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Book Synopsis My Mother's Front Porch by : Mimi Gisolfi D’Aponte
Download or read book My Mother's Front Porch written by Mimi Gisolfi D’Aponte and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-05-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In My Mothers Front Porch, four siblings celebrate their mothers life while struggling to deal with her declining years. Staying Connected offers an older persons frustrated yelp against technology mayhem. In 8th Grade Reunion, childhood friends discover who they are 35 years later. Brooklyn Rx follows a musical romance in a beloved neighborhood. In Sister Spirit, a chaplain nun makes a difference on Rikers Island. Homeland Security parodies a real threat of police protection.
Book Synopsis The Names of My Mothers by : Dianne Sanders Riordan
Download or read book The Names of My Mothers written by Dianne Sanders Riordan and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Names of My Mothers" is the touching story of the tender and all-too-brief relationship forged late in life between Dianne Riordan (nee Susanne Sanders) and her birth mother. In 1942 Elizabeth Bynam Sanders was a young woman who left home under false pretenses and travelled to Our Lady of Victory, a home for unwed mothers in upstate New York. Shortly after surrendering her daughter for adoption, she returned to her life in Johnston County, North Carolina. She never married and never had another child of her own. This powerful and moving memoir speaks of the profound need for connection. It is a story about identity, the hunger we feel for a sense of belonging and the ineffable significance of blood.
Download or read book Motherhood written by Carmela Ciuraru and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, grandmothers and grandchildren, Motherhood is a glorious, wonderfully intimate tribute to the first love in every reader’s life. From tenth-century Japan’s Izumi Shikibu, colonial America’s Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England’s Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel’s Yehuda Amichai, Ireland’s Paul Muldoon, and Russia’s Anna Akhmatova, poets across the centuries and around the world have immortalized this elemental relationship. Among the more than seventy poets in this anthology, Audre Lorde recalls “How the days went / While you were blooming within me”; Jorie Graham muses on her mother’s sewing box; Allen Ginsberg says goodbye in “Kaddish”; and Langston Hughes invokes a mother’s empowering example: “Don’t you fall now— / For I’se still goin’, honey, / I’se still climbin’, / And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” From Emily Brontë’s “Upon Her Soothing Breast” and Seamus Heaney’s “Mother of the Groom” to Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” and Frank O’Hara’s “Ave Maria,” the more than one hundred poems collected here enshrine the miracle of motherhood and the richness of feeling and experience it inspires.
Book Synopsis What My Mother and I Don't Talk About by : Michele Filgate
Download or read book What My Mother and I Don't Talk About written by Michele Filgate and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything. As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in acknowledging how what we couldn’t say for so long is a way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. Contributions by Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.
Download or read book Studs written by Marlvis Kennedy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold embarked on what is now known as the Columbine High School massacre that left 12 students and 1 teacher dead there was Mark Anthony Houston we called him Studs. Studs, is a True story that took place in the 70's, it's about an incident that happened on October 5th 1979, on the campus of the University of South Carolina at the Bates social club. On this night our lead character (Studs) shoots and kills two people and wounds five others. Studs, is organized by year. From 1972 when I moved to South Carolina until 1979 when this incident takes place. This story chronicles my life and the life of the lead character (Studs)along with many of the classmates that we grew up with in the 70's. It takes a close look at black on black racism, and deals with growing up as a black male in the 70's without a father.
Download or read book China Trace written by Charles Wright and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Two Dads and Me by : Michael Joosten
Download or read book My Two Dads and Me written by Michael Joosten and published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate Pride every day with this adorable board book for the babies and toddlers of gay fathers, featuring a variety of diverse, loving families with two dads. Families with two dads are celebrated in this board book that follows busy fathers and their kids throughout their day—eating breakfast, getting dressed, heading out to the park, and settling back in at night with a bubble bath and a good-night lullaby. LGBTQ+ parents and their friends and families will welcome this inclusive and cheerful book that reflects their own lives and family makeup. With artwork by acclaimed fashion illustrator Izak Zenou, this is a stylish, smart, humorous, family-focused book that will have babies and their two dads giggling as they enjoy it together. It's an ideal gift for baby-showers, Pride Month, and first birthdays. And look for its companion board book, My Two Moms and Me.
Book Synopsis The Mothers of Voorhisville by : Mary Rickert
Download or read book The Mothers of Voorhisville written by Mary Rickert and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From multiple World Fantasy Award winner and Nebula, Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, Sturgeon, and British Science Fiction Award nominated author Mary Rickert comes a gorgeous and terrifying vision of the Mothers of Voorhisville, who love their babies just as intensely as any mother anywhere. Of course they do! And nothing in this world will change that, even if every single one of those tiny babies was born with an even tinier set of wings. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis From My Mothers Womb by : Uncle Hector
Download or read book From My Mothers Womb written by Uncle Hector and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help better understand the different relationships with ones family, friends and supervisors in life. To understand that there are problems that happen without a purpose and one must deal with one situation after the other and still keep positive to continue your travels through life.
Book Synopsis Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts by : Teresa N. Washington
Download or read book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts written by Teresa N. Washington and published by Oya's Tornado. This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Blazes a new trail in Africana literary criticism by providing an insight into the soul and spirit of Africana womanhood.” --Anthonia Kalu, The Ohio State University, author of Women, Literature, and Development in Africa This is the revised and expanded edition of Teresa N. Washington's groundbreaking book Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations of Aje in Africana Literature. In Yoruba language and culture, Aje signifies both a phenomenal spiritual power and the human beings who exercise that power. Aje is the birthright of Africana women who are revered as the Gods of Society. While Africana men can have Aje, its owners and controllers are Africana women. Because it is an African female power, and due to its invisibility, ubiquity, and profundity, Aje is often maligned as witchcraft. However, as Teresa N. Washington reveals in Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts, Aje is central to the Yoruba ethos, worldview, and cosmology. Not only is it essential to human creation and artistic creativity, but as a force of justice and retribution, Aje is vital to social harmony and balance. Washington analyzes forms, figures, and forces of Aje in the Yoruba world, in the Caribbean Islands, in Latin America, and in African America. Washington's research reveals that with the exile and enslavement of millions of Africans, Aje became a global force and an essential ally in organizing insurrections, soothing shattered souls, and reminding the dispossessed of their inherent divinity. From her in-depth exploration of Aje in Pan-African history and orature, Washington guides readers through rich analyses of the symbolic, methodological, and spiritual manifestations of Aje that are central to important works by Africana writers but are rarely elucidated by Western criticism. Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts includes innovative readings of works by many Africana writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Wole Soyinka, Jamaica Kincaid, and Ntozake Shange. This revised and expanded edition of Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts will appeal to scholars of Africana literature, African religion and philosophy, gender studies, and comparative literature. Devotees of Africana spiritual systems will find this book to be indispensable.
Book Synopsis Back From Heaven's Front Porch by : Danny Bader
Download or read book Back From Heaven's Front Porch written by Danny Bader and published by Sound Wisdom. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At 3:55 pm, I believed there was a Heaven-at 4:15 pm I knew." This is the story of one man’s struggle to be alive again after an accident claims the life of his friend and nearly his own. After spending a few moments on Heaven’s front porch with God, he is thrust back into his old life. In the months that follow, he struggles to find purpose and meaning in the day to day activities of life. In his quest, he uncovers five principles necessary to move him from just living again...to being fully alive! This inspirational story will grab your attention and hold it to the end as it teaches you foundational principles to living a life fulfilled.
Download or read book Acceptance written by Emi Nietfeld and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nietfeld’s gifts for capturing the fury of living at the mercy of bad circumstances, for critiquing the hero’s journey even while she tells it, make Acceptance a remarkable memoir.” —The New York Times Book Review A hard-hitting and hilarious memoir of ambition, desperation, and the dark side of grit Growing up in a house filled with dirty feather boas and fearless mice, Emi Nietfeld dreams of escaping to the Ivy League. Emi’s single mom believes in her, but can’t stop hoarding—catapulting Emi into the underworld of troubled teen treatment, foster care, and homelessness. When her shot arrives to trade sleeping in her car for the hallowed halls of an elite college, Emi must decide: How far will she go to market herself as a perfect “overcomer” when her problems are far from over? And what will it cost to maintain that illusion at Harvard and into adulthood? From journalist, mental health advocate, and software engineer Emi Nietfeld, this searing coming-of-age story is both a chronicle of the American Dream and an indictment of it. Exposing the price of trading a troubled past for the promise of a bright future, Nietfeld explores whether any amount of success can make trauma worth it. With a ribbon of dark humor, Acceptance challenges our ideas of what it means to overcome—and live on your own terms.
Download or read book Blue Rose written by Caleigh Blue and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a country girl who was born into a poor family and all they had was love and one another. She talks about her life journey, facing her demons while being betrayed and abused. She talks about coping with depression also. She shares her story, hoping that anyone who is going through something similar can gain a little courage to help them fight through the bad and worst times. When death comes, grief follows behind shortly after and somehow stays and never goes away. She has learned over the years to keep her head above her shoulders at all times, to never dwell on what-ifs or regrets, and to live life to the fullest.
Book Synopsis My Brother’s Mate: Book 1 by : Elizabeth Johanne
Download or read book My Brother’s Mate: Book 1 written by Elizabeth Johanne and published by Infinite Joy. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily and Mike have been best friends since they could walk. Emily is the daughter of the Beta and Mike is the son of the Alpha and they were born on the same day. However things change when they become of age and it turns out Emily is the fated mate to Mikes older brother Liam. Liam has been known to be a playboy and mess around the pack. Soon after finding his fated mate, Liam and Mike are called away to aid a sister pack that is under attack from rogues. When someone doesn’t make it back. Emily is heartbroken, awakening a power inside her. Emily learns the truth behind the power by the help of a lonely forest witch and her mother. But as more secrets come to light, Emily struggles with her own existence. #Dreame Writing Marathon— Love Story Contest
Book Synopsis American Motherhood by : Della Thompson Lutes
Download or read book American Motherhood written by Della Thompson Lutes and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dopefiend written by Tim Elhajj and published by Central Recovery Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gritty but well-written real-life success story of a father passing on the gift of recovery to his grown son.
Download or read book Hope's Wish written by Stuart Stout and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One courageous girl used her final wish to fulfill the wishes of 155 other children. When Hope Stout was diagnosed with bone cancer, the Stouts prayed for a miracle. The miracle occurred, but not in the way the Stouts expected. Instead this young girl asked for what seemed to be impossible-that one million dollars be raised in a month to fund the wishes of all the children on the Make-A-Wish Foundation's list for Central and Western North Carolina. Shelby and Stuart Stout felt led to write A Legacy of Hope after compiling a journal of the 191 days from Hope's diagnosis to her death. Both parents were with Hope every step of the way on her journey from a healthy preteen to being dependent on crutches to eventually being bedridden. Their heartfelt story includes the times when they were angry and desperate, as well as the times when Hope's humor and spirit shone through. Academy Award winning screen writers Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry are developing the screenplay for Hope’s Wish with an expected production date sometime in 2013.
