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Hands of My Father

Myron Uhlberg
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Author : Myron Uhlberg
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780553906271

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By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. “Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?” Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg’s deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the elusive nature of sound. Quite a challenge for a young boy, and one of many he would face. Uhlberg’s first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: “I love you.” But his second language was spoken English—and no sooner did he learn it than he was called upon to act as his father’s ears and mouth in the stores and streets of the neighborhood beyond their silent apartment in Brooklyn. Resentful as he sometimes was of the heavy burdens heaped on his small shoulders, he nonetheless adored his parents, who passed on to him their own passionate engagement with life. These two remarkable people married and had children at the absolute bottom of the Great Depression—an expression of extraordinary optimism, and typical of the joy and resilience they were able to summon at even the darkest of times. From the beaches of Coney Island to Ebbets Field, where he watches his father’s hero Jackie Robinson play ball, from the branch library above the local Chinese restaurant where the odor of chow mein rose from the pages of the books he devoured to the hospital ward where he visits his polio-afflicted friend, this is a memoir filled with stories about growing up not just as the child of two deaf people but as a book-loving, mischief-making, tree-climbing kid during the remarkably eventful period that spanned the Depression, the War, and the early fifties. From the Hardcover edition.

My Father's Hands

Joanne Ryder
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Author : Joanne Ryder
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780688091897

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A man working in his garden finds a delicate worm, a beetle in shining armor, and a leaf-green mantis and shares these treasures with his young daughter. "Lovely double-page, impressionistic oil paintings...provide a picturesque setting for this simple, straightforward description of a special parent/child outing."--School Library Journal.

Into Your Hands, Father

Wilfried Stinissen
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Author : Wilfried Stinissen
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781586174774

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Into Your Hands, Father by Wilfried Stinissen Pdf

In the spiritual life, we need a central idea: something so basic and comprehensive that it encompasses everything else. According to Carmelite Father Wilfrid Stinissen, surrender to God, abandonment to the One who loves us completely, is that central reality. The life of Jesus shows us the centrality of abandonment, for it is truly the beginning and the end of his mission on earth. In this simple but profound book, Father Stinissen distinguishes three degrees or stages in abandonment. The first stage consists of accepting and assenting to God's will as it manifests itself in all circumstances of life. The second is actively doing God's will at every moment of one's life. In the third stage, abandonment to God is so complete that one has become a tool in God's hands. At this stage it is no longer I who do God's will, but God who accomplishes his will through me.

My Father's Hands

Sheila McGraw,Paul Cline
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Author : Sheila McGraw,Paul Cline
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000045785771

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My Father's Hands by Sheila McGraw,Paul Cline Pdf

A chronicle of a boy's changing relationship with his father follows his development from an infant to a young adult.

The Distant Land of My Father

Bo Caldwell
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Author : Bo Caldwell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156027135

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The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell Pdf

Anna had a charmed childhood in 1930s Shanghai with her smuggler father. Anna and her mother fled the Japanese occupation and settled in California, but her father stayed behind. Fifteen years later, Anna is grown with a family of her own in Los Angeles when her father reappears.

Reading My Father

Alexandra Styron
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Author : Alexandra Styron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416595069

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Reading My Father by Alexandra Styron Pdf

PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST— A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron’s youngest child explores the life of a fascinating and difficult man whose own memoir, Darkness Visible, so searingly chronicled his battle with major depression. Alexandra Styron’s parents—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Sophie’s Choice and his political activist wife, Rose—were, for half a century, leading players on the world’s cultural stage. Alexandra was raised under both the halo of her father’s brilliance and the long shadow of his troubled mind. A drinker, a carouser, and above all “a high priest at the altar of fiction,” Styron helped define the concept of The Big Male Writer that gave so much of twentieth-century American fiction a muscular, glamorous aura. In constant pursuit of The Great Novel, he and his work were the dominant force in his family’s life, his turbulent moods the weather in their ecosystem. From Styron’s Tidewater, Virginia, youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best-known books and on through his spiral into depression, Reading My Father portrays the epic sweep of an American artist’s life, offering a ringside seat on a great literary generation’s friendships and their dramas. It is also a tale of filial love, beautifully written, with humor, compassion, and grace.

