Author: Belinda Ellenberger
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1478728620
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Chase is determined to be a private investigator, and he’s been practicing his investigative skills on his brother, Chad Michael. Chase knows his brother is up to something, so while Chad Michael is at the dentist one day, Chase coerces his cousin Jacob to help him discover Chad Michael’s secrets. The cousins break into Chad Michael’s room and discover a secret room behind the bookshelves—and that’s where they find a disk hidden in the air conditioner vent. Not knowing what they have found, Chase accidentally presses a symbol that transports the boys into the freezing waters of the Mediterranean Sea—hundreds of years in the past. Follow these two adventurous cousins back in time as they are rescued from the sea by strange-looking men in an odd ship and then thrown into a dark room below deck. Are the men savage barbarians or awesome Viking warriors? And what do they really have planned for the Time Warp Cousins?
Author: Athol Fugard
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559367342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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In this remarkable memoir, Athol Fugard, author of The Road to Mecca, A Lesson From Aloes, Master Harold...and the boys, Valley Song and numerous other works for the stage, paints a moving study of his early years in South Africa. Cousins focuses on Fugard's relationship with his two cousins and their impact, which led the author to a lifelong pursuit of a writing career.
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Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1805144405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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My Cousin’s Cousin follows the lives of playboys Emil and Rafael whose carefree existence is disrupted by the arrival of their much younger cousin Ino. Over the next few years, the seemingly glamorous lives of all three will change irrevocably. Misunderstandings abound in this tale of star-crossed lovers ultimately resulting in tragedy. Themes of alcoholism and domestic abuse are explored alongside the nostalgic pull of ancestral homes. Can Emil shirk his responsibilities to pursue a lifelong dream? Will Rafael be able to reconcile the present with a reckless past? Can Ino ever find the contentment she craves?
Author: Renee Lloyd
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456738550
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 75
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Living and coping with psychic abilities, spiritual gifts, and paranormal information
Author: Lara Deeb
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503640760
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Lebanon may be the most complicated place in the world to be a "mixed" couple. It has no civil marriage law, fifteen personal status laws, and a political system built on sectarianism. Still, Lebanon has the most interreligious marriages per capita in the Middle East. What constitutes a mixed marriage is in flux as social norms shift, and reactions to mixed marriage reveal underlying social categories of discrimination. Through stories of Lebanese couples, Love Across Difference challenges readers to rethink categories of difference and imagine possibilities for social change. Drawing on two decades of interviews and research, Lara Deeb shows how mixed couples in Lebanon confront patriarchy, social difference, and sectarianism. In the drama that ensues as women and young men make their own marital choices, they push gender boundaries and reveal the ultimately empty nature of sect as a category of social difference. Love won't end sectarianism, but it can contribute to reducing sect's social power. Through the example of Lebanon, we can learn about our own social worlds, about the assumptions we make around social difference, and about how people react when forced to change their ideas of who can be made kin through marriage.
Author: Lida Basson
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1803818506
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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'My Name is Gracy' is a book that the Lord asked me to write in a dream. As I stepped out into His obedience, He also asked me to paint the cover of the book and showed me exactly how He wanted it to look. Gracy is a wild rabbit from England who shares her true story of how she lost her own family when she was only a baby and how she was rescued by her new mummy when she felt all alone, hungry and scared. From being fed with a little syringe to eating all on her own, Gracy shares how she grew bigger and stronger every day and how she realised it was Jesus who brought her to her new loving family. Gracy also discovers her new mum's love for Jesus and starts seeing how much He really loves and cares for all of us. She loves her new cat brother Simba very much and shares her own photos of her journey to take children a bit deeper into her story of true love and grace. Its a story that will warm any child's heart as they get to know Gracy and learn all about her new life with her new family and how Jesus provides for all their needs.
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780329385910
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 73
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Joe, Sam and Fred sail with Leif Erickson, meet his evil cousin, feast on whale blubber and try to find the Book which always disappears when it is needed most.
Author: Tessa Börner
Publisher: Hilary Borner
ISBN: 0973892609
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Author: Priscilla Lindsey Biddle
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483453561
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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"Act your age! From her mother's admonition in childhood, a middle ages, twice-married mother of four and a product of the deep south of the seventies makes her way though a meandering inner journey towards a quiet epiphany revealing what her mother's words really mean. This rite of passage at the ungainly age of fifty unfolds through twelve memoir-like narratives that will evoke both laughter and tears. Each chapter is an independent reflection on the dozens of daily anecdotes all of us live each day in the course of growing up and growing older. Reading the narratives may be like going through a shoe box of old photographs you find in the attic, not arrange in any seeming order, but, in total, creating a logic of their own. Memorable characters like Papa, Aunt Norma, Harrison Augustus Turnbull, and Artemesia rise from the narrator's southern Gothic roots. The narrator, nameless Every Woman, prides herself in being an introspective and competent adult, but her naiveté demonstrates that being an adult a really a state of mind, and finding truth is like entertaining company with chipped china. Coping with life's poignant struggles, like disease, old age, suicide, and murder, and its ordinary ones, like child-raising, teaching, pets, and church-going, she seeks sense in the nonsense with humor and with love"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Marilyn Nissenson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312313111
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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The Lady Upstairs is the dramatic story of Dorothy Schiff—liberal activist, society stalwart, and the most dynamic female newspaper publisher of her day. From 1939 until 1976 she owned and guided the New York Post, the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the United States. Dolly, as she was called, made the Post one of the most dedicated supporters of New Deal liberalism in the country, while simultaneously maintaining its distinct personality as a chatty, parochial, New York tabloid. Unfazed by political or personal controversy, Schiff backed editorial writers like James Wechsler and Max Lerner and reporters like Murray Kempton and Pete Hamill. Under her guidance the Post broke the story of Richard Nixon's slush fund. It helped bring down such icons of the day as Joseph McCarthy, Walter Winchell, and Robert Moses. It supported the civil rights movement and opposed the Vietnam War. Although Dolly seldom appeared in the newsroom, she approved and commented on every major story and every minor column in the paper, until eventually selling it to Rupert Murdoch. Dolly's private life could have been a staple of the Post's society gossip columns. Endlessly flirtatious, she married four times and had extramarital romances with, among others, Franklin Roosevelt and Max Beaverbrook. She was a friend of national politicians such as Adlai Stevenson, the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson, and Nelson Rockefeller. Born into a staunchly Republican German-Jewish banking family, she used her inheritance to further causes of the political left. She used her charm and her social connections in the service of her paper, which was the center of her life. The Lady Upstairs is the portrait of a unique life and a crucial era in American history.
