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Family Life: A Novel

Author : Akhil Sharma
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242315
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Family Life: A Novel written by Akhil Sharma and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award "Gorgeously tender at its core…beautiful, heartstopping…Family Life really blazes." —Sonali Deraniyagala, New York Times Book Review Hailed as a "supreme storyteller" (Philadelphia Inquirer) for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation). In his highly anticipated second novel, Family Life, he delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision. We meet the Mishra family in Delhi in 1978, where eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju play cricket in the streets, waiting for the day when their plane tickets will arrive and they and their mother can fly across the world and join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more: when automatic glass doors open before them, they feel that surely they must have been mistaken for somebody important. Pressing an elevator button and the elevator closing its doors and rising, they have a feeling of power at the fact that the elevator is obeying them. Life is extraordinary until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother severely brain-damaged and the other lost and virtually orphaned in a strange land. Ajay, the family’s younger son, prays to a God he envisions as Superman, longing to find his place amid the ruins of his family’s new life. Heart-wrenching and darkly funny, Family Life is a universal story of a boy torn between duty and his own survival.

A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520959639
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book A Family Sketch and Other Private Writings written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book publishes, for the first time in full, the two most revealing of Mark Twain’s private writings. Here he turns his mind to the daily life he shared with his wife Livy, their three daughters, a great many servants, and an imposing array of pets. These first-hand accounts display this gifted and loving family in the period of its flourishing. Mark Twain began to write "A Family Sketch" in response to the early death of his eldest daughter, Susy, but the manuscript grew under his hands to become an exuberant account of the entire household. His record of the childrens’ sayings—"Small Foolishnesses"—is next, followed by the related manuscript "At the Farm." Also included are selections from Livy’s 1885 diary and an authoritative edition of Susy’s biography of her father, written when she was a teenager. Newly edited from the original manuscripts, this anthology is a unique record of a fascinating family.

Letters from Home

Author : Kryon (Spirit)
Publisher : Kryon
ISBN 13 : 9781888053128
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Home written by Kryon (Spirit) and published by Kryon. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last book before the new millennium, and the entire subject is change. Letters From Home talks about who we are, explaining the big picture and the meaning of life.

Letters to His Friends and Family

Author : Pier Giorgio Frassati
Publisher : Alba House Society of St. Paul
ISBN 13 : 9780818913051
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Letters to His Friends and Family written by Pier Giorgio Frassati and published by Alba House Society of St. Paul. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Away From Home

Author : Lillian Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416576606
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Away From Home written by Lillian Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lillian Carter--mother of President Carter--was a strong and resolutely independent woman, determined to bypass the barriers of age and sex. These letters to her daughter Gloria were written during her two-year stay in India as a Peace Corps volunteer. of b&w photos.

A Nearly Normal Family

Author : M. T. Edvardsson
Publisher : Celadon Books
ISBN 13 : 1250204429
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Nearly Normal Family written by M. T. Edvardsson and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Netflix Limited Series "...A compulsively readable tour de force." —The Wall Street Journal New York Times Book Review recommends M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family and lauds it as a “page-turner” that forces the reader to confront “the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we believe our beloveds expect.” (NYTimes Book Review Summer Reading Issue) M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family is a gripping legal thriller that forces the reader to consider: How far would you go to protect the ones you love? In this twisted narrative of love and murder, a horrific crime makes a seemingly normal family question everything they thought they knew about their life—and one another. Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual three-part structure, A Nearly Normal Family asks the questions: How well do you know your own children? How far would you go to protect them?

Women, Family, and Work

Author : Karine Moe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405141980
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Women, Family, and Work written by Karine Moe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Family, and Work is a collection of original essayson a wide variety of topics related to the economics of gender andthe family. Written by leading thinkers in the field, the essaysapply traditional economic theory to unconventional topics, whilealso developing neoclassical economic thought to provide a bettermodel of economic interactions. 12 newly-commissioned essays on the economics of labor, gender,and family life. Juxtaposes various viewpoints, allowing readers to weigh thebenefits and drawbacks of each model. Applies traditional economic theory to unconventional topics,while also revisioning neoclassical economic thought.

We Are Family

Author : Patricia Hegarty
Publisher : Tiger Tales
ISBN 13 : 1664340416
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book We Are Family written by Patricia Hegarty and published by Tiger Tales. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging picture book celebrates the uniqueness and diversity of families—and no matter how different they may seem, the love that is shared is all the same. Every family is unique and special. Some families are made up of many people, and some are much smaller. Sometimes family members look like each other, and sometimes they don’t! From busy mornings before school to special times spent together, families engage in many similar activities. This engaging picture book celebrates the diversity of families around the world and explores the ways that family members support each other through good times and bad. Families may look different, but the love that is shared is all the same.

Fiction Ruined My Family

Author : Jeanne Darst
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1594486174
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book Fiction Ruined My Family written by Jeanne Darst and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautifully paced . . . heartbreaking and hilarious."—USA Today Augusten Burroughs meets Mary Karr: a deeply funny and wickedly entertaining family memoir. The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family-- of prominent journalists and politicians on one side, debutantes and equestrians on the other-- Jeanne Darst grew up hearing stories of past grandeur. And the message she internalized as a young girl was clear: While things might be a bit tight for us right now, it’s only temporary. Soon her father would sell the Great American Novel and reclaim the family’s former glory. The Darsts move from St. Louis to New York, and Jeanne’s father writes one novel, then another, which don’t find publishers. This, combined with her mother’s burgeoning alcoholism, lead to financial disaster and divorce. And as Jeanne becomes an adult, she is horrified to discover that she is not only a drinker like her mother, but a writer like her father. At first, and for years, she embraces both activities— and until she can stop putting drinking and writing ahead of everything else, it’s a questionable choice. Ultimately, Darst sets out to discover whether a person can have the writing without the ruin, whether it’s possible to be both sober and creative, ambitious and happy, a professional author and a parent. Filled with brilliantly flawed, idiosyncratic characters and punctuated by Darst’s irreverent eye for absurdity, Fiction Ruined My Family is a lovingly told, wickedly funny portrait of an unconventional life.

The Vowel Family

Author : Sally M. Walker
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
ISBN 13 : 0822579820
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book The Vowel Family written by Sally M. Walker and published by Carolrhoda Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The members of the Vowel family have a hard time talking until their children, Alan, Ellen, Iris, Otto, and Ursula, are born, and when one of them gets lost one day, it takes their Aunt Cyndy to fix the problem.

The Adventist home

Author : Ellen Gould Harmon White
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN 13 : 9780828015936
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book The Adventist home written by Ellen Gould Harmon White and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dear Master

Author : Randall M. Miller
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820323799
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Dear Master written by Randall M. Miller and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dear Master" is a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an American slave family, this collection of more than two hundred letters--including seven discovered since the book's original appearance--reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipwith family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke. The letters, dating from 1834 to 1865, fall into two groups. The first were written by Peyton Skipwith and his children from Liberia, where they settled after being freed in 1833 by Cocke, a devout Christian and enlightened slaveholder. The letters, which tell of harsh frontier life, reveal the American values the Skipwiths took with them to Africa, and express their faith in Liberia's future and pride in their accomplishments. The second group of letters, written by George Skipwith and his daughter Lucy, originate from Cocke's Alabama plantation, an experimental work community to which Cocke sent his most talented, responsible slaves to prepare them for the moral and educational challenges of emancipation. George, a "privileged bondsman," was a slave driver. His letters about the management of the plantation include reports on the slaves' conduct and any disciplinary actions he took. Readers can sense George's pride in his work and also his ambivalence toward his role as leader in the slave hierarchy. Lucy, Cocke's chief domestic slave, was the plantation nurse and teacher. Her letters, filled with details about spiritual, familial, and health matters, also display her skill at exploiting her master's trust and her uncommon boldness, for she spoke against whites to her master when she felt they hampered his slaves' education. "Dear Master" affirms that these slaves and former slaves were not simply victims; they were actors in a complex human drama. The letters imply trust and affection between master and slave, but there were other motives as well for the letter-writing. The Liberian Skipwiths needed American-made supplies; moreover, the whole family may have viewed their relationship with Cocke as a chance to help free other slaves. In his new preface, Miller reevaluates his book in light of changes in the historiography of American slavery over the past decade.