My Father's Wake

Kevin Toolis
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Author : Kevin Toolis
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306921452

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My Father's Wake by Kevin Toolis Pdf

An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of death Death is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County Mayo, death has a louder voice. Each day, along with reports of incoming Atlantic storms, the local radio runs a daily roll call of the recently departed. The islanders go in great numbers, young and old alike, to be with their dead. They keep vigil with the corpse and the bereaved company through the long hours of the night. They dig the grave with their own hands and carry the coffin on their own shoulders. The islanders cherish the dead--and amid the sorrow, they celebrate life, too. In My Father's Wake, acclaimed author and award-winning filmmaker Kevin Toolis unforgettably describes his own father's wake and explores the wider history and significance of this ancient and eternal Irish ritual. Perhaps we, too, can all find a better way to deal with our mortality--by living and loving as the Irish do.

My Father's Hands

Christy Fitzwater
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Author : Christy Fitzwater
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981436979

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My Father's Hands by Christy Fitzwater Pdf

We know God wants to be our Father. But how can we trust Him, if our own earthly example failed? Many of us have known the opposite of heaven when it comes to our earthly fathers. Many of us have memories that should never have been made: memories of disappointment, anger, and even fear. But that was never the way it was supposed to be. In these 52 stories, Christy tells about her dad and how through him, she came to know the Father. Nobody is perfect, but there are some who are kind and loving. Throughout this book, may you come to know the love of a father, and believe enough to place your life in God's hands. You can trust Him with your heart.

Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me

Ian Morgan Cron
Jesus My Father the CIA and Me Book PDF

Author : Ian Morgan Cron
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780849949296

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Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me by Ian Morgan Cron Pdf

A touching memoir of life with an alcoholic father who secretly works with the CIA, a dark pilgrimage through the valley of depression and addiction, and finding a faith to redeem and a strength to forgive. "This is a record of my life as I remember it—but more importantly, as I felt it." At the age of sixteen, Ian Morgan Cron was told by his mother that his father, a motion picture executive, worked with the CIA in Europe. This astonishing revelation, coupled with his father's dark struggle with alcoholism, upended the world of a teenager struggling to become a man. Born into a family of privilege and power, Ian's life is populated with colorful people and stories as his father takes the family on a wild roller-coaster ride through wealth and poverty and back again. Decades later, as he faced his own personal demons, Ian realized that the only way to find peace was to voyage back through a painful childhood marked by extremes—privilege and poverty, violence and tenderness, truth and deceit—that he’d spent years trying to escape. A fast-paced, unique memoir about the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of The Road Back to You Details his father’s struggle with alcohol and Cron’s own journey from addiction to twenty-three years of sobriety Encouragement to see God’s redemptive power through life’s struggles In this surprisingly funny and forgiving memoir, Ian reminds us that no matter how different the pieces may be, in the end we are all cut from the same cloth, stitched by faith into an exquisite quilt of grace.

Holding My Father's Hand

Margaret Fowler
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Author : Margaret Fowler
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1096656906

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Holding My Father's Hand by Margaret Fowler Pdf

I wrote these devotionals over the years for our Church Newsletters. Some of them are very simple, others dramatic, and quite a lot are funny and will make you smile!I often think back to episodes in my life which inspire me to use them as examples for a spiritual message. It is my hope and prayer that as you read each story, you will find something to help you in your Christian walk.

