Fifth Born

Author : Zelda Lockhart
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743418670
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifth Born written by Zelda Lockhart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-08-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Odessa Blackburn is three years old, she sees her grandmother for the last time, and so begins her story as the fifth born of eight children in a troubled family. Molested by her father, Odessa is also the sole witness to a murder he commits. Her mother guards both secrets and joins her husband in ostracizing their fifth born from the rest of her siblings. As Odessa grows, so do her troubles. She ultimately separates herself from her parents and siblings into a new reality that prompts memory and revelation. Her choices for survival provoke an outcome that will forever alter the carefully maintained lies of her childhood. Zelda Lockhart's Fifth Born is lyrically written, poignant and powerful in its exploration of how secrets can tear families apart and unravel people's lives. Set in rural Mississippi and St. Louis, Missouri, Fifth Born is a story of loss and redemption, as Odessa walks away from those who she believes to be her kin to discover the meaning of family.

Author : Lennart Nilsson
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0593157966
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Child Is Born written by Lennart Nilsson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miracle of life—for a new generation. The completely revised fifth edition of the beloved classic offers an astonishing glimpse of the world within the womb alongside authoritative advice for expectant parents. Deep inside a woman’s body, a miracle occurs. An egg and sperm meet and a new human being is created. Through the unique photographs of Lennart Nilsson, we see the fascinating process of fertilization unfold and watch as an embryo develops from a tiny cluster of cells into a fetus, growing and maturing day by day until the time comes to meet the world outside the womb. The book also describes pregnancy from a parent's perspective, diving into maternity care, health during pregnancy, prenatal testing, and labor and delivery. First published nearly fifty years ago, A Child Is Born broke astonishing new ground, bringing the magic of pregnancy and birth to life. This is the fifth edition of the beloved international classic, which teams Nilsson’s classic medical photographs with new documentary photographs by Linda Forsell and a revised text by professor Lars Hamberger and midwife Gudrun Abascal.

Author : Zelda Lockhart
Publisher : Lavenson Press
ISBN 13 : 9780978910242
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifth Born II written by Zelda Lockhart and published by Lavenson Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her brother Lamont Blackburn dies of complications associated with AIDS, Odessa Lacey's quest to fulfill Lamon't wish for a connection with their siblings finds her navigating through a family history filled with incest, homophobia, and abuse.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007154395
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fifth Child written by Doris Lessing and published by . This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic horror of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, 'full of cold dislike, ' tears at Harriet's breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world..

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307428575
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fifth Book of Peace written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a Fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned--in the catastrophic Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.

Author : Robert Ervin Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghor, Kin-slayer written by Robert Ervin Howard and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. P. Lovecraft's classic novel, set in Rhode Island, and illustrated by Jason Eckhardt.

Author : California. Legislature
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2416 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journals of the Legislature of the State of California written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 2416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Wolff Fahnestock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Centennial Memorial of Christian and Anna Maria Wolff, March Twenty-fifth, 1863 written by George Wolff Fahnestock and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Michael Wolff (1696/1697-1746), a son of John George Wolff (b.1676), married twice and in 1739 the family emigrated from the Palatinate of Germany to New Castle, Delaware and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Christian Wolff (1762-1841) was a grandson of George Michael Wolff, and served in the Revolutionary War. He settled in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania and married Anna Maria Krause in 1789. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and elsewhere.

Author : Gene Luen Yang
Publisher : First Second
ISBN 13 : 1466805463
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Born Chinese written by Gene Luen Yang and published by First Second. This book was released on 2006-09-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax. American Born Chinese is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, the winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, an Eisner Award nominee for Best Coloring and a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. This title has Common Core Connections

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1302 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Commissioner of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: