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Baby Doll: My Mother, My Secrets

Author : Charlotte Rossler
Publisher : Seven and One Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 173775603X

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Baby Doll: My Mother, My Secrets by Charlotte Rossler Pdf

If you like real-life comeback stories, international adventure, and lessons learned walking through fire, then you'll be gripped by Charlotte Rossler's powerful journey. Baby Doll begins when Charlotte is old enough to stand in front of a stove and is called into service for her seven younger siblings while her own beautiful, charismatic mother disappears for weekend flings. A lonely teenager, Charlotte becomes pregnant in high school, not once but twice. Before the passage of Roe v. Wade, she has no choice but to surrender both babies, and is ultimately banned from her family in shame. Over the next few years, each attempt to gain independence leads Charlotte deeper into perilous misadventures included traveling as a drug mule, selling contraband jeans in an Eastern European country, and being pursued by violent men. In this deeply personal and stirring memoir, Charlotte shares her desperate search for meaning in a chaotic world full of instability. And through her triumph over destructive family secrets, this courageous woman's raw account of self-discovery stands as a beacon of empowerment for those striving to conquer their past and forge a brighter tomorrow.

Secrets and Vows

Author : W.C. Child
Publisher : Red Pen Enterprises, LLC
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781732260931

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Secrets and Vows by W.C. Child Pdf

Some secrets are buried so deeply that they never see the light of day. For Grace, hers became front-page news. After marrying the man of her dreams, her life was far from the fairy tale she’d longed for since childhood. For an anniversary gift, she received an alias for her husband, the public ridicule of his arrest, and news of a baby from another woman. After she’s coaxed into being a pawn in her husband’s game of denial, Grace sacrifices her dignity to save her family. The meeting between her and the other woman is full of more revelations she can’t deny. As his life emerges from behind a smokescreen of secrets and lies, Grace must make hard choices about the man she loves. She must also remove the mask she presents to the world and allow truth and honesty to guide her to a place of peace. Would their marriage survive the trauma caused when secrets overshadow their vows? Follow Grace as she makes life-altering decisions fueled by one single act of human kindness.

All My Mother's Secrets

Author : Beezy Marsh
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781509892716

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All My Mother's Secrets by Beezy Marsh Pdf

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Beautifully-penned story on the harshness of life and how hope survives' – Sun 'Absorbing . . . Marsh writes with a novelistic flair' – Daily Mail From the grimy streets of Acton and Notting Hill to the bright lights of the West End, Sunday Times bestselling author Beezy Marsh's All My Mother’s Secrets is a powerful, uplifting story of a young woman’s struggle to come to terms with her family’s tragic past. Annie Austin’s childhood ends at the age of twelve, when she joins her mother in one of the slum laundries of Acton, working long hours for little pay. What spare time she has is spent looking after her younger brother George and her two stepsisters, under the glowering eye of her stepfather Bill. In London between the wars, a girl like Annie has few choices in life – but a powerful secret will change her destiny. All Annie knows about her real father is that he died in the Great War, and as the years pass she is haunted by the pain of losing him. Her downtrodden mother won’t tell her more and Annie’s attempts to uncover the truth threaten to destroy her family. Distraught, she runs away to Covent Garden, but can she survive on her own and find the love which has eluded her so far?

Family Secrets

Author : Grace Ann Neuharth,Wanda Winters-Gutierrez
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781615661336

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Family Secrets by Grace Ann Neuharth,Wanda Winters-Gutierrez Pdf

"The car stopped, and I could tell I was expected to get out, but I was too scared to move. I had not noticed the man get out of the front seat and was startled when the door on my side of the car suddenly sprang open. The man reached for my arm, and as he did his jacket opened just enough for me to catch sight of a gun. I tried to scream, 'Who are you people? What is this place? How did I get here?' but no words came. The man with the gun pulled me out and led me into the house. My mind spun trying to figure it all out. The only thought that came to me was that I had been kidnapped. " Imagine if you suddenly had no idea where you were, who you were with, and what had happened. In "Family Secrets: Letters to My Granddaughters," four-year-old Grace loses her memory and is plunged into an ever-widening circle of lies, suppression, and denial. The next thirty years are shrouded in family secrets that eventually pull every aspect of her life into darkness. Though the twists and turns she faced should have destroyed her, Grace Ann Neuharth lived to tell the tale through the unforgettable narrative style of inspirational author Wanda Winters-Gutierrez. "Family Secrets" will leave you intrigued, stunned, and ultimately inspired as you discover the kind of faith that enables a person to live through the unthinkable and move past survival to victory.

