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Author | : Mimi Gisolfi D’Aponte |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2015-05-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1503528952 |
In My Mothers Front Porch, four siblings celebrate their mothers life while struggling to deal with her declining years. Staying Connected offers an older persons frustrated yelp against technology mayhem. In 8th Grade Reunion, childhood friends discover who they are 35 years later. Brooklyn Rx follows a musical romance in a beloved neighborhood. In Sister Spirit, a chaplain nun makes a difference on Rikers Island. Homeland Security parodies a real threat of police protection.
Author | : Dianne Sanders Riordan |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 146021871X |
"The Names of My Mothers" is the touching story of the tender and all-too-brief relationship forged late in life between Dianne Riordan (nee Susanne Sanders) and her birth mother. In 1942 Elizabeth Bynam Sanders was a young woman who left home under false pretenses and travelled to Our Lady of Victory, a home for unwed mothers in upstate New York. Shortly after surrendering her daughter for adoption, she returned to her life in Johnston County, North Carolina. She never married and never had another child of her own. This powerful and moving memoir speaks of the profound need for connection. It is a story about identity, the hunger we feel for a sense of belonging and the ineffable significance of blood.
Author | : Michele Filgate |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-08-11 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1982107359 |
“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything. As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in acknowledging how what we couldn’t say for so long is a way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. Contributions by Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.
Author | : Uncle Hector |
Publisher | : Author House |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2011-11-03 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 146340803X |
This book will help better understand the different relationships with ones family, friends and supervisors in life. To understand that there are problems that happen without a purpose and one must deal with one situation after the other and still keep positive to continue your travels through life.
Author | : Marlvis Kennedy |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2010-09-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1452080615 |
Long before Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold embarked on what is now known as the Columbine High School massacre that left 12 students and 1 teacher dead there was Mark Anthony Houston we called him Studs. Studs, is a True story that took place in the 70's, it's about an incident that happened on October 5th 1979, on the campus of the University of South Carolina at the Bates social club. On this night our lead character (Studs) shoots and kills two people and wounds five others. Studs, is organized by year. From 1972 when I moved to South Carolina until 1979 when this incident takes place. This story chronicles my life and the life of the lead character (Studs)along with many of the classmates that we grew up with in the 70's. It takes a close look at black on black racism, and deals with growing up as a black male in the 70's without a father.
Author | : Carmela Ciuraru |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2005-04-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1400043565 |
Celebrating mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, grandmothers and grandchildren, Motherhood is a glorious, wonderfully intimate tribute to the first love in every reader’s life. From tenth-century Japan’s Izumi Shikibu, colonial America’s Anne Bradstreet, and Victorian England’s Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Israel’s Yehuda Amichai, Ireland’s Paul Muldoon, and Russia’s Anna Akhmatova, poets across the centuries and around the world have immortalized this elemental relationship. Among the more than seventy poets in this anthology, Audre Lorde recalls “How the days went / While you were blooming within me”; Jorie Graham muses on her mother’s sewing box; Allen Ginsberg says goodbye in “Kaddish”; and Langston Hughes invokes a mother’s empowering example: “Don’t you fall now— / For I’se still goin’, honey, / I’se still climbin’, / And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” From Emily Brontë’s “Upon Her Soothing Breast” and Seamus Heaney’s “Mother of the Groom” to Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” and Frank O’Hara’s “Ave Maria,” the more than one hundred poems collected here enshrine the miracle of motherhood and the richness of feeling and experience it inspires.
Author | : Danny Bader |
Publisher | : Sound Wisdom |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1937879097 |
"At 3:55 pm, I believed there was a Heaven-at 4:15 pm I knew." This is the story of one man’s struggle to be alive again after an accident claims the life of his friend and nearly his own. After spending a few moments on Heaven’s front porch with God, he is thrust back into his old life. In the months that follow, he struggles to find purpose and meaning in the day to day activities of life. In his quest, he uncovers five principles necessary to move him from just living again...to being fully alive! This inspirational story will grab your attention and hold it to the end as it teaches you foundational principles to living a life fulfilled.
Author | : Tim Elhajj |
Publisher | : Central Recovery Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2011-09-15 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1936290634 |
A gritty but well-written real-life success story of a father passing on the gift of recovery to his grown son.
Author | : Emi Nietfeld |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2023-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0593489497 |
“Nietfeld’s gifts for capturing the fury of living at the mercy of bad circumstances, for critiquing the hero’s journey even while she tells it, make Acceptance a remarkable memoir.” —The New York Times Book Review A hard-hitting and hilarious memoir of ambition, desperation, and the dark side of grit Growing up in a house filled with dirty feather boas and fearless mice, Emi Nietfeld dreams of escaping to the Ivy League. Emi’s single mom believes in her, but can’t stop hoarding—catapulting Emi into the underworld of troubled teen treatment, foster care, and homelessness. When her shot arrives to trade sleeping in her car for the hallowed halls of an elite college, Emi must decide: How far will she go to market herself as a perfect “overcomer” when her problems are far from over? And what will it cost to maintain that illusion at Harvard and into adulthood? From journalist, mental health advocate, and software engineer Emi Nietfeld, this searing coming-of-age story is both a chronicle of the American Dream and an indictment of it. Exposing the price of trading a troubled past for the promise of a bright future, Nietfeld explores whether any amount of success can make trauma worth it. With a ribbon of dark humor, Acceptance challenges our ideas of what it means to overcome—and live on your own terms.
Author | : Mary Rickert |
Publisher | : Tor Books |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466868430 |
From multiple World Fantasy Award winner and Nebula, Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, Sturgeon, and British Science Fiction Award nominated author Mary Rickert comes a gorgeous and terrifying vision of the Mothers of Voorhisville, who love their babies just as intensely as any mother anywhere. Of course they do! And nothing in this world will change that, even if every single one of those tiny babies was born with an even tinier set of wings. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.