Author: Cortez Berry
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728358558
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
I wrote this book for my daughter Aleya. She’s creative, bubbly, kind, but sometimes loses herself in anxiety. She cares so much about everyone and everything that it’s hard for her to pull back at times. I can’t possibly give her everything in this world, so I created one for her. This book portrays how brave one needs to be when faced with fear and uncertainty.
Aleya Cherry
Author: Cortez Berry
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728358558
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
I wrote this book for my daughter Aleya. She’s creative, bubbly, kind, but sometimes loses herself in anxiety. She cares so much about everyone and everything that it’s hard for her to pull back at times. I can’t possibly give her everything in this world, so I created one for her. This book portrays how brave one needs to be when faced with fear and uncertainty.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728358558
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
I wrote this book for my daughter Aleya. She’s creative, bubbly, kind, but sometimes loses herself in anxiety. She cares so much about everyone and everything that it’s hard for her to pull back at times. I can’t possibly give her everything in this world, so I created one for her. This book portrays how brave one needs to be when faced with fear and uncertainty.
The Green Grass
Author: BIBI K
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477248757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The Green Grass tells the gripping story of a single mother coming to America and all the struggles and sacrifices she has to make in order to survive. Leaving a life of semi-luxury where she had her own servant she must now work as a live-in-housekeeper if she wants to get her green card and eventually have her family join her. How she deals with the emotional trauma of being separated: not only from her life as she knew it, but from her parents, her siblings and above all her two children is an amazing tale of the endurance of the human spirit. Will she ever be reunited with them? Will she ever see her parents again? Will her green card status affect her in the most profound and painful way possible? These suspenseful events will all be revealed in the telling of this remarkable story. Amidst all of this her constant battles to succeed in obtaining her Green Card for herself and her family will give you a new insight of what it is like to be an Immigrant and may give you a view of the Immigration issues from a different end of the spectrum. Her trials and tribulations will bring you to tears and hopefully her triumphs will give you a sense of hope that no matter how hard life becomes, patience and forbearance will bring you through it all.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477248757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The Green Grass tells the gripping story of a single mother coming to America and all the struggles and sacrifices she has to make in order to survive. Leaving a life of semi-luxury where she had her own servant she must now work as a live-in-housekeeper if she wants to get her green card and eventually have her family join her. How she deals with the emotional trauma of being separated: not only from her life as she knew it, but from her parents, her siblings and above all her two children is an amazing tale of the endurance of the human spirit. Will she ever be reunited with them? Will she ever see her parents again? Will her green card status affect her in the most profound and painful way possible? These suspenseful events will all be revealed in the telling of this remarkable story. Amidst all of this her constant battles to succeed in obtaining her Green Card for herself and her family will give you a new insight of what it is like to be an Immigrant and may give you a view of the Immigration issues from a different end of the spectrum. Her trials and tribulations will bring you to tears and hopefully her triumphs will give you a sense of hope that no matter how hard life becomes, patience and forbearance will bring you through it all.
The Sea of Kicking Legs
Author: Ricky Garni
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312433264
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
The traditional October to October Poetry Jaunt ends this year in June-why not? Prose has been knocking at the door for a while, and let's see who's there when we answer it. In the meantime, herein you can expect the tried and try awful Italian restaurants, bats that make you happy, Robin Hood meeting the school bus, Rock Hudson jubilantly climbing the Rockies, and sundry wistful notes and adieux to disappearing friends where love might be lost but sure as shinola is not forgotten.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312433264
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
The traditional October to October Poetry Jaunt ends this year in June-why not? Prose has been knocking at the door for a while, and let's see who's there when we answer it. In the meantime, herein you can expect the tried and try awful Italian restaurants, bats that make you happy, Robin Hood meeting the school bus, Rock Hudson jubilantly climbing the Rockies, and sundry wistful notes and adieux to disappearing friends where love might be lost but sure as shinola is not forgotten.
