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Book Synopsis My Mother's Home Town by : George Pereny
Download or read book My Mother's Home Town written by George Pereny and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My mother's family, my godfather, and my confirmation sponsor, were all from a small Hungarian town called Gyongyos in Heves(mountainous) County an hour north of Budapest at the feet of the Matra Mountains on the northern end of the Great Hungarian Plain. In 1944, there were 22,000 people living in Gyongyos, including about 2500 Jews, most of whom, like my mother's family, perished. A handful, including my mother, survived. This is their story.
Download or read book Mommy's Hometown written by Hope Lim and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young boy and his mother travel overseas to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined. Will he be able to see it the way Mommy does? This gentle, contemplative picture book about family origins invites us to ponder the meaning of home. A young boy loves listening to his mother describe the place where she grew up, a world of tall mountains and friends splashing together in the river. Mommy’s stories have let the boy visit her homeland in his thoughts and dreams, and now he’s old enough to travel with her to see it for himself. But when mother and son arrive, the town is not as he imagined. Skyscrapers block the mountains, and crowds hurry past. The boy feels like an outsider—until they visit the river where his mother used to play, and he sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain. Sensitively pitched to a child’s-eye view, this vivid story honors the immigrant experience and the timeless bond between parent and child, past and present.
Download or read book Mothers Before written by Edan Lepucki and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was your mother before she was a mother? Essays and photos from Brit Bennett, Jennifer Egan, Danzy Senna, Laura Lippman, Jia Tolentino, and many more. In this remarkable collection, New York Times–bestselling novelist Edan Lepucki gathers more than sixty original essays and favorite photographs to explore this question. The daughters in Mothers Before are writers and poets, artists and teachers, and the images and stories they share reveal the lives of women in ways that are vulnerable and true, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always moving. Contributors include: Brit Bennett * Jennine Capó Crucet * Jennifer Egan * Angela Garbes * Annabeth Gish * Alison Roman * Lisa See * Danzy Senna * Dana Spiotta * Lan Samantha Chang * Laura Lippman * Jia Tolentino * Tiffany Nguyen * Charmaine Craig * Maya Ramakrishnan * Eirene Donohue * and many others
Book Synopsis Hometown Sweetheart by : Lenora Worth
Download or read book Hometown Sweetheart written by Lenora Worth and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven unruly kids have moved next door to Simon Adams's mountain cabin. On a church retreat, these rambunctious rascals and their perky teacher, Shanna White, prove to be too much for one reclusive craftsman to handle. Plus, they're a big reminder of everything Simon lost, especially his chance for marriage and family. All he wants is to be left alone, but soon he's drawn in by the kids' shenanigans—and by Shanna herself. Can a brooding mountain man and a sweet lady live happily ever after?
Download or read book The Hometown written by Leena Ceraveeni and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mala Thomas, a 23-year-old Indian American, wants a big, multicultural city to escape her dead-end job and racial experiences in Indiana. She packs up her Acura Vigor and makes an impulsive move to Houston, Texas. In Houston, she doesn't get questioned about being Indian. The South is very different from the Midwest and Mala can't take the word y'all seriously. On her career path, she lands a job in the energy industry and falls for work-obsessed Cyril, a Creole who works in her office building. The death of the sister she can't remember, her love for '80s rock, and her past racial experiences follow her everywhere she goes. "What would happen if you were a discontented, twentysomething Indian-American girl, living in a boring Midwestern city and working a dead-end job, still a virgin, living at home with parents you think should divorce, and suddenly decide to pack up and move to Houston, Texas? Read The Hometown and find out! Along the way you'll be entertained and enlightened by this smart and witty coming-of-age novel that gets to the heart of 'growing up multicultural' and making your way as a minority woman in America today." - Jim Barnes, Editor, IndependentPublisher.com "Finding a new home can lead to many unusual situations. "The Hometown" is a novel following Mala Thomas as she embraces a new spin of life in Houston, Texas and facing life as an Indian-American in the south. A story of career life and finding love, "The Hometown" is worth considering for general fiction collections." - Midwest Book Review "Author Leena Ceraveeni's debut novel, The Hometown, examines the journey of a 23-year-old Indian American woman and her search for love, success, and something beyond the ordinary. The novel provides a witty and colorful illustration of what it's like for an Indian American woman to beat the odds and embrace the unexpected." - India West 2011 London Book Festival Runner-Up, General Fiction 2011 DIY Book Festival Runner-Up, General Fiction
Book Synopsis Hometown Cinderella by : Ruth Axtell Morren
Download or read book Hometown Cinderella written by Ruth Axtell Morren and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspirational historical romance"--Spine.