Rebecca's Secrets

Author : Robert Hart
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409255932

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Rebecca's Secrets by Robert Hart Pdf

What happens when a boy starts asking questions? It's New Year's day, 1956, and as the low winter sun penetrates the dark corners of Eric Street, it sets fire to a boy's curiosity. "Until this day I'd lived unaware. I didn't live my life - it lived me. But I did know I was different from other kids. There was something secret about me and my family. That morning I became curious. That day I started asking questions." Charming, funny and sad, this novel is based on a true story. Tommy Angel is an orphan growing up with his grandparents, Rebecca and Daniel, in the East End of London in the Fifties. Tommy tries to make sense of the world around him but his questions arouse shameful memories, stir the family ghosts and open a box of dark family secrets. Gradually he uncovers the truth about his lost sisters, his real father and mother. The author, a distinguished educator, born in 1945, grew up in an extended Jewish family in the East End of London. This debut novel is based on his childhood.

Christmas Through a Child's Eyes

Author : Helen Szymanski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781440501111

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Christmas Through a Child's Eyes by Helen Szymanski Pdf

The joy of Christmas often gets lost in the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. For many people, fond memories of a childhood Christmas can bring back that special feeling. This book collects tales written by adults remembering their favorite Christmases of the past. This heartwarming collection evokes the true spirit of the season with such stories as: Shared Popcorn: - a young brother and sister realize the meaning of charity and forgo their favorite snack at the movie theater when they choose to buy tickets for two children who lost their money; Grandpa Will’s Gift: - a difficult Christmas during the Depression is made spectacular for a little girl surprised by her grandfather with a horse and sleigh; At the Five and Dime -: a young boy does a good deed for a man in town everyone calls “Grouch Peterson”. With touching stories like these, this book is the perfect gift to rekindle the true magic and wonder of the season.

Don’t Tell: Family Secrets

Author : Arleen Paré,Donna McCart Sharkey
Publisher : Demeter Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781772584295

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Don’t Tell: Family Secrets by Arleen Paré,Donna McCart Sharkey Pdf

Donna McCart Sharkey and Arleen Paré , sisters and writers, have co-edited an anthology Don' t Tell: Family Secrets, about what may be hidden in families. For each individual, even in the same family, what is secret and what is not, may be different. In Don' t Tell: Family Secrets, fifty-nine writers tell their stories in either prose or poetry, of their own family secrets. So often, mothers bear the burden, stand over time as the keepers of these secrets, trying to keep families intact. Spanning continents, cultures, wars, belief systems, and the private lives of families, the secrets in this book range from over one hundred years ago to the present and include stories &– some serious, others quirky, some resolved, and still others that remain a mystery.

Just Breathe Normally

Author : Peggy Shumaker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803209185

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Just Breathe Normally by Peggy Shumaker Pdf

Just Breathe Normally opens with a traumatic accident. Shattered perceptions and shards of narrative recount the events, from wreck through recovery and beyond. In lyric prose, the stories spiral back through generations to touch on questions of mortality and family, immigration and migration, legacies intended or inflicted. ø In the wake of her near-fatal cycling collision, Peggy Shumaker searches for meaning within extremity. Through a long convalescence, she reevaluates her family?s past, treating us to a meditation on the meaning of justice and the role of love in the grueling process of healing. Her book, a moving memoir of childhood and family, testifies to the power of collective empathy in the transformations that make and remake us throughout our lives. ø We all live with injury and loss. This book transforms injury, transforms loss. Shumaker crafts language unlike anyone else, language at once poetic and profound. Her memoir enacts our human desire to understand the fragmented self. We see in practice the power of words to restore what medical science cannot: the fragile human psyche and its immense capacity for forgiveness.