Brittle Never Broken
Author: LaViza Lockwood
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524691267
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
After LaViza Lockwood is born her mother notices something is wrong, but doctors cannot detect a problem. It is not until LaViza becomes a walking toddler that she is diagnosed with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), also known as brittle bones. This debilitating bone disease causes LaViza countless fractures, numerous surgeries, and several months of hospital stays. But she still manages to do what others in her environment are doing-gambling, drinking, drugs, and sex, all prior to being of legal age. LaVizas mother is single, with three children. She has several nervous break downs, which causes her to attempt murder and suicide. Unable to maintain employment, government assistance becomes her only source of income. As a result, her best option for residency is to live in the Wellrock Gardens housing projects. Many of LaVizas family members and friends succumb to substance addictions in order to cope with living in poverty and fear. However, LaVizas biggest fear of becoming entangled in the vicious cycle of generational poverty, crime, and addiction is what makes her take drastic chances to not become a statistic. Brittle Never Broken is definitely not your typical rags-to-riches memoir because riches refers to LaVizas ability to remain self-motivated, despite relentless afflictions and heartaches. LaVizas bones are brittle, but nothing, or no one can break her awesome spirit!
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524691267
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
After LaViza Lockwood is born her mother notices something is wrong, but doctors cannot detect a problem. It is not until LaViza becomes a walking toddler that she is diagnosed with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), also known as brittle bones. This debilitating bone disease causes LaViza countless fractures, numerous surgeries, and several months of hospital stays. But she still manages to do what others in her environment are doing-gambling, drinking, drugs, and sex, all prior to being of legal age. LaVizas mother is single, with three children. She has several nervous break downs, which causes her to attempt murder and suicide. Unable to maintain employment, government assistance becomes her only source of income. As a result, her best option for residency is to live in the Wellrock Gardens housing projects. Many of LaVizas family members and friends succumb to substance addictions in order to cope with living in poverty and fear. However, LaVizas biggest fear of becoming entangled in the vicious cycle of generational poverty, crime, and addiction is what makes her take drastic chances to not become a statistic. Brittle Never Broken is definitely not your typical rags-to-riches memoir because riches refers to LaVizas ability to remain self-motivated, despite relentless afflictions and heartaches. LaVizas bones are brittle, but nothing, or no one can break her awesome spirit!
Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons
Author: Justine M. Williams
Publisher: Food First Books
ISBN: 0935028196
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In recent decades, the various strands of the food movement have made enormous strides in calling attention the many shortcomings and injustices of our food and agricultural system. Farmers, activists, scholars, and everyday citizens have also worked creatively to rebuild local food economies, advocate for food justice, and promote more sustainable, agroecological farming practices. However, the movement for fairer, healthier, and more autonomous food is continually blocked by one obstacle: land access. As long as land remains unaffordable and inaccessible to most people, we cannot truly transform the food system. The term land-grabbing is most commonly used to refer to the large-scale acquisition of agricultural land in Asian, African, or Latin American countries by foreign investors. However, land has and continues to be “grabbed” in North America, as well, through discrimination, real estate speculation, gentrification, financialization, extractive energy production, and tourism. This edited volume, with chapters from a wide range of activists and scholars, explores the history of land theft, dispossession, and consolidation in the United States. It also looks at alternative ways forward toward democratized, land justice, based on redistributive policies and cooperative ownership models. With prefaces from leaders in the food justice and family farming movements, the book opens with a look at the legacies of white-settler colonialism in the southwestern United States. From there, it moves into a collectively-authored section on Black Agrarianism, which details the long history of land dispossession among Black farmers in the southeastern US, as well as the creative acts of resistance they have used to acquire land and collectively farm it. The next section, on gender, explores structural and cultural discrimination against women landowners in the Midwest and also role of “womanism” in land-based struggles. Next, a section on the cross-border implications of land enclosures and consolidations includes a consideration of what land justice could mean for farm workers in the US, followed by an essay on the challenges facing young and aspiring farmers. Finally, the book explores the urban dimensions of land justice and their implications for locally-autonomous food systems, and lessons from previous struggles for democratized land access. Ultimately, the book makes the case that to move forward to a more equitable, just, sustainable, and sovereign agriculture system, the various strands of the food movement must come together for land justice.
