Author: autobiography of the Class of 2017
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304303004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Written by an 8th Grade English class from Texas. "I'm growing up, and yes I'm going to be someone in life because you only live once, and I'm not gonna sit here to just watch it just pass me by so easy. I'ma be a fighter till the end and never doubt myself because if I give everything- I do all I can, there's nothing that I can't accomplish in life... when the world takes all you care about away, you have to get up and try again because each time you get back up, you're an even stronger person than before" (50). A special thanks to the Freedom Writers for inspiring us This book is dedicated to all the kids out there with a dream, may the world never forget that you are still surviving. This book is our autobiography. These are our stories and the things we are still surviving.
Still Surviving
Author: autobiography of the Class of 2017
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304303004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Written by an 8th Grade English class from Texas. "I'm growing up, and yes I'm going to be someone in life because you only live once, and I'm not gonna sit here to just watch it just pass me by so easy. I'ma be a fighter till the end and never doubt myself because if I give everything- I do all I can, there's nothing that I can't accomplish in life... when the world takes all you care about away, you have to get up and try again because each time you get back up, you're an even stronger person than before" (50). A special thanks to the Freedom Writers for inspiring us This book is dedicated to all the kids out there with a dream, may the world never forget that you are still surviving. This book is our autobiography. These are our stories and the things we are still surviving.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304303004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Written by an 8th Grade English class from Texas. "I'm growing up, and yes I'm going to be someone in life because you only live once, and I'm not gonna sit here to just watch it just pass me by so easy. I'ma be a fighter till the end and never doubt myself because if I give everything- I do all I can, there's nothing that I can't accomplish in life... when the world takes all you care about away, you have to get up and try again because each time you get back up, you're an even stronger person than before" (50). A special thanks to the Freedom Writers for inspiring us This book is dedicated to all the kids out there with a dream, may the world never forget that you are still surviving. This book is our autobiography. These are our stories and the things we are still surviving.
Surviving the White Gaze
Author: Rebecca Carroll
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1982174552
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America. Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic—and yet she couldn’t articulate the deep sense of isolation she increasingly felt as she grew older. Everything changed when she met her birth mother, a young white woman, who consistently undermined Carroll’s sense of her blackness and self-esteem. Carroll’s childhood became harrowing, and her memoir explores the tension between the aching desire for her birth mother’s acceptance, the loyalty she feels toward her adoptive parents, and the search for her racial identity. As an adult, Carroll forged a path from city to city, struggling along the way with difficult boyfriends, depression, eating disorders, and excessive drinking. Ultimately, through the support of her chosen black family, she was able to heal. Intimate and illuminating, Surviving the White Gaze is a timely examination of racism and racial identity in America today, and an extraordinarily moving portrait of resilience.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1982174552
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America. Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic—and yet she couldn’t articulate the deep sense of isolation she increasingly felt as she grew older. Everything changed when she met her birth mother, a young white woman, who consistently undermined Carroll’s sense of her blackness and self-esteem. Carroll’s childhood became harrowing, and her memoir explores the tension between the aching desire for her birth mother’s acceptance, the loyalty she feels toward her adoptive parents, and the search for her racial identity. As an adult, Carroll forged a path from city to city, struggling along the way with difficult boyfriends, depression, eating disorders, and excessive drinking. Ultimately, through the support of her chosen black family, she was able to heal. Intimate and illuminating, Surviving the White Gaze is a timely examination of racism and racial identity in America today, and an extraordinarily moving portrait of resilience.
Blackout
Author: Boyd Craven
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985277250
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Westley Flagg isn't your usual lawbreaker. He's a poacher, a moonshiner and a prepper, out of necessity. Despite trying to live on the straight and narrow, he knows the law can turn things on you in a heartbeat. When Wes has to come up with money for his Grandpa's surgery, he gets involved with an unsavory group. Living deep in poverty for most of his life, he's become resilient and flexible, but college education can only take him so far. A solar storm sends the northern lights as far south as Texas, and cascading failures in the grid cripple the nation. Now, without communications, Flagg has to prove he has what it takes to still survive.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985277250
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Westley Flagg isn't your usual lawbreaker. He's a poacher, a moonshiner and a prepper, out of necessity. Despite trying to live on the straight and narrow, he knows the law can turn things on you in a heartbeat. When Wes has to come up with money for his Grandpa's surgery, he gets involved with an unsavory group. Living deep in poverty for most of his life, he's become resilient and flexible, but college education can only take him so far. A solar storm sends the northern lights as far south as Texas, and cascading failures in the grid cripple the nation. Now, without communications, Flagg has to prove he has what it takes to still survive.
