Author: Scott Williams
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514426935
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
An enjoyable and funny narration of a child's adventure. Bed time story told by a grandfather which the children can look forward to hearing from an old experienced man - gives them a background history of how it was growing up in the good old days. With the technological world - a child's time is often spent playing computer games, cell phones, and other distractions. Reading this book will provide fun entertainment and a humorous
The Toots Family
Author: Scott Williams
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514426935
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
An enjoyable and funny narration of a child's adventure. Bed time story told by a grandfather which the children can look forward to hearing from an old experienced man - gives them a background history of how it was growing up in the good old days. With the technological world - a child's time is often spent playing computer games, cell phones, and other distractions. Reading this book will provide fun entertainment and a humorous
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514426935
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
An enjoyable and funny narration of a child's adventure. Bed time story told by a grandfather which the children can look forward to hearing from an old experienced man - gives them a background history of how it was growing up in the good old days. With the technological world - a child's time is often spent playing computer games, cell phones, and other distractions. Reading this book will provide fun entertainment and a humorous
Toots and the Upside-Down House
Author: Carol Hughes
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307492028
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
If only Toots hadn't been so angry with her father. If only she hadn't run home by herself. If only she hadn't seen the fairy on the ceiling. . . . But then again, if things had been different, Toots's whole world wouldn't literally have been turned upside-down. And she would never have had the most amazing adventure. . . . A rare, special book, Toots and the Upside-Down House combines fantasy and adventure with the real, everyday issues of love and loss. This is a dazzling debut novel, one that children--and parents--will return to again and again.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307492028
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
If only Toots hadn't been so angry with her father. If only she hadn't run home by herself. If only she hadn't seen the fairy on the ceiling. . . . But then again, if things had been different, Toots's whole world wouldn't literally have been turned upside-down. And she would never have had the most amazing adventure. . . . A rare, special book, Toots and the Upside-Down House combines fantasy and adventure with the real, everyday issues of love and loss. This is a dazzling debut novel, one that children--and parents--will return to again and again.
All in the Family
Author: Patricia Strach
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804756099
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
All in the Family demonstrates how policymakers employ family across a host of policy areas to achieve their "non-family" goals and the consequences this has for policy stability over time.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804756099
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
All in the Family demonstrates how policymakers employ family across a host of policy areas to achieve their "non-family" goals and the consequences this has for policy stability over time.
Finding Family
Author: Richard Hill
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1945547596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA is the highly suspenseful account of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records. This fascinating quest, including the author's landmark use of DNA testing, takes readers on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride and concludes with a twist that rivals anything Hollywood has to offer. In the vein of a classic mystery, Hill gathers the seemingly scant evidence surrounding the circumstances of his birth. As his resolve shores up, the author also avails of new friends, genealogists, the Internet, and the latest DNA tests in the new field of genetic genealogy. As he closes in on the truth of his ancestry, he is able to construct a living, breathing portrait of the young woman who was faced with the decision to forsake her rights to her child, and ultimately the man whose identity had remained hidden for decades. Finding Family offers guidance, insight, and motivation for anyone engaged in a similar mission, from ways to obtain information to the many networks that can facilitate adoption searches. The book includes a detailed guide to DNA and genetic genealogy and how they can produce irrefutable results in determining genetic connections and help adoptees bypass sealed records and similar stumbling blocks.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1945547596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA is the highly suspenseful account of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records. This fascinating quest, including the author's landmark use of DNA testing, takes readers on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride and concludes with a twist that rivals anything Hollywood has to offer. In the vein of a classic mystery, Hill gathers the seemingly scant evidence surrounding the circumstances of his birth. As his resolve shores up, the author also avails of new friends, genealogists, the Internet, and the latest DNA tests in the new field of genetic genealogy. As he closes in on the truth of his ancestry, he is able to construct a living, breathing portrait of the young woman who was faced with the decision to forsake her rights to her child, and ultimately the man whose identity had remained hidden for decades. Finding Family offers guidance, insight, and motivation for anyone engaged in a similar mission, from ways to obtain information to the many networks that can facilitate adoption searches. The book includes a detailed guide to DNA and genetic genealogy and how they can produce irrefutable results in determining genetic connections and help adoptees bypass sealed records and similar stumbling blocks.
Threatt
Author: Michael Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578853062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Michael, a descendant of a former slave named Matt Threatt born in Tennessee in 1817, goes on a quest to discovering the roots and various branches of the Threatt Family Trees, unfolding the origin and spelling of the prestigious surname "Thweatt". This is the first African- American book ever published on the black Threatt Families in America and their places of Origin. Nearly 61 Years ago, the 1969 written published work of Rev. Silas "Allen" Thweatt, Chronicled the bloodline of his Indo-European ancestors who carried this surname from England. It is this book which chronicles the early life, Migration, and rich history of the early black Threatt Family Bloodlines.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578853062
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Michael, a descendant of a former slave named Matt Threatt born in Tennessee in 1817, goes on a quest to discovering the roots and various branches of the Threatt Family Trees, unfolding the origin and spelling of the prestigious surname "Thweatt". This is the first African- American book ever published on the black Threatt Families in America and their places of Origin. Nearly 61 Years ago, the 1969 written published work of Rev. Silas "Allen" Thweatt, Chronicled the bloodline of his Indo-European ancestors who carried this surname from England. It is this book which chronicles the early life, Migration, and rich history of the early black Threatt Family Bloodlines.
Toots the Cat
Author: Karla Kuskin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805068412
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A collection of poems, an ode to the author's cat, Toots
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805068412
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A collection of poems, an ode to the author's cat, Toots
Everyone Toots
Author: Joe Rhatigan
Publisher: MoonDance Press
ISBN: 1633222241
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This is a hysterical read-aloud picture book that shows children it's okay to pass a little gas.
