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Author : Deborah Tall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Family of Strangers written by Deborah Tall and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyric essay-cum-memoir uncovering the lost history of a secretive Jewish family.
Author : Emilie Richards
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 1488096570
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book A Family of Strangers written by Emilie Richards and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a USA Today–bestselling author, an “electrifying family drama” about a woman protecting her sister, who may not be innocent, from a murder charge (Jayne Ann Krentz, New York Times–bestselling author of Sleep No More). All her life, Ryan Gracey watched her perfect older sister from afar. Knowing she could never top Wendy’s achievements, she didn’t even try. Instead Ryan forged her own path while her family barely seemed to notice. Now Wendy shares two little girls with her perfect husband, while Ryan mourns the man she lost after a nearly fatal mistake in judgment. The sisters’ choices have taken them in different directions, which is why Ryan is stunned when Wendy calls, begging for her help. There’s been a murder—and Wendy believes she’ll be wrongfully accused. While Wendy lies low, Ryan moves back to their hometown to care for the nieces she hardly knows. Using the sleuthing skills she developed as a true crime podcaster, Ryan digs for answers with the help of an unexpected ally. Yet the trail of clues Wendy’s left behind leads to nothing but questions. Blood may be thicker than water, but what does Ryan owe a sister who becomes more and more a stranger with every revelation? “In A Family of Strangers, Emilie seamlessly mixes intrigue, romance and emotional drama as she puts family ties to the test with a protagonist you won’t soon forget. A page-turner to the end!” —Diane Chamberlain, New York Times–bestselling author of The Dream Daughter “Richards deftly shifts from women’s fiction into domestic suspense, but she doesn’t sacrifice the emotional acuity that her fans expect. Readers of relationship-focused domestic-suspense authors such as Lisa Jewell will enjoy Richards’ pivot into the genre.” —Booklist
Author : Susan Beth Pfeffer
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453218424
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Family of Strangers written by Susan Beth Pfeffer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes Abby thinks the most important event in her life happened before she was even born Abby’s not dying; in fact she’s perfectly healthy. If she were dead, maybe her father would grieve for her the way he’s still grieving for Johnny, who would have been Abby’s older brother if he hadn’t died when he was only two. Probably not though. The only time her dad even notices her is when he’s pushing her into an Ivy League college. And now that Abby’s oldest sister, Jocelyn, has left for med school, and Jess, the middle sister, has run away to pursue a major in drug and alcohol addiction, her mom is rarely home. Living among strangers, Abby writes letters and makes up imaginary dialogues with a boy that she’s too shy to approach. And she draws up her will over and over, trying to decide who should inherit her teddy bears and who should get all the guilt and recrimination that have accumulated in her family. Left alone—as always—Abby figures her choices are to be physically dead, emotionally dead, or really alive. But living means shaking things up, taking chances, and saying all those things her family would rather keep covered up. It might not end well, but what does she have to lose?
Author : Wendy Oberman
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780002230087
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Family of Strangers written by Wendy Oberman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David P Levine
Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1800130333
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Depending on Strangers written by David P Levine and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world where our livelihood depends on our ability to relate to strangers. The central quality that defines strangers is that they are unknown. Because strangers are unknown, they represent, in the world outside, the unknown self within. The unknown self is the core of the personality considered as a potential to become something yet to be determined. To be already known is to be determined prior to and independently of our presence in our lives. At the outset of the process of taking form, the individual is, in a sense, a stranger to self and to others. The more this is the case, the greater the openness of the process of self-formation and the more marked the role of freedom from predetermination in that process. Freedom from predetermination exists along three dimensions: the free movement of thoughts and ideas or "inner freedom"; the freedom to relate, which is also the freedom not to relate; and freedom in relating, which is the possibility of maintaining secure self-boundaries in relations with others. In exploring freedom understood in this way, Professor Levine considers such topics as: the nature of inner freedom and its relationship to deliberation and choice; stranger anxiety and its connection to group dynamics and social connection; the internal factors that enable us to make the decisions that shape our lives and through our actions realize the ends embedded in our decisions; how our memories shape our thought processes and therefore the choices we make and the lives we lead that result from them; what makes it possible for us to live comfortably with and depend on people we do not know; concern for the welfare of strangers and how our welfare can be secure in a world where we do not care about others and they do not care about us.
