In My Mother's Footsteps

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Publisher : Independent Publishing Network
ISBN 13 : 9781800498068
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis In My Mother's Footsteps by : Cheryl Waters

Download or read book In My Mother's Footsteps written by Cheryl Waters and published by Independent Publishing Network. This book was released on 2021-09-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say bad things come in three's, and for Claire that is certainly the case. Her mother passes away, her last chance IVF treatment is negative and then she spots her husband of 20 years with their next door neighbour. They are definitely more than friends! Devastated, Claire decides to travel to the French countryside where she used to spend time in her childhood. Full of fond memories, it's the perfect place to heal. But she packs with her something that changes the course of her trip - a mysterious letter from her late mother. As Claire settles in France, she cannot put the letter and the secrets it holds out of her mind. She needs answers. Claire sets off on a path of discovery, to trace her mother's footsteps to a Chateau she once worked at. What will she find along the way?

Following My Mother 's FootSteps

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ISBN 13 : 9781682379141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (791 download)

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Book Synopsis Following My Mother 's FootSteps by : Shirley Jordan

Download or read book Following My Mother 's FootSteps written by Shirley Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most mothers should be careful as to where they step, because they are role models for their children. This book is about children that followed their mother’s footsteps.

In My Mother's Hands

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Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743319118
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Book Synopsis In My Mother's Hands by : Biff Ward

Download or read book In My Mother's Hands written by Biff Ward and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are secrets in this family. Before Biff and her younger brother, Mark, there was baby Alison, who drowned in her bath because, it was said, her mother was distracted. Biff too, lives in fear of her mother's irrational behaviour and paranoia, and she is always on guard and fears for the safety of her brother. As Biff grows into teenage hood, there develops a conspiratorial relationship between her and her father, who is a famous and gregarious man, trying to keep his wife's problems a family secret. This was a time when the insane were committed and locked up in Dickensian institutions; whatever his problems her father was desperate to save his wife from that fate. But also to protect his children from the effects of living with a tragically disturbed mother...'In My Mother's Hands' is a beautifully written and emotionally perplexing coming-of-age true story about growing up in an unusual family.

Dog Flowers

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Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 1984820400
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Book Synopsis Dog Flowers by : Danielle Geller

Download or read book Dog Flowers written by Danielle Geller and published by One World. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history. “A candid and achingly fractured memoir of [Geller’s] mother, her family, her Navajo heritage and her own journey to self-discovery and acceptance.”—Ms. SHORTLISTED FOR: The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, The Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Esquire, She Reads When Danielle Geller’s mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother’s life packed into eight suitcases. Most were filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contained diaries, photos, and letters, a few undeveloped disposable cameras, dried sage, jewelry, and the bandana her mother wore on days she skipped a hair wash. Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her mother’s life to try and understand her mother’s relationship to home, and their shared need to leave it. Geller embarks on a journey where she confronts her family's history and the decisions that she herself had been forced to make while growing up, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation. Dog Flowers is an arresting, photo-lingual memoir that masterfully weaves together images and text to examine mothers and mothering, sisters and caretaking, and colonized bodies. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose.

The Need

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982113189
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis The Need by : Helen Phillips

Download or read book The Need written by Helen Phillips and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION*** Named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time “An extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most gifted and interesting writers” (Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel). The Need, which finds a mother of two young children grappling with the dualities of motherhood after confronting a masked intruder in her home, is “like nothing you’ve ever read before…in a good way” (People). When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it’s the sleep deprivation. She’s been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It’s what mothers do, she knows. But then the footsteps come again, and she catches a glimpse of movement. Suddenly Molly finds herself face-to-face with an intruder who knows far too much about her and her family. As she attempts to protect those she loves most, Molly must also acknowledge her own frailty. Molly slips down an existential rabbit hole where she must confront the dualities of motherhood: the ecstasy and the dread; the languor and the ferocity; the banality and the transcendence as the book hurtles toward a mind-bending conclusion. In The Need, Helen Phillips has created a subversive, speculative thriller that comes to life through blazing, arresting prose and gorgeous, haunting imagery. “Brilliant” (Entertainment Weekly), “grotesque and lovely” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice), and “wildly captivating” (O, The Oprah Magazine), The Need is a glorious celebration of the bizarre and beautiful nature of our everyday lives and “showcases an extraordinary writer at her electrifying best” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Lives of Mothers & Daughters