Still Alive
Author: Ruth Kluger
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558616179
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times). Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood. Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal. Whether describing the abuse she met at her own mother's hand, the life-saving generosity of a woman SS aide in Auschwitz, the foibles and prejudices of Allied liberators, or the cold shoulder offered by her relatives when she and her mother arrived as refugees in New York, Kluger sees and names an unexpected reality which has little to do with conventional wisdom or morality tales. "Among the reasons that Still Alive is such an important book is its insistence that the full texture of women's existence in the Holocaust be acknowledged, not merely as victims. . . . [Kluger] insists that we look at the Holocaust as honestly as we can, which to her means being unsentimental about the oppressed as well as about their oppressors." —Washington Post Book World
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558616179
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A controversial bestseller likened to Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, Still Alive is a harrowing and fiercely bittersweet Holocaust memoir of survival: "a book of breathtaking honesty and extraordinary insight" (Los Angeles Times). Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Ruth Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence systematically undermined and destroyed. By age eleven, she had been deported, along with her mother, to Theresienstadt, the first in a series of concentration camps which would become the setting for her precarious childhood. Interwoven with blunt, unsparing observations of childhood and nuanced reflections of an adult who has spent a lifetime thinking about the Holocaust, Still Alive rejects all easy assumptions about history, both political and personal. Whether describing the abuse she met at her own mother's hand, the life-saving generosity of a woman SS aide in Auschwitz, the foibles and prejudices of Allied liberators, or the cold shoulder offered by her relatives when she and her mother arrived as refugees in New York, Kluger sees and names an unexpected reality which has little to do with conventional wisdom or morality tales. "Among the reasons that Still Alive is such an important book is its insistence that the full texture of women's existence in the Holocaust be acknowledged, not merely as victims. . . . [Kluger] insists that we look at the Holocaust as honestly as we can, which to her means being unsentimental about the oppressed as well as about their oppressors." —Washington Post Book World
Still Surviving Henry
Author: Erin Taylor Young
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542550024
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The rogue torpedo of a dog, Henry gets into mischief, mayhem, hilarity, and heartwarming adventure.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542550024
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The rogue torpedo of a dog, Henry gets into mischief, mayhem, hilarity, and heartwarming adventure.
Still
Author: Emma Hansen
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1771643927
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
“Still is one of those rare books that catches you up and does not let you go. With grace, courage, and honesty, Emma Hansen adds an important voice to this tragic and too-often silenced subject. I loved this book.” —Beth Powning, author of Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss A moving, candid account of one woman’s experience with stillbirth. Emma Hansen is 39 weeks and 6 days pregnant when she feels her baby go quiet inside of her. At the hospital, her worst fears are confirmed: doctors explain that her baby has died, and she will need to deliver him, still. Hansen gives birth to her son, Reid, amidst an avalanche of grief. Nine days later, she publishes a candid essay on her website sharing photos from the delivery room. Much to her surprise, her essay goes viral, sparking positive reactions around the world. Still shares what comes next: a struggle with grief and confusion alongside a desire to better understand stillbirth, which is experienced by more than two million women annually, but rarely talked about in public. At once honest, brave, and uplifting, Still is about one woman’s search for her own definition of motherhood, even as she faces one of life’s greatest challenges: learning to live after loss.
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN: 1771643927
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
“Still is one of those rare books that catches you up and does not let you go. With grace, courage, and honesty, Emma Hansen adds an important voice to this tragic and too-often silenced subject. I loved this book.” —Beth Powning, author of Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss A moving, candid account of one woman’s experience with stillbirth. Emma Hansen is 39 weeks and 6 days pregnant when she feels her baby go quiet inside of her. At the hospital, her worst fears are confirmed: doctors explain that her baby has died, and she will need to deliver him, still. Hansen gives birth to her son, Reid, amidst an avalanche of grief. Nine days later, she publishes a candid essay on her website sharing photos from the delivery room. Much to her surprise, her essay goes viral, sparking positive reactions around the world. Still shares what comes next: a struggle with grief and confusion alongside a desire to better understand stillbirth, which is experienced by more than two million women annually, but rarely talked about in public. At once honest, brave, and uplifting, Still is about one woman’s search for her own definition of motherhood, even as she faces one of life’s greatest challenges: learning to live after loss.