Publisher: MoonDance Press
ISBN: 1633222241
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This is a hysterical read-aloud picture book that shows children it's okay to pass a little gas.
Another Way Home
Author: Ronne Hartfield
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226318214
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
"Hartfield begins with the early life of her mother, Day Shepherd. Born to a wealthy British plantation owner and the mixed-race daughter of a former slave, Day negotiates the complicated circumstances of plantation life in the border country of Louisiana and Mississippi and, as she enters womanhood, the quadroon and octoroon societies of New Orleans. Equally a tale of the Great Migration, Another Way Home traces Day's journey to Bronzeville, the epicenter of black Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. We relive crucial moments in African American history as they are experienced by the author's family and others in Chicago's South Side black community, from the race riots of 1919 and the Great Depression to the murder of Emmett Till and the dawn of the civil rights movement."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226318214
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
"Hartfield begins with the early life of her mother, Day Shepherd. Born to a wealthy British plantation owner and the mixed-race daughter of a former slave, Day negotiates the complicated circumstances of plantation life in the border country of Louisiana and Mississippi and, as she enters womanhood, the quadroon and octoroon societies of New Orleans. Equally a tale of the Great Migration, Another Way Home traces Day's journey to Bronzeville, the epicenter of black Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. We relive crucial moments in African American history as they are experienced by the author's family and others in Chicago's South Side black community, from the race riots of 1919 and the Great Depression to the murder of Emmett Till and the dawn of the civil rights movement."--BOOK JACKET.
Queer Roots for the Diaspora
Author: Jarrod Hayes
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053167
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Employing rootedness as a way of understanding identity has increasingly been subjected to acerbic political and theoretical critiques. Politically, roots narratives have been criticized for attempting to police identity through a politics of purity—excluding anyone who doesn’t share the same narrative. Theoretically, a critique of essentialism has led to a suspicion against essence and origins regardless of their political implications. The central argument of Queer Roots for the Diaspora is that, in spite of these debates, ultimately the desire for roots contains the “roots” of its own deconstruction. The book considers alternative root narratives that acknowledge the impossibility of returning to origins with any certainty; welcome sexual diversity; acknowledge their own fictionality; reveal that even a single collective identity can be rooted in multiple ways; and create family trees haunted by the queer others patrilineal genealogy seems to marginalize. The roots narratives explored in this book simultaneously assert and question rooted identities within a number of diasporas—African, Jewish, and Armenian. By looking at these together, one can discern between the local specificities of any single diaspora and the commonalities inherent in diaspora as a global phenomenon. This comparatist, interdisciplinary study will interest scholars in a diversity of fields, including diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, LGBTQ studies, French and Francophone studies, American studies, comparative literature, and literary theory.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053167
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Employing rootedness as a way of understanding identity has increasingly been subjected to acerbic political and theoretical critiques. Politically, roots narratives have been criticized for attempting to police identity through a politics of purity—excluding anyone who doesn’t share the same narrative. Theoretically, a critique of essentialism has led to a suspicion against essence and origins regardless of their political implications. The central argument of Queer Roots for the Diaspora is that, in spite of these debates, ultimately the desire for roots contains the “roots” of its own deconstruction. The book considers alternative root narratives that acknowledge the impossibility of returning to origins with any certainty; welcome sexual diversity; acknowledge their own fictionality; reveal that even a single collective identity can be rooted in multiple ways; and create family trees haunted by the queer others patrilineal genealogy seems to marginalize. The roots narratives explored in this book simultaneously assert and question rooted identities within a number of diasporas—African, Jewish, and Armenian. By looking at these together, one can discern between the local specificities of any single diaspora and the commonalities inherent in diaspora as a global phenomenon. This comparatist, interdisciplinary study will interest scholars in a diversity of fields, including diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, LGBTQ studies, French and Francophone studies, American studies, comparative literature, and literary theory.
Toots
Author: Donna Marie Vawdrey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646553849
Category : Women truck drivers
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Toots Holzheimer, a hard working mother of eight, drove trucks for a living from the 1960's to 1990's across some of Australia's most inhospitable terrain, Cape York Peninsula. Toots delivered freight to the northern tip of Australia for over thirty years, servicing her own trucks, loading them by hand (without a forklift until the late 1980s) and then driving for days alone. Toots and her husband Ron constructed their own roads and built their own bridges, renewing them after each wet season. Without bitumen roads, Toots battled corrugation, melon holes, washouts and bull-dust. Flies and mosquitoes were her constant companions as she dug her way out of bogs or coaxed her 'Old Girl', a M.A.N. diesel truck, up and down the steep slopes of the Great Dividing Range. Nothing raised Toots' ire more quickly than someone telling her what she could or couldn't do. Attitude was what mattered to Toots, not gender. Toots attributed her success in life to her determination to 'Do what you want to do and do it well'.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646553849
Category : Women truck drivers
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Toots Holzheimer, a hard working mother of eight, drove trucks for a living from the 1960's to 1990's across some of Australia's most inhospitable terrain, Cape York Peninsula. Toots delivered freight to the northern tip of Australia for over thirty years, servicing her own trucks, loading them by hand (without a forklift until the late 1980s) and then driving for days alone. Toots and her husband Ron constructed their own roads and built their own bridges, renewing them after each wet season. Without bitumen roads, Toots battled corrugation, melon holes, washouts and bull-dust. Flies and mosquitoes were her constant companions as she dug her way out of bogs or coaxed her 'Old Girl', a M.A.N. diesel truck, up and down the steep slopes of the Great Dividing Range. Nothing raised Toots' ire more quickly than someone telling her what she could or couldn't do. Attitude was what mattered to Toots, not gender. Toots attributed her success in life to her determination to 'Do what you want to do and do it well'.