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Publisher : Union Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1402757638
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis Lives of Mothers & Daughters by : Sheila Munro

Download or read book Lives of Mothers & Daughters written by Sheila Munro and published by Union Square Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheila Munro is the daughter of one of the world's most admired fiction writers: Alice Munro, three-time winner of Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award. In Lives of Mothers and Daughters, she reveals what it was like to grow up with a mother of such tremendous renown. At the core of the book lies a loving and intimate biography of Alice, presented as only a daughter can. Sheila traces the story back to her ancestors, who left Scotland in the early 19th century, before telling of Alice's birth in 1931, her youth growing up on an Ontario farm, and her two marriages, and two grandchildren--Sheila's own children. Sheila has a tale to tell that's her own as well, involving her writerly aspirations and her efforts to forge a unique path while following in her mother's footsteps. And so, from her perspective as both an author and a mother, Sheila writes frankly about her mother and her mother's writing. The legions of devoted Alice Munro fans will glimpse real-life settings, situations and characters that have worked their way into her fiction as Sheila offers a behind-the-scenes tour (replete with Munro family snapshots) of the inspirations for the tales Munro fans know and love.

My Mother Worked and I Turned Out Okay

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis My Mother Worked and I Turned Out Okay by : Katherine Goldman

Download or read book My Mother Worked and I Turned Out Okay written by Katherine Goldman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these hard times, when 60% of America's mothers work outside the home, guilt-free parenting is practically impossible. Goldman, daughter of bestselling author Lois Wyse, interviewed adult children of working women, children who had not only survived but thrived. This anecdotal survey provides positive reinforcement for working mothers.

My Mother's Sabbath Days

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Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1461629667
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis My Mother's Sabbath Days by : Chaim Grade

Download or read book My Mother's Sabbath Days written by Chaim Grade and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tender and moving memoir by the great Yiddish writer Chaim Grade takes us to the very source of his widely praised novels and poems—the city of Vilna, the "Jerusalem of Lithuania," during the years before World War II. Centered on the figure of Grade's mother, Vella—simple, pious, hard-working—this is a richly detailed account of the ghetto of his youth, of the lives of the rabbis, the wives, the tradesmen, the peddlers, and the scholars. We see Vella, desperate after losing her husband, become a fruit-peddler, struggling to survive poverty and to remain true to her faith in the face of human pettiness and cruelty. We follow Grade as he walks in the footsteps of his scholar father, a champion of enlightenment; we see him entering marriage, and his mother finding some peace of mind in a marriage of her own—all of this in a world recalled with extraordinary physical and emotional intensity. Then, World War II. The partition of Poland between the Soviet Union and Germany is followed by the new German invasion of June 1941. Grade—believing, as do so many others, that the Nazis pose a danger chiefly to able-bodied men like himself—flees into Russia. In his travels on foot and by train he meets a fascinating, kaleidoscopic array of characters: the disillusioned Communist Lev Kogan; the durachok, or simpleton, a young prisoner who, mistaken for a German spy, is shot when he jumps from a train; the once-prosperous lawyer, Orenstein, who virtually becomes a beggar, dies and is buried by strangers in a remote Central Asian village. With the war's end, Grade returns to Vilna—to find the ghetto in ruins, to learn that his wife and his mother have gone to their deaths—and he is left with nothing but memories. But it is here, amid the devastation of a people, that he finds the compulsion and the passion to commit to paper the world that has been lost.

Hands Up!

