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Book Synopsis My Mother's Silver Bowl by : Peter Derk
Download or read book My Mother's Silver Bowl written by Peter Derk and published by Helpful Snowman Press. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My mother, Bloody Mary, Mary Contrary, steps up to a podium, another dark wooden jobber with another college emblem on it. When she speaks, my mother’s mouth won’t open all the way, straps of cords and muscle that you see, that you watch while they hold back her mouth, around her jaw and down to the dark red line around her neck, right where a choker necklace would sit. My mother, beauty martyr, the face of progress. You hear people cough across the lecture hall, the air’s that quiet, that still. People listen to my mother’s words, hard to hear sometimes with the ways her bottom lip won’t move under her teeth for the sound at the beginning of “phallocentric,” or pop the P sound at the beginning of “power dynamic.” The audience watches while my mother’s red face, always blood red, blooms redder under the stage lights. My mother’s eyes, still the same blue, the blue from a peppermint gum package, the same blue as mine. She tells it her way, about the night the sideshow started, the night she got free from her face.
Book Synopsis My Mother's Silver Bowl by : Derk Peter (author)
Download or read book My Mother's Silver Bowl written by Derk Peter (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harold's Coming written by Peter Derk and published by Helpful Snowman Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A failing marriage, a cursed object. Once you find Harold, you see him everywhere...
Download or read book My Story written by Lola Taubman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lola Taubman was born in 1925 in the Carpathian Mountains (then Czechoslovakia). Life was rich in her extended Jewish family, part of a community with citizens from many backgrounds, where multiple languages were common currency, and education mingled with the joys and games of youth. By the late 1930s, anti-Semitism grew, and communities were disrupted. In May 1944, Lola and her family, and the remaining Jews from her town, were sent to Auschwitz. Lola was chosen to work; her immediate family perished. In January 1945, as the allies approached, the Nazis moved her, with many others from Auschwitz, on a series of death marches. Life as a DP followed, with a 4-year struggle to emigrate to the U.S. Arriving in New York in 1949, she later relocated to the Detroit area, where she married Sam Taubman and raised a family. Since the mid-1990s, she has been an inspiring speaker about her Holocaust experiences. Now, she shares her amazing story with us in this moving narrative of her life's journey.
Book Synopsis Harper's New Monthly Magazine by : Henry Mills Alden
Download or read book Harper's New Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important American periodical dating back to 1850.
Download or read book Clean My Space written by Melissa Maker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wildly popular YouTube star behind Clean My Space presents the breakthrough solution to cleaning better with less effort Melissa Maker is beloved by fans all over the world for her completely re-engineered approach to cleaning. As the dynamic new authority on home and living, Melissa knows that to invest any of our precious time in cleaning, we need to see big, long-lasting results. So, she developed her method to help us get the most out of our effort and keep our homes fresh and welcoming every day. In her long-awaited debut book, she shares her revolutionary 3-step solution: • Identify the most important areas (MIAs) in your home that need attention • Select the proper products, tools, and techniques (PTT) for the job • Implement these new cleaning routines so that they stick Clean My Space takes the chore out of cleaning with Melissa’s incredible tips and cleaning hacks (the power of pretreating!) her lightning fast 5-10 minute “express clean” routines for every room when time is tightest, and her techniques for cleaning even the most daunting places and spaces. And a big bonus: Melissa gives guidance on the best non-toxic, eco-conscious cleaning products and offers natural cleaning solution recipes you can make at home using essential oils to soothe and refresh. With Melissa’s simple groundbreaking method you can truly live in a cleaner, more cheerful, and calming home all the time.
Download or read book Victoire written by Maryse Condé and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature (the alternative to the Nobel Prize) and critically acclaimed author of the classic historical novel Segu, Maryse Condé has pieced together the life of her maternal grandmother to create a moving and profound novel. Maryse Condé’s personal journey of discovery and revelation becomes ours as we learn of Victoire, her white-skinned mestiza grandmother who worked as a cook for the Walbergs, a family of white Creoles, in the French Antilles. Using her formidable skills as a storyteller, Condé describes her grandmother as having “Australian whiteness for the color of her skin...She jarred with my world of women in Italian straw bonnets and men necktied in three-piece linen suits, all of them a very black shade of black. She appeared to me doubly strange.” Victoire was spurred by Condé’s desire to learn of her family history, resolving to begin her quest by researching the life of her grandmother. While uncovering the circumstances of Victoire’s unique life story, Condé also comes to grips with a haunting question: How could her own mother, a black militant, have been raised in the Walberg’s home, a household of whites? Creating a work that takes you into a time and place populated with unforgettable characters that inspire and amaze, Condé’s blending of memoir and imagination, detective work and storytelling artistry, is a literary gem that you won’t soon forget.
