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Author : Lloyd Stamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781633852785
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Reunion of Strangers written by Lloyd Stamy and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Campisi
Publisher : Mary Campisi Books, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1942158335
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Strangers Like Us written by Mary Campisi and published by Mary Campisi Books, LLC. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Lutz
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387880
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Kindness of Strangers written by Tom Lutz and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again, Tom Lutz takes us to seldom-traveled corners of the world—the small towns of western Madagascar, the terraced rice fields in northern Luzon, the scattered homesteads on the Mongolian steppe, the hilltop churches on Micronesian islands, the riverside docks of Dhaka, Ethiopian weddings in Gondar, funeral pyres in Nepal, traditionalist karaoke bars in Bhutan—to bring us random reports of human kindness. You may never visit these places, but Tom Lutz will do it for you. And while global media may serve up a steady diet of division, violence, oppression, hatred, and strife, The Kindness of Strangers shows that people the world over are much more likely to meet strangers with interest, empathy, welcome, and compassion.
Author : Michael Embry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781613095188
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Reunion of Familiar Strangers written by Michael Embry and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby boomer John Ross is out of excuses for skipping his 50th high school class reunion that his daughter has arranged for him to attend as a gift. So it's off to a gathering of Riley High School seniors from the class of 1968. John and his wife Sally experience a long weekend of weird encounters that include flirtation, fighting, and flashbacks from the past.
Author : James Loeffler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107140412
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Law of Strangers written by James Loeffler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen leading scholars explore the lives of seven of the most famous Jewish lawyers in the history of international law.
Author : Paula Bernstein
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0733628931
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Identical Strangers written by Paula Bernstein and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elyse Shein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties that she searched for her biological mother. When Elyse contacted her adoption agency, she was not prepared for the shocking, life-changing news she received: she had an identical twin sister. Paula Bernstein, a married writer and mother living in New York, also knew she was adopted, but had no inclination to find her birth mother. When she answered a call from her adoption agency one spring afternoon, Paul's life suddenly divided into two starkly different periods: the time before and the time after she learned the truth. As they reunite and take their tentative first steps from strangers to sisters, Paul and Elyse learn that they were separated at birth as part of a secret study conducted by a pair of influential psychiatrists. They write with emotional honesty about the immediate intimacy they share as twins and the wide chasm that divides them as two complete strangers. Interweaving eye-opening studies and statistics on twin science into their story, IDENTICAL STRANGERS offers an intelligent and heartfelt glimpse into human nature. It is an account that broadens the definition of family and provides insight into our own DNA and the singularly exceptional imprint it leaves on our lives.
Author : Miri Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110848123X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Cities of Strangers written by Miri Rubin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how medieval towns and cities received newcomers, and the process by which these 'strangers' became 'neighbours' between 1000 and 1500.
Author : Dori Katz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022606333X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Looking for Strangers written by Dori Katz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dori Katz is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost memories of her childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after a chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium, she realized that she might, in fact, be able to unearth those years. Looking for Strangers is the deeply honest record of her attempt to do so, a detective story that unfolds through one of the most horrifying periods in history in an attempt to understand one’s place within it. In alternating chapters, Katz journeys into multiple pasts, setting details from her mother’s stories that have captivated her throughout her life alongside an account of her own return to Belgium forty years later—against her mother’s urgings—in search of greater clarity. She reconnects her sharp but fragmented memories: being sent by her mother in 1943, at the age of three, to live with a Catholic family under a Christian identity; then being given up, inexplicably, to an orphanage in the years immediately following the war. Only after that, amid postwar confusion, was she able to reconnect with her mother. Following this trail through Belgium to her past places of hiding, Katz eventually finds herself in San Francisco, speaking with a man who claimed to have known her father in Auschwitz—and thus known his end. Weighing many other stories from the people she meets along her way—all of whom seem to hold something back—she attempts to stitch thread after thread into a unified truth, to understand the countless motivations and circumstances that determined her remarkable life. A story at once about self-discovery, the transformation of memory, a fraught mother-daughter relationship, and the oppression of millions, Looking for Strangers is a book of both historical insight and imaginative grasp. It is a book in which the past, through its very mystery, becomes alive, immediate—of the most urgent importance.
Author : Renée Carlino
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501105787
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Before We Were Strangers written by Renée Carlino and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M
Author : Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 0307567532
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Family Reunion written by Caroline B. Cooney and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the invitation to the Preffyn family reunion arrives interrupting a perfectly decent summer vacation, 15-year-old Shelley Wollcott is anything but enthusiastic. It’s not that Shelley has anything against her relatives, she just can’t stand it when they give her that “what a pity” look. It’s not her fault that her real mother walked out on the family or that her father has remarried yet again. With Dad away on business and her older sister visiting their mother in Paris, Shelley must face the “perfect” Preffyns’ reunion with only her prankster younger brother and her insecure new stepmother at her side. It’s an opportunity to uncover the family’s secrets, but Shelley isn’t sure whether, when she discovers the truth, she’ll laugh or cry. In this funny and poignant novel by Caroline B. Cooney, Shelley learns to appreciate all the members of her unusual family—including herself!—in ways she never anticipated. And she discovers things are often not as perfect as they seem.
