In Mama S Shoes

Author : Rebecca D. Elswick
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458200655

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Mama's Shoes by Rebecca D. Elswick Pdf

By the time Sylvia Richardson is eighteen, she has buried her parents; given birth to a daughter; and become a widow. It is 1942, and World War II has destroyed Sylvias dream of dancing in red heels through life to the melody of a Hank Snow record. Instead, she is raising her daughter, Sassy, alone in the coal mining town she vowed to leave behind. By 1955, thirteen-year-old Sassy has been brought up on a stiff dose of Mamas lessons on how to be a ladyeven though Mama drinks, smokes, and dates a myriad of men. But everything changes the day a woman accuses Sylvia of trying to steal her husband, forcing Sassy to come to terms with her Mamas harsh teen years. For Sylvia, only the support of kith and kin can rescue her from her mistakes. Spanning twenty years, Mamas Shoes is a haunting saga of love, despair, and forgiveness as a cadence of female voices weaves a spell of mountain lore and secrets, defines family as more than blood kin, and proves second chances can bring happiness. An absolutely wonderful novel, its setting a beautifully realized small Appalachian coal town, its characters so vivid theyre practically jumping off the page. Lee Smith, author of Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger and The Last Girls

Author : Nicole Alston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1720076375

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In Mama's Shoes by Nicole Alston Pdf

A story book for young girls to read about three sisters playing dress up, being friends and sisters.

Author : Caron Levis
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683356127

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Mama's Work Shoes by Caron Levis Pdf

All about the adjustment a toddler makes when her mother returns to work, this humorous picture book takes on a big emotional milestone with a light hand. Perry knows all of Mama’s shoes. She knows that the zip-zup shoes are for skipping and swinging in the park. She knows that the pat-put shoes are for splishing and splashing in the rain. And she knows that no-shoes are for bath time and bedtime. But, one morning Mama puts on click-clack shoes, and Perry wonders what these new shoes are for. When Mama drops Perry at Nan’s house, and the click-clack shoes take Mama away for the whole day, Perry decides she hates these shoes! Perry later hides the click-clack shoes . . . and all of Mama’s shoes, just in case. Mama then explains that the click-clack shoes bring her to work in the morning, and they will also bring her home to Perry every single evening—clickety-clack fast!

Author : Ron Scollon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134535880

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Mediated Discourse by Ron Scollon Pdf

Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice sets out a discursive theory of human action. Language and action are intimately related. The difficult question to answer is how they are related. Mediated Discourse Theory looks into social relationships to see how the use of language is both a form of action in itself and is also indirectly related to all other forms of human action. Through the empirical study of a one year old child learning to exchange objects with caregivers, Scollon challenges the commonly held claim that all practices are represented in discourse and that all discourse has the function of structuring practice. Calling upon work in interactional sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics, sociocultural psychology, and intercultural communication, the Mediated Discourse Theory set out in this book resolves current problematic issues such as how practices are learned across the boundaries of groups and how individuals come to be socialized as social actors.

Author : Sandrine Sorlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108833028

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The Stylistics of ‘You' by Sandrine Sorlin Pdf

Including examples from a broad range of sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of 'you' across time, genre and medium, to provide an encompassing theoretical framework for the second-person pronoun. With its unique inter-disciplinary perspective, it will interest students and scholars of both linguistics and literature.

Author : Ramonica S. Patton
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781490707044

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Mommy, Can I Wear Your Shoes? by Ramonica S. Patton Pdf

This book is about a little girl who always wants to wear her mommy's shoes. After she has asked her mom so many times if she can wear them, her mom gives in. Her mother figures that she can teach her daughter a lesson rather than just let her wear her shoes. Her mom runs her through every chore in the house all day until she is exhausted and doesn't want to wear her shoes anymore!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Boots
ISBN : NYPL:33433110019191

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Shoe and Leather Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frederic Baraga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10589346

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A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Explained in English by Frederic Baraga Pdf

Author : Chevelle Stewart Ford
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781098034290

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Character Assassination by Chevelle Stewart Ford Pdf

From childhood Hope has always known that God had placed a calling on her life. Now what she wasn't prepared for was LIFE. And with one wrong decision it could take her to places she never dreamed of going.

