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They Left Us Everything

Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2016-07-26
ISBN : 0399184112
Pages : 288 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (399 users)

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Download or read book They Left Us Everything written by Plum Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm, heartfelt memoir of family, loss, and a house jam-packed with decades of goods and memories. After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents—first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year old mother—author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers have finally fallen to their middle-aged knees with conflicted feelings of grief and relief. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home, twenty-three rooms bulging with history, antiques, and oxygen tanks. Plum thought: How tough will that be? I know how to buy garbage bags. But the task turns out to be much harder and more rewarding than she ever imagined. Items from childhood trigger difficult memories of her eccentric family growing up in the 1950s and ’60s, but unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships, with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued. They Left Us Everything is a funny, touching memoir about the importance of preserving family history to make sense of the past, and nurturing family bonds to safeguard the future.

They Left Us Behind

by Cungdiem Tang

Publisher : iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-01-25
ISBN : 9781450273589
Pages : 196 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (273 users)

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Download or read book They Left Us Behind written by Cungdiem Tang and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Left Us Behind tells the story of a young girl, her family, and their struggle to reach America. Using the actual diary of the family as the basis for her writing, author Cungdiem Tang describes the early cultural life of her grandparents and relatives in the Mekong Delta. When the country is divided between the Communists and the corrupt regime of the South Vietnamese government, the United States becomes involved, with the war escalating and causing collateral damage to the countryside and its inhabitants. When South Vietnam finally capitulates, the family is directly affected by the Communist victors, losing their home and possessions. Indeed, Cungdiems mother is forced into an arranged marriage with a South Vietnamese soldier. Part of the family successfully escapes by boat, and Cungdiems parents attempt an escape on foot through Cambodia. After their capture and release from a remote prison, they attempt an escape by sea, where they suffer storms and pirates. They spend time in refugee camps in Malaysia and the Philippines, until finally they reach the United Stateswhere the struggles continue with turncoat sponsors and school bullies. Follow this family history as they struggle and eventually succeed, becoming educated and successful and accepting their new country with patriotic fervor.

Where You Left Us

by Rhiannon Wilde

Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Release Date : 2022-08-30
ISBN : 0702266981
Pages : 277 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (72 users)

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Download or read book Where You Left Us written by Rhiannon Wilde and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinnamon Prince is angry. She's living at home with her rockstar father after his latest breakdown, and she's stuck in a town where people have whispered that the Princes aren't quite right ever since her Great Aunt Sadie vanished without a trace. Not that Cinnamon cares about anyone else's opinion. Except, she might be really starting to care what her gorgeous co-worker Daisy Leung thinks. Scarlett Prince is anxious. Most of the time, and also about spending the summer with her sister and barely there dad. She's holding it together. Just. But when her sister's ex-boyfriend-now-best-friend Will starts helping her search for Sadie, things get all-the-ways complicated. Can finding the truth fix their broken family? A glittering gothic mystery about healing, home and how to pick up the pieces when you feel left behind.

What's Left of Us

by Richard Farrell

Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Release Date : 2009-07-01
ISBN : 0806532440
Pages : 222 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (86 users)

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Download or read book What's Left of Us written by Richard Farrell and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blunt and honest. . .A stunning piece of work." --T.J. English "Deeply moving. . .What's Left of Us is a rush of blood to the head and heart, the kind only true art can deliver." --Andre Dubus "An amazing story not just of survival, but redemption." --Mary McGarry Morris Richie Farrell grew up in a working-class Irish neighborhood in Massachusetts. To overcome a birth defect, his father pushed him to become a star athlete, grooming him for Notre Dame. Sometimes, he would use a belt as a learning tool. Once, he used an electric carving knife. . . The headline read Crippled at Birth: Farrell Now Grid Star. A month later, I tore up my knee and fell in love with pain medication. By time he was thirty, Richie was a heroin addict, stealing from friends, shooting up during visits to his children, living in abandoned mill buildings, running from the shameful secrets of his family. Hopeless and in pain, he attempted suicide. When that failed, he was ordered to detox. He looked at me. "Be honest," he said, "or you'll be on the street in 15 minutes. Jail, death, or honesty. You choose." In this harrowing, astounding memoir, Richard Farrell chronicles a life of desperation, violence, lies--and the pure oblivion of heroin. A gritty, hauntingly written tale of a descent into hell and a slow, uncertain climb out of it, What's Left Of Us is a true story of redemption: of how low a man can get, and how hard he must fight to escape a shattered life. . . "[Farrell] carries you on this rollercoaster ride of ugliness and beauty. Don't miss it." --Phyllis Karas Richard Farrell is an author, filmmaker, teacher, journalist, and adjunct professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. His documentary, High on Crack Street, was aired on HBO and received Columbia University's duPont Award. He is the co-author of A Criminal and an Irishman: The Inside Story of the Mob-IRA Connection. He is the screenwriter for the upcoming film The Fighter, and makes his home in Milford, New Hampshire.

