Author: Rebecca Winters
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373753713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3
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Fleeing to Yosemite with her daughter to escape her dangerous ex-husband, Gabi Rafferty finds a safe haven with the man she once loved, Ranger Jeff Thompson.
Author: Leigh Bale
Publisher: Steeple Hill
ISBN: 1459202511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Managing a Wyoming sheep ranch and a feisty little girl isn't easy for widow Melanie MacAllister. The last thing she needs is yet another forest ranger to stir up trouble for the ranchers. But when she meets single dad Scott Ennison and his daughter, she realizes there's something special about this ranger. Scott has vowed to protect the land and the ranchers his predecessors have alienated in the past. Yet no one wants to trust him—except courageous Melanie. Together they'll prove that a rancher and a ranger can become neighbors, friends…maybe even a family.
Author: Shirley Motley Portwood
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809323135
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Supplemented by recollections from the present era, Tell Us a Story is a colorful mosaic of African American autobiography and family history set in Springfield, Illinois, and in rural southern Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas from the 1920s through the 1950s. Shirley Motley Portwood shares rural, African American family and community history through a collection of vignettes about the Motley family. Initially transcribed accounts of the Motleys' rich oral history, these stories have been passed among family members for nearly fifty years. In addition to her personal memories, Portwood presents interviews with her father, three brothers, and two sisters plus notes and recollections from their annual family reunions. The result is a composite view of the Motley family. A historian, Portwood enhances the Motley family story by investigating primary data such as census, marriage, school, and land records, newspaper accounts, city directories, and other sources. The backbone of this saga, however, is oral history gathered from five generations, extending back to Portwood's grandparents, born more than one hundred years ago. Information regarding two earlier generations--her great- grandfather and great-great-grandparents, who were slaves--is based on historical research into state archives, county and local records, plantation records, and manuscript censuses. A rich source for this material--the Motley family reunions--are week-long retreats where four generations gather at the John Motley house in Burlington, Connecticut, the Portwood home in Godfrey, Illinois, or other locations. Here the Motleys, all natural storytellers, pass on the family traditions. The stories, ranging from humorous to poignant, reveal much about the culture and history of African Americans, especially those from nonurban areas. Like many rural African Americans, the Motleys have a rich and often joyful family history with traditions reaching back to the slave past. They have known the harsh poverty that made even the necessities difficult to obtain and the racial prejudice that divided whites and blacks during the era of Jim Crow segregation and inequality; yet they have kept a tremendous faith in self-improvement through hard work and education.
Author: Elmer Kelton
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765315205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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This volume presents three novels from Kelton's acclaimed saga of the formative years of the Texas Rangers.
Author: Dale Alderman
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595296173
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Take a hilarious journey through fatherhood with Dale Alderman and his two young sons, Chase and Logan. Based on actual events that occurred over seven years, Dale presents a collection of funny stories including: Breast Pads and Nipple Cream Honey, I Shrunk My Underpants Stinkerhead Stop It, Quit It, Stop It, Quit It The Farmer Cuts the Cheese Before he became a father, no one told Dale the stuff he really needed to know, like how to deal with a rampaging three-year-old at the circus, or how to corral two boys before they demolish a restaurant. From a Little League baseball game to a grade school field trip, Dale takes normal daily activities and turns them into wild escapades. Come on along and let Dale show you how much he loves Being A Dad.
Author: Seamus Kirst
Publisher: American Psychological Association
ISBN: 1433834251
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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ALA’s 2021 Rainbow Book List Selection NCSS-CBC 2021 Notable Social Studies Trade Book One of Bank Street’s 2021 Best Children’s Books of the Year “A must-have...this is a delightful celebration of what makes a family…. Holzwarth beautifully renders the characters in a variety of hues, making the diversity showcased throughout one of the book’s defining features and adding to the emotional punch of the story. All of the families look different, but the love they share makes them the same. Absolutely recommended for all children’s collections and sure to be a storytime winner.” —Booklist Starred Review Riley is Papa’s princess and Daddy’s dragon. She loves her two fathers! When Riley’s classmate asks her which dad is her real one, Riley is confused. She doesn’t want to have to pick one or the other. Families are made of love in this heartwarming story that shows there are lots of ways to be part of one. In this heartwarming story showing readers that some families can have one parent or two, some have stepparents, aunts, uncles, or grandparents, Riley learns that families are made of love. Her dads didn't give birth to her, but they carried her in their heart. They love her. They are a family. They all belong together. And Riley's Daddy and Papa are both her real dads!
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451668961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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In this "tantalizing" (Booklist) novel, Mary Higgins Clark, the #1 New York Times bestselling “Queen of Suspense,” exposes a dark secret from a family’s past that threatens the lives of two sisters. What was Kate Connelly—a tall, glamorous CPA—doing in her family’s antique furniture museum when it exploded into flames in the middle of the night? Why was Gus—a disgruntled retired employee—with her? Now Gus is dead, and Kate lies in a coma, unable to explain the tragedy’s mysterious link to a decades-old missing persons case. And unable to warn her sister what could happen next. In a novel of dazzling suspense and excitement, Mary Higgins Clark once again demonstrates the mastery of her craft that has made her books international bestsellers for years. She presents the reader with a perplexing mystery, a puzzling question of identity, and a fascinating cast of characters—one of whom may just be a ruthless killer.
Author: H. M. Mueller
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462807097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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The story of an old man succumbing to the effects of cancer and the toll it takes on his mind, body, and family.
Author: Janet C. Kahler
Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc.
ISBN: 1572584440
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 105
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The family in this story needed to move from Boise, Idaho, to Boulder, Colorado. Being safer not to travel on the road that automobiles used, they traveled the same wagon route that the pioneers had used about seventy-five years before-The Oregon Trail-in the opposite direction.
Author: Gregory W. Slayton
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 1441225692
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Be a Better Dad Today! is a global bestseller for a reason: it's one of the best books on fatherhood you will ever read. Warmly endorsed by dozens of America's best-known and most respected fathers, the book lays out the "Ten Tools of Fatherhood" that will help every dad who uses them. The book is the product of Slayton's thirty-year study of fatherhood on five different continents, his research, and his own experience raising four children with his wife of twenty-six years. Slayton's easy-to-read, friendly style makes it a fun read, and the many great real-life stories bring it to life. Be a Better Dad Today! is an inspirational, encouraging, and down-to-earth guidebook for every father who wants to be a better dad--for his family's sake and his own. With humor, empathy, common sense, and engaging stories, Slayton reveals proven and powerful tools and techniques that will help every dad fulfill his God-given responsibilities. Whether parenting younger or older kids, boys or girls, blended families or as a single dad (or even as a father-to-be), readers will find wise insights and practical, doable action steps for becoming the best dad they can be. The book makes a great gift for Father's Day, Christmas, birthdays, or any day. And since the Slaytons are dedicating 100 percent of all royalties from the book to fatherhood and family charities serving the US Military and at-risk families, your purchase will a blessing to the fathers and families who serve our nation every day.