The Mahler Family Letters

Author : Stephen McClatchie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199711585
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Mahler Family Letters written by Stephen McClatchie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of the letters that Gustav Mahler addressed to his parents and siblings survive, yet they have remained virtually unknown. Now, for the first time Mahler scholar Stephen McClatchie presents over 500 of these letters in a clear, lively translation in The Mahler Family Letters . Drawn primarily from the Mahler-Rose Collection at the University of Western Ontario, the volume presents a complete, well-rounded view of the family's correspondence. Spanning the mid 1880s through 1910, the letters record the excitement of a young man with a bourgeoning career as a conductor and provide a glimpse into his day-to-day activities rehearsing and conducting operas and concerts in Budapeast and Hamburg, and composing his first symphonies and songs. On the private side, they document his parents' illnesses and deaths and the struggles of his siblings Alois, Justine, Otto, and Emma. The letters also give Mahler's insightful impressions of contemporaries such as Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, and Hans von Bulow, as well as his personal feelings about significant events, such as his first big success--the completion of Carl Maria von Weber's Die drei Pintos in 1889. In the fall of 1894, the character of the letters changes when Justine and Emma come to live with Mahler in Hamburg and then Vienna, removing the need to communicate by letter about quotidian matters. At this point, the letters relay noteworthy events such as Mahler's campaign to be named Director of the Vienna Court Opera, his conducting tours throughout Europe, and his courtship of Alma Schindler. The Mahler Family Letters provides a vital, nuanced source of information about Mahler's life, his personality, and his relationships. McClatchie has generously annotated each letter, contextualizing and clarifying contemporary historical references and Mahler family acquaintances, and created an indispensable resource for all Mahlerists, 19th-century musicologists, and historians of 19th-century Germany and Austria.

Sharing Wisdom, Building Values

Author :
Publisher : Grupo Planeta (GBS)
ISBN 13 : 9788423422722
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Sharing Wisdom, Building Values written by and published by Grupo Planeta (GBS). This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Willard W. Waller on the Family, Education, and War

Author : Willard Waller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226871523
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book Willard W. Waller on the Family, Education, and War written by Willard Waller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1970-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willard Waller (1899-1945) taught and wrote on sociology during the decades of its crystallization, the 1920s through the 1940s. He pursued sociological analysis in terms of intensive direct observation and humanistic detail as well as conceptual analysis. Waller's explorations of role behavior, especially in his writings on marriage and education, shocked academia and are still provocative today. In his direct, perceptive, often cynical style, he penetrated the facades of the most respected social institutions. He made use of the case study method; many of Waller's case studies were lifted directly from his own experiences, particularly from the agonies of his own divorce and from the disappointments of his initial teaching experience. He also drew fresh insights from the personal experiences of his colleagues and students, hardly a traditional procedure. This volume is the first unified presentation of Waller's writings, covering in depth his work on family, education, and war. It also includes his shorter, but equally vivid, discussions on social problems such as crime and on the conflict between insight and scientific method. Since Waller's private life was so intimately bound to his public work, an understanding of his personal history reveals much about the development and dilemma of sociologists in the United States. In their Introduction editors Goode, Mitchell, and Furstenberg reconstruct the life of this complex American thinker.

Rubell Family Collection: highlights & artists' writings

Author : Juan Roselione-Valadez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991177011
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Rubell Family Collection: highlights & artists' writings written by Juan Roselione-Valadez and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rubell Family Collection Highlights and Artists' Writings

Simple Curiosity ; Letters from George Gaylord Simpson to His Family, 1921-1970

Author : George Gaylord Simpson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520057920
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Simple Curiosity ; Letters from George Gaylord Simpson to His Family, 1921-1970 written by George Gaylord Simpson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers letters, written by the influential American paleontologist, which share his thoughts on science, art, literature, and travel