Author : Helen Forrester
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007508239
Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction set in Liverpool continues to move readers.
Author : Marilyn Granville Davis
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1607919656
Gaza Alabama is the place to be. Six teens living in Gaza have a lot going on and they want you to read all about it. Evangeline Powell is beautiful and she has it going on in every possible way. Evangeline thinks that because she's a "good girl" God owes her; especially since she is only asking for one thing. Patrick Weddington can't believe what's going on at his new high school. Patrick is shocked at what he sees when he walks in - Joseph Hendrix, a very handsome football star has it altogether. He has several college football scholarship offers to choose from and he's a respected leader among his peers. Joseph believes life is going well until he is set up in the worse way by someone he thought was a friend. Darius Freeman barely escapes the gunfire but that's not all - Tiffany Carrington is depressed and confused. She thinks her parents don't love or understand her. Tiffany is contemplating taking her own life, like - Joelle Knight thinks aloud as she looks into the mirror, "I can't believe this stuff is happening to me!" She knows her Ma will want to kill her when she finds out; but she has a perfect plan to get out of this mess! Just Say YES is ideal for teenagers, young adults, parents, families, church youth groups, Bible studies, or Christian schools. This novel has discussion questions that can be used by group or individual readers. There is also a list of useful resources for teens and adult readers which provide helpful information about some of the concerns addressed in this novel. Marilyn Granville Davis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Alabama. She has written two children's books, My Christian ABC Book and Learning Colors and Numbers with a Smile.
Author : Barbara M. Joosse
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1452172013
In this beautifully illustrated children’s book, a heartwarming tale of motherly love unfolds in the Arctic north. In a timeless and universal story, a child tests the limits of independence and comfortingly learns that a parent's love is unconditional and everlasting. The lyrical text introduces young readers to a distinctively different culture, while at the same time showing that the special love that exists between parent and child transcends all boundaries of time and place. The story is complemented by graphically stunning illustrations featuring whales, wolves, puffins, and sled dogs. This tender and reassuring book is one that both parents and children will turn to again and again.
Author : Lynn Nottage
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2010
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9780822223900
THE STORY: From Lynn Nottage, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such plays as Fabulation and Intimate Apparel , comes this haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war. Set in a small mining to
Author : John Van Druten
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822205494
THE STORY: Shows how Mama, with the help of her husband and Uncle Chris, brings up the children in their modest San Francisco home during the early years of the century. Mama, a sweet and capable manager, sees her children through childhood, manage
Author : Kelly Mitchell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1728316103
Pandora grew up in hardship, child abuse, sexual abuse, rape, drug abuse, and jail. Pandora was taken from her mother when she was ten years old. Her parents were on drugs. The choices she made in her life turned her life upside down. Pandora learned how to amend her oppressed life; she learned how to deal with life in a positive way. This novel is all about empowerment and showing people how they can overcome negative situations without having to continue on a self-destructive path that leads them to nowhere good. It’s all about self-discovery and the love of self and the love of life in the desire to live a normal life.
Author : Myretta Robens
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821778517
Longing for the simple life, Geoffrey Dorrington, Earl of Cheriton, passes himself off as a steward at his relative's country estate and steals the heart of the vicar's daughter. Original.
Author : J.M. Duke
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1483697320
HISTORICAL FICTION YES'm J.M. DUKE It is 1950 in rural Virginia when Samantha Lee is born into an upper middle class white family in a town divided along racial lines by both railroad tracks and philosophies. As the baby arrives home, she is welcomed into the arms of Pearl, the God-fearing, uneducated black hired help who will eventually become Sammie's confidant, ally, and teacher of life's greatest lessons. As Sammie matures through the tumultuous 1960s, Pearl makes it her personal mission to deter the girl from a predetermined life of self-importance and bigotry. After Sammie's mother takes a job, Pearl becomes the mother figure in her life, nursing her through illness, teaching her Bible lessons, and sharing life stories. But as the little girl and her caretaker bond, they both struggle with the tension between their love for each other and their obligations. Nine years later, as the nation battles to achieve civil rights, Sammie and Pearl find themselves in very different places in the same small town. "Yes'm" is a story of hope, trust, wisdom, reconciliation, and respect as a black maid and her white charge share the winds of historical change. "The stories of Pearl and Sammie intertwine in a way that will leave you both nostalgic for an earlier era and grateful that the uglier parts of the past are behind us." S. E. Jacobs, attorney, Richmond, Virginia "The chapters flow like vignettes as Sammie and Pearl come to life." B. L. Cloud, MEd, University of Virginia; Goodreads reviewer ""Yes'm" makes us remember the joys and pains of being part of a family wherever we may have grown up." E. T. Fife, retired educator
Author : Anthony Dellaira
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595131832
This story relates how two Italian-American families, the Medinas and Belladonnas, cope with grief and human weakness. It takes place in 1946 on Christmas Eve in the small industrial city of Trenton, New Jersey, not long after the end of World War II. It is seen through the eyes of Veronica Medina, a 12-year-old girl emerging into womanhood who is sent to babysit her two younger cousins, Little Victor and Angelica, the grandchildren of her Aunt Rosina. This is the first Christmas that all the sons are back from the War—all but one—Young Victor Belladonna, who died in the Pacific when his troop ship was torpedoed. The families buried their feelings and never grieved for him, resulting in a web of tension among them. Vic’s death lurks like a spider in the corner. Veronica, who was in love with Young Victor, wants to express her grief but feels stifled by the family. The suppression of feelings is strengthened by the anger over past hurts straining the relationship between Young Vic’s parents, Veronica’s Aunt Rosina and Uncle Vic. Their relationship is poisoning the other relationships in the house. Matters finally come to head when Young Vic’s father comes home roaring drunk while everyone is gathered at the Belladonnas for an after midnight Christmas Eve feast of sausage and peppers. He is in drunken over-the-top grief for his dead son and the sorry state of his marriage to Rosina. This event finally gives the two families the chance to openly grieve and start the healing process.
Author : David Willinger
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780819177315
Designed for a course in "World Arts: Art, Theatre and Film", and will prove useful to programs at other colleges that have been designed along similar interdisciplinary lines. Contents: THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION: Selections on Shamanism, Michael Kirby; Everyman, Anonymous; The Blind, Maurice Maeterlinck; THE PORTRAIT: "The Period of Study," Constantin Stanislavsky; Krapp's Last Tape, Samuel Beckett; LOVE FULLFILLED, LOVE THWARTED: A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry; Our Town, Thornton Wilder; ART IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT: The Trojan Women, Euripides; Fabiola, Eduardo Machado; THE SENSE OF MOVEMENT: Lazzi; The Flying Doctor, Moliere; Futurist Plays; The Jet of Blood, Antonin Artaud; 18 Happenings in 6 Parts; VOCABULARY LISTS: Theatre; Film.