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525553711
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Book Synopsis Hands Up! by : Breanna J. McDaniel

Download or read book Hands Up! written by Breanna J. McDaniel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This triumphant picture book recasts a charged phrase as part of a black girl's everyday life--hands up for a hug, hands up in class, hands up for a high five--before culminating in a moment of resistance at a protest march. A young black girl lifts her baby hands up to greet the sun, reaches her hands up for a book on a high shelf, and raises her hands up in praise at a church service. She stretches her hands up high like a plane's wings and whizzes down a hill so fast on her bike with her hands way up. As she grows, she lives through everyday moments of joy, love, and sadness. And when she gets a little older, she joins together with her family and her community in a protest march, where they lift their hands up together in resistance and strength.

My Footprints

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Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1684461200
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Book Synopsis My Footprints by : Bao Phi

Download or read book My Footprints written by Bao Phi and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every child feels different in some way, but Thuy feels "double different." She is Vietnamese American and she has two moms. Thuy walks home one winter afternoon, angry and lonely after a bully's taunts. Then a bird catches her attention and sets Thuy on an imaginary exploration. What if she could fly away like a bird? What if she could sprint like a deer, or roar like a bear? Mimicking the footprints of each creature in the snow, she makes her way home to the arms of her moms. Together, the three of them imagine beautiful and powerful creatures who always have courage - just like Thuy.

What My Mother Gave Me

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Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202688
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis What My Mother Gave Me by : Elizabeth Benedict

Download or read book What My Mother Gave Me written by Elizabeth Benedict and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one original pieces include Pulitzer Prize winners, perennial bestselling novelists, and celebrated broadcast journalists. Whether a gift was meant to keep a daughter warm, put a roof over her head, instruct her in the ways of womanhood, encourage her talents, or just remind her of a mother’s love, each story gets to the heart of a relationship. Rita Dove remembers the box of nail polish that inspired her to paint her nails in the wild stripes and polka dots she wears to this day. Lisa See writes about the gift of writing from her mother, Carolyn See. Cecilia Muñoz remembers both the wok her mother gave her and a lifetime of home-cooked family meals. Judith Hillman Paterson revisits the year of sobriety her mother bequeathed to her when Paterson was nine, the year before her mother died of alcoholism. Abigail Pogrebin writes about her middle-aged bat mitzvah, for which her mother provided flowers after a lifetime of guilt for skipping her daughter’s religious education. Margo Jefferson writes about her mother’s gold dress from the posh department store where they could finally shop as black women. Collectively, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides: outpourings of lightness and darkness; joy and grief; mother love and daughter love; mother love and daughter rage. In these stirring words we find that every gift, ?no matter how modest, tells the story of a powerful bond. As Elizabeth Benedict points out in her introduction, “whether we are mothers, daughters, aunts, sisters, or cherished friends, we may not know for quite some time which presents will matter the most."

Footsteps in the Snow

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698147464
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Book Synopsis Footsteps in the Snow by : Charles Lachman

Download or read book Footsteps in the Snow written by Charles Lachman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A LIFETIME MOVIE CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY It was a shocking true crime that left two families shattered, and became the coldest case in U.S. history. Who really killed little Maria? The question fueled a real-life nightmare in Sycamore, Illinois... 1957. Sycamore, Illinois. Christmas was three weeks away, and seven-year-old Maria Ridulph went out to play. Soon after, a figure emerged out of the falling snow. He was very friendly. Minutes later, Maria vanished, leaving behind an abandoned doll and footsteps in the snow. In April, a spring thaw gave up Maria’s body in a nearby wooded area. The case attracted national attention, including that of the FBI and President Eisenhower. In all, seventy-four men and three women fell under suspicion. But no one was ever charged with the crime. Incredibly, fifty-five years later, the coldest case in the history of American jurisprudence would be reopened. It happened after a seventy-four-year-old former neighbor of the Ridulphs named Eileen Tessier made a stunning deathbed confession to her family about a dark past, and a darker secret they knew nothing about. Two families would be joined by despair and retribution, and in an astounding turn of events, Maria Ridulph’s killer would finally be brought to justice. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