Book Synopsis Living the Life of an Outcast by : Kenneth E. Brannon
Download or read book Living the Life of an Outcast written by Kenneth E. Brannon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is the true amazing story of Kaptain Bek’s journey through Life. An avid comic book reader with a high school diploma, Kaptain has been working numerous menial jobs during the past thirty years, struggling into supporting himself and at times his mother, Mama Louise. Despite brief periods of a few ups (becoming baptized) and longer periods of many downs (verbal confrontations with his father, Daddy Bek), Kaptain has maintain a positive enlighten for human life itself, attempting to achieve his primary goal...becoming a successful screenplay writer.
Download or read book Life Happens Despite… written by Alisha G and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What secrets await Pavitra in her life’s journey? Fighting the odds in her childhood, taking with her a lot of questions, leaving her dream behind, risking everything, and struggling to find her path without any support, Pavitra lives a life that has not been easy. When she finally accepts her fate and starts juggling two lives - one to make her dream come true and the other to sustain herself, One stroke of fate changes her life, challenges her to the core, and makes her question her very existence. Will her questions get answered? Will she be able to pursue her dreams?
Book Synopsis African Religion Defined by : Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
Download or read book African Religion Defined written by Anthony Ephirim-Donkor and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African religion is ancestor worship; that is, funeral preparations, burial of the dead with ceremony and pomp, belief in eternal existence of souls of the dead as ancestors, periodic remembrance of ancestors, and belief that they influence the affairs of their living descendants. Whether called Akw?sidai, Homowo, Voodoo, Nyant?r (Aboakyir), CandomblZ, or Santeria in Africa or the African Diaspora, ancestor worship centers on the ancestors and deities. This makes it a tenably viable religion, because living descendants are genetically linked to their ancestors. The author, a traditional king and professor, studies the Akan in Ghana to demonstrate that ancestor worship is as pragmatic, systematic, theological, teleological, soteriological — with a highly trained clerical body and elders as mediators — and symbolic as any other religion in the world. Ancestor worship follows prescribed rites and rituals, formulas, precepts for ritual efficacy, and festivities of honor with music and dances to provoke ancestors and deities into joining in the celebration.
Book Synopsis This Billionaire's Hometown by : Rachel Foster
Download or read book This Billionaire's Hometown written by Rachel Foster and published by DM Publishing. This book was released on with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake had it all. He was a successful investor who many people looked to for advice. Now his business partner Ed is in trouble for insider trading. To make it worse, Ed has Blake set up to go down with him. So what does Blake do when the company he built quickly crumbles? He moves back to his small hometown in Iowa. He’s trying to rebuild his life while his business investigation looms. Now he’s crossed paths with his college flame, Grace. Every feeling he once had for her is instantly back. Grace is a freelance graphic designer. Her job provides her the flexibility to help her dad on their family farm. Now Blake is back and her life is turned upside down. She is annoyed that he wants her to feel bad for him losing his business when he didn’t even take the time to come back when her mom passed away. Now Blake is helping on their family farm. Grace must decide if he’s worth falling for again and Blake must decide what kind of life he wants to live. Now her dad has been injured in a farm accident and she’s forced to choose between her career and staying home in Iowa with the ones she loves.
Book Synopsis Russian Village Prose by : Kathleen F. Parthé
Download or read book Russian Village Prose written by Kathleen F. Parthé and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-07-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Parth offers the first comprehensive examination of the controversial literary movement Russian Village Prose. From the 1950s to the decline of the movement in the 1970s, Valentin Rasputin, Fedor Abramov, and other writers drew on "luminous" memories of their rural childhoods to evoke a thousand-year-old pattern of life that was disappearing as they wrote. In their lyrical descriptions of a vanishing world, they expressed nostalgia for Russia's past and fears for the nation's future; they opposed collectivized agriculture, and fought to preserve traditional art and architecture and to protect the environment. Assessing the place of Village Prose in the newly revised canon of twentieth-century Russian literature, Parth maintains that these writers consciously ignored and undermined Socialist Realism, and created the most aesthetically coherent and ideologically important body of published writings to appear in the Soviet Union between Stalin's death and Gorbachev's ascendancy. In the 1970s, Village Prose was seen as moderately nationalist and conservative in spirit. After 1985, however, statements by several of its practitioners caused the movement to be reread as a possible stimulus for chauvinistic, anti-Semitic groups like Pamyat. This important development is treated here with a thorough discussion of all the political implications of these rural narratives. Nevertheless, the center of Parth's work remains her exploration of the parameters that constitute a "code of reading" for works of Village Prose. The appendixes contain a translation and analysis of a particularly fine example of Russian Village Prose--Aleksei Leonov's "Kondyr."