Author : Alison Rose
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974212742

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Shoes Off, Mommy? by Alison Rose Pdf

Ali loves to take her shoes off and go barefoot. No matter the season or even the setting, she feels most free without her shoes. With the support of her mom she discovers modern dance, her true calling, where she can be herself-barefoot and free! This inspiring story will encourage every child to find what makes them feel free. "Shoes Off, Mommy?" will be sure to warm your heart and wiggle your toes.

Author : Diana Strelow
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469111087

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The William and Mary Girl by Diana Strelow Pdf

You cant get there from here. Not any more. No road exists today to take you to take anyone anywhere near the place where the awful things happened. The reason no one can go there, though, is that its no longer there -- the ostensibly happy and naive; the joyfully prosperous world that was America in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Id made a life in that world; living in it was for me, for a long time, incredibly good; But one day everything I loved and believed in and counted on became something more horrible, even, than I remembered happening years before; what happened to my life now would take years to overcome. When I was thirteen, my father--- in almost every way an intelligent, kind, sensitive man, found himself gratifying my mothers rage: I had talked back angrily to one or both of them. I was not a beautiful child; I knew that and hated it. And later Id know that Mama wanted no ugly duckling in her life-- I loved Mama, but what she couldnt feel for me was clear. Too often a terrible scene would begin to play itself out; insane, angry violence would again overwhelm me, demolishing everything I was; Id feel it for the rest of the day and the night as well. And as Daddy imparted his rage to me -- to my life itself -- my own anger would rise to meet it; the scenes that took place at our house were terrible. And later, the halting, painful, always slow climb up the stairs to bed was always more of an ordeal than I could bear to face. And I was sure that with every blow my father administered, as he swung again and again at my head,, that my life had already been ruined, that I could never overcome what had been happening. Although for years I hoped I was wrong about that, and I did my best.... and continued to hope.....

Author : Laurie Kocanda,Kara Thom
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781449402457

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Hot (Sweaty) Mamas by Laurie Kocanda,Kara Thom Pdf

Authors, moms, and fitness enthusiasts Thom and Kocanda work to balance motherhood and fitness. It was from their conversations that the idea for "Hot (Sweaty) Mamas" was born. Moms who find it difficult to start or stick with an exercise program will learn how to reframe their thinking.

Author : Bridgett M. Davis
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316558716

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The World According to Fannie Davis by Bridgett M. Davis Pdf

As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride). In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers racket out of her home. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, and granddaughter of slaves, Fannie ran her numbers business for thirty-four years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: "Dying is easy. Living takes guts." A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" and provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : UOM:39015086708818

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Puck's Library by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helena Andrews-Dyer
Publisher : Crown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593240335

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The Mamas by Helena Andrews-Dyer Pdf

Can white moms and Black moms ever truly be friends? Not just mom friends, but like really real friends? And does it matter? “Utterly addictive . . . Through her sharp wit and dynamic anecdotal storytelling, Helena Andrews-Dyer shines a light on the cultural differences that separate Black and white mothers.”—Tia Williams, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June Helena Andrews-Dyer lives in a “hot” Washington, D.C., neighborhood, which means picturesque row houses and plenty of gentrification. After having her first child, she joined the local mom group—“the Mamas”—and quickly realized that being one of the only Black mothers in the mix was a mixed bag. The racial, cultural, and socioeconomic differences were made clear almost immediately. But spending time in what she calls “the Polly Pocket world of postracial parenting” was a welcome reprieve. Then George Floyd happened. A man was murdered, a man who called out for his mama. And suddenly, the Mamas hit different. Though they were alike in some ways—they want their kids to be safe; they think their husbands are lazy; they work too much and feel guilty about it—Andrews-Dyer realized she had an entirely different set of problems that her neighborhood mom friends could never truly understand. In The Mamas, Andrews-Dyer chronicles the particular challenges she faces in a group where systemic racism can be solved with an Excel spreadsheet and where she, a Black, professional, Ivy League–educated mom, is overcompensating with every move. Andrews-Dyer grapples with her own inner tensions, like “Why do I never leave the house with the baby and without my wedding ring?” and “Why did every name we considered for our kids have to pass the résumé test?” Throw in a global pandemic and a nationwide movement for social justice, and Andrews-Dyer ultimately tries to find out if moms from different backgrounds can truly understand one another. With sharp wit and refreshing honesty, The Mamas explores the contradictions and community of motherhood—white and Black and everything—against the backdrop of the rapidly changing world.