Author: Kimberly Nixon
Publisher: Roots and Wings Press, LLC
ISBN: 1957513071
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Life is hard for Ruby growing up in poverty on the wrong side of the mountain on her grandfather's farm where literally the sun didn’t shine. The Appalachian setting isn’t her friend as she searches for an easy life at the "tippy-top" with contentment and security. Ruby makes a series of bad decisions, causing her life to tumble into an unexpected outcome. The Four Winds meets Blind Tiger in this tale during Prohibition Era Appalachian Tennessee, set in the early 1900s, where setting and mountain community become other characters of the story. Based on a real-life tale of the author’s grandmother, the reader gets immersed in Ruby’s choices as she searches for worthiness and belonging. Was the adventure worth the risk of losing her family? Will Ruby ever find what she is looking for?
Author: Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1101902965
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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“The relationship between a mother and daughter is one of the most complicated and meaningful there is. Kimberly Williams-Paisley writes about her own with grace, truth, and beauty as she shares her journey back to her mother in the wake of a devastating illness.” —Brooke Shields Many know Kimberly Williams-Paisley as the bride in the popular Steve Martin remakes of the Father of the Bride movies, the calculating Peggy Kenter on Nashville, or the wife of country music artist, Brad Paisley. But behind the scenes, Kim was dealing with a tragic secret: her mother, Linda, was suffering from a rare form of dementia that slowly crippled her ability to talk, write and eventually recognize people in her own family. Where the Light Gets In tells the full story of Linda’s illness—called primary progressive aphasia—from her early-onset diagnosis at the age of 62 through the present day. Kim draws a candid picture of the ways her family reacted for better and worse, and how she, her father and two siblings educated themselves, tried to let go of shame and secrecy, made mistakes, and found unexpected humor and grace in the midst of suffering. Ultimately the bonds of family were strengthened, and Kim learned ways to love and accept the woman her mother became. With a moving foreword by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox, Where the Light Gets In is a heartwarming tribute to the often fragile yet unbreakable relationships we have with our mothers.
Author: Kimberly McCreight
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062225456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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New York Times Bestseller “Like Gone Girl, Reconstructing Amelia seamlessly marries a crime story with a relationship drama. And like Gone Girl, it should be hailed as one of the best books of the year.” — Entertainment Weekly The stunning debut novel from Kimberly McCreight in which a single mother reconstructs her teenaged daughter Amelia’s tragic death, sifting through her emails, texts, and social media to piece together the shocking truth about the last days of her life. Kate's in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter—now. But Kate’s stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it’s already too late for Amelia. And for Kate. An academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating has jumped to her death. At least that’s the story Grace Hall tells Kate. And clouded as she is by her guilt and grief, it is the one she forces herself to believe. Until she gets an anonymous text: She didn’t jump. Reconstructing Amelia is about secret first loves, old friendships, and an all-girls club steeped in tradition. But, most of all, it’s the story of how far a mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she couldn’t save.
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Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1636701795
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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2023 Tony Award winner for Best Musical! NEW JERSEY, 1999. Kimberly is about to turn sixteen and has recently moved with her family to a new town in suburban New Jersey. Suffering from a disease that causes her to age four and a half times faster than her high school peers, surrounded by a dysfunctional family (and possible felony charges), Kimberly is also navigating her first teenage crush. Ever the optimist, Kimberly is determined to find happiness against all odds and embark on a great adventure.
Author: Anna Simon
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1612001149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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U.S. Army Captain Kimberly N. Hampton was living her dream: flying armed helicopters in combat and commanding D Troop, 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry, the armed reconnaissance aviation squadron of the 82nd Airborne Division. An all-American girl from a small southern mill town, Kimberly was a top scholar, student body president, ROTC battalion commander, and highly ranked college tennis player. In 1998 she was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army. Then, driven by determination and ambition, Kimberly rapidly rose through the ranks in the almost all-male bastion of military aviation to command a combat aviation troop. On January 2, 2004, Captain Hampton was flying an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter above Fallujah, Iraq, in support of a raid on an illicit weapons marketplace, searching for an illusive sniper on the rooftops of the city. A little past noon her helicopter was wracked by an explosion. A heat-seeking surface-to-air missile had gone into the exhaust and knocked off the helicopter’s tail boom. The helicopter crashed, killing Kimberly. Kimberly’s Flight is the story of Captain Hampton’s exemplary life. This story is told through nearly fifty interviews and her own e-mails to family and friends, and is entwined with Ann Hampton’s narrative of loving and losing a child. Retired award-winning journalist Anna Simon was been a reporter with The Greenville News in South Carolina for 21 years. She received the South Carolina Press Association’s first place award for Reporting in Depth for 2009, and is a past recipient of multiple awards in education reporting, the press association’s Judson Chapman Award for Community Service, and other news and feature writing awards. Kimberly’s mother, Ann Hampton, first met Anna Simon at the bleakest point in her life, immediately following her daughter’s death, when Ms. Simon wrote a series of stories for The Greenville News about Kimberly’s life and the reaction in the small Southern town of Easley, SC to her death. Ann has traveled twice to Iraq, in 2010, as a Gold Star Mom in a "Hugs for Healing" program sanctioned by the U.S. State Department, where American and Iraqi mothers grieving the deaths of their children worked side-by-side on humanitarian projects, and in 2011 on a humanitarian mission with “Friends of Kurdistan.”
Author: Kimberly Davis
Publisher: Rebekah Kimberly Davis
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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An autobiographical Memoir detailing the life of a Transgender woman from the Age of 5 until transitioning at 62. Breast implants at the age of 63, and returning to work after a lengthy recovery from the operation. The author describes growing up in the wrong gender and the lifelong yearning to be authentic. Her dream was finally realized in September of 2016 when she came out of the closet and began living full time as a woman.
Author: Antoinette Marie Freeman
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532024525
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Kimberly Miller wants a million dollars for her birthday, but what she really wants is for her family to be saved by God. Yet this dream for her familys salvation may turn out to be a nightmareher family is cursed by the devil, and it is up to her to complete a mission for God and rid herself and her family of this generational curse. Kimberly Miller is the story of this courageous womans journey to overcome fear and supernatural threats by the devil. As the devil works to take over the world by turning humans into minions of vampires, Kimberly must ward off the devil and the vampire spirits in order to protect her family, her sister, and her sisters new baby. Join Kimberly as she engages in spiritual warfare and confronts the real assaults of the devil and his vampires. But even though the devils forces are strong, God will use Kimberly to make sure that the devils takeover is never going to happen.
Author: Frank Hamilton Spearman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Author: Kathryn Hulick
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1502627043
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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With an ever-growing need to engage young women in science and tech, Kimberly Bryant saw a lack of tech programming for girls of color. So, in 2011, the engineer and entrepreneur founded Black Girls Code, a nonprofit with the tagline imagine, build, and create. Readers will learn how these same principles informed Bryants own rise as a pioneering African American tech innovator and be inspired by her determination to expose young minds to STEM fields.
Author: K. Hippolite
Publisher: PetroleumEnt
ISBN: 1927569036
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Sol-Terrus-Domice has never been at peace, but the recent arrival of oil threatens to tear this fluorine-powered world apart. Suddenly, feudal roles unravel, nations form, and bandits rove the countryside in clockwork mechanoids. Born a serf, she fought her way to the bottom of the ruling order. Yet, destiny would set her on a different path. Lover. Commander of armies. Champion. Will Kimberly live up to the expectations? Or will her world's thirst for oil destroy her?
