Author : Anita Cannon
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1449716172
The story starts during happy times, with visits to Atlanta, birthday parties, and a collection of cars. In the fall, there is a sad turn of events when Aunt Bonnie dies and goes to heaven. Will is left to work out his grief and comes to a "smile across his heart" as he remembers his teaching and thinks of what Aunt Bonnie may be doing in her new home.
Author : Marcus Shields
Publisher : Telostic Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 2021-11-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1926515269
Meet Bonnie Billings : a 16-year-old “C” student with “D” looks and an “E” future ahead of her, living in a “C” household in the Phoenix, Arizona of the 2040s. A lot’s been happening “out there” lately, but neither Bonnie nor her family pay much attention; they’re too preoccupied with keeping up with the Joneses and – in Bonnie’s case – in surviving non-stop bullying from the “in-crowd” at her dreary, run-of-the mill, suburban high-school. This evening, her father’s younger brother – one “Bob Billings” from Tucson – is coming over for dinner, after a prolonged, unexplained absence. Uncle Bob’s bringing his whole clan, but Bonnie despises boring family get-togethers… and her uncle has a new trophy girlfriend, who’s everything that Bonnie had forlornly hoped to be, but came in “last in class” about. And what’s even worse (so she’s been told) is – adding insult to injury – this way-too-young-looking woman is now going to be Bonnie’s “Auntie”! The Billings teenager hates Uncle Bob’s new “squeeze”, sight-unseen; but Bonnie’s new “Auntie” is unlike anyone who has ever set foot on Planet Earth… and Bonnie’s “C” lifestyle is in for a big change!
Author : Dr. Will Harris
Publisher : J Merrill Publishing Inc
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2024-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1961475227
Will Harris is a renowned singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. A native of Oxford, Mississippi, Harris began playing piano and singing in church at an early age and assumed his first Minister of Music role at the age of fourteen. In high school, Harris directed the school's very first ROTC Choir and several community choirs in the Oxford, Mississippi area. While a student at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Harris directed the award-winning Baptist Student Union Gospel Choir of Rust College. In 2010, Mr. Harris relocated to Fayetteville, North Carolina, and assumed the full-time Minister of Music position at the prestigious Lewis Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. In 2013, Harris founded his award-winning recording choir "Will Harris and Friends," a global music ministry comprised of music educators, worship leaders, and psalmists from the community of Fayetteville and singers from across the United States. Will Harris has composed and performed his music nationally and internationally with the Gospel Music Workshop of America and the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses. Harris is a multi-award-winning gospel recording artist and the 2022 Dunamis Gospel Award Music of Excellence Recipient. Harris holds a Bachelor's Degree in Vocal Music from Rust College, a Master's Degree in Education from the University of Phoenix, a Certificate of Worship from the Robert Webber Institute for Worship Studies, and an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the School of the Great Commission Theological Seminary.
Author : Steve Majors
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820360325
They called him “pale faced or mixed race.” They called him “light, bright, almost white.” But most of the time his family called him “high yella.” Steve Majors was the white passing, youngest son growing up in an all-Black family that struggled with poverty, abuse, and generational trauma. High Yella is the poignant account of how he tried to leave his troubled childhood and family behind to create a new identity, only to discover he ultimately needed to return home to truly find himself. And after he and his husband adopt two Black daughters, he must set them on their own path to finding their place in the world by understanding the importance of where they come from. In his remarkable and moving memoir, Majors gathers the shards of a broken past to piece together a portrait of a man on an extraordinary journey toward Blackness, queerness, and parenthood. High Yella delivers its hard-won lessons on love, life, and family with exceptional grace.
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Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
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ISBN : 1619964538
Author : Heidi L. Kline
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1525536729
As a child, Heidi Kline endured unfathomable physical and sexual abuse at the hands of almost everyone she ever trusted. She and her twin sister, Holly, were labelled "The Unwanted Twins" by their entire family and spent their early years feeling unloved and unprotected. Now, in this gripping, powerful autobiography, she tells her courageous story of triumph over an upbringing she would not let define her. With the help of her twin sister’s love, as well being a spiritual medium, she was able to survive her childhood and put her shattered life back together. The Unwanted Twins is one woman’s unflinching look at a childhood no child should have to endure, with a message of hope, resilience, love, and forgiveness.
Author : Jentri Anders
Publisher : Gegensatz Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2022-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1621308316
She was arrested in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. She was at the Be-In when Timothy Leary told us to drop out. She was in the battle of People's Park when James Rector was killed. She was tear-gassed on campus at UC Berkeley. She was at Altamont when a Hell's Angel murdered a concertgoer. Now she has written her autobiography, describing her unusual trajectory through an unusual era. In the spirit of Howard Zinn, Jentri Anders presents her life as an activist and anthropologist. A Southerner with deep roots in Georgia and Arkansas, she went to high school in Groveland, Florida, one of the most notorious locations in black history. Expelled from both a Georgia Bible college and Florida State University for political reasons, she moved to California, participated in the antiwar movement there, then was sexually and politically harrassed out of UC Berkeley. She dropped out of mainstream culture to become a back-to-the-land hippie in what is now called the Emerald Triangle in Humboldt County, California, then dropped back in, wrote the definitive ethnography of back-to-the-land hippies, and was featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary film, Berkeley in the Sixties. A fascinating writer, Anders is also a scholar. Drag Me Out Like a Lady is thoroughly researched, indexed, referenced, and documented, including historical material from her personal files. Cultural historians, anthropologists, activists, feminists, literate hippies, as well as people who just like weird stories, will all love this book
Author : Nicole Seitz
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 082035449X
Acclaimed writers, family, friends, and more pay homage to the celebrated Southern author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini. New York Times–bestselling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year career. In sharing their stories of Conroy, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on literary life in and well beyond the American South. Conroy’s fellowship drew from all walks of life. His relationships were complicated, and people and places he thought he’d left behind often circled back to him at crucial moments. The pantheon of contributors includes Rick Bragg, Kathleen Parker, Barbra Streisand, Janis Ian, Anthony Grooms, Mary Hood, Nikky Finney, Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart, Ron Rash, Sandra Brown, and Mary Alice Monroe; Conroy biographers Katherine Clark and Catherine Seltzer; his longtime friends; Pat’s students Sallie Ann Robinson and Valerie Sayers; members of the Conroy family; and many more. Each author in this collection shares a slightly different view of Conroy. Through their voices, a multifaceted portrait of him comes to life and sheds new light on who he was. Loosely following Conroy’s own chronology, the essays herewith wind through his river of a story, stopping at important ports of call. Cities he called home and longed to visit, along with each book he birthed, become characters that are as equally important as the people he touched along the way.
Author : R. B. Chesterton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1480447900
Researching Thoreau’s life, a grad student finds danger, dark secrets, and something haunting Walden Pond in this supernatural thriller. When graduate student Aine Cahill uncovers a journal proving that her aunt Bonnie was an intimate companion of Thoreau’s during his supposedly solitary sojourn at Walden Pond, she knows that she has found the perfect subject for her dissertation. She decides to travel to Walden Pond herself to hunker down and work on her writing, but it quickly becomes clear that all is not as it seems in Thoreau’s woodland retreat. The further Aine delves into Bonnie’s diary the more she finds herself wondering about her family’s sinister legacy and even her own sanity—is there really a young girl lurking in the woods? As tragedy strikes a nearby town and suspicion falls on Aine, she scrambles to find the truth behind Thoreau’s paradise.
Author : Anne Jane Wharton Duff
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 1863
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