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Book Synopsis My Orange Suitcase by : Alicia Becker
Download or read book My Orange Suitcase written by Alicia Becker and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alicia leaves Mexico to pursue graduate studies with all her plans and dreams tucked away in her orange suitcase. Can she reinvent herself in the new land and conquer the challenges awaiting her? Is there life after unimaginable heartbreak, struggle, emotional turmoil, and strife? Life is unpredictable and often does not end up where it begins. Sometimes, you must strive to alter the course of your trajectory through unflagging initiative and breaking the mold—always maintaining a sense of your roots and gratitude for all that was and is. Alicia Becker is a businesswoman, loving mother, wife, and grandmother. Read her story, be inspired, and perhaps even encounter yourself.
Book Synopsis My Orange Duffel Bag by : Sam Bracken
Download or read book My Orange Duffel Bag written by Sam Bracken and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the story of the author's childhood in an abusive and impoverished family, describing how he earned a full college football scholarship and reinvented himself by embracing specific positive rules for living.
Download or read book A Journey written by Tony Blair and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 2011 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end 18 years of Conservative government. He has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times; few British prime ministers have shaped the nation's course as profoundly as Blair during his ten years in power, and his achievements and his legacy will be debated for years to come. Now his memoirs reveal in intimate detail this unique political and personal journey, providing an insight into the man, the politician and the statesman, and charting successes, controversies and disappointments with an extraordinary candour.
Download or read book Luggage written by Susan Harlan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. You can't think about travel without thinking about luggage. And baggage has baggage. Susan Harlan takes readers on a journey with the suitcases that support, accessorize, and accompany our lives. Along the way, she shows how the materials of travel - the carry-ons, totes, trunks, and train cases of the past and present - have stories to tell about displacement, home, gender, class, consumption, and labor. Luggage considers bags as carefully curated microcosms of our domestic and professional selves, charting the evolution of travel across literature, film, and art. A simple suitcase, it turns out, contains more than you might think. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Book Synopsis The Terrible Suitcase by : Emma Allen
Download or read book The Terrible Suitcase written by Emma Allen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when it's your first day of school and your mum gives you a terrible suitcase instead of a red backpack with yellow rockets and a silver zipper? Well, first you get mad. M A D! Then you use your imagination to build a rocket ship and escape with all your new friends.
Download or read book Rossiya written by Alex Shishin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rossiya: Voices from the Brezhnev Era is a poignant sketch of the Soviet Union prior to its disastrous invasion of Afghanistan. It is also a bittersweet tale of an American coming to terms with his Russian roots. One summer in the late 1970s, author Alex Shishin travels through the USSR on the Rossiya, the Trans-Siberian train that runs between Vladivostok and Moscow and that twice carries him across the vastness of Siberia. Fluent in Russian, the young Russian American converses with countless citizens from every strata of Soviet society. An extended side trip to Poland brings him in contact with a simmering revolution. Everywhere he goes, Shishin meets ordinary people imbued with a generosity that transcends all political systems and times. "Alex's readiness to accept people without judging them enables his fellow travelers to open up to him and talk about things that affect their lives: politics, economics, their harsh memories of war, and their deep desires for peace. His vivid portraits of the people he meets make you feel as if you are sitting together with him, hearing the voices, enjoying the food and drinks, and feeling the motion of the train traveling over the tracks.. This is a moving account of the writer's pilgrimage to know himself through human encounters." -Peter Sano, author of 1,000 Days in Siberia: The Odyssey of a Japanese-American POW
Download or read book Zipper Mouth written by Laurie Weeks and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel of a young lesbian addict in ’90s NYC “recalls Naked Lunch” with “dreamy, impressionistic, and rapturous” prose—“an ecstatic love story” (Publishers Weekly). Written in the brash, fervent voice of the young and addicted, this debut novel from underground superstar Laurie Weeks “is a short tome of infinitesimal reach, a tiny star to light the land” (Eileen Myles). Strung out on dope and unrequited love for her straight best friend, Jane, the novel’s unnamed narrator zig-zags between glimpses of her childhood and early teens to the raw, super-caffeinated world of her present on the streets of New York. Chosen by Dave Eggers as Best American Nonrequired Reading and a winner of the 2012 Lambda Literary Awards, this novel encapsulates the soaring highs and gritty lows of the junkie and the reckless intensity of love. “The book’s pulse is evident on every page.” (Lambda Literary) “Zipper Mouth is a brilliant rabbit hole of pitch-black hilarity, undead obsession, the horror of the everyday, and drug, drugs, drugs.” —Michelle Tea, co-founder of SisterSpit
Book Synopsis Follow the Blackbirds by : Gwen Nell Westerman
Download or read book Follow the Blackbirds written by Gwen Nell Westerman and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In language as perceptive as it is poignant, poet Gwen Nell Westerman builds a world in words that reflects the past, present, and future of the Dakota people. An intricate balance between the singularity of personal experience and the unity of collective longing, Follow the Blackbirds speaks to the affection and appreciation a contemporary poet feels for her family, community, and environment. With touches of humor and the occasional sharp cultural criticism, the voice that emerges from these poems is that of a Dakota woman rooted in her world and her words. In this moving collection, Westerman reflects on history and family from a unique perspective, one that connects the painful past and the hard-fought future of her Dakota homeland. Grounded in vivid story and memory, Westerman draws on both English and the Dakota language to celebrate the long journey along sunflower-lined highways of the tallgrass prairies of the Great Plains that returns her to a place filled with “more than history.” An intense homage to the power of place, this book tells a masterful story of cultural survival and the power of language.
Book Synopsis The Ruins of California by : Martha Sherrill
Download or read book The Ruins of California written by Martha Sherrill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Ruin family in 1970s California, as described by the precocious young Inez, life is complex. Her father, Paul, is self-obsessed, intrusive, and brilliant. He's also twice divorced, leaving Inez to bounce between two worlds and embracing neither-that of Paul's bohemian life in San Francisco and the more sedate world of her mother Connie, a Latin bombshell who plays tennis and attends EST seminars in the suburbs. As Inez progresses through high school we are witness to a remarkable family saga that renders a strange and fascinating slice of America in transition-one like the Ruins of California themselves, at once bold and innocent, creative and chaotic, obsessed and liberating.
Book Synopsis The Family Portraits by : Emmy Morgan
Download or read book The Family Portraits written by Emmy Morgan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up, Elijah Davis knew he was different. Following his adoption into a new family, he realized he was the wrong gender. After an operation, Elijah became Desiré Andersen, although her path wasn’t easy. Riddled with abuse and discontent, she eventually landed a role on a popular soap opera and became a daytime diva. Now, it has been a year since Desiré’s boyfriend was murdered, and she again struggles to make sense of life. She decides to enter the world of film, leaving television behind, but she first revisits memories from her difficult past. She and her “white” family read journals and letters, forcing them to relive explosive memories and events. Desiré remembers how she met her “white” family, and she gains more insight into her relationship with her “black” family. She recalls what it was like growing up as an openly gay, black kid in 1980s Western Massachusetts Simultaneously, her life takes another drastic turn when people from her past make an appearance in her present—and they will change her future forever.
Book Synopsis Five Steps to Resurrection by : Anna-Nina Kovalenko
Download or read book Five Steps to Resurrection written by Anna-Nina Kovalenko and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Main themes: love, woman as its object and its source, emigration as a cultural experience, the philosophy of spiritual ascent, compassion for the animals, for the world. (One of main characters of the novel is Stacey, the cat adapted by heroine who then perished, but she came in critical time to save it.) Genesis and memorable events of the second half of the twentieth century, beginning of the twenty-first. Brief annotation: to an extent, Five Steps to Resurrection can be considered an alternative to Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marques, in which a man and a woman, destined for each other, finally unite in advanced age. The narration, done in the voice of the female protagonist, maintains an ironic and skeptical distance, offering a bitter smile at times. In contrast to Marques, the author of Five Steps focuses not on physiological details but rather on visual descriptions (whether aesthetical or anti-aesthetical) as well as on subconscious processes. This novel, as the authors earlier novel White Horse, is written in a wreath form: each chapter begins with the last line of the preceding chapter, and the conclusion goes back to the foreword. The authors interest in the philosophical teaching Everest, and the work of its spiritual leader, D. Arundel, is apparent.
Download or read book Grown-Up Boys written by Liam Everwatch. and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underage boys in the early 1900s want to illegally enlist in a World War against Central Asian domination. Willy, the youngest of the bunch, defies legalities in an effort to "kill the enemy." Hoboing across America, he encounters adventures of murder, sex, and enlightenment, with a goal to enlist in the Army. As a soldier going through training and indoctrination, he achieves the restless dreams of youth but loses more than he bargained for.
