Somebody's Someone

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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446556335
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Book Synopsis Somebody's Someone by : Regina Louise

Download or read book Somebody's Someone written by Regina Louise and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant and heart wrenching true story, Regina Louise recounts her childhood search for connection in the face of abuse, neglect, and rejection. What happens to a child when her own parents reject her and sit idly by as others abuse her? In this poignant, heart wrenching debut work, Regina Louise recounts her childhood search for someone to feel connected to. A mother she has never known--but long fantasized about-- deposited her and her half sister at the same group home that she herself fled years before. When another resident beats Regina so badly that she can barely move, she knows that she must leave this terrible place-the only home she knows. Thus begins Regina's fight to survive, utterly alone at the age of 10. A stint living with her mother and her abusive boyfriend is followed by a stay with her father's lily white wife and daughters, who ignore her before turning to abuse and ultimately kicking her out of the house. Regina then tries everything in her search for someone to care for her and to care about, from taking herself to jail to escaping countless foster homes to be near her beloved counselor. Written in her distinctive and unique voice, Regina's story offers an in-depth look at the life of a child who no one wanted. From her initial flight to her eventual discovery of love, your heart will go out to Regina's younger self, and you'll cheer her on as she struggles to be Somebody's Someone.

Someone Has Led This Child to Believe

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Publisher : Agate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1572848154
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (728 download)

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Book Synopsis Someone Has Led This Child to Believe by : Regina Louise

Download or read book Someone Has Led This Child to Believe written by Regina Louise and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable memoir about one woman’s story of overcoming neglect in the U.S. foster-care system and finding her place in the world. Drawing on her experience as one of society’s abandoned children, Regina Louise tells how she emerged from the cruel, unjust system, not only to survive, but to flourish . . . After years of jumping from one fleeting, often abusive home to the next, Louise meets a counselor named Jeanne Kerr. For the first time in her young life, Louise knows what it means to be seen, wanted, understood, and loved. After Kerr tries unsuccessfully to adopt Louise, the two are ripped apart—seemingly forever—and Louise continues her passage through the cold cinder-block landscape of a broken system, enduring solitary confinement, overmedication, and the actions of adults who seem hell-bent on convincing her that she deserves nothing, that she is nothing. But instead of losing her will to thrive, Louise remains determined to achieve her dream of a higher education. After she ages out of the system, Louise is thrown into adulthood and, haunted by her trauma, struggles to finish school, build a career, and develop relationships. As she puts it, it felt impossible “to understand how to be in the world.” Eventually, Louise learns how to confront her past and reflect on her traumas. She starts writing, quite literally, a new future for herself, a new way to be. Louise weaves together raw, sometimes fragmented memories, excerpts from real documents from her case file, and elegant reflections to tell the story of her painful upbringing and what came after. The result is a rich, engrossing account of one abandoned girl’s efforts to find her place in the world, people to love, and people to love her back. Praise for Someone Has Led This Child to Believe “Regina Louise’s childhood ordeal and quest to find true family are enthralling and ultimately triumphant. I cheered her every step of the way.” —Julia Scheeres, New York Times–bestselling author of Jesus Land “Revealing and much needed.” —Booklist “Her story had a distinctly raw edge to it, as she chronicled . . . how she was deemed mentally disturbed and incorrigible for wanting what so many children from intact families took for granted, and how she triumphed over unbelievable odds.” —Kirkus Reviews “There’s pain and beauty in Louise’s vulnerability and her willingness to evict personal experience from the singular realm of self and take it into the world.” —Foreword Reviews

Somebody's Daughter

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Publisher : Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book
ISBN 13 : 1250245303
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Somebody's Daughter by : Ashley C. Ford

Download or read book Somebody's Daughter written by Ashley C. Ford and published by Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NBCC John Leonard Prize Finalist Indie Bestseller “This is a book people will be talking about forever.” —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed “Ford’s wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it.” —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father. Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he’s in prison, and she doesn’t know what he did to end up there. She doesn’t know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates. When the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley desperately searches for meaning in the chaos. Then, her grandmother reveals the truth about her father’s incarceration . . . and Ashley’s entire world is turned upside down. Somebody’s Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she embarks on a powerful journey to find the threads between who she is and what she was born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them.

Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1665907460
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (659 download)

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Book Synopsis Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by : Eileen Spinelli

Download or read book Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch written by Eileen Spinelli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anonymous valentine changes the life of the unsociable Mr. Hatch, turning him into a laughing friend who helps and appreciates all his neighbors.

