Middle Sister

Author : Bonnie Glover
Publisher : One World
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307538307

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The Middle Sister by Bonnie Glover Pdf

“As Kwai Chang moved through the arid desert of the American West, I would move through the equally desolate ghettos of Brooklyn, and we would each search: he for his family and I for my father. . . .” The middle of three sisters, Pamela is a quiet, thoughtful girl with a huge hole in her life–the space her father used to fill before her mother kicked him out. Occasionally, Pamela conjures up Kwai Chang, David Carradine’s character, from the Western action series Kung Fu, to give her spiritual guidance and advice she would normally turn to her parents for. But with her father gone, her mother has fallen into a pit of confusion and mental disarray. So it is up to Pamela and her sisters, Nona and Theresa, to run the household. When their money runs out, the family must leave their beloved East New York house and move to the projects. It is a change that will alter their lives forever–and even wise Kwai Chang cannot alter their destiny. But as Pamela discovers, “Everyone searches. The real challenge is in the finding and the keeping.” In this powerful literary debut, vividly set in the 1970s, Bonnie Glover has written a marvelous story about a young black woman struggling to define her identity–and make her family whole.

Author : Walter Toman
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0826104967

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Family Constellation by Walter Toman Pdf

The Newest edition of this classic work is presented in an updated format. Dr. Toman's revisions to the text include new interpretations of statistical data, a questionnaire for reader use, and a fully updated bibliography.

Author : Alan Kane
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781897522721

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Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies by Alan Kane Pdf

With 15,000 copies of previous editions sold, this bestselling guide brings together 150 of Alan Kane’s favourite scrambles, starting in Waterton National Park and working up through the Crowsnest area and Kananaskis Country into the contiguous national parks of Banff, Kootenay, Yoho and Jasper. Each peak can be climbed in one day from a road or backcountry lodge. All scrambles in the book are carefully graded and range from easy walk-ups for experienced hikers who want a little more challenge to more difficult, hands-on scrambles for more daring climbers. Each mountain is well illustrated with route photos and often a photo of the crux.

Author : Amanda Christie
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 037580336X

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Middle Sister by Amanda Christie Pdf

Sometimes being the middle girl in a big family is a tight squeeze--just ask Lucy Camden. It can be tough when the older sister is a popular basketball star and the younger sister has a knack for getting her way.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Mountaineering accidents
ISBN : 1933056606

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Accidents in North American Mountaineering 2002 by Anonim Pdf

Produced jointly by the Safety Committees of the American Alpine Club and the Alpine Club of Canada, Accidents in North American Mountaineering details what happened and analyzes what went wrong in each situation to give mountaineers the opportunity to learn from others' mistakes.

Author : U.S. Engineer Dept
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2577013

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Professional Papers of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army by U.S. Engineer Dept Pdf

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015024287206

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Professional Papers by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Pdf

Author : Marievil Rodriguez-Keever
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781669854982

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Middle School Mari V by Marievil Rodriguez-Keever Pdf

A story set in the beginning of the 1990's of a young girl trying to figure out her place in her family, her new school, and the world. In the 90's middle schools had not developed yet, most places still had junior highs. As a Military brat Mari must move every 3-4 years. She is the middle child of a Puerto Rican family moving from Hawaii to New York. Her new school and age are leading her into adolescence, crushes, conflicts with family and friends, as well as confusion. Feeling out of place and awkward turns out to be a normal emotion for Mari as she embraces weirdness as a quirky character trait.

Author : Corinna Assmann,Jan Rupp,Christine Schwanecke
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823303893

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The Transformative Power of Literature and Narrative: Promoting Positive Change by Corinna Assmann,Jan Rupp,Christine Schwanecke Pdf

Narrative plays a central role for individual and collective lives - this insight has arguably only grown at a time of multiple social and cultural challenges in the 21st century. The present volume aims to actualize and further substantiate the case for literature and narrative, taking inspiration from Vera Nünning's eminent scholarship over the past decades. Engaging with her formative interdisciplinary work, the volume seeks to explore potentials of change through the transformative power of literature and narrative - to be harnessed by individuals and groups as agents of positive change in today's world. The book is located at the intersection of cognitive and cultural narratology and is concerned with the way literature affects individuals, how it works at an intersubjective level, enabling communication and community, and how it furthers social and cultural change.