You Left Us in A Lurch: A Siblings Journey to Healing Over Loss of A Loved One

by Jacalyn Brodsky Resman

Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2007-09-01
ISBN : 1430328681
Pages : 113 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (43 users)

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Download or read book You Left Us in A Lurch: A Siblings Journey to Healing Over Loss of A Loved One written by Jacalyn Brodsky Resman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a siblings journey from the sudden loss of her brother due to suicide and her healing journey through to her new 'norm' in life. It is the story of a family of five that in a sudden instant became four and how we fought to keep old traditions alive while being forced to find and create new ones. The book contains poetry and tools of healing that have enabled me to slowly move forward in these uncharted waters of sibling survival.

A Savage Presence

by WL Knightly

Publisher : BrixBaxter Publishing
Release Date : 2020-10-23
ISBN :
Pages : pages
Rating Book: 4./5 ( users)

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Download or read book A Savage Presence written by WL Knightly and published by BrixBaxter Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that Connor Cohen is dead, Silas Cohen is free to live the life he wants. But there are still two men in the way. When Enzo Juarez tries to make a new deal with Fiona, her good intentions get the best of her and she unexpectedly puts Silas in danger. Can Alex’s connections save them this time? All bets are off when it’s every man for themselves in this series’ finale.

The Roads Left Behind Us

by Kat Jackson

Publisher : Bella Books
Release Date : 2020-03-17
ISBN : 1642474274
Pages : 262 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (642 users)

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Download or read book The Roads Left Behind Us written by Kat Jackson and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After some unexpected life detours, Callie Lewes is determined to complete her PhD program and figure out what to do with the rest of her life. Her laser focus is finely tuned and she’s ready for total immersion in literature, subpar student essays, and all the joys that come with being a graduate teaching assistant. She has no time for, or interest in, anything else. Especially not dating. Even if Callie were to entertain the idea of dating, she’s certain it would be with someone vibrant, open, and close to her own age. Definitely not someone like Dr. Kate Jory, a new member of Pennbrook College’s English department. Kate is both intimidating and a closed book. And the age difference between them is not small. But Kate is also brilliant and fascinating, and Callie is drawn to her in ways she’d never imagined possible. Not that Kate notices. Or does she? Callie can’t tell. Even though they develop an engaging and flirtatious friendship, Callie struggles to work up the courage to put herself directly in Kate’s romantic path—wary of the type of fire she suspects their sparks could ignite.

Fangirl

by Rainbow Rowell

Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2013-09-10
ISBN : 1447263235
Pages : 481 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (447 users)

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Download or read book Fangirl written by Rainbow Rowell and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love story by Rainbow Rowell, the New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park. Cath and Wren are identical twins, and until recently they did absolutely everything together. Now they're off to university and Wren's decided she doesn't want to be one half of a pair any more – she wants to dance, meet boys, go to parties and let loose. It's not so easy for Cath. She's horribly shy and has always buried herself in the fan fiction she writes, where she always knows exactly what to say and can write a romance far more intense than anything she's experienced in real life. Without Wren Cath is completely on her own and totally outside her comfort zone. She's got a surly room-mate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone. Now Cath has to decide whether she's ready to open her heart to new people and new experiences, and she's realizing that there's more to learn about love than she ever thought possible . . . Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell comes with special bonus material; the first chapter from Rainbow's irresistible novel Carry On.

United States Congressional Serial Set

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Publisher :
Release Date : 1963
ISBN :
Pages : 1730 pages
Rating Book: 4.B/5 (3 users)

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Memoir of Shadows

by Darren Hollinshead

Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010-05-14
ISBN : 1445752360
Pages : 174 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (445 users)

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Download or read book Memoir of Shadows written by Darren Hollinshead and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a man, he came to the edges of space to live life. He worked and made friends, he was like any other person in the galaxy.His entire world changed, his nightmares came to life. He saw everything he worked for fall to pieces. His story begins here. He will be forced on an adventure, that he wanted no part of.Will be followed up by, Memoir of Shadows Revelations.A rewrite will be done to correct mistakes. Let me know through the contact info if you find any.

Friendly leaves, ed. by mrs. J. Mercier

by Girls' friendly society

Publisher :
Release Date : 1882
ISBN :
Pages : 658 pages
Rating Book: 4.D/5 ( users)

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The Atlantic Monthly

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Publisher :
Release Date : 1869
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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The Day Will Come

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Publisher :
Release Date : 1889
ISBN :
Pages : 413 pages
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Download or read book The Day Will Come written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report

by Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New-York

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Release Date : 1860
ISBN :
Pages : 66 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (39 users)

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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts

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Publisher :
Release Date : 1878
ISBN :
Pages : 846 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (39 users)

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All the Year Round

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Release Date : 1879
ISBN :
Pages : 680 pages
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Ravenshoe

by Henry Kingsley

Publisher :
Release Date : 1896
ISBN :
Pages : 476 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book Ravenshoe written by Henry Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: