Author: Foresman and Company Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780673821140
Category : Reading (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Ask Me Again Tomorrow
Author: Foresman and Company Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780673821140
Category : Reading (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780673821140
Category : Reading (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Ask Me Again Tomorrow
Author: Olympia Dukakis
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061738174
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Something about Olympia Dukakis just speaks to people. In her signature straight-talk style, she tells the story of her own history and career. Olympia Dukakis, internationally known movie and theater star, was born into a Greek family in Lowell, Massachusetts. As a first generation Greek-American, Olympia “lived in the hyphen” and struggled to reconcile her American desires with her family’s old-world traditions. ASK ME AGAIN TOMORROW tells the story of Olympia’s struggle to find her place as an American, as a woman and as a star. It specifically explores the relationship between Olympia, whose main ambition was to live her life exactly as she wanted, and her mother, who spent a lifetime constrained by a tradition that delegated her to second class. Like Sidney Poitier’s THIS LIFE and THE MEASURE OF A MAN, this is a book that is more than a celebrity memoir. ASK ME AGAIN TOMORROW will speak to many audiences: readers who also experienced America as an adopted country; readers interested in the art of acting; readers interested in autobiography, and particularly to female readers who have struggled with fitting their own aspirations in with the needs of family. It is a book that will endure.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061738174
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Something about Olympia Dukakis just speaks to people. In her signature straight-talk style, she tells the story of her own history and career. Olympia Dukakis, internationally known movie and theater star, was born into a Greek family in Lowell, Massachusetts. As a first generation Greek-American, Olympia “lived in the hyphen” and struggled to reconcile her American desires with her family’s old-world traditions. ASK ME AGAIN TOMORROW tells the story of Olympia’s struggle to find her place as an American, as a woman and as a star. It specifically explores the relationship between Olympia, whose main ambition was to live her life exactly as she wanted, and her mother, who spent a lifetime constrained by a tradition that delegated her to second class. Like Sidney Poitier’s THIS LIFE and THE MEASURE OF A MAN, this is a book that is more than a celebrity memoir. ASK ME AGAIN TOMORROW will speak to many audiences: readers who also experienced America as an adopted country; readers interested in the art of acting; readers interested in autobiography, and particularly to female readers who have struggled with fitting their own aspirations in with the needs of family. It is a book that will endure.
Harriet Tubman
Author: Ann Petry
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504019865
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A New York Times Outstanding Book for young adult readers, this biography of the famed Underground Railroad abolitionist is a lesson in valor and justice. Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman knew the thirst for freedom. Inspired by rumors of an “underground railroad” that carried slaves to liberation, she dreamed of escaping the nightmarish existence of the Southern plantations and choosing a life of her own making. But after she finally did escape, Tubman made a decision born of profound courage and moral conviction: to go back and help those she’d left behind. As an activist on the Underground Railroad, a series of safe houses running from South to North and eventually into Canada, Tubman delivered more than three hundred souls to freedom. She became an insidious threat to the Southern establishment—and a symbol of hope to slaves everywhere. In this “well-written and moving life of the ‘Moses of her people’’’ (The Horn Book), an acclaimed author makes vivid and accessible the life of a national hero, soon to be immortalized on the twenty-dollar bill. This intimate portrait follows Tubman on her journey from bondage to freedom, from childhood to the frontlines of the abolition movement and even the Civil War. In addition to being named a New York Times Outstanding Book, Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad was also selected as an American Library Association Notable Book.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504019865
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A New York Times Outstanding Book for young adult readers, this biography of the famed Underground Railroad abolitionist is a lesson in valor and justice. Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman knew the thirst for freedom. Inspired by rumors of an “underground railroad” that carried slaves to liberation, she dreamed of escaping the nightmarish existence of the Southern plantations and choosing a life of her own making. But after she finally did escape, Tubman made a decision born of profound courage and moral conviction: to go back and help those she’d left behind. As an activist on the Underground Railroad, a series of safe houses running from South to North and eventually into Canada, Tubman delivered more than three hundred souls to freedom. She became an insidious threat to the Southern establishment—and a symbol of hope to slaves everywhere. In this “well-written and moving life of the ‘Moses of her people’’’ (The Horn Book), an acclaimed author makes vivid and accessible the life of a national hero, soon to be immortalized on the twenty-dollar bill. This intimate portrait follows Tubman on her journey from bondage to freedom, from childhood to the frontlines of the abolition movement and even the Civil War. In addition to being named a New York Times Outstanding Book, Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad was also selected as an American Library Association Notable Book.
