Author: Clyde D'Souza
Publisher: Clyde D'Souza
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Mama, Tell Me a Story is a collection of twelve short bedtime stories that parents will love reading to their kids over and over again. As each story unfolds, it helps paint a picture and holds the power to unlock your child’s superpower—their imagination! The stories are engaging and revolve around characters that your kids will absolutely love. They will learn to face their fears with Daisy, learn to believe in themselves like Alex, they will understand the power of telling the truth like Charlie, and learn the value of sharing with George and his friends—and these are just to name a few. Mama, Tell Me a Story helps your child to absorb these important messages at a young age because these values, combined with the power to exercise their imagination, will eventually help build a strong foundation for their growth and shape their future.
Author: Linda Fay Covington
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493120557
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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“That Old Man” “‘That old man. That old man.’ Those were the first words out of your mother’s mouth every evening when I dragged through the door from a long hard day in the field. She was so bitter about our life as sharecroppers, and it was tearing the family apart. I worked from sun up to sun down to take care of my family and provide income for my landlord. The white man don’t work us like mules anymore.” Dad talked, leaning over in his recliner. In a few months he would be seventy nine years old. He reminisced about his life experiences as a sharecropper. The old sharecropper’s steps were getting slower by the day. His oversized head was full of gray curly hair and his thick black eyebrows, I knew as a child, were snow white, but as eye-catching as ever. I moved close to him to make sure he could hear me. "Dad," I asked, “Why didn’t you move north and get away from the south? Why didn’t you take us and move away from the cotton fields of Mississippi for a better life?” He looked up at me, flushed, and he slowly began to tell his story: One day I came home and your mother had packed her things and left for Illinois with all of y’all. I should have seen it coming; she has asked me so many times to pack up and go north, but I refused. I knew times were hard and jobs were scarce in the north because everybody was running there to get away from the cotton fields. She wrote me and begged me for weeks to come to Alton. Folks like us with little or no money didn’t have a telephone back then, so we had to write letters. I was farming with an old broke down tractor that would turn over. One day the landlord came to the field to threaten, to curse, and to blame me for the tractor turning over. Even though he knew the tractor was old and worn out, he continued to blame me. Eventually, I gave in and moved to Alton, Illinois, to keep the family together and to get away from the abuse of that old man. I was in Alton for about five months or so with my wife and three girls at that time, living with my brother and his family. I couldn’t find a job for nothing in the world that paid enough money to support my family. It was the mid-fifties and times were hard, even in the North. That was when Eisenhower was President. I had to drop out of school when I was fifteen to work the fields. I only made it to the fifth grade. Besides farming, the only work experience I had back then was working on a logging camp. I made twenty-five to thirty-five dollars a week on the logging camp minus a dollar and fifty cents a day room and board. I had to quit; I was away from my family six days a week! I only saw them on Sunday and my wife was really unhappy about that. Your mother and I argued a lot because money was so scarce when we were in Alton. I wanted our own place for my family; I didn’t like staying with other folks, even though it was my brother and his family. I have always been an independent man and took care of myself and my family. So, after a few months of being in Alton, I moved back to Mississippi by myself. It was in the spring and time to plant the crop. So, I decided to move back and to give it another try. My landlord was glad to see me return, even though he tried to hide his feelings. That happy kind of a look was all over his face. He refused to buy another tractor for me to work the farm. Trying to work the fields with a broke down tractor was hard. My wife was right, “That old man,” she would often exclaim about the landlord. It’s a wonder I didn’t fall dead to the ground. Your mother refused to move back at first. She stayed in Alton for several more weeks. One day I looked up and my wife, Essie Mae, and my girls were walking in the house. She looked at me and said, “I have to keep the family together.” Even though my wife returned on her own will, she was still unhappy; she continued to complain. One evening a truck came through picking up folks for revival. We got on that truck and went to church. Your mother got save
Author: Lucy Turley Denson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469193949
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Author: Irene Watson
Publisher: Loving Healing Press
ISBN: 1932690387
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 197
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This slim volume contains 21 true stories of courage, love, endurance, and undying hope from people around the U.S.A. and U.K. Follow each author as he or she details what it took to face impossible circumstances and powerfully transform them into forgiveness, understanding, and grace.
Author: Carla Jean Cranfill
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449090214
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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When Lovey Batistes Mama brings her home to a small Louisiana town filled with people who hate them and a Grandmother she never knew she had, she begins to slowly unravel family secrets that she, her beloved Mama and her new Maw Maw can never escape, which makes her wonder if you ever really can come home again. Eleven year old Lovey Batiste comes face to face with a past she never knew she had. Even worse, she has no idea that she will be paying the price for the mistakes the women in her family have made. When her Mama realizes that they can no longer live on their own, Lovey is plucked from the only city shes ever known into the lives of the people of small town Franklin City, Louisiana with only her mother to lean on and no father to fight her battles. In getting to know herself and a Maw Maw who seems to hate her she learns the secrets that her Mama has kept from her for her entire life. Her journey takes her down a dark road paved with violence, promiscuity and self-loathing. Can she come to terms with the burden her family name has put upon her or will she fall prey to the future the women in the Batiste family seem doomed to carry?
Author: Betty L. Criscoe
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810823365
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Author: Snowmonn
Publisher: Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
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Angela Santos, an innocent but independent woman has been waiting for her childhood bestfriend and first love Carlo ever since he moved away to study abroad. Angela believes that someday, her first love will come back. Until Lucifer Moden came, the first love of her best friend. Being extremely arrogant and hurting the feelings of Angela's bestfriend, Lucifer received a powerful punch from Angela that he will never forget for the rest of his life.
Author: Melissa Skinner
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300960469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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A work of short fiction comprised of over thirty stories varying in subject from youth, humor, life, memory, loss, and what makes us all human beings.
Author: Kate Sykes
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595397689
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Six Pacific Northwest authors share excerpts of their coming novels. When a Haitian thug dies and comes back as a zombie, can the town's Voodoo priestess put aside her desire for revenge and lay the dead to rest? -The Last Rites of E. Efton Mondesir, Anni Armas Evil forces threaten to destroy Earth. To her awe and terror, Marianne finds she has a central role in the joint Earth-Cosmos plan to save the planet. -The Mission of Marianne, Gail Donnelly In post-War Hungary a small group of deportees with glorious pasts and a miserable present must choose between survival and honor. -The Glory of the Defeated, Csaba Hegyvary Argentina's all-female Evita Peron Division carried their memories, hopes and dreams into battle. More than soldiers fell in the Atacama Desert. -Atacama, Robert Seifert Mirabai, celebrated poetess of 16th century Rajasthan, must choose between her spiritual devotion and her husband's love amidst the royal family's accusations of treason. -Blue Tryst, Tanmeet Sethi Despite the peaceful aura of their Cascade Mountain cabin, long-suppressed conflicts surface, neighbors grab for land, and Jill and her family face losing everything. -Cabin in the Woods, Susan Thomas
Author: Kim Chernin
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
ISBN: 9781931561327
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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In this 20th anniversary edition of the feminist classic, Chernin tells the brave and ultimately triumphant story of her mother Rose Chernin, Russian immigrant and passionate Old Left activist. With a new Epilogue by the author.
