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'O' is for Orphan and Optimist

Author : Drew Harrington
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784622575
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book 'O' is for Orphan and Optimist written by Drew Harrington and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One life, Four loves… Growing up in the 40s and 50s, Charlotte is surrounded by the secrecy of her birth. Orphaned at four years old after the death of her father and unaware of both her mother and her mother’s family, she is under the care of the God-fearing Miss Henrietta Prior when she meets Ralph Fielding. Two years later she quits her job in nursing, marries Ralph and moves abroad… against the advice of Miss Prior. Charlotte blossoms during the next three years with Ralph and their two children, but her hard earned triumphs are cruelly shattered by Ralph’s unexpected and unwelcome departure, made with a cold calculating precision, some years later. As a result, she is left to dig deep into her resources and begins to write a book as one of the ways to support her family. In her vulnerable state, Charlotte falls for Tom Wilder, a plausible but married man. Their affair is long and turbulent and eventually ends painfully before another tragedy strikes, leaving her with more heartache and the impossible notion that happier times could lie ahead. She resolves to look for her lost family after receiving a letter that leads her to America, where she makes an extraordinary discovery. Will she finally find fulfilment? A story of courage, optimism and human frailty, ‘O’ is for Orphan and Optimist is a fictional biography that will appeal to readers who enjoy more than a hint of truth in their stories.

Orphan Island

Author : Laurel Snyder
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062443437
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Orphan Island written by Laurel Snyder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Award Longlist title! "A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true." —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon "This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. Thought-provoking and magical." —Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island. On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them—and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again. Today’s Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny’s best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now—to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they’ve always been. But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back—and take her away forever from the only home she’s known? "A unique and compelling story about nine children who live with no adults on a mysterious island. Anyone who has ever been scared of leaving their family will love this book" (from the Brightly.com review, which named Orphan Island a best book of 2017).

Candide

Author : Voltaire Voltaire
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1681959526
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Candide written by Voltaire Voltaire and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candide by Voltaire from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?' Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?” ― Voltaire, Candide Candide is a young man who is raised in wealth to be an optimist but when he is forced to make his own way in the world, his assumptions and outlook are challenged.

Orphans

Author : Charles D'Ambrosio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972323451
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Orphans written by Charles D'Ambrosio and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Esperanto-English Dictionary

Author : Achille Motteau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Esperanto-English Dictionary written by Achille Motteau and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Finding Chika

Author : Mitch Albom
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062952412
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Finding Chika written by Mitch Albom and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can’t help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic.” --Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club and The Art of Memoir From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch Albom’s most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. Chika’s arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, “No one in Haiti can help you with.” Mitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care can soon return her to her homeland. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of their household, and their lives, as they embark on a two-year, around-the-world journey to find a cure. As Chika’s boundless optimism and humor teach Mitch the joys of caring for a child, he learns that a relationship built on love, no matter what blows it takes, can never be lost. Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. Finding Chika is a celebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they formed—a devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family, regardless of how it is made.

Encyclopedia of Associations

Author : Gale Group
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 : 9780787622343
Total Pages : 1138 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Associations written by Gale Group and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1999-07-31 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to more than 115,000 U.S. nonprofit membership organizations with interstate, state, intrastate, city or local scope and interest includes trade and professional associations, social welfare and public affairs organizations and religious, sports and hobby groups with voluntary members. Detailed entries furnish association name and complete contact and descriptive text information. This information is not duplicated anywhere in Encyclopedia of Associations. Name and keyword indexes accompany each volume.

English-Esperanto dictionary

Author : J. O'Connor
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 1177756064
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book English-Esperanto dictionary written by J. O'Connor and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Esperanto Book

Author : Arthur Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Esperanto Book written by Arthur Baker and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Use of Words in Context

Author : John W. Black
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489905332
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book The Use of Words in Context written by John W. Black and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Speech Situation is a term worn with age in the teaching of public speaking in America. That it is comprised of occasion, speaker, and topic is a gross oversimplification. It also includes challenge, anxiety, emotion, fear, responsibility, faults of memory, and instants of pride. Out of the circumstances arise an increase in heart rate, a change in blood pressure, an abnormal pattern of breathing, a noticeable build up in perspiration, and an ongoing evaluation. For students this may be merely a grade or perhaps a series of evaluative remarks, possibly addressed both to the speaker and the other participants, the audience. It may entail a replaying of a record of the speech, indeed a videotape. Most important is the lasting impression that remains with all of the participants. What of the vocabulary of the speaker under the circumstances of the speech situation? This speaker - in the major portions of this work we may say, "this young man" - has spent time seeking an appropriate topic. He has outlined a composition around a central idea or thesis. He has marshaled evidence, details. He has framed an opening paragraph. He has been admonished not to give an essay, but to strive for audience contact, interpersonal communication. He makes his audible approach through his vocabulary and accompanying phonology. Under the tension, the speaker repeats; he adds meaningless vocalizations in periods that might logically be pauses. There are slips of the tongue. At worst, failing, he withdraws to await another day.

