The First Thing My Mama Told Me PDF Download

Author: Susan Marie Swanson
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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A young girl celebrates the name that was chosen just for her.

Author: Edith Young
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Sarah Wurzbach
Publisher: Sarah Wurzbach
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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After surviving a very traumatic birth, you would think that my rough days would be pretty much over, but that couldn't have been further from the truth. By the age of 15 I had dealt with the death of both of my paternal grandparents and my mother, just to name a couple of things. Those life events in themselves very nearly broke me, but over the years I have learned that nothing happens by accident, and is only meant to make you stronger for what is to come. Everyone and everything thing in life serves this purpose. I am living proof of that, I never knew that what I was facing at the time, would lead me to my future and give me experiences that I would need to refer back to years later.

Author: Brenda; Angel
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462838391
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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During the 1950’s and 60’s, dark skin was an unacceptable stigma, especially in the South. Planting seeds and giving birth to ignorance among blacks; evolving into vicious racism against each other. This book depicts the mind of an abrasive woman that became increasingly worse as her life progressed. Honey Mae didn’t give a damn what people thought, black, white or otherwise. Honey Mae does what she wants to do, no matter whom she hurts; not even her only grandchild, Rheese, who just so happens to have dark skin. With Honey Mae, you will love her or hate her but you have to choose, there is no room for being indecisive. If it is left up to her, she will make you hate her.

Author: Tammy Campbell Brooks
Publisher: Paradeyez Books
ISBN: 1732276803
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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My legacy is important to me. I want to leave a legacy that my children and grandchildren could be proud of. A legacy that would be a blueprint for future generations to tweak and make better. I write this book for future generations to learn, grow, and inspire to be a better you. This book is the story of my life and based on true events. It's about a young lady that struggled through her identity crisis and was raised in unstable environments and poverty. A story about a life of tragedy, trepidation, but triumph. I never accepted the ideology of a victim. Instead, I embraced strength, resilience, and a warrior's philosophy. I fit the perfect description of Tupac Shakur's meaning of the saying, "a rose that grew from the concrete." When the odds were stacked against me, I continued to grow mentally, physically, and spiritually. I believe that you are only a victim when you have no choice; otherwise, you are an enabler. I had no choice being born into poverty, but I had a choice on whether to rise above my circumstances. My desire was to break the mental and physical chains plagued in our communities and instill new ones for me and my children. My story goes out to all the people that suffered and survived, The Ghetto Blues. I hope to transform and inspire you to never give up on you.

Author: Ms. Nique
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465379002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 139

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During the time I was dealing with my mother and her reactions to Mike’s apparent abuse of me no one ever knew I had been victimized again, several times. The boyfriends at the time of my aunt Camille and Kim had been told of my abuse and apparently thought it was a good idea to try also. A part of me blamed my aunts for telling my secrets. I never spoke to anyone of these secrets out of fear of loosing more family. I know you’re probably reading this wondering why I didn’t tell anyone, well if you read the rest of this book I would think you could understand. I didn’t want to mess up anyone else’s home or happiness. I mean these were my aunts, the very people who were helping me through it all at the time. I didn’t think holding on to those secrets affected my life much but in the summer of 2010 I decided to release this burden. I told Camille of what her boyfriend had done to me crying through my entire confession. I begged her not to be mad at me and prayed this secret wouldn’t affect our relationship; after all we have become really close over the years. Camille couldn’t believe what I was saying although she wasn’t in denial, she had lots of questions and she began to cry also. She wanted to know if any of her other boyfriends had tried anything with me or to me and I told her no. Telling her the role her boyfriend played was like lifting a forty pound weight off my shoulders. Until this day I have not yet told Kim of what her boyfriend had done. He is actually responsible for taking my virginity. I figure it took me more that twenty years to tell Camille and although I will tell Kim, it’ll just take me more time to do so.

Author: Nora DeLoach
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307794954
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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There's not a killer in the world who can hide from Mama.... Dark encounters and deadly lessons I was happy to volunteer a few days back home to help Mama distribute clothing to the needy. But I didn't expect big-city dangers to follow me all the way to Otis, South Carolina. Instead of doing good deeds and cooking up a storm, Mama was digging deep into shady secrets after young Brenda Long was discovered dead in a shallow grave. Someone wanted Brenda silenced bad enough to kill, and the list of suspects is long. But is the killer the drug-dealing teacher that Brenda threatened to expose? Or can it have been the man who was sent to jail after Brenda caught him stealing — now paroled and bent on exacting his revenge? Everyone knows that Mama has had good luck as the town's unofficial sleuth. But as a maze of tangled relationships leads to dead ends and dead bodies, time is slipping away. For our worst enemies can masquerade as friends — and even Mama's luck can run out....

Author: Thomas Herbert Dickinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 748

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Author: Felicia Campbell
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467084034
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Young Ronnie Johnson learns the hard lessons in life as she matures in a large and diverse adopted family. Being the youngest and always last in line, she grows dependent on other people to take care of her, particularly her older brother, Carson. As Ronnie matures, Carson continues to nurture this false belief. During adolescence, a horrific experience shatters Ronnie’s world when Carson is not there to save her, for the first time in her life. She is, at once, exposed to the ugly truth that there’s not always an easy ticket out named Carson. Turning all her emotions into anger, she almost self-destructs, and is forced to seek help. While rehabilitating, she battles to rediscover her identity and to define her purpose in life.

Author: Rena Reagin Montford
Publisher: Finally Broken
ISBN: 1604624906
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Finally Broken is born out of personal experiences-from child abuse, spousal abuse, multiple marriages, and addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs-that author Rena Montford encountered throughout her lifetime. Never admitting to having it all together, but using her own personal struggle as a way for readers to relate, Rena's book invites readers to bring order to their own existence by inviting God's control over every segment of their lives. The content is raw and honest, and offers help and hope to those who wonder if they have out-sinned God's grace, or if their life circumstances have set them aside from being used by God. Is there a way back? Having reached the point of being Finally Broken, God has inspired the writing of Rena's life so that those who do not know Him in the fullness of His power might believe and trust Him when all other resources they sought have failed.