Book Synopsis Love Marriage by : V. V. Ganeshananthan
Download or read book Love Marriage written by V. V. Ganeshananthan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this globe-scattered Sri Lankan family, we speak of only two kinds of marriage. The first is the Arranged Marriage. The second is the Love Marriage. In reality, there is a whole spectrum in between, but most of us spend years running away from the first toward the second. [p. 3] The daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants who left their collapsing country and married in America, Yalini finds herself caught between the traditions of her ancestors and the lure of her own modern world. But when she is summoned to Toronto to help care for her dying uncle, Kumaran, a former member of the militant Tamil Tigers, Yalini is forced to see that violence is not a relic of the Sri Lankan past, but very much a part of her Western present. While Kumaran’s loved ones gather around him to say goodbye, Yalini traces her family’s roots–and the conflicts facing them as ethnic Tamils–through a series of marriages. Now, as Kumaran’s death and his daughter’s politically motivated nuptials edge closer, Yalini must decide where she stands. Lyrical and innovative, V. V. Ganeshananthan’s novel brilliantly unfolds how generations of struggle both form and fractures families. Praise for Love Marriage “A beautiful first novel. This intricately woven tale, with its universal themes of love and estrangement, presents an exciting new voice in American literature.” –Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers “Complex and moving . . . an impressive debut.” –Daniel Alarcón, author of Lost City Radio “V. V. Ganeshananthan has given us a riveting picture of the intersections of love and war that shape us all. A debut of incredible passion and wisdom.” –Rebecca Johns, author of Icebergs “At its best and simplest, Ganeshananthan can be profoundly moving. She captures the pain of exile poignantly.” --The San Francisco Chronicle “Ganeshananthan has created a slow-burning and beautifully written debut in Love Marriage. It is an evocative examination of Sri Lankan cultural mores, and the way one family is affected by love and war” — The Financial Times “Poignant and authentic…. Insight gained into Toronto's Tamil community is a welcome bonus in this gem of a book by a young writer who is sure to present more thought-provoking, entertaining prose in the future.” --The Toronto Star “The book is at times witty and always beautifully written” — The Irish Times "Innovative….this is an ambitious family drama about an underreported part of the world, filled with well-shaded characters [and] gorgeous flourish…Buy it." -- New York Magazine "As if she were stringing a necklace of bright beads, the author relates the stories of Yalini's Sri Lankan forebears in lapidary folkloric narratives…What she does here, she does quite affectingly." -- The Boston Globe "In spare, lyrical prose, V.V. Ganeshananthan's debut novel tells the story of two Sri Lankan Tamil families over four generations who, despite civil war and displacement, are irrevocably joined by marriage and tradition….Powerful." -- Ms. Magazine
Book Synopsis The After Party by : Anton DiSclafani
Download or read book The After Party written by Anton DiSclafani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A vintage version of 'Gossip Girl' meets bigger hair." —The Skimm "DiSclafani’s story sparkles like the jumbo diamonds her characters wear to one-up each other. Historical fiction lovers will linger over every lush detail." —People From the bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of lifelong female friendship – in all its intimate agony and joy – set within a world of wealth, beauty, and expectation. Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man wants her; every woman wants to be her. Devoted to Joan since childhood, Cece Buchanan is either her chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on whom you ask. But when Joan’s radical behavior escalates the summer they are twenty-five, Cece considers it her responsibility to bring her back to the fold, ultimately forcing one provocative choice to appear the only one there is. A thrilling glimpse into the sphere of the rich and beautiful at a memorable moment in history, The After Party unfurls a story of friendship as obsessive, euphoric, consuming, and complicated as any romance.
Book Synopsis She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother by : Bryan Batt
Download or read book She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother written by Bryan Batt and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gayle Batt is the kind of lady who throws elegant cocktail parties while wearing layers of silk chiffon, dripping pearls, and eight months’ pregnant. She is the kind of woman who says “anyhoo” and calls everyone “Dahlin’” or a special pet name. With hair, makeup, and nails always done to perfection, she triumphs rather than crumbles when infidelity, alcoholism, cancer, or any form of adversity attempts to shatter her family. Endearing and enduring, Gayle is a big-hearted, strong-willed true Southern belle—and she taught her son everything he knows about being a man. In She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother, Bryan Batt, the actor who plays Sal Romano on the Emmy, Golden Globe, and Peabody Award–winning Mad Men, chronicles his life—and his mother’s supportive presence in it. From growing up gay below the Mason-Dixon Line to landing principal roles on Broadway (his first was on roller skates playing a singing and dancing boxcar in Starlight Express!) and later on the picture-perfect sets of TV’s Mad Men, to opening the ever-popular Hazelnut boutique in his hometown of New Orleans with his partner, Bryan weaves a touching and hilarious story of the South, showbiz, and an unshakable bond between mother and son.