Book Synopsis Step by Step by : Reva Spiro Luxenberg
Download or read book Step by Step written by Reva Spiro Luxenberg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a counseling session Joan Pearl reveals to her psychologist, Dr. Becca Grove, that her husband Spence is a billionaire. Becca, who is immoral and greedy, conjures up a plan to exacerbate Joan’s relationship with her husband with the intent of encouraging her to divorce so that she herself could marry Spence. Despite complications Becca pursues her devious plan. On the couple’s vacation to Australia, Joan, who is a librarian, meets the Australian Sherilee—also a librarian—and they form a strong sisterly bond. They develop the entrepreneurial idea to be partners in the creation of the largest mystery bookstore in the world. When Spence refuses to part with monies that would facilitate their enterprise, they nevertheless persist in their plans. Becca moves from her expensive apartment on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to a Brooklyn basement apartment. The pandemic and its consequences begin
Book Synopsis Losing Amma, Finding Home by : Uma Girish
Download or read book Losing Amma, Finding Home written by Uma Girish and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uma Girish’s Losing Amma, Finding Home is a heart-rending narrative of losing a parent, living through the pain and transforming it to discover one true-calling and life’s purpose. This is a breathtaking inspirational and personal memoir that will ring true with every reader! When Uma arrives to start life in a Chicago suburb with her husband, 14-year-old daughter and her dreams in the spring of 2008, she has no clue of the cosmic wheels in motion. Barely four weeks later, her 68-year-old mother, in India, is diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer. Eight months later, she passes away. Losing her mother plunges Uma into the deepest despair, but more importantly, awakens a sudden clarity and knowing that ‘there has to be more to life than this’. As she begins to navigate a new country and culture, she is also called on to navigate the lonely terrain of grief. Life begins to open doors and Uma finds comfort, connection and purpose in working with seniors at a retirement community. Every relationship that she forms with the seniors opens her heart a little wider as she seeks answers to the only questions that matter. Who am I? Why am I here? What am I meant to do with this life? Interweaving two cultures through a textured narrative, Uma uncovers the truths of her inner journey as she transforms – one event, one person at a time.
Book Synopsis Orange Crushed by : Pamela Thomas-Graham
Download or read book Orange Crushed written by Pamela Thomas-Graham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "A Darker Shade of Crimson" returns with Nikki Chase and once again delivers a beguiling, brisk and atmospheric whodunit set in Princeton and Cambridge.
Book Synopsis The Indigo Butterfly by : Lisa L. Schoonover
Download or read book The Indigo Butterfly written by Lisa L. Schoonover and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indigo Butterfly is the true and inspiring story of a writers journey of self-discovery and a yearning for her place in the world. On the eve of college graduation the author has a revealing dream that leads to an epiphany. At the same time, Desert Storm is causing a recession throughout the country. Forced to make some difficult decisions, the young woman rejects conventionality to become a nomad and follow her dream of becoming a writer. But once she begins to make her way across the continent, the writer must learn to balance the creative life that she envisions with the responsibilities of daily living. The young woman soon discovers that the outer voyage is interwoven with her inner journey to understand herself. While she is on the road, the writer encounters fellow travelers, spiritual teachers, and unique individuals who welcome her into their communities. The book chronicles the authors fifteen-year odyssey across North America as retold through vignettes culled from her journals during that time. From Seattles lush rainforest to the mysterious islands of South Carolina, no region of the country goes unexplored in the determined writers quest for wholeness.
Download or read book Seeing Like a Child written by Clara Han and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child. Seeing Like a Child is a deeply moving narrative that showcases an unexpected voice from an established researcher. Through an unwavering commitment to a child’s perspective, Clara Han explores how the catastrophic event of the Korean War is dispersed into domestic life. Han writes from inside her childhood memories as the daughter of parents who were displaced by war, who fled from the North to the South of Korea, and whose displacement in Korea and subsequent migration to the United States implicated the fraying and suppression of kinship relations and the Korean language. At the same time, Han writes as an anthropologist whose fieldwork has taken her to the devastated worlds of her parents—to Korea and to the Korean language—allowing her, as she explains, to find and found kinship relationships that had been suppressed or broken in war and illness. A fascinating counterpoint to the project of testimony that seeks to transmit a narrative of the event to future generations, Seeing Like a Child sees the inheritance of familial memories of violence as embedded in how the child inhabits her everyday life. Seeing Like a Child offers readers a unique experience—an intimate engagement with the emotional reality of migration and the inheritance of mass displacement and death—inviting us to explore categories such as “catastrophe,” “war,” “violence,” and “kinship” in a brand-new light.