Download or read book Hometown Hero written by Todd J. Ewing and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laci's mind and heart were battling. Should she give her possessive boyfriend another chance? Or should she walk into the unknown and date a boy with a bad childhood?
Book Synopsis Hometown Detective by : Jennifer Morey
Download or read book Hometown Detective written by Jennifer Morey and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparks fly between a detective and the woman he’s driven to protect in a heart-stopping romance from the author of Runaway Heiress. Nomadic detective Roman Cooper struggled to carve out a life for himself. But when a suspicious death calls him home, he lets instinct lead him to Kendra Scott. Irresistibly confident, Kendra is certain that someone murdered her sister and insists on working the case with him. Tracking a killer puts them both in jeopardy, and Roman must confront a different threat: the temptation to stay. “There are intriguing mysteries from the very beginning of Hometown Detective . . . a suspenseful plus romantic journey.” —alwaysreviewing.com
Book Synopsis Chicken Soup for the Latter-day Saint Soul by : Jack Canfield
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Latter-day Saint Soul written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In celebration of the 175th anniversary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sherm and Peg Fugal, publishers of the million-selling Especially for Mormons series, have edited this, the first nationally released collection of LDS stories and cartoons, written by saints from every corner of the world.
Download or read book The Unspeakable written by Meghan Daum and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life in this "brave, funny compendium" (Slate) Nearly fifteen years after her debut collection, My Misspent Youth, captured the ambitions and anxieties of a generation, Meghan Daum returns to the personal essay with The Unspeakable, a powerful collection of ten new works. Where her previous collection explores what it is to be a struggling twenty-something urban dweller with an overdrawn bank account and oversized ambition, The Unspeakable contends with parental death, the decision not to have children, and more-a new set of challenges tackled by a writer at her best, investigated in the same uncompromising voice that made Daum one of the most engaging thinkers writing today. In The Unspeakable, Daum pushes back against the false sentimentality and shrink-wrapped platitudes that surround so much of the contemporary American experience. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the New Age search for the "Best Possible Experience," champions the merits of cream-of-mushroom-soup casserole, and gleefully recounts a quintessential "only-in-L.A." story of playing charades at a famous person's home. Combining the piercing insight of Joan Didion with humor reminiscent of Nora Ephron's, Daum dissects our culture's most dangerous illusions while retaining her own joy and compassion. Through it all, she dramatizes the search for an authentic self in a world where achieving an identity is never simple and never complete.
Book Synopsis HOMETOWN WEDDING by : Elizabeth Lane
Download or read book HOMETOWN WEDDING written by Elizabeth Lane and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN… Which was fine with Eden—formerly Edna Rae—Harper, since after a humiliating incident involving high school heartthrob Travis Conroy, home was the last place she wanted to be. But her mother needed her, so here she was. And there was Travis Conroy—still as appealing as ever and still out of her league. Travis wasn't ever expecting to see mousy Edna Rae Harper again—and in a way he was right, since Eden, the shapely blond sophisticate before him, bore little resemblance to the dateless, bookish girl he remembered. He wanted her, pure and simple. But could he convince Monroe's most wayward daughter to come home…to him?
Book Synopsis Reluctant Hometown Hero by : Heatherly Bell
Download or read book Reluctant Hometown Hero written by Heatherly Bell and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “9-1-1. What is your emergency?” Former army officer Ryan Davis doesn’t relish the high-profile role of town sheriff, but when duty calls, he responds. Even if it means helping animal rescuer Zoey Castillo find her missing dog. When Ryan asks her out, Zoey is wary of a relationship in the spotlight—especially given her past. If the sheriff wants to date her, he’ll have to prove that he’s as good a bet as man’s best friend.