Download or read book The Tiger Ladies written by Sudha Koul and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sitting in her grandmother Dhanna's kitchen, surrounded by the aromas of mint and the smoke of a hookah, warmed by the kangri tucked beneath her thighs, young Sudha Koul listened to tales of She Who Fears Nothing: The Tiger Lady, stories Sudha would repeat to her own daughters in time, though in a kitchen many thousands of miles away from her beloved Kashmir. This is a magical memoir of a land now consumed by political and religious turmoil, a richly detailed story of a girl's passage into maturity, marriage, and motherhood in the midst of an exquisite and fragile world that will never be entirely the same.
Book Synopsis Courage and Craft by : Barbara Abercrombie
Download or read book Courage and Craft written by Barbara Abercrombie and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-09-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you always wanted to write about your life but wondered how to get started, how to keep going, and whether it's even worth it in the first place? Under the guidance of veteran author and writing teacher Barbara Abercrombie, you'll learn how to turn the messy, crazy, sad, and wonderful stuff of your life into prose or poetry that has order, clarity, and meaning. Abercrombie presents the nuts and bolts of several genres, showing you how to keep a journal, craft a personal essay, or write a memoir, autobiography, poem, or work of fiction. She offers lessons to embolden you as a writer and practical guidelines for working writing into your everyday life, giving and receiving feedback, and getting your work published. In Courage & Craft, you'll find exercises to keep the inner critic at bay, inspiration from writers who've been there, and proven advice for getting your words on the page and out into the world.
Book Synopsis Lincolnshire Wills: First Series A.D. 1500 - 1600 by : Rev. A. R. Maddison
Download or read book Lincolnshire Wills: First Series A.D. 1500 - 1600 written by Rev. A. R. Maddison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincolnshire Wills, First Series A.D.1500 - 1600 with notes and an introductory sketch. Written by the Reverend A. R. Maddison, Priest-Vicar of Lincoln Cathedral and first printed in 1888.
Book Synopsis Harlequin Special Edition February 2017 Box Set 2 of 2 by : Rachel Lee
Download or read book Harlequin Special Edition February 2017 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Rachel Lee and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Special Edition brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! These are heartwarming, romantic stories about life, love and family. This Special Edition box set includes: HIS PREGNANT COURTHOUSE BRIDE Conard County: The Next Generation by Rachel Lee An unexpected pregnancy has high-class lawyer Amber Towers heading for Conard County—and Judge Wyatt Carter. Neither of them expected their law-school attraction to still be this strong, but their fledgling feelings have to weather Amber's wariness when it comes to love, not to mention nasty rumors and an election season, if they want to make it to a courthouse wedding. THE COOK'S SECRET INGREDIENT Hurley's Homestyle Kitchen by Meg Maxwell PI and single dad Carson Ford knows the fortune-teller who promised his dad a second great love was a fraud. He just needs the fortune-teller's daughter, Olivia Hurley, to explain that to his father. But the mystery woman sounds very much like her estranged aunt, so they set out to find her and just might find love for themselves along the way. HOW TO STEAL THE LAWMAN'S HEART Sweet Briar Sweethearts by Kathy Douglass Widowed chief of police Trent Knight never expected Carmen Shields, the woman he blames for his wife's death, to be the one to make him love again. Yet Carmen is not only finding her way into his daughters' affections, she seems to be stealing his heart, too.Look for Harlequin Special Edition’s Febuary 2017 Box set 1 of 2, filled with even more stories of life, love and family!Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Special Edition!
Book Synopsis The Suicidal Murders by : Souvik Mitra
Download or read book The Suicidal Murders written by Souvik Mitra and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins with a film called suicide. It revolves around a death camouflaged by the mysteries of suicide and murder. The plot deepens as Samar, one of their friends, dies on the day of the film’s release. Slowly the film starts casting its reflections in the real life of its makers from multiple perspectives. Samar’s tragic demise too gets shrouded in the web of murder and suicide affecting the lives of each one of them unraveling their and deepest and darkest secrets to one another. But Subhankar takes them all to a journey far back in time from where the story of their film originated. A journey that will take them through the philosophies of life and death and change everything forever. This Novel is a unique trilogy where three different stories are intricately woven into a single book.