Somebody's Gotta Do It

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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250247624
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Somebody's Gotta Do It by : Adrienne Martini

Download or read book Somebody's Gotta Do It written by Adrienne Martini and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “50 percent memoir, 50 percent advice manual, and 100 percent heart.” —The New York Times Somebody's Gotta Do It is a humorous (and instructive) memoir about a progressive woman who runs for very small-town elected office in a red county—and wins (yay!)—and then realizes the critical importance of the job. Back in the fall of 2016, before casting her vote for Hillary Clinton, Adrienne Martini, a knitter, a runner, a mom, and a resident of rural Otsego County in snowy upstate New York, knew who her Senators were, wasn’t too sure who her Congressman was, and had only vague inklings about who her state reps were. She’s always thought of politicians as . . . oily. Then she spent election night curled in bed, texting her husband, who was at work, unable to stop shaking. And after the presidential inauguration, she reached out to Dave, a friend of a friend, who was involved in the Otsego County Democratic Party. Maybe she could help out with phone calls or fundraising? But Dave’s idea was: she should run for office. Someone had to do it. And so, in the year that 26,000 women (up from 920 the year before) contacted Emily’s List about running for offices large and small, Adrienne Martini ran for the District 12 seat on the Otsego County Board. And became one of the 14 delegates who collectively serve one rural American county, overseeing a budget of $130 million. Highway repair? Soil and water conservation? Child safety? Want wifi? Need a coroner? It turns out, local office matters. A lot.

I Want to Be Somebody New!

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Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0385754531
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Book Synopsis I Want to Be Somebody New! by : Robert Lopshire

Download or read book I Want to Be Somebody New! written by Robert Lopshire and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spot, the beloved hero of Put Me in the Zoo, is back in another Beginner Book classic. When Spot grows tired of doing tricks in the circus, he decides to turn into another animal. But what kind? An elephant? An elephant is too big. A giraffe? A giraffe is too tall. How about a mouse? Can Spot’s friends help him see that the very best thing to be is himself? I Want to Be Somebody New! is a spot-on tale of individuality and friendship. Beginner Books are fun, funny, and easy to read! Launched by Dr. Seuss in 1957 with the publication of The Cat in the Hat, this beloved early reader series motivates children to read on their own by using simple words with illustrations that give clues to their meaning. Featuring a combination of kid appeal, supportive vocabulary, and bright, cheerful art, Beginner Books will encourage a love of reading in children ages 3–7. "Spot changes from elephant to giraffe to mouse, trying to find a new identity, but discovers that every animal shape has its drawbacks. This intelligent, cheerful sequel, with its simple rhyming text, lives up to the reputation of its predecessor." —Publishers Weekly

Somebody's Children

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822351617
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Somebody's Children by : Laura Briggs

Download or read book Somebody's Children written by Laura Briggs and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption from the point of view of the mothers and communities that lose their children.

Somebody's Someone

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Publisher : Genesis Press (MS)
ISBN 13 : 9781885478573
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (785 download)

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Book Synopsis Somebody's Someone by : Sinclair LeBeau

Download or read book Somebody's Someone written by Sinclair LeBeau and published by Genesis Press (MS). This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determined to live down the negative stereotype placed on her from growing up on the wrong side of town with an irresponsible mother, Sabrina Lewis grows up to become a successful business women with several thriving beauty oriented enterprises. As a woman of thirty, she has everything that money can buy, except the security of a family and the love of a good man. That is until handsome Nathan Atkings melts the barriers around her heart. Falling in love with Nathan, Sabrina is challenged to deal with issues in his past which intimidate her as a proud black woman.

Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son

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Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571265049
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Book Synopsis Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son by : Gordon Burn

Download or read book Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son written by Gordon Burn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seemed the case of the notorious Yorkshire Ripper was finally closed when Peter Sutcliffe was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981. But in the early 1980s Gordon Burn spent three years living in Sutcliffe's home town of Bingley, researching his life. A modern classic, Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son offers one of the most penetrating and provocative insights into the mind of a murderer ever written. 'A book which will, with some justice, be compared to In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song. It's as if Thomas Hardy were also present at the writing of this account of the Yorkshire Ripper.' Norman Mailer

Mrs. Somebody Somebody

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679604820
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Book Synopsis Mrs. Somebody Somebody by : Tracy Winn

Download or read book Mrs. Somebody Somebody written by Tracy Winn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astonishing debut, Tracy Winn poignantly chronicles the souls who inhabit the troubled mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, playing out their struggles and hopes over the course of the twentieth century. Through a stunning variety of voices, Winn paints a deep and permeating portrait of the town and its people: a young millworker who dreams of marrying rich and becoming “Mrs. Somebody Somebody”; an undercover union organizer whose privileged past shapes her cause; a Korean War veteran who returns to the wife he never really got to know—and the couple’s overindulged children, who grow up to act out against their parents; a town resident who reflects on a long-lost love and the treasure he keeps close to his heart. Winn’s keen insight into class and human nature, combined with her perfect, nuanced prose, make Mrs. Somebody Somebody truly shine.