Author : David A. Robertson
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
ISBN 13 : 155379737X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (537 download)
Download or read book Strangers written by David A. Robertson and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Governor General’s Award-winning author David A. Robertson comes the first book in a compelling new trilogy. A talking coyote, mysterious illnesses, and girl trouble. Coming home can be murder... When Cole Harper gets a mysterious message from an old friend begging him to come home, he has no idea what he's getting into. Compelled to return to Wounded Sky First Nation, Cole finds his community in chaos: a series of shocking murders, a mysterious illness ravaging the residents, and reemerging questions about Cole’s role in the tragedy that drove him away 10 years ago. With the aid of an unhelpful spirit, a disfigured ghost, and his two oldest friends, Cole tries to figure out his purpose, and unravel the mysteries he left behind a decade ago. Will he find the answers in time to save his community?
Author : Dante Cicchetti
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134753136
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Emergence of A Discipline written by Dante Cicchetti and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled from papers presented at the Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychopathology, this is the first book of its kind devoted to disseminating theory and research in the field of psychopathology. Contributions to this text are unified by their incorporation of developmental principles into the study of various types of emotional disorders in children and adults. Also emphasized in this book is the importance of bridging the dichotomy between scientific research and the application of this knowledge to clinical populations. Designed as both a required and supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in developmental psychopathology, abnormal, clinical, and health psychology as well as neuroscience. Also insightful for psychiatric and pediatric residents, nurses, and social workers.
Author : Maureen Waller
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312338046
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)
Download or read book London 1945 written by Maureen Waller and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for "Ungrateful Daughters "Maureen Waller frames an absorbing narrative of the Glorious Revolution." - "The New York Times Book Review "This is a family drama reported with a keen ear for delicious, gossipy detail and a satisfying willingness to take sides." - "The Washington Times "A highly readable, thoroughly researched family saga that shows vividly how the personal and the political interacted to produce one of the seminal events in British history." - "Publishers Weekly "Colorful period details and vivid portraits of legendary figures like the great Duke of Marlborough: lively, instructive history." - "Kirkus Reviews "Waller's fluent narrative is solidly grounded." - "Library Journal "This is a wonderful biography that British historical buffs will enjoy and learn from." - "Midwest Book Review
Author : Barbara Melosh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674009127
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Strangers and Kin written by Barbara Melosh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strangers and Kin is the history of adoption. An adoptive mother herself, Barbara Melosh tells the story of how married couples without children sought to care for and nurture other people's children as their own. Taking this history into the early twenty-first century, Melosh offers unflinching insight to the contemporary debates that swirl around adoption: the challenges to adoption secrecy; the ethics and geopolitics of international adoption; and the conflicts over transracial adoption.
Author : Barbara Sumner
Publisher : Massey University Press
ISBN 13 : 0995137897
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Tree of Strangers written by Barbara Sumner and published by Massey University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '"I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here, and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up like the road.' I wrote those words at the kitchen table in 1983. A letter to the mother I'd never met. But how do you convey your life in a few sentences when almost every memory is missing?" Barbara Sumner grew up in a family filled with secrets and lies. At twenty-three she decided she had to find her mother. Remarkable, moving, beautifully written, Tree of Strangers is a ripping account of a search for identity in a country governed by adoption laws that deny the rights of the adopted person.
Author : Danielle Allen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226014681
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Talking to Strangers written by Danielle Allen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound suspicion of others. In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to Little Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a citizenship of political friendship." Returning to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 and to the famous photograph of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, being cursed by fellow "citizen" Hazel Bryan, Allen argues that we have yet to complete the transition to political friendship that this moment offered. By combining brief readings of philosophers and political theorists with personal reflections on race politics in Chicago, Allen proposes strikingly practical techniques of citizenship. These tools of political friendship, Allen contends, can help us become more trustworthy to others and overcome the fossilized distrust among us. Sacrifice is the key concept that bridges citizenship and trust, according to Allen. She uncovers the ordinary, daily sacrifices citizens make to keep democracy working—and offers methods for recognizing and reciprocating those sacrifices. Trenchant, incisive, and ultimately hopeful, Talking to Strangers is nothing less than a manifesto for a revitalized democratic citizenry.
Author : Mary Campisi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942158448
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Liars Like Us written by Mary Campisi and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when destiny ignores the rules?Tate Alexander has the good luck to be born with looks and charm, and the bad luck to belong to a family where money and power mean more than honor and integrity. When he returns to Reunion Gap to take over his father's company, he's determined to uncover and right the wrongs his father committed. He's also determined to win over Charlotte Donovan, the woman who's stolen his heart. But she's not impressed with his looks or charm, a small detail he doesn't intend to let stop him. And while the rest of the town acknowledges and respects the longstanding Alexander-Donovan feud that has pitted the families against one another for generations, Tate ignores it in his quest to convince Charlotte they belong together.Charlotte Donovan is big on causes and vows no man will ever "own" her, especially a playboy who can't commit to a vehicle let alone a woman. There's only one problem; her heart isn't listening to her brain. In fact, her heart is doing its darnedest to overpower her brain, as in snuffing out logic and common sense. The only way to battle it is to create a web of lies that begin and end with one goal-keep Tate Alexander believing she doesn't care about him.But maybe she's so busy keeping her lies in place that she almost misses the man's devotion to his siblings, and his dedication to righting past wrongs his father committed. Maybe the man isn't arrogant and self-serving after all, but compassionate, kind, and honorable. Add those qualities to his natural charm and good looks for a very dangerous, very irresistible combination; one Charlotte can't ignore.When the lies catch up with her, it's not going to be easy for a man like Tate to forgive the woman who betrayed his trust. Is it too late for them or can destiny step in once again and give them a chance at happiness?Reunion Gap series:Book One: Strangers Like UsBook Two: Liars Like UsBook Three: Lovers Like Us