THe Light Series Box Set

Author : Jennifer DeLucy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623421762

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THe Light Series Box Set by Jennifer DeLucy Pdf

The three book box set of The Light Series by Jennifer DeLucy includes Seers of Light, Whisper of Light Circle of Light, and the short Glimpse of Light. Seers of Light: Lillian Hunt has never truly lived. Always sensing there was more to the world than is easily perceived, she feared that her instincts were stubborn flights of fancy, or worse, mental instability. But some things - disappearing strangers, tangible dreams and visits from malevolent creatures - cannot be ignored. Is Lillian alone in her surreal little world or are there others like her? Will she reject a fated love or embrace the truth of what she is, unraveling the mystery of her life... Whisper of Light: The saying goes that all men are created equal... but Nicole Abbot knows better. Lacking the supernatural gifts of the Sentients she has known all her life, Nicole has lived with her nose pressed to the glass, withering beneath the guilt of her own inadequacies and the disapproving glare of her father. It's easy to believe that the universe has forgotten all about her, but things are not always as they seem. With the arrival of Christian Wright, a handsome but complex Combatant with a troubled history, Nicole is forced to question everything she has ever believed about herself, proving that sometimes, our most flawed perceptions are those reflected in a mirror. Circle of Light: Empath and Pathcrosser to the dead, Lillian Hunt has finally come into her own as a Sentient being. All seems well in her brave new world...that is, until a tragic turn sends her tight-knit Sentient group on a rescue mission through lore-infested Europe. Their goal is to save the love of Lily's life-vampire Sentient, William Maddox - from both the prejudice of their own society and the dark intentions of ancient vampires. But how will they keep hope alive, even as time runs out? Circle of Light is a brilliant finale to The Light Series. DeLucy once again delivers gripping paranormal encounters, irresistible character interactions, and beautiful testaments to the power of pure, unselfish love - but it all burns at a higher intensity in this concluding adventure. Readers will come away from Circle of Light with a satisfying sense of closur...although certain Sentients may be less than happy with their ever after.

Seers of Light

Author : Jennifer DeLucy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936305049

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Seers of Light by Jennifer DeLucy Pdf

Lillian Hunt has never truly lived. Always sensing more to the world than is easily perceived, she fears that her instincts are stubborn flights of fancy, or worse, mental instability. But some things—disappearing strangers, tangible dreams, and visits from malevolent creatures—cannot be ignored. Before it's too late, Lillian is ripped from the only existence she’s ever known and thrust into a reality that she always suspected, but could scarcely believe. She must learn the truth about who she is, the powerful beings that wish to destroy her, and the two men who would die to protect her.

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll

Author : Jean Nathan
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466845305

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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll by Jean Nathan Pdf

A glamorous, haunted life unfolds in the mesmerizing biography of the woman behind a classic children's book In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten. When the cover image inexplicably came to journalist Jean Nathan one afternoon, she went in search of the book-and ultimately its author. Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens, New York. Over the next five years, Nathan pieced together a glamorous life. Blond, beautiful Wright had begun her career as an actress and model and then turned to fashion photography before stumbling upon her role as bestselling author. But there was a dark side to the story: a brother lost in childhood, ill-fated marriage plans, a complicated, controlling mother. Edith Stevenson Wright, herself a successful portrait painter, played such a dominant role in her daughter's life that Dare was never able to find her way into the adult world. Only through her work could she speak for herself: in her books she created the happy family she'd always yearned for, while her self-portraits betrayed an unresolved tension between sexuality and innocence, a desire to belong and painful isolation. Illustrated with stunning photographs, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll tells the unforgettable story of a woman who, imprisoned by her childhood, sought to set herself free through art.

Family Secrets & Lies

Author : DJ Everette
Publisher : Author House
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781477288559

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Family Secrets & Lies by DJ Everette Pdf