Where There's Hope
Author: Elizabeth Smart
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250115523
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Smart follows up her book "My Story" with this memoir about what it takes to overcome trauma, find the strength to move on, and reclaim one's life in a personal glimpse into her healing process and guide for readers to make peace with the past and embrace the future.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250115523
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Smart follows up her book "My Story" with this memoir about what it takes to overcome trauma, find the strength to move on, and reclaim one's life in a personal glimpse into her healing process and guide for readers to make peace with the past and embrace the future.
I Am Still Alive
Author: Kate Alice Marshall
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425290999
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"This tense wire of a novel thrums with suspense. . . . [this book] just might be the highlight of your summer.”–The New York Times Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets The Revenant in this heart-pounding story of survival and revenge in the unforgiving wilderness. After: Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn’t act fast, the cold will kill her before she has time to worry about food. But she is still alive—for now. Before: Jess hadn’t seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Just as Jess was beginning to get to know him, a secret from his past paid them a visit, leaving her father dead and Jess stranded. After: With only her father’s dog for company, Jess must forage and hunt for food, build shelter, and keep herself warm. Some days it feels like the wild is out to destroy her, but she’s stronger than she ever imagined. Jess will survive. She has to. She knows who killed her father…and she wants revenge.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425290999
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"This tense wire of a novel thrums with suspense. . . . [this book] just might be the highlight of your summer.”–The New York Times Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets The Revenant in this heart-pounding story of survival and revenge in the unforgiving wilderness. After: Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn’t act fast, the cold will kill her before she has time to worry about food. But she is still alive—for now. Before: Jess hadn’t seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Just as Jess was beginning to get to know him, a secret from his past paid them a visit, leaving her father dead and Jess stranded. After: With only her father’s dog for company, Jess must forage and hunt for food, build shelter, and keep herself warm. Some days it feels like the wild is out to destroy her, but she’s stronger than she ever imagined. Jess will survive. She has to. She knows who killed her father…and she wants revenge.
Surviving Rigell
Author: Christopher Hightower
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365489140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Imagine being abducted by aliens, taken to a distant world, and enslaved. Now, imagine how you would deal with this new life that's been thrust upon you, and how you would come to terms with your new reality. This is the story of a group of humans that has to not only face that reality, but overcome it.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365489140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Imagine being abducted by aliens, taken to a distant world, and enslaved. Now, imagine how you would deal with this new life that's been thrust upon you, and how you would come to terms with your new reality. This is the story of a group of humans that has to not only face that reality, but overcome it.
Surviving Sam
Author: Karen Rivers
Publisher: Global Professional Publishi
ISBN: 9781551925066
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Surviving Sam is Pagan Riddler's story. It begins three years after her twin brother, Sam, dies in an avalanche that roars down the mountain they are climbing together. Now Pagan is in her final year of high school and struggling to come out from under the shadow of Sam's death. She has seen a string of doctors to repair her body and fix her deep depression, but she still wakes up every morning longing for Sam to be alive. Soon life becomes complicated again: her parents might be splitting up, her friends are keeping big secrets from her, and as graudation looms she needs to decide what to do with the rest of her life. Then comes the most difficult blow of all: Sam's body is found at last, and Pagan must accept that her brother is really and truly dead.
Publisher: Global Professional Publishi
ISBN: 9781551925066
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Surviving Sam is Pagan Riddler's story. It begins three years after her twin brother, Sam, dies in an avalanche that roars down the mountain they are climbing together. Now Pagan is in her final year of high school and struggling to come out from under the shadow of Sam's death. She has seen a string of doctors to repair her body and fix her deep depression, but she still wakes up every morning longing for Sam to be alive. Soon life becomes complicated again: her parents might be splitting up, her friends are keeping big secrets from her, and as graudation looms she needs to decide what to do with the rest of her life. Then comes the most difficult blow of all: Sam's body is found at last, and Pagan must accept that her brother is really and truly dead.