The Throwaway Children

Author : Diney Costeloe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784970000

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The Throwaway Children by Diney Costeloe Pdf

Gritty, heartrending and unputdownable – the story of two sisters sent first to an English, then an Australian orphanage in the aftermath of World War II. Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage – not knowing that the papers she has signed will entitle them to do what they like with the children. And it is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of orphans to their sister institution in Australia. Among them – without their family's consent or knowledge – are Rita and Rosie, the throwaway children. What readers are saying about THE THROWAWAY CHILDREN: 'I haven't felt so immersed in a book in a very long time and have recommended to just about everyone' 'Heart wrenching' 'A truly powerful book'

Author : Ting-Xing Ye
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781774880357

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Throwaway Daughter by Ting-Xing Ye Pdf

A Canadian teenager travels to China to explore her ancestry and search for her birth mother in a dramatic and moving YA novel. Throwaway Daughter tells the story of Grace Dong-mei Parker, whose biggest concern is how to distill her adoption from China into the neat blanks of her personal history assignment. Aside from the unwelcome reminders of difference, Grace loves passing for the typical Canadian teen — until the day she witnesses the Tiananmen massacre on the news. Horrified, she sets out to explore her Chinese ancestry, only to discover that she was one of the thousands of infant girls abandoned in China since the introduction of the one-child policy, strictly enforced by the Communist government. But Grace was one of the lucky ones, adopted as a baby by a loving Canadian couple. With the encouragement of her adoptive parents, she studies Chinese and travels back to China in search of her birth mother. She manages to locate the village where she was born, but at first no one is willing to help her. However, Grace never gives up and, finally, she is reunited with her birth mother, discovering through this emotional bond the truth of what happened to her almost twenty years before.

Author : Catherine Hall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101190159

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Days of Grace by Catherine Hall Pdf

At the beginning of World War II, twelve-year-old Nora Lynch is one of thousands of London children sent away to the safety of the English countryside. Her surrogate family, Reverend and Mrs. Rivers and their daughter Grace, are like no-one she has ever met, offering shelter, affection, and the sister she never had. But Nora is too young and too naïve to understand the cracks beneath the surface of her idyllic new life at the rectory, or the disappointments of the Riverses' marriage. And as her friendship with Grace grows more intense, she aches to become even closer. What happens next is a secret that she keeps for more than fifty years, a secret that she can begin to reveal only when, elderly and alone, Nora knows that she is close to the end. A beautiful meditation on love, friendship, and family, Days of Grace is a stunning debut that brings a tumultuous era to life. Nora tells her story in alternating chapters from the past and present, projecting her childhood nostalgia with a cinematic glow.

Author : Kristine Scarrow
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459714090

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Throwaway Girl by Kristine Scarrow Pdf

When your teen years are so messed up, how do you grow up happy? Andy Burton knows a thing or two about survival. Since she was removed from her mother’s home and placed in foster care when she was nine, she’s had to deal with abuse, hunger, and homelessness. But now that she’s eighteen, she’s about to leave Haywood House, the group home for girls where she’s lived for the past four years, and the closest thing to a real home she’s ever known. Will Andy be able to carve out a better life for herself and find the happiness she is searching for?

Author : Lisa Aversa Richette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : OCLC:1128150827

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The Throwaway Children by Lisa Aversa Richette Pdf

Author : Greg Todd VanRiper
Publisher : Guardian Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Adult child abuse victims
ISBN : 1554523680

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Throwaway Children by Greg Todd VanRiper Pdf

Only a life that has been so challenging could be so full of reward and victory. A child goes from a dysfunctional home with an alcoholic father into foster care where horrific abuse was prevalent. Children were whipped with hoses, forced to exercise to the point of exhaustion and imprisoned in their rooms. Throwaway Children describes how this person escaped then struggled to overcome abuse, abandonment, almost freezing to death, motor vehicle accidents, bankruptcy, separation and many more trials to achieve freedom, victory and success. You will be inspired, enlightened and entertained as you identify with his experiences. Each chapter is filled with humour and suspense. It will make you laugh and cry. "God speaks so often in story form. He has done it again in this deeply touching book, Throwaway Children. You will find adventure, tragedy, laughter, and hope in these pages. And you will find a God who delights in redeeming and transforming broken lives." -Phil Callaway, speaker and author of Laughing Matters About the Author: Greg VanRiper is a truck driver and works in the oilpatch in Alberta, Canada. He has a wife and two sons. He has worked as a volunteer with kids and adults in Canada, the United States and overseas. His great sense of humour has touched many lives.

Author : Louise Allen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471166754

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Thrown Away Child by Louise Allen Pdf

Thrown Away Child is a memoir covering Louise Allen’s abusive childhood in a foster home, how she survived - using her love of art as a sanctuary - and how she hopes to right old wrongs now by fostering children herself and campaigning for the improvement of foster care services. It is a compelling and inspirational story. This book gives a voice to the many children who grew up unhappily in care.

Author : Laura Marlowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1936352516

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Tommy the Throwaway Dog by Laura Marlowe Pdf

Tommy was not loved by his owner who forgot to feed him, didn't play with him, left him alone a lot and then threw him away in the trash. When a city worker found him, he took him to an animal shelter where they made Tommy strong and happy. Soon he was adopted by a loving family.

