High-Stakes Holiday Reunion

High-Stakes Holiday Reunion
Author: Christy Barritt
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0373445636

"Inspirational romantic suspense"--Spine.

Children of Reunion

Children of Reunion
Author: Allison Varzally
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469630923

In 1961, the U.S. government established the first formalized provisions for intercountry adoption just as it was expanding America's involvement with Vietnam. Adoption became an increasingly important portal of entry into American society for Vietnamese and Amerasian children, raising questions about the United States' obligations to refugees and the nature of the family during an era of heightened anxiety about U.S. global interventions. Whether adopting or favoring the migration of multiracial individuals, Americans believed their norms and material comforts would salve the wounds of a divisive war. However, Vietnamese migrants challenged these efforts of reconciliation. As Allison Varzally details in this book, a desire to redeem defeat in Vietnam, faith in the nuclear family, and commitment to capitalism guided American efforts on behalf of Vietnamese youths. By tracing the stories of Vietnamese migrants, however, Varzally reveals that while many had accepted separations as a painful strategy for survival in the midst of war, most sought, and some eventually found, reunion with their kin. This book makes clear the role of adult adoptees in Vietnamese and American debates about the forms, privileges, and duties of families, and places Vietnamese children at the center of American and Vietnamese efforts to assign responsibility and find peace in the aftermath of conflict.

A New Year's Reunion

A New Year's Reunion
Author: Yu Li-Qiong
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2025-01-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1536242322

“Celebrations and traditions might differ, but the story of missing distant family is universal.” — School Library Journal (starred review) This poignant, vibrantly illustrated tale, which won the prestigious Feng Zikai Chinese Children’s Picture Book Award in 2009, is sure to resonate with every child who misses relatives when they are away — and shows how a family’s love is strong enough to endure over time and distance.

The Romance of Reunion

The Romance of Reunion
Author: Nina Silber
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 080786448X

The reconciliation of North and South following the Civil War depended as much on cultural imagination as on the politics of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Nina Silber documents the transformation from hostile sectionalism to sentimental reunion rhetoric. Northern culture created a notion of reconciliation that romanticized and feminized southern society. In tourist accounts, novels, minstrel shows, and popular magazines, northerners contributed to a mythic and nostalgic picture of the South that served to counter their anxieties regarding the breakdown of class and gender roles in Gilded Age America. Indeed, for many Yankees, the ultimate symbol of the reunion process, and one that served to reinforce Victorian values as well as northern hegemony, was the marriage of a northern man and a southern woman. Southern men also were represented as affirming traditional gender roles. As northern men wrestled with their nation's increasingly global and aggressive foreign policy, the military virtues extolled in Confederate legend became more admired than reviled. By the 1890s, concludes Silber, northern whites had accepted not only a newly resplendent image of Dixie but also a sentimentalized view of postwar reunion.

High-Stakes Holiday Reunion

High-Stakes Holiday Reunion
Author: Christy Barritt
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 036970438X

A child’s life is at stake in this intriguing story from USA TODAY bestselling author Christy Barritt, part of The Security Experts series. When Christopher Jordan sees the fear in Ashley Wilson’s eyes, he knows he can’t let her request for help go unanswered. Despite their tumultuous history, he’s the only person his ex-fiancée can trust to find her kidnapped nephew. But how can Christopher trust her when he finds out that Ashley’s “nephew” is actually his son, the one she never told him about? With a terrorist cell convinced Ashley holds the key to accessing top-secret government files, time is running out. And Christopher will stop at nothing to bring their little boy home in time for Christmas. Experience more action-packed mystery and suspense in the rest of The Security Experts series by Christy Barritt: Key Witness Lifeline High-Stakes Holiday Reunion From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.

Tomorrow's Tourist: Scenarios & Trends

Tomorrow's Tourist: Scenarios & Trends
Author: Ian Yeoman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2009-06-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136354883

By 2030, China will be the world’s largest tourism destination, holidays in Outer Space will be the ultimate luxury experience, extreme Swedish ironing will be an Olympic Sport, embedded technologies will be the norm in future tourists and skiing in the Alps will be no more. These are some of the changes that will occur between now and 2030 that will change world tourism. Tomorrows Tourist: Scenarios & Trends enables readers to imagine what a future tourist might be, where they will go and what they will do. This is the most comprehensive analysis of how world tourism is changing and what it means for destinations. Each chapter consists of a scenario about a future tourist, which is then is backed up with evidence and trends plus a number of assumptions about the future. The book is accompanied by its own website at http://www.tomorrowstourist.com which is owned and regularly updated by the author.

All Is Well

All Is Well
Author: Jesusa Lucas-Lindow
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2022-11-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 166557478X

Her strict parents raised her to become God-fearing and respectable. She defies them when she applies for a job as a modern comfort woman for Japanese men in Japan. Before she is shipped to Japan, she falls in love and decides to stay for her beloved’s sake. What follows is Jesusa’s trek to a prohibited love zone where pain and only short-term joy reigns. Fortunately, generous relatives help her, and her kids, escape to America to begin a new life. In her desire to reach financial success, she takes on three jobs and also begins a career in the real estate and mortgage industries. After tasting success, she finds herself living life on edge. But soon, her foray in the high stakes game of real estate wheel and deal peaks unpleasantly. Financial ruin looms ahead. Jesusa’s innate goodness perseveres, and she makes it her mission to alter her career practice. As part of her redemption, Jesusa attempts to regain her authentic self and her spirituality. She also begins her philanthropic work. Jesusa’s life takes a beautiful turn when she meets, through Match.Com, the handsome, charming, and successful engineer, Richard Lindow. With him, Jesusa finds unparalleled love, the kind that makes her feel everything will turn out alright. No one else has made her feel this heavenly feeling, and she wants to make it permanent. But does he want her as much as she wants him? To her dismay, he tells her he is not ready for a committed relationship. Her feelings for him remain strong even after he rejects her. It is Richard’s name her heart cries out when the equally handsome and multi-millionaire Henry proposes marriage to her. Jesusa’s fairy tale life and love story is a must read.

Class Reunion

Class Reunion
Author: Rona Jaffe
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2015-03-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504008367

Twenty years after their college graduation, four Radcliffe girls return to their Harvard class reunion with mixed emotions and curiosity. It is the first time they have met since their hopeful student years, when each of them had wonderful dreams of becoming wives, mothers, and successful career women. But much has changed since the fifties, and the former classmates’ lives have been altered by events none of them could have foreseen. Humorous, heartwarming, often poignant and nostalgic, Class Reunion captures the spirit of the fifties brilliantly in contrast to the changing world the four girls have embraced, often with straightforward and pithy commentary on the social conventions of the past.