"Somebody's Calling My Name"

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Publisher : Conran Octopus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book "Somebody's Calling My Name" written by Wyatt Tee Walker and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1979 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the relationship of black sacred music and social change, Wyatt Walker observes, ". . .if you listen to what black people are singing religiously, it will provide a clue as to what is happening to them sociologically." Walker traces the musical expressions of the black religious tradition from its roots in the "invisible church" of the slave society to its influence upon the black religious experience today. He challenges the black church to preserve this rich musical resource so that black sacred music will become one of the gifts of black people to the church universal [Publisher description]

Somebody's Daughter

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Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 161374935X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Book Synopsis Somebody's Daughter by : Julian Sher

Download or read book Somebody's Daughter written by Julian Sher and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are America's forgotten children, the hundreds of thousands of child prostitutes who walk the Las Vegas Strip, the casinos of Atlantic City, the truck stops on interstates, and the street corners of our cities. Many people wrongly believe sex trafficking involves young women from foreign lands. In reality, the majority of teens caught in the sex trade are American girls--runaways and throwaways who become victims of ruthless pimps. In Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them, meet the girls who are fighting for their dignity, the cops who are trying to rescue them, and the community activists battling to protect the nation's most forsaken children. Author Julian Sher takes you behind the scenes to expose one of America's most underreported crimes: A girl from New Jersey gets arrested in Las Vegas and, at great risk to her own life, helps the FBI take down a million-dollar pimping empire. An abused teenager in Texas has the courage to take the stand in a grueling trial that sends her pimp away for 75 years. Survivors of the sex trade in New York, Phoenix, and Minneapolis set up shelters and rescue centers that offer young girls a chance to break free from the streets. &“The sex trade is the new drug trade,&” says one FBI special agent, and Somebody's Daughter is a call to action, shining a light on America's dirty little secret.

There's Someone Inside Your House

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101590025
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis There's Someone Inside Your House by : Stephanie Perkins

Download or read book There's Someone Inside Your House written by Stephanie Perkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Netflix Feature Film! “A heart-pounding page-turner with an outstanding cast of characters, a deliciously creepy setting, and an absolutely merciless body count.” –Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie and The Project A New York Times bestseller It’s been almost a year since Makani Young came to live with her grandmother and she’s still adjusting to her new life in rural Nebraska. Then, one by one, students at her high school begin to die in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasing and grotesque flair. As the body count rises and the terror grows closer, can Makani survive the killer’s twisted plan?

Somebody Somewhere

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804150419
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Somebody Somewhere by : Donna Williams

Download or read book Somebody Somewhere written by Donna Williams and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the acclaimed sequel to Nobody Nowhere--in which Donna Williams gives readers a guided tour of life with autism--Williams explores the four years since her diagnosis and her attempts to leave her "world under glass" and live normally. NPR sponsorship.

Somebody's Child

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Publisher : Perigee Trade
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Somebody's Child by : Randi G. Barrow

Download or read book Somebody's Child written by Randi G. Barrow and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption can be a high stakes game of chance. Here are personal narratives from birth mothers and adoptive parents alike, framed by the perspective of an adoption attorney.

Somebody's Darling

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143912972X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Somebody's Darling by : Larry McMurtry

Download or read book Somebody's Darling written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning Larry McMurtry writes like no one else about the American frontier—though in Somebody's Darling, the frontier lies farther west, in Hollywood, and his subject is the strange world of the movies—those who make them and those who play in them. Somebody's Darling is the story of the fortunes of Jill Peel. Jill is brilliant, talented, and disciplined, and one of the best female directors in Hollywood, or anywhere else. She's got it all together, except where the men in her life are concerned: Joe Percy and Owen Oarson. Joe is a womanizing, aging screenwriter, cheerfully cynical about life, love, and art, and the pursuit of all three. But he'd rather be left alone with the young, oversexed wives of studio moguls. Owen is an ex-Texas football player and tractor salesman turned studio climber and sexual athlete. He'll climb from bed to bed in pursuit of his starry goal: to be a movie producer. Between the two of them and a cast of Hollywood's most unforgettable eccentrics, Jill Peel tries to create some movie magic. Full of all the grit and warmth of his best work, Somebody's Darling is Larry McMurtry's deft and raunchy romp behind the scenes of America's own unique Babel: Hollywood.

Somebody's Baby

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Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0385384017
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis Somebody's Baby by : Lurlene McDaniel

Download or read book Somebody's Baby written by Lurlene McDaniel and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sorry, John Green fans, but McDaniel’s been making us cry . . . for decades.” —Bustle.com Love, family, acceptance, and forgiveness are at the center of this heartfelt novel that explores the unpredictable paths that allow people to follow their dreams and help them find a way back home. Ever since Sloan won a reality television singing competition, her music career has taken off. She suddenly finds herself with a manager, a recording contract, and a tour in the works. Her manager warned her that strangers would ask her for all sorts of things, and that she must not respond. But one email stands out—from a young woman who claims to be Sloan’s half sister. Sloan’s mother, now deceased, never told her who her father was, so the prospect of knowing some family history is too strong a desire to ignore. Now Sloan must return to Windemere, the town where she grew up, to face a past she’s worked hard to forget. One trip leads to another, and when circumstances take a devastating turn, Sloan is faced with a complicated choice involving not only herself, but also those who have come to depend on her.