FAMILY SECRETS & LIES By DJ Everette Local Author discovers murder, mystery and achievement in family tree Before Bonnie & Clyde in 1934-35, there was Gramma & Glenn during Prohibition from 1928-31. Gramma, also called The Blonde Menace, the Gungirl and Iron Irene, stole autos in Ohio, robbed fuel stations in West Virginia, Indiana and Illinois, stuck up banks in Texas, Missouri, and Arkansas and stole from retail stores and individuals across the west, kidnapping and murdering in states stretching as far as Arizona, it was said. In 1929 a Police Officer was killed and his partner badly wounded in a gun battle when Gramma and her gang were confronted for robbing a grocery store in Butler, PA. Irenes four year old son, the Author's Father, was in the car and observed the thefts, murder and getaway. He proudly announced to his family when his Mother dropped him off for safe keeping, the police and reporters I Saw My Mom Kill A Cop! and "Mama is the brains of the outfit" After fleeing with her lover, Glenn, across the USA and being front page news in a year-long highly sensationalized trial, Gramma was the first woman to be executed in the State of PA. In spite of insurmountable odds and difficult challenges, Grammas little son grew up to be a hero in the Korean conflict and NASA. The Author meets her Dad before he dies and he fills in all the answers to her lifelong questions. Take this unbelievable journey with the Author as she starts her paternal genealogy and journals the events in order to handle the trauma of what was being discovered. Discover facts found 80 years later that uncover an entirely different story than the media at the time produced and uncover the surprise ending.

The Baby's Cross

Author : C. Gale Perkins
Publisher : CCB Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781927360156

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The Baby's Cross by C. Gale Perkins Pdf

The Baby's Cross is a memoir about a tuberculosis survivor named Gale, a young girl who fought many obstacles in her life. She was born prematurely and with the help of a neighbor, she survived. At age two, a fall down the stairs was to take her life in a direction that seemed almost impossible to endure at the time. The losses in her life were many, including her mother, many other family members, and the loss of a normal childhood. C. Gale Perkins was hospitalized for twelve years at the Lakeville State Sanatorium in Lakeville, Massachusetts with tuberculosis of the bone, which she contracted at the age of three. Gale tells about her experiences while in the hospital during her twelve years at the sanatorium, including when she was paralyzed from the waist down for two of these years due to an operation that went badly. Gale feels that the experiences she had were ones that shaped her life into one of determination, compassion, faith, love and accomplishments. The story includes many miracles that she has experienced in her lifetime, miracles that have reinforced her spiritual beliefs. The real story behind Gale's fall down the stairs became clear to her while she was driving along the highway. This is a true story of a young girl's struggle to stay alive, and it will touch the readers' hearts. About the Author C. Gale Perkins was born in Boston. She spent twelve years in Lakeville State Sanatorium in Massachusetts from age three to fifteen. She is proud of being a tuberculosis survivor and a person with a strong faith. Gale believes that the experiences she had as a child have made her the person she is today. She is warm, loving, compassionate, and has a great sense of humor. She loves people and looks for the good in everyone. Gale believes in the saying, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." She has three children and several grandchildren. She worked as director of occupational therapy in a private hospital for twenty-six years. She loves people and flowers. Gale is proud of the article she had published in the O.T. Advanced magazine in which she was a contest winner. She also had an article published in the World Clown magazine, Clowning Around. She has performed as a professional clown for several years, and loves it. Gale feels very thankful for what life has given her and she looks forward to many new adventures. She lives in Groveland, Massachusetts in the summer and Tarpon Springs, Florida in the winter. She says she has the best of two worlds. Her late husband encouraged her to write her life story, she says, "I have kept my promise to him."

The Last Secrets of Anne Frank

Author : Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl,Jeroen De Bruyn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982198220

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The Last Secrets of Anne Frank by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl,Jeroen De Bruyn Pdf

"Anne Frank's life has been studied by many scholars, but the story of Bep Voskuijl has remained untold--until now. As the youngest of the five Dutch people who hid the Frank family, Bep was Anne's closest confidante during the 761 excruciating days she spent hidden in the Secret Annex. Bep, who was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding, risked her life to protect them, plunging into Amsterdam's black market to source food and medicine for people who officially didn't exist under the noses of German soldiers and Dutch spies. ... Told by her own son, [this book] intertwines the story of Bep and her sister Nelly with Anne's iconic narrative. Nelly's name may have been scrubbed from Anne's published diary, but Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl and Jeroen De Bruyn expose details about her collaboration with the Nazis, a deeply held family secret"--Dust jacket flap.

Common Secrets

Author : Romel Celanese Smith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781546210436

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Common Secrets by Romel Celanese Smith Pdf

Common Secrets is about a young girl who dreamed of being a star in the sky. Monday lived and loved life with her mother, Jade, but her dreams and life became a real dream that she had no intentions of happening. Monday had to find the dream that she knew was hers and to leave the real dream that was taking place. Monday faced extreme challenges with no one to turn to. Only God would be her listening ear of her many nights of cries.