In His Footsteps:

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Publisher : Parker Wentworth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0976732769
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (767 download)

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Book Synopsis In His Footsteps: by : Margaret Agard

Download or read book In His Footsteps: written by Margaret Agard and published by Parker Wentworth Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book amazed me" Writers Digest judge With her trademark candor, wry wit, and warmth award-winning author Margaret Agard gives us a smart, funny and timeless memoir appealing to both skeptics and believers, alike. Already overwhelmed with her five-page long to-do list thanks to a new marriage, two sons facing the tumultuous teen years, and work as a computer consultant, she's asked to organize care for all the women of her church from the new young mothers to grieving widows. In desperation, she turns her list over to God each day asking, "What do I do?" Her life is quickly filled with experiences both touching and quirky from hospital visits to screaming peacocks culminating in her heart-felt changed relationship with God. Filled with captivating characters, familiar to anyone involved in community, down to earth spirituality, and sparkling stories of life with Parker and the boys. Agard brings both profound insight and self-deprecating humor to the simplest of life's moments. Each finely crafted piece illuminates the small and great events of a woman's life with strength and compassion while the whole creates a memorable experience, that lingers long after the memoir is finished. "An inspiring, easy read with laugh-out-loud moments" Kindle reviewer "Recommended for the OCD among us" Amazon review

Dancing in the Mosque

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006297033X
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Book Synopsis Dancing in the Mosque by : Homeira Qaderi

Download or read book Dancing in the Mosque written by Homeira Qaderi and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People Book of the Week & a Kirkus Best Nonfiction of the Year An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military on edge, it was not uncommon for an armed soldier to point his gun at the pregnant woman’s bulging stomach, terrified that she was hiding a bomb. Frightened and in pain, she was once forced to make her way on foot. Propelled by the love she held for her soon-to-be-born child, Homeira walked through blood and wreckage to reach the hospital doors. But the joy of her beautiful son’s birth was soon overshadowed by other dangers that would threaten her life. No ordinary Afghan woman, Homeira refused to cower under the strictures of a misogynistic social order. Defying the law, she risked her freedom to teach children reading and writing and fought for women’s rights in her theocratic and patriarchal society. Devastating in its power, Dancing in the Mosque is a mother’s searing letter to a son she was forced to leave behind. In telling her story—and that of Afghan women—Homeira challenges you to reconsider the meaning of motherhood, sacrifice, and survival. Her story asks you to consider the lengths you would go to protect yourself, your family, and your dignity.

Three Mothers

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Publisher : William Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008405359
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Three Mothers by : Anna Malaika Tubbs

Download or read book Three Mothers written by Anna Malaika Tubbs and published by William Collins. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history ... Eye-opening, engrossing' Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible, moving story of three women who raised three world-changing men.

Sea Run

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Book Synopsis Sea Run by : Mary Lou Shields

Download or read book Sea Run written by Mary Lou Shields and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

She Left Me the Gun

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571275834
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Book Synopsis She Left Me the Gun by : Emma Brockes

Download or read book She Left Me the Gun written by Emma Brockes and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said 'One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed.' Growing up in a tranquil English village, Emma knew very little of her mother's life before her. She knew Paula had grown up in South Africa and had seven siblings. She had been told stories about deadly snakes and hailstones the size of golf balls. There was mention, once, of a trial. But most of the past was a mystery. When her mother dies of cancer, Emma - by then a successful journalist at the Guardian - is free to investigate the untold story. Her search begins in the Colindale library but then takes her to South Africa, to the extended family she has never met and their accounts of a childhood so different to her own.She encounters versions of the life her mother chose to leave behind - and realises what a gift her mother gave her. Part investigation, part travelogue, part elegy, She Left Me the Gun is a gripping, funny and clear-eyed account of a writer's search for her mother's story.