Publisher: Food First Books
ISBN: 0935028196
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In recent decades, the various strands of the food movement have made enormous strides in calling attention the many shortcomings and injustices of our food and agricultural system. Farmers, activists, scholars, and everyday citizens have also worked creatively to rebuild local food economies, advocate for food justice, and promote more sustainable, agroecological farming practices. However, the movement for fairer, healthier, and more autonomous food is continually blocked by one obstacle: land access. As long as land remains unaffordable and inaccessible to most people, we cannot truly transform the food system. The term land-grabbing is most commonly used to refer to the large-scale acquisition of agricultural land in Asian, African, or Latin American countries by foreign investors. However, land has and continues to be “grabbed” in North America, as well, through discrimination, real estate speculation, gentrification, financialization, extractive energy production, and tourism. This edited volume, with chapters from a wide range of activists and scholars, explores the history of land theft, dispossession, and consolidation in the United States. It also looks at alternative ways forward toward democratized, land justice, based on redistributive policies and cooperative ownership models. With prefaces from leaders in the food justice and family farming movements, the book opens with a look at the legacies of white-settler colonialism in the southwestern United States. From there, it moves into a collectively-authored section on Black Agrarianism, which details the long history of land dispossession among Black farmers in the southeastern US, as well as the creative acts of resistance they have used to acquire land and collectively farm it. The next section, on gender, explores structural and cultural discrimination against women landowners in the Midwest and also role of “womanism” in land-based struggles. Next, a section on the cross-border implications of land enclosures and consolidations includes a consideration of what land justice could mean for farm workers in the US, followed by an essay on the challenges facing young and aspiring farmers. Finally, the book explores the urban dimensions of land justice and their implications for locally-autonomous food systems, and lessons from previous struggles for democratized land access. Ultimately, the book makes the case that to move forward to a more equitable, just, sustainable, and sovereign agriculture system, the various strands of the food movement must come together for land justice.
The Last Cherry Blossom
Author: Kathleen Burkinshaw
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1634506944
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Following the seventieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, this is a new, very personal story to join Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Yuriko was happy growing up in Hiroshima when it was just her and Papa. But her aunt Kimiko and her cousin Genji are living with them now, and the family is only getting bigger with talk of a double marriage! And while things are changing at home, the world beyond their doors is even more unpredictable. World War II is coming to an end, and since the Japanese newspapers don’t report lost battles, the Japanese people are not entirely certain of where Japan stands. Yuriko is used to the sirens and the air-raid drills, but things start to feel more real when the neighbors who have left to fight stop coming home. When the bombs hit Hiroshima, it’s through Yuriko’s twelve-year-old eyes that we witness the devastation and horror. This is a story that offers young readers insight into how children lived during the war, while also introducing them to Japanese culture. Based loosely on author Kathleen Burkinshaw’s mother’s firsthand experience surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, The Last Cherry Blossom hopes to warn readers of the immense damage nuclear war can bring, while reminding them that the “enemy” in any war is often not so different from ourselves.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1634506944
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Following the seventieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, this is a new, very personal story to join Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Yuriko was happy growing up in Hiroshima when it was just her and Papa. But her aunt Kimiko and her cousin Genji are living with them now, and the family is only getting bigger with talk of a double marriage! And while things are changing at home, the world beyond their doors is even more unpredictable. World War II is coming to an end, and since the Japanese newspapers don’t report lost battles, the Japanese people are not entirely certain of where Japan stands. Yuriko is used to the sirens and the air-raid drills, but things start to feel more real when the neighbors who have left to fight stop coming home. When the bombs hit Hiroshima, it’s through Yuriko’s twelve-year-old eyes that we witness the devastation and horror. This is a story that offers young readers insight into how children lived during the war, while also introducing them to Japanese culture. Based loosely on author Kathleen Burkinshaw’s mother’s firsthand experience surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, The Last Cherry Blossom hopes to warn readers of the immense damage nuclear war can bring, while reminding them that the “enemy” in any war is often not so different from ourselves.
Cherries and Cherry Pits
Author: Vera B. Williams
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780812497991
Category : Cherry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bidemmi loves to draw and tell stories about what she is drawing.
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN: 9780812497991
Category : Cherry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bidemmi loves to draw and tell stories about what she is drawing.
On the Way to a Coup D’Etat
Author: Ron Means
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477178856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
On the Way to a Coup d'Etat is a dramatic story, a searing scrutiny of our politics and government. Though set in the near future, it is an entirely credible development of the forces that are now in play. President Millwright, elevated to office by an unusual event, is short, balding, he limps and has a high squeaky voice (as did Abraham Lincoln). But he possesses something more essential: character. He is opposed in every conceivable way, some of which are horrific, by nefarious politicians, truth-distorting think-tanks and media, and by many members of Congress too greedy or too fearful to align with their consciences-and even by a bizarre cultural hero. This opposition proves to be successful. But how things turn is truly convincing as America, while on the surface continues to lie to itself, continues to decline. Yet On the Way to a Coup d'Etat is a surprisingly uplifting story, due in part to the believable characters of both President Millwright and his wife, Ann. These folks are more human and more alive than many of our current politicians. One of the underlying themes in this remarkably astute book is an in-depth examination of what it means to lead a country, especially a country in trouble. Bob Scher, author of Lightning, The Nature of Leadership
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477178856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
On the Way to a Coup d'Etat is a dramatic story, a searing scrutiny of our politics and government. Though set in the near future, it is an entirely credible development of the forces that are now in play. President Millwright, elevated to office by an unusual event, is short, balding, he limps and has a high squeaky voice (as did Abraham Lincoln). But he possesses something more essential: character. He is opposed in every conceivable way, some of which are horrific, by nefarious politicians, truth-distorting think-tanks and media, and by many members of Congress too greedy or too fearful to align with their consciences-and even by a bizarre cultural hero. This opposition proves to be successful. But how things turn is truly convincing as America, while on the surface continues to lie to itself, continues to decline. Yet On the Way to a Coup d'Etat is a surprisingly uplifting story, due in part to the believable characters of both President Millwright and his wife, Ann. These folks are more human and more alive than many of our current politicians. One of the underlying themes in this remarkably astute book is an in-depth examination of what it means to lead a country, especially a country in trouble. Bob Scher, author of Lightning, The Nature of Leadership
Healing My Heart
Author: Aleya Michelle
Publisher: Aleya Michelle
ISBN: 150236820X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Roxy is in a bind... Should she stay true to herself or should she follow her wounded heart back to her first love? Back to the one who left her heartbroken and alone. Who will be the one to help heal her heart? Will it be Dylan, who started as her re-bound, but has become her strength and her life line over the past few months. Or will it be Kade, the one who stole her heart and showed her the true meaning of love. Then showed her all the despair, vulnerability and pain a broken heart can cause. Which path will bring her to her happily ever after?
Publisher: Aleya Michelle
ISBN: 150236820X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Roxy is in a bind... Should she stay true to herself or should she follow her wounded heart back to her first love? Back to the one who left her heartbroken and alone. Who will be the one to help heal her heart? Will it be Dylan, who started as her re-bound, but has become her strength and her life line over the past few months. Or will it be Kade, the one who stole her heart and showed her the true meaning of love. Then showed her all the despair, vulnerability and pain a broken heart can cause. Which path will bring her to her happily ever after?
The Weeping Cherry Tree
Author: Caroline Verity
Publisher: Caroline Verity
ISBN: 9781922465184
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
An old cherry tree and a bird, two best friends, become fearful of the imminent threat of a new orchard and factory. What happens when the nearby creek becomes polluted? Can the bird help out his best friend or is it too late?
Publisher: Caroline Verity
ISBN: 9781922465184
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
An old cherry tree and a bird, two best friends, become fearful of the imminent threat of a new orchard and factory. What happens when the nearby creek becomes polluted? Can the bird help out his best friend or is it too late?