Author : Heather Huffman
Publisher : Heather Huffman
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Throwaway by Heather Huffman Pdf

Sometimes life gives you a second chance when you least expect it. Jessie Jones has been under pimp Spence's thumb for fourteen years when undercover cop Gabe walks into her life and offers her something she's never had before: love, a future, and a home. But even if Jessie could walk away from Spence, there are darker forces of evil who won't let her go that easily. In this romantic suspense, author Heather Huffman delivers an adventure from the vibrant streets of St. Louis to the caves of the Ozarks as Jessie discovers whether she can love another, whether she can love herself, and whether any of it is enough. Throwaway is the first installment in the surprisingly warm and funny series The Throwaways, twelve novels that don’t shy away from the dark corners of this world but always shine the light of hope. At the core of the series is a group of strong but often unlikely heroes and heroines coming from all walks of life whose lives intertwine as they fight for justice, for love, and to leave their indelible mark on this world. Immerse yourself in a world of suspense, laughter, and love with The Throwaways.

Author : Andrea Contos
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781525312557

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Throwaway Girls by Andrea Contos Pdf

A timely edge-of-your-seat thriller from a debut writer to watch. Caroline is only three months from her great escape — leaving behind her rigid prep school and the parents who think they can convert her to being straight — when her best friend, Madison, goes missing. There’s no question that Caroline will get involved in the investigation. After all, she has her own reasons for not trusting the police, and she owes Madison big time. But Caroline uncovers a wider mystery as she follows the clues, with other missing girls and no one on the case. Why isn’t anyone looking for these girls? And what’s the connection between them and Madison? Could it be . . . Caroline herself?

Author : Diney Costeloe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784970048

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The Girl With No Name by Diney Costeloe Pdf

A heart-wrenching story from the bestselling author of The Throwaway Children. Thirteen-year-old Lisa has escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport. She arrives in London unable to speak a word of English, her few belongings crammed into a small suitcase. Among them is one precious photograph of the family she has left behind. Lonely and homesick, Lisa is adopted by a childless couple. But when the Blitz blows her new home apart, she wakes up in hospital with no memory of who she is or where she came from. The authorities give her a new name and despatch her to a children's home. With the war raging around her, what will become of Lisa now? Can't wait for the sequel? The Married Girls is out now! What readers are saying about The Girl With No Name: 'Diney Costeloe has perfectly captured the traumatic atmosphere of the war years both in London and the countryside... Highly recommended' 'The characters leap from the pages. The Blitz scenes were palpable, imagining what Londoners endured during WW2. Love all Diney's books' 'The author writes with good pace, and excellent descriptions of place and characters, but her main skill is in conveying the personal dilemmas faced by her characters. I shall definitely seek out more books by this author'.

Author : Viv Albertine
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571326235

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To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2018 What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic. Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to Clothes, Music, Boys, Viv Albertine has reinvented the genre with her unflinching honesty. To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman's obsession with the truth - the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider. It is a gaping wound of a book, both an exercise in blood-letting and psychological archaeology, excavating what lies beneath: the fear, the loneliness, the anger. It is a brutal expose of human dysfunctionality, the impossibility of true intimacy, and the damage wrought upon us by secrets and revelations, siblings and parents. Yet it is also a testament to how we can rebuild ourselves and come to face the world again. It is a portrait of the love stories that constitute a life, often bringing as much pain as joy. With the inimitable blend of humour, vulnerability, and intelligence that makes Viv Albertine one of our finest authors working today, To Throw Away Unopened smashes through layers of propriety and leads us into a new place of savage self-discovery.

Author : Diney Costeloe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784976118

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The Married Girls by Diney Costeloe Pdf

An unputdownable drama from the bestselling author of The Girl With No Name. Wynsdown, 1949. In the small Somerset village of Wynsdown, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married and now feels settled in her adopted home after arriving from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during the war. Meanwhile, the squire's fighter pilot son, Felix, has returned to the village with a fiancée in tow. Daphne is beautiful, charming... and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the war, Felix knows some of Daphne's past, but she has worked hard to conceal one that could unravel her carefully built life. For Charlotte, too, a dangerous past is coming back in the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Black. Forever bound by their childhoods, Charlotte will always care for him, but Harry's return disrupts the village quiet and it's not long before gossip spreads. The war may have ended, but for these girls, trouble is only just beginning. What readers are saying about The Married Girls: 'Thoroughly enjoyed this book' 'Three words: wonderful, captivating and enthralling' 'I am so pleased I found this author' 'Diney Costeloe at her best.

Author : Ross D. Parke,Armin A. Brott
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fatherhood
ISBN : 0395860415

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Throwaway Dads by Ross D. Parke,Armin A. Brott Pdf

Argues that the largely negative portrayal of fathers in mass media is both inaccurate and harmful, and offer proposals for change.

Author : Haley Stewart
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594718182

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The Grace of Enough by Haley Stewart Pdf

Do you ever feel caught in an endless cycle of working harder and longer to get more while enjoying life less? The Stewart family did—and they decided to make a radical change. Popular Catholic blogger and podcaster Haley Stewart explains how a year-long internship on a sustainable farm changed her family’s life for the better, allowing them to live gospel values more intentionally. When Haley Stewart married her bee-keeping sweetheart, Daniel, they dreamed of a life centered on home and family. But as the children arrived and Daniel was forced to work longer hours at a job he liked less and less, they dared to break free from the unending cycle of getting more yet feeling unfufilled. They sold their Florida home and retreated to Texas to live on a farm with a compost toilet and 650 square feet of space for a family of five. Surprisingly, they found that they had never been happier. In The Grace of Enough, Stewart shares essential elements of intentional Christian living that her family discovered during that extraordinary year on the farm and that they continue to practice today. You, too, will be inspired to: live simply offer hospitality revive food culture and the family table reconnect with the land nurture community prioritize beauty develop a sense of wonder be intentional about technology seek authentic intimacy center life around home, family, and relationships Drawing from Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’, Stewart identifies elements of Catholic social teaching that will enhance your life and create a ripple effect of grace to help you overcome the effects of today’s “throwaway” culture and experience a deeper satisfaction and stronger faith.