Book Synopsis In the Service of God and Evil by : Donald Britton Conrad
Download or read book In the Service of God and Evil written by Donald Britton Conrad and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the conclusion of the dinner, Chancellor Theobald Bethmann-Hollweg opened the congratulatory part of the program with a toast to His Imperial and Royal Majesty Wilhelm II Hohenzollern, by the Grace of God, German Emperor and King of Prussia. We, the assembled here, renew our faith in a man so various that he seems guided by the Grace and hand of God. Long live our Emperor! Hoch! Hoch! Hoch! exclaimed the guests, each one clinking his neighbors wine glass. Due to the long list of tonights speakers, it has been agreed that each personage will limit their speeches to five minutes. At the end of the ceremonies, guests are welcome to view the many gifts presented to His Majesty in honor of his twenty-fifth anniversary. With His Majestys permission, I wish to present Herr Andrew Carnegie from America. Herr Carnegie, a Scottish-born American is an industrialist turned philanthropist. As is well known worldwide, he built Pittsburghs Carnegie Steel Company. With his fortune made, the man of humble beginnings turned to philanthropy with special interests in education. With unselfish thoughts, he founded the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From his adopted Pennsylvania home, he endowed the Carnegie University and Carnegie museums. Over the years, his generosity led to the establishment of many libraries, schools, and universities in America. In spite of his busy daily schedule, Andrew Carnegie found time to write several books, including the well received Gospel of Wealth, and dozens of magazine and newspaper articles. It is with great pleasure that I offer the podium to Herr Andrew Carnegie. Thank you, Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg. The Chancellor who stood a foot higher than the American bent forward to shake Carnegies hand which led to a titter among the audience. After spreading his notepaper on the lectern, the philanthropist turned to the Emperor. Thank you very much, Your Majesty, for inviting me here today. Wilhelm nodded several times exposing a broad grin. Carnegies carefully trimmed white beard glowed under a dozen closely placed incandescent lights. The audience saw a kindly, old mans face that looked more like a favorite uncle that a millionaire. I bring greetings and congratulations to His Majesty from the great metropolis of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania populated by a half-million German descendents. His voice revealed a hint of Scottish burr. The worlds greatest steel producing center lies between the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers that join to create the great Ohio River that opened the West to adventurous Americans. At the time Germany was unified in 1871, Pittsburgh was a village of 75,000 inhabitants. Today, it is a thriving metropolis, the fifth largest city in the United States. It was steel that created work for thousands of families. Steel provided them with schools, hospitals, fine roads and tall buildings. At the same time we learned that Berlin was on a parallel growth pattern. I believe that such growth is the result of peace throughout both lands. We can all agree that war is absent as economic growth brings full bellies and general happiness to the people. The audience shouted, Hoch! Hoch! Hoch! I want to share with you a secret Ive kept for many years. I am not only an industrialist, I am a preacher. The audience fell silent awaiting an explanation from the diminutive elder. Yes, dear friends I am a preacher, but a very special type. I preach peace. I preach the peace that our Lord Jesus Christ desired for all mankind. As I turn and face his Majesty Wilhelm II, I see a man who also preaches peace for the world. When I first met the Emperor a decade ago, he told me that Europe is too small to be divided into so many small states. He said that he had long considered a plan for a federation of Europe. I asked him what such a scheme would accomplish.
Book Synopsis A Link to Royalty and Other Reflections by : John Sbaiti
Download or read book A Link to Royalty and Other Reflections written by John Sbaiti and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago in Saudi Arabia, the king and many loyal princes favored maintaining the autocratic political system. But one of the kings brothers, Prince Tatal, wished to instigate a peaceful political reform. In this compilation of personal reflections, the princes former personal secretary shares a fascinating glimpse into the lifestyle of His Royal Highness Prince Tatal as he dares to question the political direction of his beloved country. John Sbaiti became personal secretary to the Red Prince at the peak of his political ambitions, staying with him for two years. Although the prince failed in his mission and eventually received a royal expulsion from the kingdom, Sbaiti reveals intriguing details of the princes daily life as he and his entourage valiantly fought for revolutionary reform. Sbaiti leads others on an exciting journey that begins with his acceptance of the job and continues through his adventures and European travels with Saudi royal personages as he immerses himself in the princes routine and passionate mission. A Link to Royalty and Other Reflections offers a captivating look into the personal preferences and living style of a Saudi Royal Prince determined to lead his kingdom out of the dark ages and into a new era.
