Author: Vikkiana Fernandez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952511011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
"A Fugative's Daughter" by Vikkiana Fernandez shares the shocking account of Vikkiana's father, a former drug dealer wanted by the law yet managed to escape the system and live a life on the run for over 15 years. This intriguing father-daughter story takes the reader on a journey through the many ups and downs over Vikkiana's father's 15-year run from the law, until something groundbreaking happens in his life which dramatically shifts their lives forever. As Vikkiana reveals her father's life in hiding, she also dives deep into the ways his decision to flee affected everything around her, including her life choices and the circumstances of her mother and siblings.
A Fugitive's Daughter
Author: Vikkiana Fernandez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952511011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
"A Fugative's Daughter" by Vikkiana Fernandez shares the shocking account of Vikkiana's father, a former drug dealer wanted by the law yet managed to escape the system and live a life on the run for over 15 years. This intriguing father-daughter story takes the reader on a journey through the many ups and downs over Vikkiana's father's 15-year run from the law, until something groundbreaking happens in his life which dramatically shifts their lives forever. As Vikkiana reveals her father's life in hiding, she also dives deep into the ways his decision to flee affected everything around her, including her life choices and the circumstances of her mother and siblings.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781952511011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
"A Fugative's Daughter" by Vikkiana Fernandez shares the shocking account of Vikkiana's father, a former drug dealer wanted by the law yet managed to escape the system and live a life on the run for over 15 years. This intriguing father-daughter story takes the reader on a journey through the many ups and downs over Vikkiana's father's 15-year run from the law, until something groundbreaking happens in his life which dramatically shifts their lives forever. As Vikkiana reveals her father's life in hiding, she also dives deep into the ways his decision to flee affected everything around her, including her life choices and the circumstances of her mother and siblings.
A Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
A Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
The Arena
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed, a History of the Language and an English Grammar
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
A Dictionnary of the English Language
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Clotel; or, The president's daughter
Author: William Wells Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Word Fugitives
Author: Barbara Wallraff
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061758701
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Despite the many thousands of dictionary words at our disposal, our language can be dismayingly inadequate. How many times have you searched for a word that means just what you want it to but failed to find anything suitable anywhere? Most of us, it turns out, lead lives rife with experiences, people, and things that have no names. At least, they lacked names until now. Word Fugitives comes to the rescue, supplying hundreds of inspired words coined or redefined to meet everyday needs. For instance, wouldn't it be handy to have a word for the momentary confusion people experience when they hear a cell phone ringing and wonder whether it's theirs? (How about fauxcellarm, phonundrum, or pandephonium?) Or what about a word for offspring who are adults? (Try unchildren or offsprung.) Or a word for the irrational fear when you're throwing a party that no one will show up? (That might be guestlessness, empty-fest syndrome, or fete-alism.) This mind- and vocabulary-expanding book grew out -- way out -- of Barbara Wallraff's popular column in The Atlantic Monthly. Brimming with irresistible diversions and pop quizzes; illuminated by contributions and commentary from authors, linguists, and leading language authorities; and enlivened by pleas for help from people whose words have yet to be found, Word Fugitives will captivate and inspire anyone who ever struggles to describe the world that he or she, or they, or thon (thon? see page 141) lives in.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061758701
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Despite the many thousands of dictionary words at our disposal, our language can be dismayingly inadequate. How many times have you searched for a word that means just what you want it to but failed to find anything suitable anywhere? Most of us, it turns out, lead lives rife with experiences, people, and things that have no names. At least, they lacked names until now. Word Fugitives comes to the rescue, supplying hundreds of inspired words coined or redefined to meet everyday needs. For instance, wouldn't it be handy to have a word for the momentary confusion people experience when they hear a cell phone ringing and wonder whether it's theirs? (How about fauxcellarm, phonundrum, or pandephonium?) Or what about a word for offspring who are adults? (Try unchildren or offsprung.) Or a word for the irrational fear when you're throwing a party that no one will show up? (That might be guestlessness, empty-fest syndrome, or fete-alism.) This mind- and vocabulary-expanding book grew out -- way out -- of Barbara Wallraff's popular column in The Atlantic Monthly. Brimming with irresistible diversions and pop quizzes; illuminated by contributions and commentary from authors, linguists, and leading language authorities; and enlivened by pleas for help from people whose words have yet to be found, Word Fugitives will captivate and inspire anyone who ever struggles to describe the world that he or she, or they, or thon (thon? see page 141) lives in.
Nowhere Girl
Author: Cheryl Diamond
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643751689
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most important, how to disappear . . . To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a rickety car or mingling with underworld fixers. Her family appeared to be an unbreakable gang of five. One day they were in Australia, the next in South Africa, the pattern repeating as they crossed continents, changed identities, and erased their pasts. What Diamond didn’t yet know was that she was born into a family of outlaws fleeing from the highest international law enforcement agencies, a family with secrets that would eventually catch up to all of them. By the time she was in her teens, Diamond had lived dozens of lives and lies, but as she grew older, love and trust turned to fear and violence, and her family—the only people she had in the world—began to unravel. She started to realize that her life itself might be a big con, and the people she loved, the most dangerous of all. With no way out and her identity burned so often that she had no proof she even existed, all that was left was a girl from nowhere. Surviving would require her to escape, and to do so Diamond would have to unlearn all the rules she grew up with. Wild, heartbreaking, and often unexpectedly funny, Nowhere Girl is an impossible-to-believe true story of self-discovery and triumph.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643751689
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most important, how to disappear . . . To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a rickety car or mingling with underworld fixers. Her family appeared to be an unbreakable gang of five. One day they were in Australia, the next in South Africa, the pattern repeating as they crossed continents, changed identities, and erased their pasts. What Diamond didn’t yet know was that she was born into a family of outlaws fleeing from the highest international law enforcement agencies, a family with secrets that would eventually catch up to all of them. By the time she was in her teens, Diamond had lived dozens of lives and lies, but as she grew older, love and trust turned to fear and violence, and her family—the only people she had in the world—began to unravel. She started to realize that her life itself might be a big con, and the people she loved, the most dangerous of all. With no way out and her identity burned so often that she had no proof she even existed, all that was left was a girl from nowhere. Surviving would require her to escape, and to do so Diamond would have to unlearn all the rules she grew up with. Wild, heartbreaking, and often unexpectedly funny, Nowhere Girl is an impossible-to-believe true story of self-discovery and triumph.