Glenn Webber, an aging, uncertain American tourist. He is Humbert with a conscience, forced comically to confront one moral dilemma after another in an effort to comprehend a culture very different from his own. In this hilarious, erotic, heart-rending romp, we move from a bloody jungle killing to a Kingston beauty pageant, meeting on the way a supporting cast that includes a voodoo witch, a hip-hop dancer, an ebullient taxi driver, a sly Rasta-man, a ruthless voyeur, a stoned plant lady, a corrupt detective, a quirky pageant coach, some wild Jamaican strippers and an assortment of mountain peasants. Have you been to Jamaica, mon? Climbed the falls? Now immerse yourself in this tropical odyssey of struggle and triumph, and meet one of the most memorable heroines in modern imaginative literature.
Author: J. Lambert St. Rose Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1524644404 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 322
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A running theme in Father St. Roses collection of poems is a simple but profound expression of the diversity in creation and its oneness in the Godhead. Its a reminder of the need to promote and protect the integrity of all of creation because, in the Godhead, there are no accidentsall of creation has value and purpose. What Father St. Rose has done in this collection is to place before the reader those everyday experiences we take for granted and a chance to see them in their totality, because it is only then that we can appreciate the fuller value of the individual experiences (Everistus Jn Marie). Meditate upon the lines of the Our Father through a series of poems and be willingly crafted in the hands of God, the master sculptor. A former teacher and ever prolific, the poet usefully dissects the Our Father, delivering it to us in word and deed from a living perspective, often in all-too-familiar contexts (Nahdjla Bailey; teacher, author, and editor). This book is a phenomenally deep presentation of a vast cohesion of Jesus Christs divine teaching, which should be our lifetime curriculum while on earth in order to help us reach our heavenly destination one day. This book is a work of love! (Loyola Devaux, teacher and editor).
Author: Toni Buzzeo Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN: 1368004997 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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Little Tembo, a baby elephant, is thirsty and her herd cannot find any water. But Bibi, the matriarch, "remembers the way to wet." As Bibi leads them across the parched savannah, Tembo happily follows, every now and then getting distracted by her own memories of games she loves to play. With touching family moments interspersed between Tembo's playful actions, this tribute to grandmothers will make a perfect read-aloud. Praise for Stay Close to Mama "Readers and their parents will instantly see themselves in this loving but ongoing conflict over the need to explore and the need to protect, and they'll undoubtedly find the two characters adorable and reassuring."
Author: Shirley Skufca Hickman Publisher: PageFree Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 9781589610101 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 488
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The story of a young girl growing up in a Colorado coal mining town during World War II. Seen through the eyes of a young girl, history and narrative merge to explore the war on the Home Front. At first the war is exciting for Shirley and her sisters as they play spies, war games with icicles, buy War Bond stamps, and "can" dirt for winter mud pies.
Author: Marj Gurasich
Author: Keysha Clarke
Author: Emcie Day
Author: Leroy Day
Author: Kate Elizabeth Perkins Glass
Author: Jon Michael Miller
Author: J. Lambert St. Rose
Author: Toni Buzzeo
Author: Shirley Skufca Hickman
Author: Jessica Mills