Author: L. C. Laird
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434356132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
IS THERE A MAP OF 12,000 YEAR-OLD CITIES, OR A MAYAN STYLE CALENDAR OF THE END OF DAYS In the most CONTROVERSIAL BOOK OF ALL TIME? YES, THERE IS! NOW you, too, will know...THE ULTIMATE ANSWER! The Mayan Calendar called it Blackened Earth; the ancient texts called it...Armageddon! So many have died...the brutal murders in France, the torture of a young Testari mother, has it been for nothing after 6000 years? The sacrifices have been too great; too many of the great minds have been lost while the true Guardians of Knowledge have protected the ultimate truth. Will they succeed before the Nahasha find them?
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434356132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
IS THERE A MAP OF 12,000 YEAR-OLD CITIES, OR A MAYAN STYLE CALENDAR OF THE END OF DAYS In the most CONTROVERSIAL BOOK OF ALL TIME? YES, THERE IS! NOW you, too, will know...THE ULTIMATE ANSWER! The Mayan Calendar called it Blackened Earth; the ancient texts called it...Armageddon! So many have died...the brutal murders in France, the torture of a young Testari mother, has it been for nothing after 6000 years? The sacrifices have been too great; too many of the great minds have been lost while the true Guardians of Knowledge have protected the ultimate truth. Will they succeed before the Nahasha find them?
The Captain's Guard
Author: Misty Moncur
Publisher: Eden Books
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
She had never been loved before. He thought he would never love again. Zeke never imagined he wouldn’t marry the pretty girl from his village. It was as good as done—until she fell in love with someone else during the war. Captain Helaman’s estate in the city is the perfect refuge, far from pitying eyes and nosy village women. But though time has healed his battle wounds, it hasn’t bound up his broken heart. Abandoned and alone in the world, Eliza asked Uncle Helaman to take her in. She has everything she could want at her new home on the grand estate—everything but the attention of Helaman’s handsome guard. When Helaman sends her on a journey with the brooding Ezekiel, she’s determined to find out what makes him so sad, but in her search for the girl who broke Zeke’s heart, Eliza has to find a way to guard her own.
Publisher: Eden Books
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
She had never been loved before. He thought he would never love again. Zeke never imagined he wouldn’t marry the pretty girl from his village. It was as good as done—until she fell in love with someone else during the war. Captain Helaman’s estate in the city is the perfect refuge, far from pitying eyes and nosy village women. But though time has healed his battle wounds, it hasn’t bound up his broken heart. Abandoned and alone in the world, Eliza asked Uncle Helaman to take her in. She has everything she could want at her new home on the grand estate—everything but the attention of Helaman’s handsome guard. When Helaman sends her on a journey with the brooding Ezekiel, she’s determined to find out what makes him so sad, but in her search for the girl who broke Zeke’s heart, Eliza has to find a way to guard her own.
Shop It! Mise It! Make It!
Author: Suzanne Lejeune
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039141536
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Don't give up on cooking. Try it again with a better approach and attitude. With the resurgence of home cooking, Shop It! Mise It! Make It! is the perfect how-to-cook instructional guide that will give you the know-how you need to: • Discover a new way to read a recipe and save time when shopping, preparing, and cooking • Learn to cook in a stress-free way • Increase your meal preparation success rate • Interpret and reformat a recipe to make it easier to use following the 3 steps: Shop It! Mise It! Make It! This practical manual details how to look at cooking differently and offers cooking skills not found in a typical cookbook. Shop It! Mise It! Make It! will inspire young people to try cooking rather than relying on pre-packaged meals or a food delivery service. Even the experienced cook may take their cooking to a new level through the author’s proposed changes to the art of the recipe. The author even includes a fascinating bit of history about recipe writing and how the current format became standard and perhaps why it’s time for a change. Follow the Shop It! Mise It! Make It! approach and discover how sharing a family meal is as important as the shelter you enjoy. Provide time to bond with each other around the dinner table. Create a home.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039141536
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Don't give up on cooking. Try it again with a better approach and attitude. With the resurgence of home cooking, Shop It! Mise It! Make It! is the perfect how-to-cook instructional guide that will give you the know-how you need to: • Discover a new way to read a recipe and save time when shopping, preparing, and cooking • Learn to cook in a stress-free way • Increase your meal preparation success rate • Interpret and reformat a recipe to make it easier to use following the 3 steps: Shop It! Mise It! Make It! This practical manual details how to look at cooking differently and offers cooking skills not found in a typical cookbook. Shop It! Mise It! Make It! will inspire young people to try cooking rather than relying on pre-packaged meals or a food delivery service. Even the experienced cook may take their cooking to a new level through the author’s proposed changes to the art of the recipe. The author even includes a fascinating bit of history about recipe writing and how the current format became standard and perhaps why it’s time for a change. Follow the Shop It! Mise It! Make It! approach and discover how sharing a family meal is as important as the shelter you enjoy. Provide time to bond with each other around the dinner table. Create a home.
The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine
Author: Eric J. Cassell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199748004
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-hve for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians to relieve human suffering stretches back into antiquity. But what exactly, is suffering? One patient with metastic cancer of the stomach, from which he knew he would shortly die, said he was not suffering. Another, someone who had been operated on for a mior problem--in little pain and not seemingly distressed--said that even coming into the hospital had been a source of pain and not suffering. With such varied responses to the problem of suffering, inevitable questions arise. Is it the doctor's responsibility to treat the disease or the patient? And what is the relationship between suffering and the goals of medicine? According to Dr. Eric Cassell, these are crucial questions, but unfortunately, have remained only queries void of adequate solutions. It is time for the sick person, Cassell believes, to be not merely an important concern for physicians but the central focus of medicine. With this in mind, Cassell argues for an understanding of what changes should be made in order to successfully treat the sick while alleviating suffering, and how to actually go about making these changes with the methods and training techniques firmly rooted in the doctor's relationship with the patient. Dr. Cassell offers an incisive critique of the approach of modern medicine. Drawing on a number of evocative patient narratives, he writes that the goal of medicine must be to treat an individual's suffering, and not just the disease. In addition, Cassell's thoughtful and incisive argument will appeal to psychologists and psychiatrists interested in the nature of pain and suffering.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199748004
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This is a revised and expanded edtion of a classic in palliative medicine, originally published in 1991. With three added chapters and a new preface summarizing our progress in the area of pain management, this is a must-hve for those in palliative medicine and hospice care. The obligation of physicians to relieve human suffering stretches back into antiquity. But what exactly, is suffering? One patient with metastic cancer of the stomach, from which he knew he would shortly die, said he was not suffering. Another, someone who had been operated on for a mior problem--in little pain and not seemingly distressed--said that even coming into the hospital had been a source of pain and not suffering. With such varied responses to the problem of suffering, inevitable questions arise. Is it the doctor's responsibility to treat the disease or the patient? And what is the relationship between suffering and the goals of medicine? According to Dr. Eric Cassell, these are crucial questions, but unfortunately, have remained only queries void of adequate solutions. It is time for the sick person, Cassell believes, to be not merely an important concern for physicians but the central focus of medicine. With this in mind, Cassell argues for an understanding of what changes should be made in order to successfully treat the sick while alleviating suffering, and how to actually go about making these changes with the methods and training techniques firmly rooted in the doctor's relationship with the patient. Dr. Cassell offers an incisive critique of the approach of modern medicine. Drawing on a number of evocative patient narratives, he writes that the goal of medicine must be to treat an individual's suffering, and not just the disease. In addition, Cassell's thoughtful and incisive argument will appeal to psychologists and psychiatrists interested in the nature of pain and suffering.
Mercy of These Bones
Author: Vivien Dean
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
ISBN: 1646567250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Four years ago, Mathias Larsen broke siring laws to save a lover’s life. Four months ago, that lover turned on him, leaving him for dead. Now Mathias has followed her path of death to Las Vegas, straight to the last vampire who wants to see him: his sire. The man he left for a woman who stabbed him in the back. Edmund has found love again with a nightclub owner, the very human Darby Bell. He doesn’t want to believe Mathias’s warnings, but a murder that hits too close to home gives him no choice. While he struggles to keep Mathias and Darby safe, emotions run high as old love collides with new. But the clock is ticking. The vampire Assembly is coming to town, the local police are alerted to Mathias’s nocturnal activities, and passions are flaring high. Time is running out. By the time death strikes again, all bets are off.
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
ISBN: 1646567250
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Four years ago, Mathias Larsen broke siring laws to save a lover’s life. Four months ago, that lover turned on him, leaving him for dead. Now Mathias has followed her path of death to Las Vegas, straight to the last vampire who wants to see him: his sire. The man he left for a woman who stabbed him in the back. Edmund has found love again with a nightclub owner, the very human Darby Bell. He doesn’t want to believe Mathias’s warnings, but a murder that hits too close to home gives him no choice. While he struggles to keep Mathias and Darby safe, emotions run high as old love collides with new. But the clock is ticking. The vampire Assembly is coming to town, the local police are alerted to Mathias’s nocturnal activities, and passions are flaring high. Time is running out. By the time death strikes again, all bets are off.
Endurance
Author: DW Dunn
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468962140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1850, the Irish Potato Famine took the life of Alroy’s parents leaving him with no means of supporting himself. Alroy, a 15-year-old lad took passage to America by working in the ship’s galley, a harsh environment aboard a vessel infested with influenza and measles. During the voyage, he met a family wanting the same, a new life in America. This fictional historical narrative tells of the many hardships, the excitement of discovering a new world, methods of travel, and romance between him and a young girl, that began while traveling westward. Because of her age, Alroy considered her as a sister, expressed no romantic feeling for her at that time. Alroy was not yet a man, but insisted on becoming one by going out looking for a life he thought would be there for the taking. After leaving the family, he experienced what life was like living with Native Americans during the American Indian Wars between the U.S. Army and the many natives fighting to hold onto the their ancestry customs and traditions. He experienced life; through the hardships, the sorrows of losing the ones he loved, and his part in the wars during a time in American History that brought so much pain to both the American Indian and the white settlers in the west.
Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 1468962140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1850, the Irish Potato Famine took the life of Alroy’s parents leaving him with no means of supporting himself. Alroy, a 15-year-old lad took passage to America by working in the ship’s galley, a harsh environment aboard a vessel infested with influenza and measles. During the voyage, he met a family wanting the same, a new life in America. This fictional historical narrative tells of the many hardships, the excitement of discovering a new world, methods of travel, and romance between him and a young girl, that began while traveling westward. Because of her age, Alroy considered her as a sister, expressed no romantic feeling for her at that time. Alroy was not yet a man, but insisted on becoming one by going out looking for a life he thought would be there for the taking. After leaving the family, he experienced what life was like living with Native Americans during the American Indian Wars between the U.S. Army and the many natives fighting to hold onto the their ancestry customs and traditions. He experienced life; through the hardships, the sorrows of losing the ones he loved, and his part in the wars during a time in American History that brought so much pain to both the American Indian and the white settlers in the west.
The Last Lent
Author: Mark A Long
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595431747
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Brad Martin is devastated when he is purportedly diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. A virile man in his early thirties now facing his own mortality, Brad revisits his abbreviated life with soul-searching truthfulness. Now is the time for him to address the transgressions of his past and the admonitions of the present. His older brother, Danny, whom Brad revered in childhood, has become a source of angst in Brad's adult years. Ill-advised financial decisions on Danny's part involuntarily alter his brother's hope and dreams. But even more pressing is the matter of the two love interests in his life-Sara, his wife and ultimate soul mate, and the insidious Nikki Dee, Brad's lustful lover. A twisted web of deception, infidelities, and blackmail schemes pursue Brad and those close to him. But it isn't until the tragic death of his best friend, Doug Reeder, that Brad's perspective on life takes a spiritual turn, marking a pivotal point in redefining his chosen path. Full of surprising twists and turns, The Last Lent culminates in one final declaration of truth. But, which is the definitive truth. the inexplicable revelation of spirituality, or the inadvertent delusion of grandeur? Take a leap of faith in the life of Brad Martin and decide for yourself.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595431747
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Brad Martin is devastated when he is purportedly diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. A virile man in his early thirties now facing his own mortality, Brad revisits his abbreviated life with soul-searching truthfulness. Now is the time for him to address the transgressions of his past and the admonitions of the present. His older brother, Danny, whom Brad revered in childhood, has become a source of angst in Brad's adult years. Ill-advised financial decisions on Danny's part involuntarily alter his brother's hope and dreams. But even more pressing is the matter of the two love interests in his life-Sara, his wife and ultimate soul mate, and the insidious Nikki Dee, Brad's lustful lover. A twisted web of deception, infidelities, and blackmail schemes pursue Brad and those close to him. But it isn't until the tragic death of his best friend, Doug Reeder, that Brad's perspective on life takes a spiritual turn, marking a pivotal point in redefining his chosen path. Full of surprising twists and turns, The Last Lent culminates in one final declaration of truth. But, which is the definitive truth. the inexplicable revelation of spirituality, or the inadvertent delusion of grandeur? Take a leap of faith in the life of Brad Martin and decide for yourself.