Respectfully Quoted

Author : James H. Billington
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486472884
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Respectfully Quoted written by James H. Billington and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of thought-provoking declarations and observations features a splendid variety of political, scientific, social, and literary voices. Quoted historical figures include Paine, Milton, Emerson, Marx, Napoleon, Dickens, and Churchill.

The Orphaned Adult

Author : Alexander Levy
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0786725230
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book The Orphaned Adult written by Alexander Levy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "wise and caring book" (Library Journal) is a guide to understanding and coping with grief and all of the disorienting emotions that accompany the death of our parents. Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is in the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood. But whether we lose them suddenly or after a prolonged illness, and whether we were close to or estranged from them, this passage proves inevitably more difficult than we thought it would be. From the recognition of our own mortality and sudden child-like sorrow to a sometimes-subtle change in identity or shift of roles in the surviving family, The Orphaned Adult guides readers through the storm of change this passage brings and anchors them with its compassionate and reassuring wisdom.

The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go

Author : Amy E. Reichert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501154958
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go written by Amy E. Reichert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations. Seven days. One big secret. The author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake unfolds a mother-daughter story told by three women whose time to reckon with a life-altering secret is running out. Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her fastidious mother, Lorraine, cataloguing all her faults, and her sullen teenage daughter, May, snubbing her. Too bad there’s no chance of that. Her relentlessly sunny disposition annoys them both, no matter how hard she tries. Instead, Gina finds order and comfort in obsessive list-making and her work at Grilled G’s, the gourmet grilled cheese food truck built by her late husband. But when Lorraine suffers a sudden stroke, Gina stumbles upon a family secret Lorraine's kept hidden for forty years. In the face of her mother’s failing health and her daughter’s rebellion, this optimist might find that piecing together the truth is the push she needs to let go...

The Odd Women

Author : George Gissing
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770488286
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Odd Women written by George Gissing and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Gissing’s The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of ‘odd’ or ‘redundant’ women, the cultural impact of ‘the new woman,’ and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be ‘odd’ or ‘redundant,’ and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing’s text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written. In Gissing’s story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century.

The Effects of Early Social-Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children

Author : The St. Petersburg-USA Orphanage Research Team
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444309692
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Effects of Early Social-Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children written by The St. Petersburg-USA Orphanage Research Team and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undertaken at orphanages in Russia, this study tests the role of early social and emotion experience in the development of children. Children were exposed to either multiple caregivers who performed routine duties in a perfunctory manner with minimal interaction or fewer caregivers who were trained to engage in warm, responsive, and developmentally appropriate interactions during routine care. Engaged and responsive caregivers were associated with substantial improvements in child development and these findings provide a rationale for making similar improvements in other institutions, programs, and organizations.

A Speaker's Treasury of Quotations

Author : Michael C. Thomsett
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476611475
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book A Speaker's Treasury of Quotations written by Michael C. Thomsett and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every public speaker can benefit from an apt quotation to illuminate a speaking point. This compilation of 2,116 quotations in 263 broad subject categories is useful for political, motivational, and other public speakers along with speech writers, planners, and researchers. The topics range from Ability (“Out of my lean and low ability I’ll lend you something”—Shakespeare) to Youth (“I suppose it’s difficult for the young to realize that one may be old without being a fool”—William Somerset Maugham). Each entry is credited to its author, the work in which it appeared (when appropriate), and the date of origin. There are two indexes: of authors (to topics and their entry numbers) and of highly detailed keywords-in-context (to their entries).

Semisweet

Author : Johnny O'Brien
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442232587
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Semisweet written by Johnny O'Brien and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Milton Hershey School is the richest and wealthiest K-12 residential school in the world. Its $12 billion trust fund, financed by sales of the iconic Hershey candy, eclipse that of Cornell, Dartmouth, and Johns Hopkins combined. Even more stunning is that the school for orphans owns The Hershey Company and not the other way around. As the twentieth-century drew to a close, the School’s Board of Managers creatively interpreted the Founder’s mission and tried to turn the refuge for extremely needy children into more of a middle-class boarding school. The alumni “Homeguys” challenged the Board and, after a decade of legal struggle and national publicity, won the battle to reclaim the soul of the school. Johnny O’Brien, an orphan who lived at the school growing up, helped to lead the successful alumni protest. In a shocking turn of events, he was then selected to become Milton Hershey School’s eighth president and tasked with restoring the mission, morale, and character-building culture of “the Home.” He would need all his orphan resilience, Princeton and Johns Hopkins wisdom, and his good friends, to transform this unusual and remarkable school. In a riveting and haunting account, O’Brien tells a universal story about the vulnerability of needy children, describes the madness that consumed his beloved brother, explores the cruelty of bullies—both young and old, exposes the corrupting influence of money, and shows how the Milton Hershey School continues its sacred mission of saving thousands of America’s neediest children. See the website for the book at semisweetbook.com.