Author : Cristina Kessler
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780531302842
Residents of a Sudanese village rejoice when a traditional water storage method is replaced by modern technology, but Fatima's grandmother knows there is no substitute for the reliability of the baobab tree.
Author : Pauli Murray
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807072273
First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.
Author : MaryLou Driedger
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1772033693
Shortlisted, 2021 Manitoba Book Awards, Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book Nominated, Manitoba Young Readers Choice Awards 2023, Sundogs Award Set between Kansas and Saskatchewan in 1907, this middle-grade novel follows a young boy who gets separated from his family en route to Canada and must find his way alone across the immense prairie landscape. Following the sudden death of his eldest brother, twelve-year-old Peter is chosen by his father to travel by train from Kansas to Saskatchewan to help set up the new family homestead. But when Peter's boxcar becomes uncoupled from the rest of the train somewhere in South Dakota, he finds himself lost and alone on the vast prairie. For a sheltered boy who has only read about adventures in books, Peter is both thrilled and terrified by the journey ahead. Along the way, he faces real dangers, from poisonous snakes to barn fires; meets people from all walks of life, including famous author Mark Twain; and grows more resourceful, courageous, and self-reliant as he makes his way across the Midwest to the Canadian border, eventually reaching his new home in Drake, Saskatchewan. The journey expands Peter's view of the world and shows him that the bonds of family and community, regardless of background, are universal and filled with love. Packed with excitement and adventure, this coming-of-age novel features a strong and likeable young protagonist and paints a realistic portrait of prairie life in the early twentieth century.
Author : George Flavel Danforth
Publisher :
Page : 1208 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 1900
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Jean Lee
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 2019-12-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781676898542
"Grandma, Tell Me Your Life Story" is a guided journal with questions on every page for a grandmother to answer for her grandchildren. This large, 8.5x11 book offers plenty of lined space for grandmas to write about their childhoods, their likes and dislikes, and memories along with their hopes and dreams. Each page provides space to write the date; and most pages included several prompts to really help draw out answers. Makes a great gift and a lasting keepsake!
Author : Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1504041267
A poignant meditation on the bonds between mothers and daughters—and the inescapable effects of time—from the author of A Wrinkle in Time. In the second memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, Madeleine L’Engle chronicles a season of extremes. Four generations of family have gathered at Crosswicks, her Connecticut farmhouse, to care for L’Engle’s ninety-year-old mother. As summer days fade to sleepless nights, her mother’s health rapidly declines and her once astute mind slips into senility. With poignant honesty, L’Engle describes the gifts and graces, as well as the painful emotional cost, of caring for the one who once cared for you. As she spends her days with a mother who barely resembles the competent and vigorous woman who bore and raised her, L’Engle delves into her memories, reflecting on the lives of the strong women in her family’s history. Evoking both personal experiences and universal themes, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother takes an unflinching look at diminishment and death, all the while celebrating the wonder of life. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Madeleine L’Engle including rare images from the author’s estate.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Footwear industry
ISBN :
Author : Carol J. Perry
Publisher : Kensington Cozies
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496743652
Fans of Amanda Flower and Heather Blake will delight in this latest mystery in the Witch City series, featuring Lee Barrett, program director for Salem, Massachusetts’s local station, WICH-TV, and a cast of colorful characters and sleuthing helpers—including her detective sergeant husband, and a clairvoyant cat, O’Ryan. Just married, Lee and her husband, Detective Sergeant Pete Mondello, are settling into their new home when Lee is dubbed WICH-TV’s new “Historical Documentary Chief Executive.” Her first subject is the brand-newSalem International Museum, slated to be a location for traveling blockbuster exhibits, starting with “Seafaring New England.” From research to collecting artifacts of Salem’s long-ago days as a shipping capital, the project is a challenge—but when the driver of a truckload of antiquities turns up dead under a pile of fall leaves, it’s not quite the kind of challenge Lee expected . . . Soon, Lee and Pete are dredging up clues along with a hardy crew of helpers, including Lee’s librarian aunt, Ibby, Lee’s best friend and practicing witch, River North—and of course the clairvoyant cat, O’Ryan. But when a ship model in the exhibit’s collection appears to be haunted, Lee will have to dive into her own treasure trove of psychic gifts before a killer comes to the surface to strike again . . . Praise for the Witch City Mysteries “Yet another hit in the Witch City Mystery series!” —Fresh Fiction on Murder, Take Two “Carol J. Perry juggles these details with finesse and moves the plot toward a creepy conclusion that adds a few shivers to this cozy.” —BookPage on Late Checkout
Author : Maribeth Boelts
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763691488
But all the kids are wearing them! Any child who has ever craved something out of reach will relate to this warm, refreshingly realistic story. Features an audio read-along. "I have dreams about those shoes. Black high-tops. Two white stripes." All Jeremy wants is a pair of those shoes, the ones everyone at school seems to be wearing. But Jeremy’s grandma tells him they don’t have room for "want," just "need," and what Jeremy needs are new boots for winter. When Jeremy’s shoes fall apart at school, and the guidance counselor gives him a hand-me-down pair, the boy is more determined than ever to have those shoes, even a thrift-shop pair that are much too small. But sore feet aren’t much fun, and Jeremy comes to realize that the things he has -- warm boots, a loving grandma, and the chance to help a friend -- are worth more than the things he wants.
Author : Peg Wyant
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1642375152
This is the journey over five decades of Peg Wyant who navigated from Mad Men through Me Too and motherhood Younger women trying excel at being a working mom can learn from the methods she developed. At the Procter and Gamble Company, Peg would achieve a series of first, the first woman to go into the field on sales training, to become a female brand manager, to work all the way through pregnancy and, finally, to report directly to the CEO. Then she continued breaking barriers by starting a venture capital firm focused on women, a real estate development company band clubs of her own. Wyant tells her story frankly. She spares no words in describing the challenges she faced as a woman, in the corporate and other worlds where female managers were rare to nonexistent. Along the way she and her husband, Jack, raised four children. While their daughter described their upbringing as ‘captain crunch and chaos,’ all four became squash champions, Ivy League graduates, and leaders. There are underlying lessons for any women trying to combine motherhood and career — start before you’re ready and figure it out, seldom have a bad day, and ladies, it’s up to us.