My Father's Tears

John Updike
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Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307272027

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A sensational collection of stories of the American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11, by one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. John Updike mingles narratives of Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel: “Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s happiness into one brimming moment of an old man’s bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in “The Walk with Elizanne” and “The Road Home,” restore their hero to youth’s commonwealth where, as the narrator of the title story confides, “the self I value is stored, however infrequently I check on its condition.” Exotic locales encountered in the journeys of adulthood include Morocco, Florida, Spain, Italy, and India. The territory of childhood, with its fundamental, formative mysteries, is explored in “The Guardians,” “The Laughter of the Gods,” and “Kinderszenen.” Love’s fumblings among the bourgeoisie yield the tart comedy of “Free,” “Delicate Wives,” “The Apparition,” and “Outage.”

My Father, the Pornographer

Chris Offutt
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Author : Chris Offutt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501112478

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My Father, the Pornographer by Chris Offutt Pdf

A memoir in which "writer Chris Offutt struggles to understand his recently deceased father based on his reading of the 400-plus novels [Andrew Offutt]--a well-known writer of pornography in the 1970s and 80s--left him in his will"--Publisher marketing.

A Father's Hand

Michael Franklin Quitugua San Nicolas
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Author : Michael Franklin Quitugua San Nicolas
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-29
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1439253234

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A Father's Hand by Michael Franklin Quitugua San Nicolas Pdf

A heartfelt and valuable gift from father to son, this guide touches on messages related to wisdom and faith, integrity, family, empathy and so much that a parent wishes to impart to a beloved child.

Finding My Father

Deborah Tannen
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Author : Deborah Tannen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101885840

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Finding My Father by Deborah Tannen Pdf

A #1 New York Times bestselling author traces her father’s life from turn-of-the-century Warsaw to New York City in an intimate memoir about family, memory, and the stories we tell. “An accomplished, clear-eyed, and affecting memoir about a man who is at once ordinary and extraordinary.”—Forward Long before she was the acclaimed author of a groundbreaking book about women and men, praised by Oliver Sacks for having “a novelist’s ear for the way people speak,” Deborah Tannen was a girl who adored her father. Though he was often absent during her childhood, she was profoundly influenced by his gift for writing and storytelling. As she grew up and he grew older, she spent countless hours recording conversations with her father for the account of his life she had promised him she’d write. But when he hands Tannen journals he kept in his youth, and she discovers letters he saved from a woman he might have married instead of her mother, she is forced to rethink her assumptions about her father’s life and her parents’ marriage. In this memoir, Tannen embarks on the poignant, yet perilous, quest to piece together the puzzle of her father’s life. Beginning with his astonishingly vivid memories of the Hasidic community in Warsaw, where he was born in 1908, she traces his journey: from arriving in New York City in 1920 to quitting high school at fourteen to support his mother and sister, through a vast array of jobs, including prison guard and gun-toting alcohol tax inspector, to eventually establishing the largest workers’ compensation law practice in New York and running for Congress. As Tannen comes to better understand her father’s—and her own—relationship to Judaism, she uncovers aspects of his life she would never have imagined. Finding My Father is a memoir of Eli Tannen’s life and the ways in which it reflects the near century that he lived. Even more than that, it’s an unflinching account of a daughter’s struggle to see her father clearly, to know him more deeply, and to find a more truthful story about her family and herself.

My Mother, My Father

Susan Wyndham
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Author : Susan Wyndham
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743431900

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My Mother, My Father by Susan Wyndham Pdf

The loss of a parent is an experience that we all face without any training - relating to a parent through old age and illness; going through the actual death in different circumstances and whether we can help parents to have a good death; the emotional aftermath - shock, grief, relief, the effect on families; funerals, wills and other rituals; clearing out the house and keeping memories alive; recovery and carrying on with life; the longer-term changes in us and our relationship with our parents. Edited by Sydney Morning Herald literary editor, journalist and writer Susan Wyndham, My Mother, My Fatheris a collection of stories from 14 remarkable Australian writers, sharing what it is to feel loss, and all the experiences and memories that create the image of our parents. Contributors include Helen Garner, David Marr, Tom Keneally, Gerard Windsor, Susan Duncan and Caroline Baum. These stories are intimate, honest, moving, sometimes funny, never sentimental, and always well written.