Author : Fiona Lowe
Publisher : Fiona Lowe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book A Family of Strangers written by Fiona Lowe and published by Fiona Lowe. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acutely observed, sharp and absorbing - an insightful exploration of the pain and beauty of mother--daughter relationships. The page-turning new novel from bestselling Australian author Fiona Lowe. How can you know so little about those you love? With a coveted promotion dangling within reach, the last thing Addy Topic needs to do is waste precious time singing in Rookery Cove's choir. But when she's reminded how much music meant to her late mother, she can't say no. The building pressure raises the ghosts that sent her running from Rookery Cove years earlier - memories she's spent decades keeping hidden, silencing them with work, alcohol and sex. For Stephanie Gallagher, Rookery Cove was meant to be a new beginning in the slow lane. A place where she and her husband can embrace community, parenthood and evenly share the load. But the sea-change is changing everything. How much longer can they survive as a family? Brenda Lambeck is finding her feet after the death of her husband when her best friend, convinces her to join the choir. Beloved as a grandmother, Brenda is determined to mend the fraught relationship she has with her daughter, Courtney. But is that even possible when she continues to lie? In the wake of a spectacular betrayal, three women are forced to face the uncompromising truths about the choices that have shaped their relationships with those they love most. The consequences will shatter their lives and all they hold dear. After such a disaster is rebuilding even possible?
Author : Casey Samuel Bell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523204755
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)
Download or read book A Family of Strangers written by Casey Samuel Bell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What creates a family? Is it more than blood? Is it love, forgiveness, or trust? What brings people together to live, love, and learn together? Most families are created the same way, but not the Murphy Family. Brought together by love and forgiveness this family is peculiar, unique, and in most cases unaccepted in the views of people everywhere. But the Murphy Family survive, live, and forgive together due to the most powerful thing, love. What does your love do? A question most people will have to ask once finishing this book. A Family of Strangers. What kind of family are you?
Author : Barbara Willis
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781499663532
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Family of Strangers written by Barbara Willis and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if someone you loved disappeared? What would you do if you were told they'd never existed? This most awful of nightmares comes true for Eva when her closest friend, Annie, vanishes. Even Annie's parents deny her existence. The uncertainty of the early months of 1939 has been eclipsed. Eva's comfortable, normal small town life becomes despairing and desperate, until a friendly hand reaches out to her. The elderly and eccentric Lola shows no surprise at Eva's tale. Neither does Gabe; young, handsome and distant. They have answers that lead to more questions, and information that leads to confusion. The pair guide Eva through a new and frightening world towards her beloved Annie. Eva is sure that her search has absorbed every part of her, until she realises how close she's becoming to the mysterious but tender Gabe. As Eva learns more about the hidden world now exposed to her, the depth of which seems infinite, she finds that people can be lost and all memory of them forsaken. Gabe and Lola are lost, just like Annie; but unlike Annie, no-one is looking for them to guide them home. Eva, now attached to Lola and deeply tied to Gabe, struggles to believe that nothing can be done to help them. Eva's search is littered with many things - doubt, discovery, love, belonging and a myriad of scary jigsaw pieces; lost friends, the giving of gifts, a library of books, a troubled conscience and a brilliant pianist. Can Eva piece it all together to see the picture or has she missed something? Does Eva find Annie? Will Gabe reveal his story and are his and Lola's other lost friends a help or a hindrance? And is there something crucially important that not one of them is telling Eva? Author's excerpt from Family Of Strangers: When I reached the house I already knew. But that didn't stop me wrenching the front door open as soon as my shaking hands had fumbled the key into the lock and rushing breathlessly into the empty hallway like a woman possessed, tearing through the barren sitting room into the kitchen where there wasn't a sound or a soul. No odd cups on the table, no whistling kettle, no shopping basket, no cups of tea, no patchwork bag, no apron on the back of the door. There were none of the glorious chaotic things I loved and that welcomed me and made me feel I'd come home. All were gone except a few pieces of furniture left swathed in white, dust sheets covering them like a snowy mountain range.
Author : Carole Blackwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136842659
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Tradition and Society in Turkmenistan written by Carole Blackwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique study of Turkmen women and their folk songs looks at religion, ritual and family as seen through the eyes of the women and their songs.
Author : Stella Ross
Publisher : John Curley & Assoc
ISBN 13 : 9780792704553
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (45 download)
Download or read book A Family of Strangers written by Stella Ross and published by John Curley & Assoc. This book was released on 1991 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sanchona
Publisher : Five Star Trade
ISBN 13 : 9781594145438
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (454 download)
Download or read book A Family of Strangers written by Sanchona and published by Five Star Trade. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daoma Winston
Publisher : Piatkus Books
ISBN 13 : 9780861882274
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Family of Strangers written by Daoma Winston and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeannie Haubert
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498501214
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Disaster Recovery written by Jeannie Haubert and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized stories of recovery that help to deepen our understanding of the disaster. Specifically, the volume examines ways in which gender and sexuality issues have been largely ignored in the emerging post-Katrina literature. The voices of young racial and ethnic minorities growing up in post-Katrina New Orleans also rise to the surface as they discuss their outlook on future employment. Environmental inequities and the slow pace of recovery for many parts of the city are revealed through narrative accounts from volunteers helping to rebuild. Scholars, who were themselves impacted, tell personal stories of trauma, displacement, and recovery as they connect their biographies to a larger social context. These insights into the day-to-day lives of survivors over the past ten years help illuminate the complex disaster recovery process and provide key lessons for all-too-likely future disasters. How do experiences of recovery vary along several axes of difference? Why are some able to recover quickly while others struggle? What is it like to live in a city recovering from catastrophe and what are the prospects for the future? Through on-the-ground observation and keen sociological analysis, Rethinking Disaster Recovery answers some of these questions and suggests interesting new avenues for research.
Author : Monica Sahu
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 9781647836948
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (369 download)
Download or read book A Family of Strangers written by Monica Sahu and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman desperately wants to see her daughter settle down and have a family of her own while another is looking for answers to something that happened two years ago. A dedicated mother of two is confused by her husband's recent behavior but is trying to make things work because she loves him. Will these women find their destined purpose in life and realize their true worth, or will they make matters worse with their plans for a better future? Meanwhile, a man was happy in his perfect life until he makes one mistake and everything horrifyingly unravels. This mistake can cost him everything. Will he be able to come out of it alive? How are they connected apart from living in the same city? A Family of Strangers explores the lives of four individuals who barely know each other but have something brewing underneath their calm exteriors, which will welcome cascading consequences into all their lives soon.
Author : Tash Aw
Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 1632060590
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Face: Strangers on a Pier written by Tash Aw and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and The Harmony Silk Factory comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage. In The Face: Strangers on a Pier, acclaimed author Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation, which is reflected in his own face. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1980s Kuala Lumpur, to his grandfathers’ treacherous boat journeys to Malaysia from mainland China in the 1920s, Aw weaves together stories of insiders and outsiders, images from rural villages to megacity night clubs, and voices in a dizzying variety of languages, dialects, and slangs, to create an intricate and astoundingly vivid portrait of a place caught between the fast-approaching future and a past that won’t let go. “Mr. Aw is a patient writer, and an elegant one. His supple yet unshowy prose can resemble Kazuo Ishiguro's.… He's a writer to watch." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Tash Aw is an essential voice for the global world we live in today." —Yiyun Li, author of Gold Boy, Emerald Girl “Aw is emerging as a master storyteller.' —The Times “Aw's prose can be powerful and mesmerising in its sense of place…and psychological acuity. Haunting and memorable.” —Maya Jaggi, The Guardian Born in Taipei to Malaysian parents, Tash Aw grew up in Kuala Lumpur before moving to Britain to attend university. He is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, The Harmony Silk Factory (2005), Map of the Invisible World (2009), and Five Star Billionaire (2013), which have won the Whitbread First Novel Award, a regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and twice been longlisted for the Man Booker prize; they have also been translated into twenty-three languages. His short fiction has won an O. Henry Prize and been published in A Public Space and the landmark Granta 100, amongst others.
Author : Haylee Darling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473464622
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (646 download)
Download or read book Family of Strangers written by Haylee Darling and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Emma Watson is happy and loved for the first time in her life, planning a future despite her painful past. After a meeting with her lawyer, she discovers the past isn't done with her yet. New revelations find her on a mission around the world in search of a stolen, forgotten family. Now the tragic events of the past will determine the outcome of all their futures ... With time running out, Emma must find her lost siblings, while up against an unknown enemy who will do anything to keep the family secrets buried"--Back cover.
Author : Barbara Willis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Family of Strangers written by Barbara Willis and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the dawn of the Second World War, but life in the small town of Fielding carries on in its uncomplicated way. For young Eva, life is about to change, as her dearest friend Annie vanishes and people claim to have never known her at all. Desperate to find her, Eva befriends two strangers: the eccentric Lola, and tender but distant Gabe. The two open her eyes to a hidden world, in which people can disappear and all memory of them be forgotten. Gabe and Lola promise to aid Eva in her quest. But are they guarding secrets of their own? NOTE: This is the large print edition of Family Of Strangers, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