Author : Bhisam Sahni
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788184753356

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Middle India by Bhisam Sahni Pdf

Middle India, in this collection of seventeen short stories, Bhisham Sahni examines middle India the lower middle class not rich or famous or educated in convent schools, not cosmopolitan but urban or semi-urban. In these tightly told tales, he explores with precision of thought and expression the humanity of individuals and their places in society.The collection includes some of Sahni’s best known stories: ‘Dinner for the Boss’, a tragi-comic tale of a man trying to please his employer and a mother’s attempt to please her son; ‘Paali’, the drama of a young boy shared between a Muslim and a Hindu family during Partition; and ‘Sparrow’, a story of love and loss in a marriage. Among the other stories in this anthology are popular favourites like ‘Veero’, ‘The Witch’, ‘Before Dying’, ‘Radha-Anuradha’ and ‘Salma Aapa’.

Author : Claudine G. Wirths,Richard A. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351508445

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Lives Through the Years by Claudine G. Wirths,Richard A. Williams Pdf

Growing old - what is it like? What are the main problems of the aging? Lack of fulfillment in their work and life? Loneliness? Anxiety about sickness and disability? Fear of death? This well-documented, theoretically systematic, and vivid account of the process of aging provides highly enlightening answers and dispels once and for all many of the myths surrounding the close to 20 million Americans who are over sixty-five. Building upon the results of extensive interviews, the authors have established the existence of six styles and have concluded that a successful transition to old age can be achieved through any of them. They have also developed a definition of success, which has practical implications, since it deals with the extent to which an individual contributes or is a burden to the lives of those around him. The combined analysis of style and success results in a better understanding of individual differences in aging. The reader comes to know and understand the subjects as if he had worked with them in person. The wealth of detail the case histories contain permits scholars and students to judge for themselves the validity of the authors' findings. Derived from this unusually rich body of material, the authors' conclusions and recommendations are invaluable to all concerned with the study, the treatment, and the counseling of the aged. "Lives Through the Years" is a pioneering volume of social inquiry and interpretation, which marks a major scientific advance in its field, opens up new horizons for fruitful research, and offers a stimulating and authoritative portrayal of one of the most important problems of our society.

Author : Priscilla Lindsey Biddle
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781483453569

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Act Your Age: A Coming of (Middle) Age Memoir by Priscilla Lindsey Biddle Pdf

"Act your age! From her mother's admonition in childhood, a middle ages, twice-married mother of four and a product of the deep south of the seventies makes her way though a meandering inner journey towards a quiet epiphany revealing what her mother's words really mean. This rite of passage at the ungainly age of fifty unfolds through twelve memoir-like narratives that will evoke both laughter and tears. Each chapter is an independent reflection on the dozens of daily anecdotes all of us live each day in the course of growing up and growing older. Reading the narratives may be like going through a shoe box of old photographs you find in the attic, not arrange in any seeming order, but, in total, creating a logic of their own. Memorable characters like Papa, Aunt Norma, Harrison Augustus Turnbull, and Artemesia rise from the narrator's southern Gothic roots. The narrator, nameless Every Woman, prides herself in being an introspective and competent adult, but her naiveté demonstrates that being an adult a really a state of mind, and finding truth is like entertaining company with chipped china. Coping with life's poignant struggles, like disease, old age, suicide, and murder, and its ordinary ones, like child-raising, teaching, pets, and church-going, she seeks sense in the nonsense with humor and with love"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : YCT Expert Team
Publisher : YOUTH COMPETITION TIMES
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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General Aptitude Compulsory Solved Papers by YCT Expert Team Pdf

2023-24 NTA-CSIR-NET/JRF PART A General Aptitude Compulsory Solved Papers

Author : Murat Guvenc
Publisher : Murat Guvenc
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442102569

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The Bedside Tales of Sultan by Murat Guvenc Pdf

The Bedside Tales of Sultan is a collection of fairy tales, fantasies and moral stories that appeals to children and adults alike. The book unfolds through the story of a young Sultan who develops a sleeping disorder and finds salvation listening to fairy tales in order to ease his loneliness and boredom. Along the lines of the Arabian Nights, every night we listen to a different story which transports us to a new realm. We meet with people from the royal court - sultans, viziers, judges; people who possess magical powers - magicians, sorcerers, and ordinary people - bakers, gardeners, merchants, shoemakers, tutors. We listen to tales of walking clouds, talking fingers, migrating watermelons and fighting letters. Every story is different but they all have one thing in common; they are bedside tales, life lessons that invigorate our imagination. www.bedsidetalesofsultan.com

Author : Alyse Myers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Compact discs, Book
ISBN : 9781416543053

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Who Do You Think You Are? by Alyse Myers Pdf

In spare prose, Myers creates a riveting and deeply moving narrative to show what goes on behind closed doors in another person's life.